Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD49 → Unstable Volcano

Unstable Volcano

By itskdog and caloudon

Percentile
CategoryRankScoreCountLD49Ever
Overall2413.922184.589.9
Fun3523.762177.686.6
Innovation5243.532164.774.0
Theme5643.742162.568.3
Graphics10833.212123.940.5
Audio5233.472151.667.4
Humor3803.532071.981.6
Mood5243.612165.674.4

Comments

taximan981 2021-10-06 08:49 ♥ 1

The programming for the systems on this game you can tell it really good! It was pretty easy so I never saw my villagers burn in the lava but thats probably for the best, I got attached to their names as well lmoa

daniel-eduardo-martinez 2021-10-06 09:07 ♥ 2

love the voice acting, and really like the building system, had a little trouble getting NPC's to listen to at the beginning, but I started getting the hang of it later down the line, great job.

linus-szokody 2021-10-06 09:26 ♥ 2

cool idea with awesome voice acting :) i feel like something like a build-queue would have been an awesome feature especially to build the wall.

ghubert 2021-10-06 09:36 ♥ 1

nice

pashaloban 2021-10-06 09:56 ♥ 1

Good game

cloudlunar 2021-10-06 10:03 ♥ 0

I am very interested in game mechanics But when I enter the construction mode, although the house has turned green, I still can’t use the right button to build the house. I don’t know why

itskdog 2021-10-06 10:16 ♥ 0

@cloudlunar you must have a villager selected in order to build. When I first started making it, the build indicator wouldn't show at all unless you had a selected villager. This made it tedious to keep clicking the build button. I should have should it red if a villager was not selected.

cloudlunar 2021-10-06 10:25 ♥ 1

@itskdog Oh, yes, I didn't realize that I had to choose the villagers first.

Let me play it again. Nice game.

itskdog 2021-10-06 10:41 ♥ 0

@taximan981 thanks for playing. Easy is really easy. Normal isn't too bad either. But hard and unstable are almost impossible.

itskdog 2021-10-06 10:43 ♥ 0

@daniel-eduardo-martinez Thanks for playing. I put in multi selection at the last minute. Wasn't going to have that at all.

itskdog 2021-10-06 10:47 ♥ 0

@linus-szokody you are right about the build system. I didnt get around to. I first just wanted it to where you could only select one character. At the last minute I added the multi select. It did make the game harder and feel more frantic when you could only select on villager.

animalx 2021-10-06 17:37 ♥ 2

Took a little while to get used to the mechanics, but after I got the hang of it it was quite fun! I love the sfx, it reminded me of playing Warcraft2 and having 100s of villagers cut wood at the same time. I would have liked to see villagers return to their job after eating, not doing that makes it more challenging. Overall enjoyed the experience!

itskdog 2021-10-06 19:54 ♥ 1

@animalx we made the voice low so it would be like Warcraft 2. I was thinking that for the food also.

kerrindor 2021-10-07 18:55 ♥ 1

This is a solid game. The audio is great and there’s a lot of attention to detail. As you said earlier it could do with better feedback to the player when you can't build, because no one is selected. I’d also like a rumble or something a few seconds before the volcano erupts. That might just be because I’m not very good at forward planning!

twistedhawk 2021-10-08 00:36 ♥ 1

This is fun! I love the humor of the game, and I always find resource gathering games addicting! It's like if animal crossing suddenly had a volcano!

Nice work!

zet 2021-10-08 13:40 ♥ 1

Loved the RTS game style!

itskdog 2021-10-08 15:18 ♥ 0

@kerrindor The rumbling idea would have been nice. I didnt have the time for all the sound I wanted. I should have done a camera shake effect.

itskdog 2021-10-08 15:20 ♥ 0

@twistedhawk Thanks for comparing it to Animal Crossing. That would be a neat idea.

itskdog 2021-10-08 15:21 ♥ 0

@zet It does have a good rts feel.

jackiex9527 2021-10-09 17:04 ♥ 1

wow! A rts in game jam ! Well done !!

chesiq 2021-10-09 17:06 ♥ 1

Really nice to see a smart game as a submission! I was too scared to have first entry be a management\sim game but I enjoy them myself the most! Really happy that someone else did make them this jam!

quoc 2021-10-10 18:28 ♥ 1

Really cool game. I like the graphics and the game idea behind id. Really enjoyed it

lychee 2021-10-10 18:39 ♥ 2

I thought the game was well designed! I liked building up a lot of units. My suggestion would be to make buildings more expensive each time you build one, because once I got enough villagers I had way too many resources (but I also played on easy because I'm generally bad at rts's). Good game loop for the jam length though!

kubikz 2021-10-10 19:05 ♥ 2

I think that's the best game on ld so far! I was getting a good chuckle every time I heard the voice, love that voice and . Although I was strongly impressed with villager selecting system, it could be (just slightly) improved. I don't like the default Unity buttons and sliders, but I guess that's a trade-off for a fantastic gameplay. I had a ton of fun playing that game, huge thanks for making it!