small-trouble 2012-08-28 13:21
The game was unclear even after reading the instructions, but from what I've played it seems like a good idea and could be expanded into a good game.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD24 → Game Of City Life
By bitspace
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 3 | 66 | ||
| Innovation | 72 | 3.20 | ||
| Mood | 99 | 2.96 | ||
| Overall | 105 | 3.20 | ||
| Fun | 107 | 3.00 | ||
| Graphics | 118 | 3.29 | ||
| Audio | 128 | 2.75 | ||
| Theme | 152 | 2.64 | ||
| Humor | 174 | 1.88 |
The game was unclear even after reading the instructions, but from what I've played it seems like a good idea and could be expanded into a good game.
i agree with Small trouble, cool concept.
Im confused! lots of potential though!
I could not get this to work, I just kept getting an unhandled exception message
Good idea but very poor implementation!
@kevincorrigan: the only unhandled exception I know of is if there are eiter some resources missing (ie. something not extracted from archive) OR if you have no OpenAL (but in that case, the message would say exactly that). Maybe it was one of those?
Do you think this would easily be portable to compile on OSX? I wanna try it out. We did a city theme too.
Looks like it has lots of potential, but there is more explanation / clarity needed around what to do / what results to get. Maybe explain the mechanic more on the first load-in ?
Good work overall, I suggest spending more time with this.
Very cool idea. took me awhile but I think I got most of it figured out. Would love to see this keep being worked on. Think it has a lot of potential
Needs a bit more polish but kudos for digging into an ambitious idea like this
It worked well, and played good. It looks a lot like SimCity though (but build in 48 hours, so impressive nonetheless).
The IRC-channel told me that was okay to do at this point, so... I have added a long description of how to play. I hope that clears things up.
Thanks for all the kind words :) Looks like we have little choice then... ;-)
We have been asked for a Linux version on another forum, so Bergmann is currently working on porting this thing over from Delphi to Lazarus. And now, he has a power outage in the middle of the day. So yeah, that's going to take some time, but we're working on it and if things pan out, we should be able to cross-compile to pretty much everything that has ogg/vorbis, OpenGL and OpenAL.
@goerp: I used to play SC4 hours on end, I guess that just *has* to show on a game like that (and some of that is even intentional) ;-)
//Martok
This sounds interesting, but I couldn't run it. When I double clicked the executable I got something like "Error: No OpenAL found" and a game window opened, but presented an error: "Zugriffsverletzung bei Adresse 0049601F in Modul 'CityLife.exe'. Lesen von Adresse 00000008."
Trying to close this error just pops it up again, so I had to kill it with Task Manager.
Uploaded a version that properly terminates if no OpenAL is found. Literally a two-line-change. //Martok
This was nice, i got kinda addicted after a while just building things and gaining money :)
I was a little disturbed to see an 8/30 creation date for the game executable, but I guess that's the OpenAL bug fix? I'm not sure that's kosher with the competition (i.e. there are bugs in mine that I'd like to fix too but didn't). The game is a really cool idea though a little bit hard to figure out, since the impacts of the buildings aren't all obvious, and the effects of distance between them weren't clear to me. It may well be I didn't read deeply enough - the tips on the buildings referenced statistics I didn't really understand and didn't know the value of. I did really like how the screen looked, and how your buildings grew with more use. The interface worked well after I got used to it - I just didn't totally understand what I was doing or what would be valuable to accomplish. But a neat idea and well-executed. Nice work.
good concept
I would like to know how to build the star buildings, i like the autoplay button , this game has a truly potential m8.
Check out my city!
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/89/gameofcitylifel.jpg/
I think there is a little bug with the height computation, sometimes the same building grows and then decrease in an infinite loop, other times the height is limitless XD
simple game? I dont think show but i see myself playing and enjoying this game ,thanks for your time
Wow, a simcity simulator for a Jam game; what an achievement!
Sadly, there doesn't seem to be much challenge at all. Maybe I just got lucky.
@DaveDobson: the way I understand it, bugfixing is allowed to fix "application-breaking" bugs, ie. if it doesn't start at all, but nothing gameplay-related (of course). IMHO fixing what triliyn described falls into the first category... You can check up on us on the Github repo, here's the diff: https://github.com/martok/ld-24/compare/GOCL1...GOCL1_1
@Everyone else: Porting to other platforms turned out to be more of a challenge because of the libraries we used. At least one of them is not cross-platform at all, so I think there won't be any ports. We could do Win32+Win64, that works, but it's kinda pointless.
What I've been told is that it *does* work using wine on Linux.
As for it being kind of easy... let's just say "Balancing" never got crossed off on the to-do list ;-)
Looks very pretty. Is there a Mac version in the works?
F***
Cant even read the readme.
Can you include the OpenAL?
@mohammad: here you can download the latest OpenAL-Files: http://connect.creativelabs.com/openal/Downloads/Forms/AllItems.aspx
crashes on win7 64 bit
It seems great but too much complicated to me...you should make a post compo version with a playable tutorial
I enjoyed this and played it for a few hours! I didn't quite understand all of the interactions, but it's fun to experiment and try things out. I really like the wireframe graphics and ambient music!
I definitely like the idea (kind of a stripped-down SimCity) and thought it was well executed. It's a really impressive game for 72 hours. The controls were sometimes a bit clunky (a lot of clicks to add a single building) but my main problem was that nothing 'bad' seemed to happen: I could just go on autoplay and build a load of stuff, with the interactions of pollution and luxury not really presenting me any problems. I think with a bit more challenge and a bit more feedback to the player this would be a really fun game though.
Nice idea, wish it got more polish :(.