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Give and Take

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Theme1474.11
Innovation1613.71
Overall2783.50
Audio3133.02
Humor4132.50
Fun5193.11
Graphics5582.96

Comments

pparke 2015-12-14 03:49

I like God games, I like A-life, this seems to be a little of both so it makes me happy :) Still confused as all heck though but it's an interesting confusion.

gallerdude 2015-12-14 03:49

Cool idea! Very fun overall. Audio is servicable.

occamsrazor 2015-12-14 03:50

Wow, that was extremely cool! I loved the interpretation of the theme, and the amount of complexity you managed to get out of it. Really well done, I'm impressed!

sorlok 2015-12-14 03:51

Very fun! Has a feel sort of like Act Raiser? I liked the way that things grew without your control, so the whole system kind of evolved while you tried to manage it. Would like to see this "grow" into a bigger game!

fishtrek 2015-12-14 03:57

not sure if i understand how to get good at this, but i appreciate how different it is haha

mactinite 2015-12-14 04:01

This is awesome, I love seeing the growth and life happening. My only complaint is that after I set up the initial conditions, everything seems to happen on it's own and without any real problems. Making it less of a game and more of a fishbowl. Still awesome nonetheless.

freddyw9 2015-12-14 04:43

It's a little confusing, but still really neat.

ultravisitor 2015-12-14 04:44

This is fun. This is perfect for a touch screen.

jcmonkey 2015-12-14 04:48

a nice game, reminded me of populous

zatch 2015-12-14 04:50

Very relaxing to play and a great feel overall. Well done!

eerongal 2015-12-14 04:51

Interesting game, though it seems my clicks sometimes dont do anything...

kortuga98 2015-12-14 04:51

This is really cool, it was hella satisfying once I realized how to work the resource distribution. It threw some errors while I was playing, though, specifically when attempting to murder people.

thirteenthspiral 2015-12-14 04:54

I'm confused on how to actually get anywhere in this game, but it was still very interesting and somewhat fun :D Good job!

jacksonskinghotmail-co-uk 2015-12-14 05:04

Rules are a little too hard to figure out. But this is definitely my type of game! Great job

siege 2015-12-14 05:13

Interesting. Hard to tell what's happening, but interesting nonetheless!

elenesski 2015-12-14 05:26

overall fun idea.

fanttum 2015-12-14 05:54

A fun game, and while not much too it right now, I could see a lot of ways this could be expanded. Cool idea.

salmonmoose 2015-12-14 06:31

I will pay you money if you greenlight this title (at a much grander scale of course).

chubb1337 2015-12-14 06:47

I didn't quite understand it at first, but then I read the guide and it all made sense. I even had two towns with farms on my island ^^ Nice little game and I love the music

blohod 2015-12-14 07:22

wow, played for ages

shadedvertex 2015-12-14 11:20

It's amazing that you finished this in 48 hours. Then again, you're using Unity :P

Still, I love the idea of just letting the world develop on its own, occasionally pushing it like you would push a kid on a swing. Does that make sense? Nah, forget it. Still, awesome game!

5you 2015-12-14 12:16

Didn't really figure out the graphism (what is the light blue ?) but had fun playin god!
Good concept, music and introduction! I would have given a good mood note if it was availiable.

Check out Digicross, playable in solo/multi/coop :
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=46758

jeroenimooo 2015-12-14 12:34

The graphics were very cute.

jackyjjc 2015-12-14 12:47

I love god games! It is very interesting to try out different interactions but sometimes I don't know what I am doing. For example I have no idea what AV is. Eventually I got stuck because I don't have the place to place the mountain and the town seems to stop growing for some reason. It is fun though I enjoyed the game.I guess it should let the player to discover the interactions between object but it should at least show me what the object is.

danbolt 2015-12-14 15:24

A lot of fun just to mess around. Really good usage of the themes for direction.

I felt a little bad making the people become believers by hurting them, funny enough. The game is a bit of a statement in itself, lol.

thesteveiam 2015-12-14 16:28

Great idea, things happen so fast it's hard to really appreciate the effects of your intervening though

nunesbarbosa 2015-12-14 16:41

Very confusing.. o.O
click, click, things happen.. why?

justinooncx 2015-12-14 17:29

I haven't wrapped my head around how to navigate this properly, but there's something oddly satisfying about fostering human life from a single volcano. Bravo!

pete_h 2015-12-14 20:04

Love the idea. Also a bit confused as to whats going on! But was enjoying myself haha! Did get a crash after a few quick clicks :(

gornova 2015-12-14 22:46

I love the idea and execution, perfect in theme, well done!

For who don't understand what is going on: just explore combinations, this is key point of the game!

xbooperxdx 2015-12-15 00:55

Dont really understand what to do.

blobo 2015-12-15 01:58

I really tried with this one. the pictures looked amazing, but every time i just made volcanoes, and then eventually i couldn't do anything at all, so i was left with a bunch of stone and mountains. real shame too because the pictures look awesome. also, i'm not sure what the other symbol i got was. it kinda resembed a tribe maybe? it had a food counter on it whatever it was.

dyn 2015-12-15 02:24

Awesome idea! Like this game. Requires sometime to figure out what it going on)

makerart 2015-12-15 02:34

It look like old colonisation! And played like B&W!
It freez me, i must was other games. ;)

newbeings 2015-12-15 03:08

i love that song

modoc73 2015-12-15 03:28

Nice idea. Good concept. Liked the music too. Good job.

jimbly 2015-12-15 04:03

That was fun =). I got an exception when trying to drop water into the middle of my town. Maybe I shouldn't do that...

acerio 2015-12-15 04:32

Love the concept, even though I'm very lost on what I'm doing lol

lugalias 2015-12-15 04:49

Good use of both themes! I found it a bit difficult to figure out how to get everything to work, but it worked well in the time constraints.

dalbinblue 2015-12-15 06:31

This is a very interesting game. I actually really like how hands off it can be. You only have to perform a few actions to get things going (it's a lot like Sim Earth, a little bit of tweaking, and not much micro managing). I did get an exception twice using the web build, both times while taking an item (once was a mountain, the other was a church). Unfortunately debug support wasn't turned on so I couldn't get you an specifics on the error.

3rdchance 2015-12-15 10:01

i really do like this :D

kaiseangames 2015-12-15 10:24

Interesting game, I must say. :) Didn't get how each tile works, but I had fun none the less.

silvio 2015-12-15 10:34

nice

evgenii-petrov 2015-12-15 12:27

Very interesting game, actually spent quite some time watching how the land grows, etc. Well done!

flip120 2015-12-15 13:57

good idea, it is a little confusing but i like it

peterthehe 2015-12-15 17:00

A nice entry. I loved the intro.

namek 2015-12-15 18:09

Performance is pretty bad :(

urbanhelsing 2015-12-15 18:35

This game was amazing! Best of the ones I've tried.

_hopfrog 2015-12-15 20:09

It's honestly a bit complicated for me. But very interesting for sure!

zeezgames 2015-12-15 22:06

I honestly wasnt sure about this type of game and kinda didnt know what to do half way through but that music omg i loved it :) makes me way to get a little keyboard lol


ye i think with the additional features you mentioned this would turn into a great game would be good to see it fully done

Well Done!!

peekotus 2015-12-15 23:33

Audio is great and is a good god game.

oparisy 2015-12-15 23:36

I'm not saying I understood the whole idea but there's a very pleasant feeling of cellular automata and god game here which made me nostalgic of my Populous days.

h-attila 2015-12-16 00:02

Interesting idea. I couldn't always figure out the chain of events though.

dcrfj15 2015-12-16 01:34

Interesting game. This was a very creative interpretation of the theme. It was cool to see things combine in different ways to make the environment more varied. Great work!
I tweeted a picture of my world to #GiveandTakeLD

_benhumphries 2015-12-16 02:18

The game was confusing, but it was the kind of confusing that makes you want to figure out what's going on. Good job! I have wanted to make a game similar to this in the past, so I'm glad you uploaded your source. Thanks, and good job!

ondrejbalas 2015-12-16 02:21

Interesting game. It took a little while to figure out how to get the tiles to do what I wanted but once I got it, it was pretty fun.

adamyounis 2015-12-16 02:26

I enjoyed this sim. You did well to model all of those phenomena in such an abstract game, everything felt reasonably balanced. I'm not sure I understood fully how I was interacting with the system, some kind of indicator would have helped. If you expand on this game, consider a growing world map! I'd love to see this happening at 5x the size :)

bushmango3 2015-12-16 04:15

Cool! Sorry about your village, a volcano was needed there...

adafish 2015-12-16 05:06

Initially a little confusing, but the initial time investment was well-rewarded. Cool concept and a really unique take on the theme.

nsadie 2015-12-16 13:03

Sounds intriguing, but I don't really get how it works.

gebirgsbaerbel 2015-12-16 13:37

It was very difficult to understand the game at first. But once I understood it, it was interesting. Unfortunately, it does nor really communicate well, what combines into what. That makes it difficult to steer the game.

jupiter_hadley 2015-12-16 16:50

Very well made game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) https://youtu.be/XuTLfsOkf7k

noradzero 2015-12-16 22:59

Nice god-like game. Like other stated its hard to understand at first.

kunonooni 2015-12-17 01:01

That was a cool game. I plan on revisiting this one later. really liked how this incorporated both themes.

krafty 2015-12-17 02:25

Pretty interesting game, I liked the idea but I was a little bit confused. A lot of fun trying to control everything though!

candlesan 2015-12-17 07:33

Strangely compelling even though I didn't always know what I was doing!

baecun 2015-12-17 11:53

This game is amazing, I really hope with all my heart that you keep working on this, I'd love to play a finished version. The only thing I really think is missing is a way to kill the little ungrateful shits... '0 belief' ...

P.S: The joke about how the bible begins was hilarious, good job man!

guoboism 2015-12-17 14:27

Likes:
God Game
Fits Theme
Simple Generates Complex
Pixel Art

deadpixl 2015-12-17 15:22

Interesting, but a bit confusing. Enjoyed what i could figure out.

antonuklein 2015-12-17 15:52

Awesome game, although I got way too confused playing it.

sir-magic 2015-12-17 21:20

I got an exception in the web gl: ran out of memory

pusty 2015-12-17 22:54

Had much fun playing it! Nice concept!

mockthebear 2015-12-18 05:38

Well, the game crashed XD
but in the second play i was able to create greens!! <3

warboys 2015-12-18 14:21

I'm not 100% sure what's happening behind the scenes, but this is lovely. I like how it sort of grows a life of its own, allowing you to just watch it and be hypnotized :)

euske 2015-12-18 15:32

I couldn't figure out the growth rules, but it's very original. Good job!

wevel 2015-12-19 00:04

Nice game, it would be nice to have the tool tip tell you what the type of a tile is.

ewchap 2015-12-21 02:54

Very interesting take on the theme and the god game genre.

drauthius 2015-12-22 10:44

Interesting concept. I like it a lot, but no idea what's going on. I figured out that different tiles can become other tiles, but not why, nor what the people needed or wanted.

crucknuk 2015-12-25 21:43

Nice entry! I have been playing it for a long time to figure out how everything works. Then I read your description again to see there is a guide in-game and everything became clear haha. Well executed, good god-like game ;)

markusfisch 2015-12-28 12:10

Confusing but in a good way :) Very creative and funny!