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A Game in Which You Attempt to Squeeze as Much Oil as You Can Out of a Poor Island Nation.

By boredomist

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness366
Innovation1523.36
Overall1813.33
Theme2253.52
Fun2843.00
Humor3042.71
Audio3452.48
Mood3682.77
Graphics4512.74

Comments

maackle 2012-12-17 01:28

Nicely done! There's a lot in this game for a short jam.

caasi 2012-12-17 03:42

Need hot keys!

blooperly 2012-12-17 03:43

Hahah love the name.

fakeshadows 2012-12-17 03:52

Wow, nice concept and execution :)

Great tutorial too!

namuol 2012-12-17 04:08

Fun, but challenging. I never seem to have enough to pay for a refinery -- I tend to go bankrupt once I have 10-15 rigs built -- it's just hard to find the juicy spots. I'm willing to bet once you get to that stage things start to slide into place.

If you intend to keep working on it, I'd recommend highlighting squares high in resources so there isn't as much "mouse hunting".

gigimoi00 2012-12-17 04:12

Very nicely done, Definitely needs hot keys.

ointment 2012-12-17 04:52

I like management games, and this is reasonably functional for an LD game. You could use a graphics artist, though.

jmoraguiard 2012-12-17 05:07

I really liked the game. The managing is really well balanced for being a challenge. One has to keep track of money really carefully as it is "easy" to spend it in seconds jejeje.

shiftingparadigms 2012-12-17 05:08

Awesome game. Don't know how you pulled it off. Outstanding.

xheis 2012-12-17 08:14

I found it quite hard to extract da monies in the first playthrough, but the second game went well. Awesome game man.

the-jack 2012-12-17 19:17

Wow. A tutorial. Great work.

I think I would have made the last selected build option "always on", since having to go back to the bar and select it again was a bit of a pain. Then again, I am a lazy bastard so that could be coloring my opinion somewhat.

mrspeaker 2012-12-18 12:40

Hey, we had the same-ish idea! (uid=9199)... your gameplay is more complete, but mine spins in a circle ;) Great minds!

haxpor 2012-12-18 19:27

I can see myself not building any windmill or recycle, only probe then squeeze out !
Reading text description on each building gives good sense of humor, like the word "useless".

loren 2012-12-18 22:16

great content, awesome name!

leafo 2012-12-19 01:45

cool game, you did a lot here. Thanks for the tutorial.

evilseanbot 2012-12-21 00:31

I got a 404 error.

sestren 2012-12-22 22:53

Winning seemed fairly straightforward, but overall I like the concept and the basic gameplay. The activism meter for me never seemed to come into play, and the improved oil rig never seemed worth it to buy. That said, I'd love to see this idea expanded and refined further.