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Conqueror

By hume

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Innovation3793.05
Overall5562.77
Mood5662.48
Humor5731.95
Theme5932.69
Fun5932.53
Graphics6682.42
Audio6811.70

Comments

hume 2012-04-23 03:03

If anybody finds a bug...or finishes the game...I'd love to hear about it.

There are seven levels.

If a level is really annoying you, download the source and remove lines from the CSV in resource/data/csv.

krisjet 2012-04-23 11:30

Forcing you to restart from the very beginning after failing a level sadly stopped me from finishing the game :P

nihilocrat 2012-04-23 13:38

Got to level 3. Here I thought Kamehameha was just something from Dragonball Z. I like the "Washington was burnt in revenge" because hardly anyone probably knows about the War of 1812 and the burning of York (Toronto).

laubori 2012-04-23 17:43

nice game!

comatoes 2012-04-23 18:01

Good game. I had to give up at level 2, but that's only a reflection of my terrible geographical knowledge ;P

piterlouis 2012-04-23 18:08

Funny, It would be better if order of cities were random.

hume 2012-04-23 18:14

Piterlouis -- I agree; I wanted to do this. My playtester said no.

Everybody else wants it easier; we want it harder :)

chinchang 2012-04-23 18:42

m kinda bad at geography..but nice look.

suese 2012-04-23 19:00

Learning game, ahhh! RUN! Great game, once I realized there was a second level I was pretty happy about this one. Better graphics and animation / style choices would have improved this game as well as music.

Thank you for this.

kelp 2012-04-23 19:11

Nice game, tough it gets a bit tedious running from one side of the world to the other, causing me to not want to retry after failing on level 3.

hume 2012-04-23 19:14

@Suese Agree wholeheartedly with all. Style took a left turn and I didn't update the sprites. Wrote an .XM for background music but the decoder was hanging my game and I didn't have time to convert the music to something else.

Thanks very much for the feedback.

m-gryko85 2012-04-23 19:19

Interesting idea, I don't know why but this game scares me in some way. Thanks to you I will now always remember where is Sudan (I was looking for it so long) :)

reddogstone 2012-04-23 20:23

Looks like the site is busy... I can't get neither the source nor the applet to load :(

jeffreybiles 2012-04-23 20:31

Shows a blank screen (after taking a while to load). I'm running chromium on ubuntu linux. I have a java runtime environment installed.

hume 2012-04-23 22:58

I think that's my hosting provider letting me down :( sorry. Working for me now.

sidetrackgames 2012-04-23 23:34

I like it!

datw 2012-04-24 01:19

Good game, really innovative! But I do find the lack of saving relly disturbing. And, those sounds are really, really annoying hehe.

sharbelfs 2012-04-24 02:23

nice game and great idea, I liked

robcozzens 2012-04-24 05:18

That's pretty brutal having to start over at Egypt every time. Really cool earth though.

marudziik 2012-04-24 09:41

I like the educational value, but damn, the game is hard.

lanoiadimuu 2012-04-24 16:56

Geography was my worst score while at school, so this game is extremely hard for me. But it's an interesting idea and it taught me where lots of cities are. :D

hume 2012-04-24 18:53

Your comments are loud and clear.

I'm going to make a DO NOT RATE THIS version, a less brutal version. Time limits will be raised a little, and you will get to continue from the same level after you lose.

I can't link it here, because I don't want any confusion in the rating process. I didn't spend enough time playtesting. Fair is fair.

Thanks for all the feedback guys. You are all great.

hume 2012-04-24 18:54

...one...stupid...line of code...
GameOverScreen:
// context.currentLevel = 0; noooooooooo

jacic 2012-04-24 21:24

Unique idea, but hard!

darkfrost 2012-04-25 01:16

Nice idea :) Sadly, my geography is terrible! And I did badly! :p Seemed like a nice concept though, albeit a tad weird ;)

the8donut 2012-04-25 09:15

Very nice! Turns out I'm not that bad at geography either :D Graphics run very smooth, simple and effective. Good job!

orgarus 2012-04-26 17:28

HI HUME!
Nice game, you could sell it here in spain so the new generations could be less ass than the pasts.
The thing that I dislikes a little is the color of the map.
Cheers!

ryana 2012-05-01 12:34

My ears hurt!

azurenimbus 2012-05-02 21:05

Really cool idea! The game over sound was driving me crazy. But I enjoyed it overall :)

azurenimbus 2012-05-02 21:05

Not game over, the "error" sound.

hazematman 2012-05-06 17:08

Very cool idea! Went with the theme very well! Sadly I couldn't get past the second level, need to study my geography more :P
I liked the game ALOT!

make-a-game 2012-05-06 18:56

Edutainment, on Ludum Dare? Hehe, it was fun, but the collision detection on the cities screwed me up a couple of times.

asfdfdfd 2012-05-06 21:01

Love this idea!

datamosh 2012-05-08 03:09

Hard game! Definitely i dont know anything about geography. lol

cobrajs 2012-05-09 02:15

Game won't load for me... just an empty frame with a link to download the source. I'm using Firefox, in Linux, and I have a Java runtime installed.

drabiter 2012-05-09 04:02

Wow it's really hard, especially for have to repeat lvl 1 which is tiring. Thanks to this now I'm smarter a bit :)

adventureislands 2012-05-09 20:13

Wait, how do I play this? Game won't load and I just get big white box with blue "download the project source" link on it.

oye-beto 2012-05-11 03:26

I'm SO bad at geography :(

pacifistgames 2012-05-12 04:25

Beat the compo version, took me several tries, but I did it! The dialogue was a little confusing but I love the concept. Could be a good way of teaching geography if the map was better. :)

orangepascal 2012-05-12 18:19

some better visual effects to show the resetting or finding a city could have made it more clear.. even a bigger font would have done that.. but I like it! could be a great learning-game for kids!

kevinworkman 2012-05-13 18:56

This is a fun concept, but the game was a little frustrating from having to restart by getting one city wrong. Nice work for 48 hours though.