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Growing Cities

By igor-kingamer

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall9173.0924
Fun7303.0923
Innovation5883.1722
Theme6123.4723
Graphics10882.5023
Audio7442.3320
Humor7442.2821
Mood10542.3921

Comments

sankacoffee51 2018-08-13 23:18

Funny game, and I really ran out of space, good concept!

swift 2018-08-15 23:32

Seemed to be a lot of bugs where buildings could only be placed floating in air, or destroyed buildings they weren't sitting on. Amusing concept. Maybe have some sort of triple town style system where buildings combine into better load bearing buildings?

igor-kingamer 2018-08-16 00:16

@swift I hope you haven't seen something like this:

erroP.png Don't know why GM:S does that... I ran the web build and it was like that, now I think it's ok. That's what you get when you don't test updates... At least with GM:S :grimacing:

Maybe that was the cause of the bugs you have seen?

I didn't know Triple Town, that could be interesting.

@sankacoffee51 @swift Thanks for your comments!

igor-kingamer 2018-08-16 00:41

@swift I've just found another bug!

When a building falls, it keeps bearing the building above it, even if that building doesn't fall because it's supported by something else. But it doesn't look like that's what you're talking about.

Let's fix that...

balance686 2018-08-16 04:27

Nice take on the theme! I dig the concept you came up with here. I haven't played an urban planning game since sim city :P It would be nice if the resolution was scaled up a bit. Also the audio only plays in the left channel. If your sound effect files are mono they can easily be made stereo with a free app like audacity. I had fun playing!

rob-parker 2018-08-17 22:02

Neat puzzle game! Really quick to pick up and understand the mechanics. As some others have said it would be nice if the viewport was a little bigger and also if there was some music.

dodoita 2018-08-17 22:02

Pretty fun little game, simple but effective!

larnin 2018-08-17 22:13

Realy cool concept. I didn't understood why my building were destroyed by others sometimes, but were totaly correct on others on my first run. I just hate when the game give me a big building, but i just have the place to put a small house on the map. Maybe add a way to stock one element, and switch or take back later, when it's a better time to use it.

igor-kingamer 2018-08-18 02:52

Thanks all!

@balance686 I can't reproduce that audio issue... But I may do that in the next update anyway.

@rob-parker Yeah, I didn't have time to make music for the levels. The title screen has music, tough, you may have missed it if you clicked before it loaded.

@larnin The weight of a building is evenly distributed among buildings supporting it. I admit this looks weird when you place an additional "weak" building below something, I should probably change that. You can discard with right click (this counts as destroying). I added this feature in the last moments, so this info is only "hidden" in the right panel...

lunardust 2018-08-21 13:39

funny game! I didn't understand the difference between small houses of different color at first. Maybe you can make it more clear on graphic like the wooden house? you did.

igor-kingamer 2018-08-22 20:21

@lunardust Thanks! I'd blame the GUI, it's bad, I myself have a hard time understanding it :laughing:, you can't even see the next building's name. But surely graphics could be more meaningful.

drums 2018-08-22 21:02

Took me a bit to understand what caused what, but it feels like a good complete game. Nice coding and design, and creating the different scenarios.

thepiratenun 2018-08-26 23:18

This is a super awesome submission! I liked the simple style, and the game play was very well designed. Awesome job implementing multiple levels also!

nowicu 2018-08-27 05:34

this game is simple but realy realy funny,I like it,good job!

imphenzia 2018-09-02 00:12

Am I meant to be able to stack houses on top of one another? I like the shaking of the buildings as they are put under pressure. Neat entry and credits to implementing multiple languages :)

igor-kingamer 2018-09-03 03:02

@drums @thepiratenun @nowicu @imphenzia Thanks! All your feedback is really appreciated.

@imphenzia If the under house can bear it, yes =D But it looks like when it's possible isn't as clear as it should be.