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Let's Run a Kingdom

By supergamersgames and justicepro

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall7313.2724
Fun6933.1025
Innovation8382.8124
Theme4183.5024
Graphics5853.4726
Humor5052.8421
Mood6743.2123

Comments

shaolin-dave 2019-10-07 22:42

Don't have Windows so can't play, but just wanted to say that the graphics are very impressive and cute.

excy 2019-10-07 22:50

Love the art, it's cute and welcoming. The game is a little tough to get going but it has some decent management systems in, especially for 72 hours! Great job.

supergamersgames 2019-10-07 22:54

@excy Thanks! For the feedback!

I got sick during the development of this game so it's nice to see despite my illness it was good.

changemewtf 2019-10-07 23:04

Very cute graphics and good minimal music. I failed on my first turn three times in a row and kind of gave up, but it's quite adorable!

excy 2019-10-07 23:04

@supergamersgames D: Sad to hear about the illness, you've done great anyway!

jd-parker 2019-10-07 23:41

OMG our games look so similar <3 Great minds think alike!

supergamersgames 2019-10-08 00:12

@jd-parker At first I was confused, but now I see what you mean.

yokuday 2019-10-08 05:13

The game looks like the yes and no game. But despite that it was very well made!

justicepro 2019-10-08 15:04

@shaolin-dave I added HTML5 now!

elbidev 2019-10-08 15:26

Good job despite fall ill

theufo 2019-10-08 15:30

Seems a bit tough to understand how to rule the kingdom!;) But graphics and music are really nice.

aleks 2019-10-08 15:35

Very well made! The first thing I did was raise taxes to 400%, which made me extremely rich until the population went negative and I was losing money (presumably from the negative population paying negative taxes), until the population went back up again and my money skyrocketed until the cycle repeated. Overall it's fun!

dk5000p 2019-10-08 15:48

I would have liked a win state. I did like the random events, it made the kingdom feel more alive.

justicepro 2019-10-08 17:17

@dk5000p Yeah, when we were designing it. That was one of the things we made sure to include.

justicepro 2019-10-08 17:19

@changemewtf That was due to a bug I fixed. Try it again!

di3goalmeida 2019-10-08 18:26

Great game! Just loved the graphics everything is so cute. Good Job!

changemewtf 2019-10-09 00:47

Hey, this turned out to be so fun! I'm glad you fixed the bug because I sat down with it and played until I figured out the basics. The most important thing was realizing that "Production" was actually a renewable resource each turn.

Once I got to ~8,000 gold, I cranked up Tax and Food Aid to offset the happiness decrease, and was just building as many farms as I could every turn. Eventually I figured out I could make more workers to make more farms per turn.

Between there and ~75k gold I was spamming clicks on Build Farm and then hitting next turn. That wasn't super fun, because it seemed like there wasn't much for me to do until I had 100k gold to build a wonder!

I was a little disappointed that there was no feedback for any of the choices, especially building the wonder. Even a little popup or sound would make a big difference.

Thanks for building and sharing this cute game!

googlefrog 2019-10-09 03:27

The animations and music really brought the kindgom alive, and I had fun managing my resource balance. A few more options in the endgame would have been nice.

lars-erik 2019-10-09 21:52

Nice overall feel for the game. Loved the music and gfx. Too bad you didn't have time to balance. Kinda' know the feeling. 😉