outstar 2024-04-16 12:27
This was super fun, I found getting 1000 currency for crack in the ground very challenging! My only feedback is that I found one error in the tutorial: - "Crystals can be add to tiles" instead of "added" :)
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Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD55 → Summon World
By itskdog
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 266 | 3.85 | 23 | |
| Fun | 194 | 3.90 | 23 | |
| Innovation | 109 | 3.95 | 23 | |
| Theme | 447 | 3.83 | 23 | |
| Graphics | 791 | 3.40 | 23 | |
| Audio | 649 | 3.04 | 23 | |
| Humor | 450 | 3.26 | 23 | |
| Mood | 749 | 3.40 | 23 |
This was super fun, I found getting 1000 currency for crack in the ground very challenging! My only feedback is that I found one error in the tutorial: - "Crystals can be add to tiles" instead of "added" :)
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@outstar Thanks for play. I did some rebalaning and going to post it here. Earthquakes are 700 now. Tornadoes do more damage. Crystals can be a little further from buildings. After 100 villagers I was able to destroy them all.
Wow, what a crazy game. Well done!
I really liked it.
@beebster-games Thanks for playing. I enjoyed making the game.
Highly entertaining, love it!
Super nice game! I really liked the vibe and enjoyed lots :)
Hope you keep making more to come!
Those villagers are mesmerizing. Good job
@zarukara I'm glad you liked. @josion Thanks for playing. I'm currently working on my Steam game Conqueror of Time. It was a gae that I made for the 7DRL game jam. @lelek-hunor-kadosa I love when they building their city and fill the whole map with their building. And then I send the wolves after them.
Really impressive game for such a short period of time. I personally enjoyed just watching the villagers go about their business and filling the land with various thing almost as much as tearing it all back down again ^^
@sampai they are fun to watch. They actual have a spouse and the couple will build their own home and have kids. Children go to the school. If they are hungry they go to the farm.
I kept running into this issue where the bottom UI would not appear for my game. I am using a larger computer screen than usual. I would check the scaling and make sure it works on all devices. It looks like a cute game and I love the villagers running around doing their own business. Gives me Stardew Valley vibes!
Very fun and enjoyable to play. I only wish there was a setting to slow down/pause time. Everything was happening so fast - I place a new crystal and it's removed in what feels like 5s by the villagers.
I love that cheats are a part of the UI. It's great to watch them build a huge city and just storm it all down. That really adds to the fun. The music fits the graphics well, but is a bit short to repeat. I enjoy all the graphics and how they match up. Each ability feels very different.
Well done. :)
Good variety of disasters to choose from. The music fits the tinkering aspect of trying out the tools. The game and music felt repetitive after a while. Part of that may have been I thought the crystal limit was 5 after upgrades based on the outdated starting tooltip, so building more may have helped me. They didn't mine all of mine out though, and even overlapped them with buildings which sounds like it may not be intended? But it is in the player's favor which is good.
Having the cheat button for free points turns it into a stress-relieving destruction game. For the normal game, I like how the early game peacefulness has the ominous purple glows from the pillars foretelling the coming disasters. Nice work.
@alex4101 sorry it does scale right. Not sure why. @lisek-gagatek thanks for playing. The balance version you can build crystal further from buildings. Atleast 5 tiles away. Try not building all the crystals rightness to each other. @trevor-lentz @nbumgardner I like adding the cheat button in Game Jams just in case the game is too difficult. There is never any time to play test. I'm glad you liked the music. Trade it real quick at the last minute.
Very fun game! It reminds me of the old sim city games where you could spawn disasters on your cities and just watch havoc break loose.
@redoxeide I got the same feeling from the game. It's sim city disaster mode.
Fun game! I didn't realize at first that I had to kill the villagers, and wasn't sure what to do. But once I understood the goal it was fun! It would have been nice to have some kind of heavily armored unit that could move and destroy the turrets, in the end I spammed wolves to get the populace down, but they still seemed to die really quickly no matter how many they were. I created this power plant to fuel the destruction:
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Great game, and neat take on the theme! Nice work!!
I really enjoyed this. Wasn't sure I was going to be able to win at first but managed to pull it round which was very satisfying. Like how it's kind of a reverse city builder too, where I'm here to ruin things instead haha. Game feels nicely balanced and polished, one of my favourites so far - great job.
@jefvel Wow! 117 crystals. Nice job! Towers are really tough to take out. Spamming wolves is how I beat the game as well. @dan-allison Thanks for the comment. It's like simcity but only with destruction.
This was a very relaxing game. I like to let them build up a bit while I place gems. Then all at once, decimate their EVERYTHING EVER! EVERYONE DIES...except for one! I will watch them chop trees and build up a house until I get bored and trauma dump a bunch of hounds in their vicinity.
I love watching the spiders move. This was a really entertaining game. Thank you for putting the cheats in there, it really satiates my....desire for destruction.
Fun little game, very satisfying dropping meteors on the villagers. Good work!
@kevvy I played a game where there was one villager left after they had built a huge city. I felt sorry for her for a little bit and then a meteor fell on her. @digital-bacon Thanks for playing. The meteors are useful against buildings. I also let the tornado laying waste.
I love this concept! It's a bit too hard imo because the crystals kept getting destroyed so quickly but the concept is great and watching that society grow is also very fun. You should flesh this out some more, it has a lot of potential.
@retrific Thanks for the comment. It is always hard to balance a game during a jam. That's why I added a cheat button :)
Interesting simulation concept, decent graphics and audio, but those ingame cheats and slow progress is hard to ignore. Could use some theme and mood boosts for a better experience.