Essentrika by Hologuardian

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made by Hologuardian for LD27 (COMPO)
A power management game that orients around expanding to new land every 10 seconds. Tutorial is in the main menu.

I also suggest keeping the jar file in it's own folder as the game will create files in the same directory when the game is saved.

Edit: Changed one variable that was preventing multiple attempts without restarting the program, the change can be seen in the git history. Also fixed a problem where water generators costed 0.

Ratings

Coolness 41% 1377
Overall 2.84 775
Audio 2.50 579
Fun 2.68 766
Graphics 2.20 955
Innovation 3.00 521
Mood 2.45 781
Theme 2.67 954

Feedback

SpiralCodeStudio
26. Aug 2013 路 02:44 UTC
Make a video of the gameplay!
tower07
26. Aug 2013 路 03:37 UTC
It was good the first time I played it, but every subsequent time it would make me lose after 10 seconds. Not sure if it's my fault, or a glitch.
馃帳 Hologuardian
26. Aug 2013 路 05:30 UTC
It maybe a problem with how it saves the data or something, it seems to be pulling a larger number as the starting requirement every time it's run... Yeah, after some debug testing I found the source of the error, was a small thing where a variable wasn't being re-initialized, I'll get a fixed version up asap.
X-0r
27. Aug 2013 路 10:20 UTC
Is there any way to change the screen resolution?
It's "taller" than what my widescreen monitor supports...
Inertia
27. Aug 2013 路 10:36 UTC
I'd like to be able to play this but when I run the .jar it does nothing.
sam1373
27. Aug 2013 路 10:39 UTC
With more upgrades and things to build added, this could be very fun.
Jupiter_Hadley
27. Aug 2013 路 11:36 UTC
Found this game a bit confusing at first, other than building stuff I'm not completely sure what to do, however, I included this game in my video compilation of LD27 games, if you wanna check it out :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQmE1DEkQd4
Kragnir
28. Aug 2013 路 00:01 UTC
After understanding how the game works the only limiting thing is how fast you can click. It should be made easier to build things.
Meep
29. Aug 2013 路 10:46 UTC
I like the idea behind it. Expanding on it/adding some more features, it could be tons of fun. :) Has lots of post-LD potential. Great work!
LordHellMaX
30. Aug 2013 路 00:37 UTC
Game is pretty hard, since you have to click the land, and then the upgrade you want very often in 10 seconds. But the idea is quite nice.
Gaspard_
01. Sep 2013 路 18:44 UTC
Could be clearer but I eventually understood how it worked!