Mini Metro Subway Tycoon by ripatti
You are a mayor of a small city. There are living exactly 1000 people.
Every day all of them travel to thier work and back to home.
It causes huge traffic jams on roads. And it's a major trouble of the city.
Your goal is to construct metro subway system to decrease average load of roads.
to play run "bin/metro.exe"
HOW TO PLAY <= read carefully before play!
The game field is divided into squares, every of them may contain some buildings
of two tipes: residential areas and workplaces (or maybe some mix of them).
You can see types of buildings moving mouse over such squares.
Also you can see places of residential area and workplaces in "Residential Area"
and "Workplaces" Tabs. Residential buildings are homes of people and workplaces
are places where people do thier job. Every of 1000 people have home
in some residential building and a job in some workplace.
Between some squares there are roads. People use roads to travel to work and back.
Every of people choses quickest route. From time to time every people reviews
his route and if he finds more quick one, he changes it.
A lot of routes on same road slow down throughput of the road.
You can see loading of roads in "Traffic Jams" Tab.
That's why people sometimes change routes travelling along less loaded routes.
To unload traffic jams of roads you have to build your own metro subway.
Intersections of roads are junctions. They are only places where you can build
metro stations. You cannot build stations in the forest or on the coast of the river.
You can see type of junction moving mouse over it.
To start building your metro click on any junction to build your very first station.
Now you have the following tools to build metro lines:
1. Click on station to create a line. Chose type of line ("/" or "\").
2. Click on the end of any line to extend it. Chose new place of line end.
On every step you can extend the line only if bend will be no more than 45 degree.
Lines can intersect only by diagonal segments (you will get "X").
3. Click on diagonal segment of line to build new station. Click again to confirm.
Note: you can build new stations ONLY on DIAGONAL segments of line. Be careful!
Also you can build station only if on the sufrace there is road junction.
Every station costs $1000 and every line segment costs $100.
If you will spent all your money, you will get GAME OVER.
Your goal is to reach average Load of roads no more than 12.
At the beginning this value is about 20.
CONTROLS
Left Mouse Button - interact
Right Mouse Button - move camera
Middle Mouse Button - set default Zoom
Mouse Wheel - Zoom In/Out
Enjoy!
***UPD***
POST COMPO VERSION <== try it if you liked compo version
- Added beautiful music created by my friend Zuick.
- Sounds
- Added "Train Occupance Rate" Tab
Now you can see load of your metro subway lines.
- Changed economic model
Station costs $1000 and spends $40 per second if in use.
Line segment costs $100 and spends $8 per second in use.
Station/segment is in use if at least one route goes through it.
Every route going throuth metro system gives you $3 per second.
All info about your economic state you can see in the right panel:
Income = 3*routes_using_metro
Expense = 40*stations_in_use + 8*segments_in_use
Cashflow = Income - Expense
Changed initial amount of money to $10000.
Now you'll get GAME OVER if your balance will be -$1000.
- Added Happiness parameter
Every of people calculates comfortable travel time between home and work.
This value depends linearly on distance between home and work.
If real travel time actually no more than this time, this man is happy.
Happiness parameter shows how many people are happy over all of them.
- Achievements
1. Well done! [complete game - get load less than 12]
2. Excellent! [get achievements 4, 5 and 6]
3. Brilliant! [get achievements 7, 8 and 9; almost impossible to get]
4. Optimizer [get load less than 11]
5. Richi Rich [earn $100000]
6. Santa Claus [get Happiness at least 95%]
7. Perfection [get load less than 10 (yes, sometimes it's possible)]
8. Millionaire [earn $1000000 (not so hard, but really long)]
9. Messiah [get Happiness 100% (don't know it's possible to get it or not)]
- Clouds in main view mode.
Every day all of them travel to thier work and back to home.
It causes huge traffic jams on roads. And it's a major trouble of the city.
Your goal is to construct metro subway system to decrease average load of roads.
to play run "bin/metro.exe"
HOW TO PLAY <= read carefully before play!
The game field is divided into squares, every of them may contain some buildings
of two tipes: residential areas and workplaces (or maybe some mix of them).
You can see types of buildings moving mouse over such squares.
Also you can see places of residential area and workplaces in "Residential Area"
and "Workplaces" Tabs. Residential buildings are homes of people and workplaces
are places where people do thier job. Every of 1000 people have home
in some residential building and a job in some workplace.
Between some squares there are roads. People use roads to travel to work and back.
Every of people choses quickest route. From time to time every people reviews
his route and if he finds more quick one, he changes it.
A lot of routes on same road slow down throughput of the road.
You can see loading of roads in "Traffic Jams" Tab.
That's why people sometimes change routes travelling along less loaded routes.
To unload traffic jams of roads you have to build your own metro subway.
Intersections of roads are junctions. They are only places where you can build
metro stations. You cannot build stations in the forest or on the coast of the river.
You can see type of junction moving mouse over it.
To start building your metro click on any junction to build your very first station.
Now you have the following tools to build metro lines:
1. Click on station to create a line. Chose type of line ("/" or "\").
2. Click on the end of any line to extend it. Chose new place of line end.
On every step you can extend the line only if bend will be no more than 45 degree.
Lines can intersect only by diagonal segments (you will get "X").
3. Click on diagonal segment of line to build new station. Click again to confirm.
Note: you can build new stations ONLY on DIAGONAL segments of line. Be careful!
Also you can build station only if on the sufrace there is road junction.
Every station costs $1000 and every line segment costs $100.
If you will spent all your money, you will get GAME OVER.
Your goal is to reach average Load of roads no more than 12.
At the beginning this value is about 20.
CONTROLS
Left Mouse Button - interact
Right Mouse Button - move camera
Middle Mouse Button - set default Zoom
Mouse Wheel - Zoom In/Out
Enjoy!
***UPD***
POST COMPO VERSION <== try it if you liked compo version
- Added beautiful music created by my friend Zuick.
- Sounds
- Added "Train Occupance Rate" Tab
Now you can see load of your metro subway lines.
- Changed economic model
Station costs $1000 and spends $40 per second if in use.
Line segment costs $100 and spends $8 per second in use.
Station/segment is in use if at least one route goes through it.
Every route going throuth metro system gives you $3 per second.
All info about your economic state you can see in the right panel:
Income = 3*routes_using_metro
Expense = 40*stations_in_use + 8*segments_in_use
Cashflow = Income - Expense
Changed initial amount of money to $10000.
Now you'll get GAME OVER if your balance will be -$1000.
- Added Happiness parameter
Every of people calculates comfortable travel time between home and work.
This value depends linearly on distance between home and work.
If real travel time actually no more than this time, this man is happy.
Happiness parameter shows how many people are happy over all of them.
- Achievements
1. Well done! [complete game - get load less than 12]
2. Excellent! [get achievements 4, 5 and 6]
3. Brilliant! [get achievements 7, 8 and 9; almost impossible to get]
4. Optimizer [get load less than 11]
5. Richi Rich [earn $100000]
6. Santa Claus [get Happiness at least 95%]
7. Perfection [get load less than 10 (yes, sometimes it's possible)]
8. Millionaire [earn $1000000 (not so hard, but really long)]
9. Messiah [get Happiness 100% (don't know it's possible to get it or not)]
- Clouds in main view mode.
| Windows+src (RgHost) | http://rghost.ru/private/54692322/0906cb3c2560089a0ce1505f782cbdcb |
| Windows+src (Dropbox) | https://www.dropbox.com/s/pa3fx4x51tpxyau/ld29_mini_metro_subway_tycoon.zip |
| How To Play (Video Tutorial) | http://youtu.be/sdaRxW7LhJo |
| Windows+src (Post Compo) | https://www.dropbox.com/s/1km8fkqdmjexb5m/ld29_mini_metro_subway_tycoon_post_compo.zip |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=15853 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 100% | 1 |
| Overall | 3.87 | 78 |
| Audio | 1.85 | 943 |
| Fun | 3.72 | 96 |
| Graphics | 3.70 | 241 |
| Humor | 1.97 | 887 |
| Innovation | 3.94 | 86 |
| Mood | 3.19 | 374 |
| Theme | 3.98 | 50 |
VERY nicely done!
@Green Lightning, the game is fully controlled by mouse. For building metro lines you should change view mode (you cannot build metro lines seeing things on ground).
It's amazing what you managed to achieve in such low time. Congratulations! I hope you go further with this. :D
- 1st time: Lost with 14 average load. I blame the city design!
- 2nd time: Won with 2 stations and ~$3000 to spare.
- 3rd time: Barely won with ~$300 and 1 station to spare :D
- 4th time: Lost with 13 average load :(
...and now I'll stop because I want to play other games too, haha. Now let's start with the mini-review though!
I watched your tutorial video before I started playing, so I don't know how self-explainatory it would've been - but I had no problems with the controls after a few seconds of trying. At first I thought "If you have to do a tutorial video, I wonder if the complexity of learning it is worth playing - after all, this was made in only 48 hours, right?" - but soon I was drawn in. Take my doubts as a compliment: You've made a polished and complete game that is complex AND works well!
The graphics are cute to servicable/nice to look at. Definitely getting a Sim City vibe from this, which might've been what you went for. After the tutorial video, the UI was really easy to understand too.
Also a good use of the theme with all those mining and ocean games around.
All in all: Great, great job, especially considering the time frame!
I wasn't able to make tracks with different colours either. (Also shown in screenshot.)
Watch my video for some gameplay-commentary!
Now I'll check out the post-compo version.