Procedural Island Happiness by nonatomicpaul

made by nonatomicpaul for LD26 (JAM)

"Procedural Island Happiness" is a procedurally generated, island terrain sim. Equipped with ghost ship, homing buoys and world rotation.

Minimal rules and minimal skill required.

Soak up the sun and cast off your Seasonal Affective Disorder in this nautical sea faring adventure. Who needs Majorca when you can play "Procedural Island Happiness"

** Warning ** procedural map generation may be to much fun for the elderly to handle.

Windows	http://www.paulstamp.co.uk/examples/ludum26/win/ludum26.exe
OS/X	http://www.paulstamp.co.uk/examples/ludum26/mac/ludum26.app
Linux	http://www.paulstamp.co.uk/examples/ludum26/linux/ludum26
Web	http://www.paulstamp.co.uk/examples/ludum26
Source	http://www.paulstamp.co.uk/examples/ludum26/source/Archive.zip
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=22317

Ratings

Coolness	14%	1934
Overall(Jam)	2.12	551

Audio(Jam)	1.17	469
Fun(Jam)	1.51	558
Graphics(Jam)	2.99	328
Humor(Jam)	1.64	392
Innovation(Jam)	2.48	416
Mood(Jam)	1.82	511
Theme(Jam)	2.60	470

Feedback

neight

30. Apr 2013 · 02:41 UTC

As advertised.

Zathalos

30. Apr 2013 · 02:42 UTC

Not much to do here. Cool tech though. Add some gameplay in like fighting other ships and it'll be great. Good try though.

qdowngames

30. Apr 2013 · 02:50 UTC

Hmmm. Nice islands but no much else I suppose. Great start!

CloudiestNights

30. Apr 2013 · 03:21 UTC

Quite a happy amount of islands! Not a lot to do, but that's what the instructions say.

tcstyle

30. Apr 2013 · 04:42 UTC

Not a game yet, but interesting start for a level generator.
The ship has some strange behaviour.

donan

30. Apr 2013 · 07:11 UTC

Quite a good generator, but as stated before, not a game yet :)

lotusgame

30. Apr 2013 · 08:54 UTC

To strange, don't know if it is a game. Nice minecraft cubes :)

Beardbotnik

30. Apr 2013 · 08:55 UTC

It's a pretty cool proof of concepts, procedural land for a game where you sale sounds fun. Though with no sound and no collisions it is a little hard to play for very long I think. Even a looping sound of seagulls and waves could really add a lot to the atmosphere. Tech wise I think it's fantastic though, and quite amazing that the generation animation could function through the web player!

AirRider3

30. Apr 2013 · 08:58 UTC

It's a shame there's no much to do.

GeorgeBroussard

30. Apr 2013 · 09:20 UTC

More of a tech demo but something you can maybe build on.

lasergans

30. Apr 2013 · 09:39 UTC

As advertised more a simulation than a game.

nixeldev

30. Apr 2013 · 10:00 UTC

Very impressive tech, awesome stuff. Gameplay certainly follows the theme ;)

Mago

30. Apr 2013 · 12:00 UTC

Not much to do here. Nice islands though.

kbm0

30. Apr 2013 · 12:16 UTC

The aesthetics are nice, although there is not much to do yet.

Tipyx

30. Apr 2013 · 12:18 UTC

Cool tech, but not very funny :)

Jacques_le_lezard

30. Apr 2013 · 12:19 UTC

Like the idea, but sad that you go through the island ...and no any goal =/ Good work, but not a game yet!

delanghe

30. Apr 2013 · 12:25 UTC

beautiful game,but what is the principle ?

blackmagic

30. Apr 2013 · 13:05 UTC

Nice engine but hard to understand the game itself :)

AestheticGamer

30. Apr 2013 · 14:29 UTC

Fun to look at, but not really much to it. There also are weird clipping issues with the ship going through islands and sinking whenever it hits a checkpoint.

boboKat

30. Apr 2013 · 15:03 UTC

interesting start. the boat tends to run into the land before I can get to it. I like the way the land forms at the start.

Roffe

30. Apr 2013 · 15:03 UTC

looks like a promising start for something, but as is it feels empty

Diamonde

30. Apr 2013 · 15:56 UTC

I like the style and I had hoped to be able to play with the world some more. I think this kind of playground can be much further explored, because it's really cool and minimalistic! :)

EdoMiyamoto

30. Apr 2013 · 16:16 UTC

Nice islands that's true

belickim

30. Apr 2013 · 16:43 UTC

I really hoped islands are destructible :(
Are you planning to make it more game-like?

Jubjub.

30. Apr 2013 · 16:52 UTC

I like the graphics, and moving my ship around for a while was fun, but I don't really know what else to do haha. I'm not sure if I'd classify it as a game per se, but it's definitely minimal.

Sylvain.p

30. Apr 2013 · 17:01 UTC

Shame about the lack of game because the "terraforming" is good.

PTSnoop

30. Apr 2013 · 19:30 UTC

Quite an intriguing toy-thing. Is it a game? I'll let the experts debate that one. :)

Jiddo

30. Apr 2013 · 20:51 UTC

I like how it looks. There seems to be a bug with the ship reaching the red destination markers and turning vertical, facing upwards. I tried the web version, so I don't know if it's because of Unity's web player. Also the ship was moving through the islands and not around them. But I really like games with ships, so I enjoyed quite alot directing the little ship around the environment.

JohnnySix

30. Apr 2013 · 21:08 UTC

Liked the tech - as others have said, some kind of simplistic gameplay element would have been a nice addition. The ship also appeared to sink when hitting the buoys. :O

psychomonster

30. Apr 2013 · 21:26 UTC

Maybe you can polish this and use it as a map-generator for your next real game. I like the Idea

silentspartan72

30. Apr 2013 · 22:15 UTC

Like stated many times before, not really a game and i know its a ghost ship but i dont like how it just floats through the land.

kibertoad

30. Apr 2013 · 23:58 UTC

Wish it was a game.

zerebruin

01. May 2013 · 12:31 UTC

Interesting, but more of a tech-demo than a game :)