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Population

By solwllms

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall4.0010
Fun3.5610
Innovation2.8710
Theme3.6810
Graphics3.5010
Audio2.7510
Humor2.149
Mood3.7510

Comments

nightcrawler9001 2019-10-06 22:03

The link doesn't work

solwllms 2019-10-06 22:30

@nightcrawler9001 Thank you for this! I thought I was being smart by keeping everything private till submission hour, but not smart enough to set it public lol. It's been fixed now though! I hope you enjoy the game and good luck with your ratings. :smile:

the-blue-hatted 2019-10-06 22:35

I can't open it. I downloaded it, exported it, and lauched the exe. Am I missing a step here?

travis-carlen 2019-10-06 22:43

That was really fun. Around the 20 minute mark I did start to notice some performance issues, but that makes sense for how many houses I built. Overall I really enjoyed it and I'm sad I wasn't able to continue much farther

solwllms 2019-10-06 23:40

@the-blue-hatted Thank you for trying to play my game lol! I've been trying to sort this out since I saw your comment and I believe it is because I didn't ship with openal32.dll, and this just straight up crashes out. If you can please install OpenAL (for audio) [here](https://www.openal.org/downloads/oalinst.zip) you may need to restart. Otherwise I'll be publishing a fix very soon to let you play without audio :(. Many thanks.

the-blue-hatted 2019-10-07 01:29

Thanks @solwllms! That worked! That aside, the game is amazing!, i like that you have to make powerlines and solar panels to make your houses have power but, sometimes i find myself not knowing why my houses aren't happy or powered. Also it gets laggy when you put a lot of houses, but that aside, it's an amazing game!

syrapt0r 2019-10-09 15:18

I was super impressed with how intuitive this game is, how well everything works, how much fun it is to build a city and how nice and clean it looks. Then I saw that this is a compo entry and I don't even know what to say.

Extremely polished and really fun. Actually spent way too much time with this game :smile:

krisdev 2019-10-09 16:10

Fun game overall but after 2-3 minutes I got so much money that the challenge was practically gone. Good job, I maybe miss some more audio.

raphiell 2019-10-09 17:42

Very cool, I love city builders in the style of the old sim city games.

One thing I noticed was that I could place solar farms in the water.

Well done!

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solwllms 2019-10-09 18:05

@syrapt0r Thank you so much for your very, very kind words. I am very proud of this project, and am glad you had fun.

solwllms 2019-10-09 18:07

@raphiell Thank you. I can't believe things like this get thru testing lol, I've added a fix (a single-line fix) to the repo for a post-compo version if that ever comes to fruition. Also, haha very much :eyes:.

el-fideo-rubio 2019-10-09 18:54

Great game I felt I could relax and build a city, I'm missing the inhabitants going around their routine and maybe a drag and drop functionality for building roads would awesomecitybuilder.png

hbocao 2019-10-12 20:50

First off, the game looks pretty good. I did not enjoy that much though :(. I did not feel challenged as I just had to wait to get money and spam the map with buildings. Trying to do city sim, especially in a jam, is really hard and you should be proud of your accomplishments. I think you should keep improving it. :)