Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD59 → Farwatch
By liquid
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 81 | 3.72 | 22 | |
| Fun | 128 | 3.40 | 22 | |
| Innovation | 236 | 2.92 | 22 | |
| Theme | 260 | 2.67 | 22 | |
| Graphics | 15 | 4.32 | 22 | |
| Humor | 148 | 2.47 | 20 | |
| Mood | 115 | 3.57 | 22 |
This is extremely good for a compo entry, feels very polished, graphics are great and any kind of RTS is ambitious in my view. Really great job. I did find it slow to get getting and had some issues where my workers seemed to stop producing from my farms which kind of soft locked me.
How do you manage to make something so polished in such a small amount of time? This is really fantastic. I do miss some music and sound effects, but come on, that would've been impossible! Good job!
As others have said, very well done and impressive getting this done for the compo! My few nitpicks are the pathing could use some work (definitely didn't expect perfection in 48 hours) and the workers seem to have issues changing roles. I had a couple switch to harvesting at a farm, and they didn't actually produce anything (even though their animation would suggest they were) until I offloaded whatever resource they had previously first. Otherwise, this was incredibly impressive and very well done. Nice work!
Thanks for the feedback everyone! I fixed some of the worker resource bugs that you mentioned.
Amazing work and a nearly complete RTS game with lots of the genre's staple features: harvesting resources and constructing buildings, queuing production, command hotkeys, scrolling, group selection, control groups, right click to issue the default order.. Visually, the pixel art is readable and very pretty, with a lot of detail on building sprites despite the low resolution. I spent a good amount of time playing this game, and it's so easy to forget it's a Compo game! I don't know how you decided to do an RTS in a weekend, but I'm sure glad you did :)
Duude that's crazy work! it's almost fully featured RTS! even the flags to mark building spawn points! I'm in awe! Just opened Warcraft 2 OST on second tab and it was perfect.
The path finding hack though :))
Same amazement at how much you were able to get done as everyone else. Make a full RTS!
so cool, crazy how u managed to created all this for only 3 days
I love the little pixel graphics, they are so tiny and pretty! Everything looks just so so good and cozy. I am not really into RTS but you explained the controls well, I think. It was only a bit confusing when I tried moving down that the screen didn't scroll until my units were already behind the gray UI bar. I think it would be lovely if it started scrolling a bit earlier.
Upon reaching the workers, I started making my village immediately:
village.jpg
It looks so cute! I was hoping my soldiers could come in and rest and heal but they didn't care :')
Then the night fell, I couldn't see anything for a while, and in morning I was back at the very starting spot again but with way less forces ^^' Then very soon as I found an already established village and clicked on a tower with fire in it (forgot to screenshot ><) the night suddenly fell again, and it felt like it would never end :')
During that I figured out I can scroll the screen by moving my mouse down without clicking anything :o
The day came again and I thought I wonder what those villages are even for? So I left that village also and kept going, somehow only 2 soldiers left, towards somewhere. I went further south and met a dead end.
I am sorry, I think it's just not my genre... I am still feeling confused xD
But it looks like you've done a lot in 2 days, and the graphics are really pretty!!
Very cool, you managed to put a lot of things into this mini RTS game. Very impressive for a compo entry! I was a tiny bit confused how things worked once you get to the village, farming, what goal to build towards, meaning of the signal/light/dark stuff. Nice graphics, and again, very impressive!
@kanity Thanks for playing! Yes, every good RTS should have clear tutorials for new players. I was crunching to get all the core mechanics in, so that part is unfortunately missing right now. The buildings are meant for gathering resources with workers and then producing more units.
Thanks everyone for playing and for the feedback!
Great! You've done so much art and UI features, impressive! Did you have a template project in advance to help you build this game?
I do miss sounds but it's really hard to do all the gameplay, art and sound design in this short amount of time, and since you polished the rest, it's more than OK!
Good job!
Wow! Really impressive, how polished and fully featured this game is for the time you had to build it. The pixel graphics are great too!
Thanks for playing, really glad you liked it!
@deformhead I had a small LD template set up, but nothing with actual gameplay. I went in with the idea of using tiny sprites to save time (especially animations took only minutes), spent a few hours on art, then focused the rest of the weekend on mechanics. I'd built similar systems before (unit movement, fog of war), so that helped speed things up a lot.
And yeah, audio had to take the hit this time. I ended up putting in 34+ hours, so next jam I'll aim for something a bit smaller (and healthier).
Incredibly impressive work for a compo game! How do you get this much work done solo over a weekend? Is it all hand-coded or using a generous helping of AI?
The graphics are very very cosy - so much so that even with a lack of sound and music the game feels really good to play. There are some pathfinding and resource hogging / vil bumping issues, but nothing a seasoned age of empires player would be unfamiliar with - and it increases the skill ceiling too :)
Got surprised that the buildings even had gather points implemented (though they didn't seem to start resource gathering for villagers right away).
Really well done!
This is really impressive for such a short gamejam! Thank you, I have really enjoyed the game. I haven't read much of the description prior to playing the game and I was getting more and more surprised of how feature-rich your game turned out to be! Thank you!
Thanks for the feedback! @richard-baltrusch It is hand-coded. When I couldn't find answers in the Godot documentation, especially about GDScript or how resource intensive certain things are in Godot, I asked an AI. I was hoping to make it lightweight enough to run in the browser without too much stuttering.
really nice game foundation. it's missing stake or mission. I created my town, it was cool but didn't know why i was doing it. sprites are really nice !