Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD38 → Yours
By binaryferret
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 375 | 3.39 | 50 | |
| Fun | 583 | 2.79 | 50 | |
| Innovation | 342 | 3.20 | 50 | |
| Theme | 49 | 4.16 | 50 | |
| Graphics | 488 | 3.21 | 49 | |
| Audio | 205 | 3.43 | 46 | |
| Humor | 521 | 2.21 | 40 | |
| Mood | 273 | 3.44 | 47 |
Very nice idea !! I like the dualism of the game. I can create terrain and then add some elements to it creating the whole world. Music really fits to the game. It would be nice if you would add some more mechanics, other world parts or type of terrain. Saving link for voting time :ballot_box:
Thanks @fedor ! Yeah I had so many cool ideas that I had to drop due to loosing time. I'll defo update and add to the project as I really enjoyed working on it. Thanks for playing and commenting.
I sculpted a nice piece of land, carefully placed the trees and started a tribe. I watched them grow, build more houses, made them nice forests... and then switched back to sculpt mode and made a huge mountain that covered all their homes. After that, I watched them wander aimlessly, looking where did their houses go.
I am a bad person.
I like the idea very much, and I'd love to see a further version with more variety. It's one of those games that relaxes the player :)
really cool idea! i totally understand that you had to swerve in a different direction and its impressive that you still finished! i can definitely see all of the potential with this and i enjoyed what you were able to implement for the jam! music set a great mood too. great job!
Really cool game man! it was relaxing to play.
Would be awesome to see a post jam version with other resources like fruit tress, fish spawners, gold and stuff.
But this in 48 hs is impressive, keep it up!
Nice job! I enjoyed playing it, it has a relaxing atmosphere. The music fits well, but is a bit too "pointy" in its sounds to my opinion (whatever that means). How do the people learn the map? Do they actually build an internal map or did you use somestigmergy algorithm like ants? Do they have a shared map or does each person have to learn the surroundings on its own? If you are going to extend the game, you could also add fish and dolphins.
The idea for the game is super great. Th graphics is simple and that is fine for this kind of game. I love the music you have chosen for this game, it fits the game really well. Overall a great LD game. Well done.
I liked the idea. With more time put into this, it could really turn into an interesting management game. Thank you for sharing this game.
Cheers @Takusan (you monster! :P) @xxDOOMbox @Rombus @Frodewin @jk5000 @mrerdalural!
Defo planning to add to it in my spare time :D
@Frodewin "How do the people learn the map?" - As they explore, any new nodes that are neighbours of the node they are on/in are added to a 'tribe brain'. Basically if one person sees it then it updates the tribe so they all see it. This isn't shared between tribes but in the jam there is only one tribe implemented at present. So basically over time they will want to explore new nodes.
A neat planet generator + tribe simulation. Some interaction with the tribe could have been interesting, but as you say time is a tough mistress. I'm most certainly hopeful for an extended edition.
The world as we know it: :mountain::ocean::house::man:
Hi there, congrats on making this in such short time. As it stands, it's like a neat sandbox tech-demo. I can see this becoming a game if there are some kind of objectives and you have to interact indirectly with the tribe(s) in order to achieve them. Or it can be just a sandbox, with more interactions and unpredictable stuff happening, that can be fun too. It looks ok(3d models look really good, the terrain not so much), sounds good, I had fun interacting with it for about 15 minutes. Good luck on the competition and, if you're going to expand on this game, good luck on that too.
Cheers @HuvaaKoodia, and @xmatos!
@xmatos Alas the 3d models you were most likely talking about were the person and the house which were quick free asset additions to replace person cube and brown house cube :P I did make the tree and boat lol. A lot of the stuff is in the backend, I'm only just learning 3d modelling so I hope to use this as a good place to create my own models and see how that all works. I will defo be adding my own once judging has finished and I can upload the changes I've made.
Thanks!
Nice exercise! This game lacks a little visual polish to have me satisifed just watching my colony grow. I actually think your trees are pretty nice assets, but the world generation could use a fair few more polygons, so it matches the rough polycount/ detailsize of the houses and trees plus a bit more work into the lighting and materials could make this really appealing with little effort.
Also quaternions are tricky to work with, there are some issues when the camera works itself to the poles of the planet.
Nice entry! cheers~
@elZach - thanks for the feedback matey. Completely agree with you on the planet it does need more verts! I'm just starting learning 3D modelling, so that kind of feedback is really appreciated. Also I know it's kinda lame but the fact that you complemented my trees (first thing I've modeled and put into a game) made me super happy lol. After the judging period I plan to mess around with increasing the planet detail, and also can use this project as an awesome place to plonk new models I create. Thank you!
A really cool simulation. Had fun watching my little people destroy all my forests and build houses/boats. Camera was a little wonky around the north pole, and would have been nice to have more to do, but I enjoyed this!
@binaryferret, it's not lame! I can really recommend sticking to 3D-modelling. It's something which can become super satisfactory if you get accustomed to it and it's basically a field of endless learning and tuning and you'll always find something new to challenge yourself on.
However I'm also a sucker for that kind of low poly graphics, so believe me when I tell you, I like those trees. lol
Whoa. Very cool. Great concept and feel overall.
This is crazy impressive for just 72 hours! It's a nice original idea, well executed. Did you do the music too?
Cheers @MaggardJosh! :D Yeah will work on the camera wonkyness when judging has finished and I add to the game. :D Thanks for the feedback, really appreciated!
Hi @simonhutchinson! Thank you for the kind words. The music was provided by the awesome
Hey, cool game! I played the webgl version.
Controls felt a bit awkward to me at first. Sometimes I'd try to place a tree and wouldn't know why it didn't place. I'd definitely have switched mouse buttons for trees and villages. 3D models were perfect, really cute little villagers. Some more detailed textures could definitely have existed though. If the shadows were a little lighter that'd be nice.
Music was ok, quite atmospheric. Probably could have used a little light rhythm. No sound effects unfortunately. Didn't see any serious bugs; the people had interesting AI. I understand timeframes in this competition are tight and that can make it tough to finish those things you really want to add, but even a simple mechanic like - adding a consequence if people run out of wood or something - that would add a ton to the game.
It's a great idea anyway and a bit of a shame we didn't see more to it! But awesome effort anyway :)
Really nice little sandbox game. Nice work on the 3d all on your own ! and of course perfect use of the theme. I really appreciate how easy to use it is. The separation of sculpt and play is very elegant.
I won't go into details about the features that I wish were there because they are not original and you probably didn't do them because of the lack of time. The only really annoying thing is the way the globe sometimes rotates suddenly 180° when I am pressing an arrow for some time. And the sad thing is that once you built the world there is not much thing to do. You can't even drown the little people, they just turn into boats ! ;)
If it is a simply contemplative game a good thing would be to materialize the exploration more clearly. Here it just look like they turn into boats and run randomly, looking for trees. Still nice to look, especially with the nice relaxing music.
This is more a tech demo than a game, but it is very well done! Love the relaxing music accompanying me while shaping the world. With one more weekend of work you could make this into a very interesting game.
Well done!
Very chill, not much of a game though. +1 point for being able to make an island in the shape of a penis.
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Really enjoyed looking at my tiny people running around for a while, obviusly missing some kind of later "objective" or something, but nice nonetheless!
A really relaxing game. I like the way the sculpting works/feels, it feels like an excellent base to build a bigger game from.
Very cool, like the art style and love the music. Could easily picture this becoming a larger game, rival tribes would certainly have been interesting, shame you couldn't get it implemented in time. Could be cool if the tech progressed over time your tribe evolved into a spacefaring race to populate other little planets! Could be intereting in VR too.
Really cute game. Was nice to see the tiny people explore the world. Do they find newly created land or do they keep the information that there is water if they already saw it?
The "happy space music" is indeed quite nice.
There seems to be a problem with the camera if you want to rotate over the north / south pole.
Since the voting is up, I've added rating to my earlier feedback. Cheers!
Rated your game like I’ve said few days ago ;)
This is quite pleasant to play with. The camera seemed to invert when I rolled the planet too far in one direction, but once I got the hang of the controls, built myself some little islands and placed the first hut down, I liked how the little guy started going out to chop down the trees. Nice one :)
I liked this so much. The creation of the world, how the tribe begins to grow up. The way they explore and move through water with boats. Really enjoyable. Obviously would be better with more things to do, but this is a really good start.
I found a problem, you can zoom in the camera too much until it goes through the floor. Set a maximun zoom could be a good idea to avoid this.
Came back to rate!
This is very sweet and calm. My main request would be a maximum zoom level so I can look at them from close up without clipping through the planet.
While there isn't much of an objective, the world shaping is cool and it was.. just really relaxing :). I can see potential here.
Chunky Charlie Simulator 2017. I like it, it is very relaxing, really nice music.
I liked this! The atmosphere was nice, and while the game didn't have much depth, it was relaxing to watch people wander around the world. The gameplay got repetitive fast, but this wasn't a flaw in the game design, rather in the lack of time that you had. Given more time, I'm sure that you could add lots of depth to this. Also, if you could implement some sort of challenge, that would be fantastic. Great job!
Cool zen kind of game, it's a pleasant experience to watch them expand and build new stuff. I like ho pretty world you can create in this stylish minimalistic art style.
I would've liked some sort of objective, but it was still pretty good as a relaxing atmospheric game. Some things that I think could've helped it are: * 'WASD' to move the planet (it was a bit uncomfortable to reach the arrows and use the mouse.) * Hold to place/sculpt.
These aren't major things, but they pulled me out of the experience a little bit, which isn't ideal for an atmospheric game such as this.
Overall I'd say that this is a cool concept. It was fun to watch the tribe grow. Nice work!
Really cute game with bomb music. I love atmospheric games like this, and getting to build the land the tribe lives on added to that in a great way. I did notice sometimes my tribesmen would just starting running into the oceans, which I know you mentioned in the description was to keep them from floating into space, so maybe consider adding little boats with them if you decide to expand on this game in the future. Well done!
Hi @Caterein thanks for your feedback. The little people should have a process where once there is enough wood in stock they will get a boat. This boat then appears when they are over water. Or should do hehe.
very nice idea good game
Nice and relaxing. Makes me feel like the goddess of trees, planting more and more for my little tribe =P
I really enjoy your game :) I like the fun in just build and see my people destroying the beautiful world that I created.
" You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus." Agent Smith
Funny black and white style game. If think about it - you could add tons of interesting features to it. Like f.e when you surround a small piece of water with land it becomes lake and water is required for buildings to be created. Great job.
Great work, both in design and in technical aspect! The game was really interesting and relaxing, and it pushed me to continue adding land and other stuff just to see what would happen! You have a really solid base for a very good game on your hands! Well done! :D
The game was pretty intuitive to play, so props to that. A lot of the games I've seen have been difficult to figure out, but this explained things well. The graphics and attention to detail were spot on, and the bg music was relaxing and fit well. I would have liked to have some sound effects to complement the music, but it wasn't that big a deal. Gameplay wise, it was pretty bare. What is there was implemented well, but to make this a full game, some more mechanics would need to be added in for it to have more of a long lasting fun factor.
Minimalist, relaxing and an interesting concept. Love it.
This is a very cute idea to fit the theme, and pretty chill indeed, good job :D
One of my favs. I did a little video with my thoughts. https://youtu.be/2E_VB598v2c
Neat little virtual ant farm :) Very relaxing and enjoyable to play, though not a whole lot of challenge. Well done!
Very nice to play. Great aesthetic lowpoly Congratulations!!
The simplistic graphics paired with the soft music gave off a nice vibe And the attention to detail was clearly visible. The only problem i had with the game was the sculpting mode it felt a little lacking .when it comes to content i felt you could get more done and i think you should work on your time management in the next ludum dare.
Thanks for the review @binaryferret! Can't sleep so I thought I'd get started on playing and reviewing some games. Your game is pretty nice! It had a great relaxing vibe to it, but similar to my one could do with a bit more of a detailed objective to help guide the gameplay more. Nonetheless I enjoyed it, nice work! :)
Relaxing, 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=reOMZ5szx64