Worldco by awesomeusername

made by awesomeusername for LD30 (COMPO)

Welcome to Worldco!

We're a company which specializes in connectivity. In this age of space travel and colonization, it's our job to keep the colonies connected . . .

Worldco is a frustratingly addictive game of trying to connect worlds and keep them connected as asteroids threaten the links between planets. Each level has 3 different difficulty levels so there's a challenge for everyone (seriously, I can't beat some levels though it IS possible). Aside from the campaign part of the game, complete with scores to try to beat, I've also included a random level generator to mix things up.

Made from scratch in Java, did all the graphics myself with my own art tool (also made from scratch).

Also, *** I HIGHLY RECOMMEND DOING THE TUTORIAL FIRST ***

Thanks for playing and enjoy!

Dropbox (Runnable .jar)	https://www.dropbox.com/s/2s97cpyssp3wajc/Worldco.jar?dl=0
Source	https://www.dropbox.com/s/m8p8418u3tqcveb/LudumDare30.java?dl=0
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=20959

Ratings

Coolness	82%	2
Overall	3.30	454

Audio	1.78	932
Fun	3.23	390
Graphics	2.48	940
Humor	3.08	179
Innovation	3.30	446
Mood	2.90	619
Theme	3.77	169

Feedback

fcpfoof

24. Aug 2014 · 21:54 UTC

I don't understand much (when did I win ;o) but game is quite interesting ;).

🎤 awesomeusername

25. Aug 2014 · 01:07 UTC

Thanks. I've added a tutorial since then so hopefully things make more sense now.

ArthurMaker

25. Aug 2014 · 05:40 UTC

Fricking 5 STARS What A Game THE FUN IS TO GOOD!!! By the way new record hard 1,02... BTW Check out my game

goffmog

25. Aug 2014 · 13:58 UTC

Super fun! Makes me wish I'd spent half as much time making gameplay for my entry as I did making everything else!

marvalgames

25. Aug 2014 · 17:25 UTC

Read the tutorial.
After that you realize how simple the gameplay is but awesome!!

theCoder15

25. Aug 2014 · 18:04 UTC

Nice game did you use the inbuilt java classes

🎤 awesomeusername

25. Aug 2014 · 18:58 UTC

Thanks for the comments, all!

@theCoder15: I used the java.awt and javax.swing libraries.

erdnuss

25. Aug 2014 · 20:44 UTC

Fun game with cool graphics (are the asteroids on buttons? :D).

Rock48

26. Aug 2014 · 02:41 UTC

Pretty cool puzzle game

madmaw

26. Aug 2014 · 10:24 UTC

So many levels and options and menus and a tutorial! Great achievement

Charlie

26. Aug 2014 · 15:10 UTC

Guys, do the tutorial. It's a cool game!
I played in "GRAAARGH" difficulty and now I hate asteroids.

MechanicMoon

26. Aug 2014 · 18:57 UTC

I did not understand the game well, but not bad, although it has some ugly graphics

breadstix

26. Aug 2014 · 18:59 UTC

First, the game is really fun. Second, do not play on the hard difficulty unless you are alone and can drop some F-Bombs without any consequences. Great job!

MikeTheWayne

26. Aug 2014 · 22:50 UTC

I Like this. It's simple, good and I like it. Good Job :)

Marcellus

26. Aug 2014 · 23:45 UTC

Finished the game on easy, tried on GNAAARG, well it's .. GNAARG. Liked the idea it took me til the last level. good entry.

Budaniel

27. Aug 2014 · 03:08 UTC

Doing the tutorial is a must, but once you figure it out, the level of strategy required is surprising.

esayitch

27. Aug 2014 · 06:13 UTC

Nice little clicker, and nice, literal use of the theme! I liked it. Sound effects might have added to this.

Hempuli

27. Aug 2014 · 19:54 UTC

The tutorial was great and I really like the game concept - it's an interesting mix of timing and strategic thinking. However I felt that at least with Hard difficulty I didn't have much problems defending a level 1 line at all times, so the two more powerful line types saw less use. Maybe some lines transfer different goods, and certain planets prefer certain goods? Also it'd be nice if you could see the cost of a line between two planets by hovering over them. :)

ForeignGuyMike

28. Aug 2014 · 18:04 UTC

Actually a lot of fun. Great game.

miwuc

28. Aug 2014 · 19:15 UTC

Quit a nice game if I do say so myself!

The gameplay is really well thought through, except for one thing: there's nothing preventing you from waiting for hours before starting, collecting tons of money, then building 5 links everywhere. You can say "but the high scores!" but I don't think that works. There are the highscores, but I don't think that's enough. In a game like that, you shouldn't have to worry about highscores until you've beaten a level at least once. Here, if you don't care about highscores, the game becomes almost trivial. This could be fixed easily with a time limit for instance.

Apart from this flaw, it's a really solid game, congrats!

owyoow

30. Aug 2014 · 12:38 UTC

Really fun game. Good tutorial as well

Tanser

31. Aug 2014 · 05:38 UTC

Interesting game ye. Are you missing alpha channel though? Its pretty good for compo.

Njord

05. Sep 2014 · 07:05 UTC

Funny game, nice job ! Could have done with some audio though :D

elefantopia

11. Sep 2014 · 03:23 UTC

Very fun game! You gave a lot of thought to game play.

Teesquared

11. Sep 2014 · 03:32 UTC

Great take on the theme and very innovative. I liked the tutorial. Good way to introduce the game mechanics.