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Colonize

By weirdmind

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Audio7211.50
Theme7433.40
Fun7432.88
Overall7883.00
Graphics7912.87
Humor8511.57
Mood8672.64
Innovation8772.56

Comments

ethanwebster 2015-12-14 18:15

Neat game, you got a lot done in just 72 hours. Well done :)

mintarcade 2015-12-14 18:19

Nice.

catblocker 2015-12-14 18:25

Nice concept and art, but confusing gameplay.

simon123 2015-12-14 18:27

Cool little Civ type game, had a lot of depth for an LD
game. Really like the graphics.

Also I love that you made a 2D game in Unity!

jcmonkey 2015-12-14 18:27

nice game, i played it in the webplayer, the right click kept popping up the webplayer menu.

teamross 2015-12-14 18:35

A lot of work done in 72 hours.
It is a solid and entertaining game, and cool concept.

I got lost a bit when I started playing the first time, but in the end i got what i have to do.

killedbyapixel 2015-12-14 18:45

I am having some trouble selecting buildings, partially because I keep trying to drag them into the world. It would be cool if the world had some different types of terrain, like a river or mountains. I don't understand how to assign humans to stuff. Ok, after clicking on literally everything I figured out that I need to click on the + button next to building, really confused why it says 99 there and the plus button changes the number next to the -, but ok. You should prompt the player if they try to end turn with unassigned humans. It doesn't seem like placement of buildings has any effect on the game, you could have just simplfied and left that out. I played all 100 rounds, final score 6250. I couldn't figure out how to get more then 12 humans, not sure if that was a limit or i needed to build more. Good start for a strategy game here, I think you should try to simplify things and work on ui to better inform the player and make choices more understandable.

graceavery 2015-12-14 18:47

I can tell this took quite a lot of work. Needs a simple intro screen to explain the game and alleviate some confusion, and some tweaking, but still nicely done for 72 hours!

muffinhat 2015-12-14 19:13

The UI works quite nicely, with tool tips and everything. The game could use a tutorial though (such is the case with most strategy games). I'd say this makes a nice basis for a colonization game.

mrjorts 2015-12-14 19:16

Cool city builder :) I had trouble figuring out what order to build everything. It's very easy to run out of the resource you need, and then have no way of gaining more of it.

fistmaker 2015-12-14 19:38

Interesting game, if a little hard to understand. A better explanation of game play would go far here. Great entry, looks like a lot of work!

jajo 2015-12-14 19:55

Graphics were great, maybe some music next time?

oskardevelopment 2015-12-14 19:56

Cool game! I would've liked to be able to play longer when I win! Cool idea with the buildings, could've been nice to show income from the villagers somehow! Great game!

scriptorum 2015-12-14 20:01

Good fun! Nice job. Pretty deep gameplay for a jam.

My final score was 10010. You can trap yourself early if you overbuild. I did better when I focused on sustaining the population while getting my first set of buildings out.

You should spell out somewhere that each house increases population capacity by two and each warehouse increases storage capacity by 20, although the latter is more easily deduced.

reggianito 2015-12-14 20:08

Gameplay is a bit confusing, but I agree with Ethan. It's a whole lot of gameplay for a weekend

dooskington 2015-12-14 20:13

I couldn't figure out how to assign my humans.. I was clicking on the plus button but nothing happened. Nice job though, pretty cool game for such a short time frame.

move127 2015-12-14 22:36

I like to see depth in LD games. A tutorial would have been helpful.

_benhumphries 2015-12-15 00:25

Nice game! It had a lot of depth, which I think is awesome, but it was confusing sometimes.

jimbly 2015-12-15 03:47

A lot more depth than I expected, quite enjoyed it! Things I wish I knew when I was starting: people consume food and water, had to have two people in a house *and* build an extra house for every 2 people. My score was 9900.

wizzardmaker 2015-12-15 15:55

Great game, a bit addictive. A tutorial would be really helpful, I needed some to know how to play, and the town really needs some fire safety

chubb1337 2015-12-19 09:38

This game could really benefit from some music and sound effects. Also, I did not have a clue on what to do for the first 5 to 10 minutes, a tutorial would have been great!

xanjos 2015-12-19 19:54

Took a while to work out which buildings to do first in order to get a good stream of resources but this was a pretty solid entry. Also I'm not sure if it would make the game more or less fairer but maybe you could have certain tiles (that are randomly generated) which give out special bonuses when a certain building is placed on it or even an exploration mechanic where you start out in one spot of the map and the rest cannot be seen unless you send scouts to discover the rest of the map as you play.

gloim 2015-12-27 07:46

Wow, impressive game for 72 hours :) great work.