Basement by xdegtyarev
Basement is a real-time strategy game about an enterprise taking place beneath the surface.
One smart scientist desperately needed money for his world-changing project. After he was rejected by investors, he decided to make money by himself and started building a chemical factory... well, not exactly legal kind of it.
In the course of the game you need to process raw materials into 4 types of product and distribute your product among 4 types of customers. Your factory is covered by another facility which constantly attracts municipal workers with inspections. Deal with them, or you will attract unnecessary attention to your enterprise, and get under the FBI's radar.
So make as much money as you can, and don't get caught!
TEAM:
- Programming: Alexander D., Maxim K.
- Art: Vadim K., Gleb P.
- SFX and music: Ksenia D., Artsiom H.
- Scriptwriting: Victoria P.
And thank you for playing and voting!
P.S Yau guys, we're working on a full game, so follow us for some news.
One smart scientist desperately needed money for his world-changing project. After he was rejected by investors, he decided to make money by himself and started building a chemical factory... well, not exactly legal kind of it.
In the course of the game you need to process raw materials into 4 types of product and distribute your product among 4 types of customers. Your factory is covered by another facility which constantly attracts municipal workers with inspections. Deal with them, or you will attract unnecessary attention to your enterprise, and get under the FBI's radar.
So make as much money as you can, and don't get caught!
TEAM:
- Programming: Alexander D., Maxim K.
- Art: Vadim K., Gleb P.
- SFX and music: Ksenia D., Artsiom H.
- Scriptwriting: Victoria P.
And thank you for playing and voting!
P.S Yau guys, we're working on a full game, so follow us for some news.
| Web | http://goo.gl/rxzQ9E |
| Youtube | http://goo.gl/Tfiw1l |
| OS/X | http://goo.gl/gBZnz5 |
| Linux | http://goo.gl/c1r8ki |
| Windows | http://goo.gl/5nUVh0 |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-29/?action=preview&uid=5862 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 100% | 1 |
| Overall(Jam) | 4.22 | 11 |
| Audio(Jam) | 3.89 | 62 |
| Fun(Jam) | 3.92 | 28 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 4.54 | 25 |
| Humor(Jam) | 3.93 | 30 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 3.84 | 48 |
| Mood(Jam) | 4.04 | 47 |
| Theme(Jam) | 4.09 | 17 |
One of the devs here. Game suffered a feature cut to fit submission deadline. There is so many things to fix, polish and implement in it its now funny.
I played 3-4 games and at to fight really hard with this stock mecanic. It's interesting to play until you're really stuck. It will not kill you but instead make the game speed veeeery slow. You should be able to sacrifice something to release your stock. For exemple, drop an entire stock room but it will make police more suspicious or whatever.
Being able to toggle room activit by just clicking them would also be nice.
Very nice game. Cool graphics style as well as fitting audio (which came only from my left speaker -- Checked my Setup it is working correctly).
I had some issues with Balance. I came very quickly into some situations where i had no s(t)orage space left to buy new resources.
But creating such a game in just 48 hours is just incredible. Great Job!
I figured out a stock management system that worked fairly well - try to always keep an empty stock room and keep your raw material supply low, and you'll never get in that situation where whatever you are producing fastest takes up all your room and prevents you from making anything else.
Looking forward to a fully featured, balanced version.
I'll give it another shot tomorrow instead!
It looks great, has some depth and is pretty fun though, nice work!
Thanks for the entertainment!
Really, this is a fantastic entry
In the following months we plan to release a revised complete version. Stay tuned ;)
Good job!
Anyway, that being said, the rest of the game is really good. Excellent job!
I think the game needed a little more information about the gameplay, but the game is great!
Beautiful idea, and great use of theme.
Said that: Nice pixel graphics, great mood. But what I liked above all else is your interpretation of theme.
Potentially one of the top Jam games.
Only one minor issue: starting out can be a little confusing, a small hint on what to do would be appreciated (not that it is TOO hard, just for future reference :D)
Aaaaand the security video. :D
Good job!
Some ingame explanation would have been great!
I always got into a situation where I couldn't buy any boxes(?) and can't build extra storage.
Only a couple of issues some of the other reviewers have already mentioned would give it the finishing touch that would basically make it ready for launch: it would be nice to be able to destroy rooms, or at least devote storage space. Also, in fullscreen it wasn't possible to fully browse the room list. So far I haven't stumbled with inspectors bothering me (well, they appeared a couple of times, but it seeed that they were doing nothing that I could respond to)
Despite this, it's one of the best entries I've played this LD. I'd really love to play a finished version. Congratulations!
The stock system can easily lead to a deadlock. When you have the production facility for the desired product, but the stock is full with other stuff, it is somehow broken.
The only valid strategy is to not buy a productive production room, because it may be too productive.
Either make it possible to destroy products in the storage or make it possible to shut a room down.
The rest of the game is incredible and so detailed. I love it. Overall only 4 stars due to this storage issue.
One feature I really would've liked is "fast forward time." And it's not really clear what the inspections do. Time would have more meaning as a mechanic if fines/bribes from the inspections were a constant drain on finances.
The game is pretty cool anyway and I'd love to play a post-LD version.
I'm surprised more games don't let you run your own little meth lab actually, it's great fun ;) Good job guys!
I cant play. My game window looks like zoomed... I cant see button for scroll rooms.
Screenshot: http://imgup.ru/images2/1apkx1114191011.jpg
Idk what is it...