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Yabac

By klausklapper

Comments

cyberstarlight 2016-08-03 21:03

Nice idea and very fitting to the theme, I would totally play it when it's finished so please do!
the music get a little repetitive and distracting after a while, and I didn't understand what you said about soundtack generated by AI?

The randomly generated map is a good feature, and it looks natural so it turned out well.
I think the lack of actual people that go around keeps it simple and appealing visually.

my masterpiece XD:
http://imgur.com/a/WBmTQ

a few notes:
- maybe make the prices as a hover tooltip? it took me time to even notice they appear below the top bar.
- zooming into the location of the mouse would be nice.
- mute/unmute (M) ignores volume
- A way to save your progress is important in this kind of game I hope it is already planned?
- choosing a building make it flash for moment in the top left corner
- some buildings flicker to black

suggestions:
maybe add food management so building many houses will have a "cost"?
Mine stone from mountains? / Fish from sea?
Remove forester and make trees grow naturally, to make it a challenge to not strip the map bare?

klausklapper 2016-08-04 10:08

Thank you for your feedback, we really appreciate it. On your notes:

- price tooltips (or tooltips in general) and game saves are on our roadmap, the current solution just did not allow for a better visual clue
- we had experimented with a free zooming camera, however due to the spritebatch technique used by love2d, this quickly led to some ugly tearings, so we decided to disable it
- black buildings indicate a missing resource (lumberjack has no more wood around him), we probably should have explained this better

We'll probably add food and some additional resource in the next step as well as stone, iron, smelting, etc ...

jupiter_hadley 2016-09-04 22:26

Nice grpahics! I included it in my compilation video series of all of the MiniLD 69 games, if you’d like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/nRFzaIcVxgM