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Mad Gods

By norseware-team and Balthazaar

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2783.5424
Fun3513.2224
Innovation4293.0424
Theme2793.6324
Graphics2953.7724
Audio1513.6123
Humor793.7022

Comments

oxlander 2017-04-30 18:16

You guys have done really well with this! The art is beautiful, the sound effects feel satisfying in a way (although kind of annoying when you button mash although that's to be expected), and the music makes the game feel calm and a perfect idle/incremental game (so that everything builds up and you unleash your godly wrath :japanese_ogre:). With a little more things added, this would be perfect for mobile! The gameplay is simple but fun, great work! :smiley:

norseware-team 2017-05-01 06:12

Thanks @oxlander!I've definitely had thoughts on a mobile port. A lot would need fixing, and definitely would need to add some stuff. But I agree, it'd make a fun mobile game!

plumepox 2017-05-01 16:38

I really enjoyed music and art here ! I admit I had to read your description to understand what I had to do. But anyway I liked to send thunder everywhere and feeling bad killing my people. Really cool job guys ! I need to plau again to have the animations of martians now, bye.

norseware-team 2017-05-01 18:31

Thanks @plumepox! Yeah, I had planned on making a mini tutorial, but ran out of time :/

yami-no-tenshi-8 2017-05-01 18:34

Funny game, the idea of constructing something for having it broken after is comical, reminds me playing the Lego ! The soundtrack is really good and the effects are well rendered, along with an interesting visual design. Would have been great to have kind of objectives to prevent the game from being repetitive. :wink:

norseware-team 2017-05-01 21:40

Thanks @yami-no-tenshi-8! Yeah, a defense system would be nice. Good idea!

sararycow 2017-05-03 01:14

Great game! I had a good time raising and killing civilians :D. This is an original mechanic. I also loved the art, simple but very attractive. Definitely I will come back to it.

norseware-team 2017-05-03 16:14

Awesome @sararycow! Glad you liked it! A lot of jam games are about creation, so we went the opposite direction :P

laguna 2017-05-05 20:00

Great game! I really like the graphics and the soundtrack. The mechanics reminds me a little bit of cookie clicker, which is a good thing, because I like that very much. The earthquake is kind of OP, because it does not kill my people but just raises my score.

norseware-team 2017-05-06 08:53

@laguna thanks for the kind words! Yeah, Earthquake is op, I should have increased the chance to start fires. I think it's 25% right now? Or maybe just kill off some population per second haha maybe next update :P

iamteekay 2017-05-12 10:33

This game looks rad. I really liked that it had cookie clicker mechanics. Destruction is always satisfying and this entry is great :)

paulhocker 2017-05-15 04:33

this game is a lot of fun - i would love to see it expanded - great job

yves 2017-05-16 00:05

Funny Idea, destroying is always fun :D It would be cool if you get quicker some cash for the big disaster. Good Job mate :)

Cheers

superbusyrobot 2017-05-16 02:03

Man oh man, I love the design of this one. Very simple straightforward games like this are very Flappy Bird-esque, and the idling aspect of the game keeps pretty much anyone playing for at least a little while.

I found it really hilarious to be able to casually spawn people just for the sole purpose of killing them off, and the Earthquake thing I thought was handy at least for the purpose of keeping your population making money for you while wrecking all their stuff.

Great work here, and I'll definitely be playing this one more than once.

lazycymbals 2017-05-16 16:48

my kind of game hahahahh great job!!

krammetje 2017-05-17 11:51

Fun game, great music.

nergle 2017-05-17 17:11

Really nice art and atmosphere. I also thought it was an interesting concept.

anim-ace 2017-05-17 17:12

Again, not very good at these resource games, but I think you accomplished what you set out to do. Great job! However, something being 640 pixels tall is not good for web browsers on laptops. Games should be no more than like 576 pixels tall on a web browser screen, at least in my opinion.

thendash 2017-05-17 17:45

The art, music, and sound effects are excellent. It felt a little sadistic creating a big population just so that I could rain acid and kill most of them off for points. The calm music really juxtaposed the chaos going on on screen. Good job!

tacomabert 2017-05-17 17:52

Good concept, but no challenge. I just kept putting my money back into my population until I reached the limit of 300, then unleashed the earthquake, which dealt the most damage/score. When I summoned the UFO, as soon as it abducted some citizens, I got about $1000 back. I don't think that is working as expected.

Overall an interesting type of game, falls a little along the lines for Black & White. Needs more challenging elements, otherwise it feels like a sandbox game.

Scored 52000 before I killed all my population (on purpose) to end the game.

Also, audio was not working. Downloaded the game and am running it on Windows 8.

mortus 2017-05-19 17:48

The gods must be crazy indeed. I'm not sure I get the idea behind this game completely, but it's quite fun to play with as an aimless sandbox even. Love the graphics and sfx too! Why did you opt out of a mood category? It seems very moody to me.

2017-06-08 15:38

Cute graphics, fun game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 38 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piKz6z64rgg