docredstone 2026-10-20 19:14 ♥ 1
Pretty fun but quite similar to https://orteil.dashnet.org/legacy/
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD60 → Stained Glass
By gamebuilder, genie, bcav and crittercipher
| Percentile | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | LD60 | Ever | |
| Overall | 4 | |||||
| Fun | 4 | |||||
| Innovation | 4 | |||||
| Theme | 4 | |||||
| Graphics | 3 | |||||
| Audio | 3 | |||||
| Mood | 4 | |||||
Pretty fun but quite similar to https://orteil.dashnet.org/legacy/
Really chill – except for the times when people are dying uncontrollably 😅 After a few attempts I was finally able to finish my cathedral in the year of the lord 21, with a population of 28:
Two nitpicks on gameplay: 1. It would be nice with a pause button so you can pause and read the log. Things happen very very quickly, even on the slower speeds 2. Difficulty is kinda backwards. It starts of the hardest and gets progressively easier as your village grows and you research new technologies
Overall, a fun sim! Good job 👏
@the-big-lost we appreciate your comments. We didn't have much time for play-testing and there are some adjustments that need to be made for balance. Houses should offer more protection and infants should consume less, for example. You are right about the difficult stages being in the beginning; this often happens. A "free" year in which there are no attacks or plagues, and more starting food, would help here.
There is a way to pause the game: press space. This is in the instructions but it's easily overlooked; we ran out of time before we could add a pause button. Anyway, you are the first on record to beat the game (apart from our team): congratulations!
That was tough -- I agree with all of @the-big-lost 's comments. The baby boom sometimes made it too difficult to finish research, which made it impossible to get the research to make fishing viable... It was neat otherwise though!
