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Molyneux God

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness277
Innovation2503.56
Theme4553.39
Humor5142.39
Graphics5623.10
Overall6973.07
Fun7782.80
Mood8752.61

Comments

techblogogy 2014-08-25 17:14

This is quite interesting god game.

robinerd 2014-08-25 17:16

Interesting mechanics packed with pretty nice pixel art! Generally not so fond of god games though, but that's just me!

ekilibr 2014-08-25 17:18

Make a god game in 48h is quite a challenge. Nice try, though !
And thanks for sharing the difficulties you've encountered :)
Always interesting.

c023-dev 2014-08-25 17:29

Nice idea and the visual representation is pretty decent. Congratulations on finishing!

mrvanderpants 2014-08-25 17:29

It took me a while to figure out how the game works, but it's seriously impressive how far you came in only 48 hours

drewvancamp 2014-08-25 17:29

Pretty nifty experiment! Obvious theme tie in, of course. Could use audio! BTW, I did find it unclear what resources allow me to apply natural disasters and other events. I'm not sure what re-enables those abilities. But it was fun wreaking havoc on two worlds at once! (:

conk 2014-08-25 17:31

I spammed volcanoes and everything died ): not sure how to bring that back :P it is an interesting concept! Well done.

ohems 2014-08-25 17:32

An impressive game considering the limitations this competition gives. But please link your source files as it's required in the rules!

pighead10 2014-08-25 17:34

Interesting god game. Felt like the theme was a bit tacked on. Nice art.

androniq 2014-08-25 17:44

It's a really good take on the theme. I kept forgetting they're connected and did some terrible things to the second world. Lots of fun.

capitals 2014-08-25 17:45

Thanks for the replies guys.

In reply to pighead10; When I decided on the gameplay I wanted to have two world with objectives to complete on both worlds and that sometimes you may have to destroy the city on one planet but you may not want to take land away from the other.

headmade 2014-08-25 17:57

Very interesting game and I would really like to understand it. But the tooltips over the icons are unreadable which makes it impossible to tell what will happen. The icons are useless too.
I really like the looks of the map though.

lokiman 2014-08-25 20:31

At first I thought that there is no OSX/web version (Windows label was confusing) but it is a java app so it is OK :D

Good luck with Post Compo development because the "god game" idea is always promising!

uvwar 2014-08-25 22:15

I love SimEarth. I love this. More, more!

kigurumidevs 2014-08-26 10:53

Overwhelming at the start but really fun later :)

cooliron 2014-08-26 12:43

Great simulator! I've tried to fight ice with volcanos and it was very surprising that the whole worlds became deserts :D Looking forward for your dlc :)

vallar 2014-08-26 22:06

Well I tried the game out. It is definitely interesting and I liked the idea of having two worlds to do whatever I wanted in :D.

I liked the powers, shame they weren't all implemented though I'd love to see how the population actually acts on the map to give it more a live feeling rather than land/weather effects only (but I understand the time limitations).

It is fun but it is lacking the objectives you've mentioned. Perhaps if iterated on it would be more interesting :D.

Well done!

xanjos 2014-08-26 22:07

Slightly confused by what I'm actually supposed to do in this game but to make something of this complexity within 48 hours is pretty amazing and the game itself does fit the theme somewhat.

moosefly 2014-08-27 14:53

Pretty confusing, especially since I'm not really well versed in the whole God-game genre :P. Didn't really get it even after understanding the UI. I did like playing with ice and volcanoes though. Your last Ludum Dare project must have been really complex if this is "simple and small" for you!

eliboy 2014-08-28 13:24

Interesting concept:)
Just some meteorites and volcanoes and BAM! They died!!

dohan 2014-08-29 13:52

Nice idea, but trying to get three or four goals seems as an inevitable doom to one of the worlds (if not both) and I haven't found a way to "heal" the planet.

lord-bobyness 2014-09-06 00:15

Pretty interesting. The game mainly just felt lacking in content(and a tutorial. To be fair, I'm rating the compo version)

Can't say I spent hours with this but would love to see a fleshed out version.