Subterranean Farm Maniac by jmaasing
Requirements
This game requires a graphics card supporting OpenGL2. It also requires Java 6 or later installed. LWJGL does not working on OS X with Java7, sorry about that.
The Cavern
The cavern is a happy place, there is food for almost everyone since the mushroom farms are abundant. There are no wars, famines, conquests or death. Well, there is death, but no tradegy, the peoples of the cavern die happy after a full life.
You are the villian
You are the villian, specifically, you are "Famine". You loath the people of the cavern. You want to make them suffer and die of starvation.
You gain points when people die of starvation, you loose points when they die happy.
Game play
When you look at a mushroom farm you can make it burn with left clicking your mouse. Which causes the village to harvest less food, which makes them starve.
When you look at the village you can send them a goat as gift by left clicking with your mouse. Which makes them have more to eat. Which makes them have children. Which makes more of them.... more that can starve.
You can fly around using 'a','s','d','w'.
Visit the project page at http://code.google.com/p/subterraneanfarmmaniac/
This game requires a graphics card supporting OpenGL2. It also requires Java 6 or later installed. LWJGL does not working on OS X with Java7, sorry about that.
The Cavern
The cavern is a happy place, there is food for almost everyone since the mushroom farms are abundant. There are no wars, famines, conquests or death. Well, there is death, but no tradegy, the peoples of the cavern die happy after a full life.
You are the villian
You are the villian, specifically, you are "Famine". You loath the people of the cavern. You want to make them suffer and die of starvation.
You gain points when people die of starvation, you loose points when they die happy.
Game play
When you look at a mushroom farm you can make it burn with left clicking your mouse. Which causes the village to harvest less food, which makes them starve.
When you look at the village you can send them a goat as gift by left clicking with your mouse. Which makes them have more to eat. Which makes them have children. Which makes more of them.... more that can starve.
You can fly around using 'a','s','d','w'.
Visit the project page at http://code.google.com/p/subterraneanfarmmaniac/
Ratings
| Coolness | 46% | 742 |
| Overall | 2.79 | 474 |
| Audio | 2.05 | 478 |
| Fun | 2.25 | 619 |
| Graphics | 2.96 | 364 |
| Humor | 2.22 | 469 |
| Innovation | 3.13 | 240 |
| Mood | 2.50 | 517 |
| Theme | 3.71 | 147 |
java -Xmx512m -XX:MaxDirectMemorySize=512m -jar "Subterranean Farm Maniac.jar"
It was really fun to figure out, I wish it wasn't so completely luck-based after you've got the strategy nailed down, but I understand that it needed to be simple to fit in 48 hours. It's nice to see what happens when you try different things, like not intervening at all or trying to stabilize the population to make it go forever (it appears to be impossible).
Besides that, the game could use a bit of polish, like a restart button, in-game instructions, music, etc. I think the graphics were fine, though. The sound effects were nice too, but they seemed to become bugged after the game restarted (the burn sound always played, no matter where you clicked).
Like I said, it was really fun! Great job!
It is open source, if anyone want to continue building on it you are welcome. I don't plan on doing so but I'll help out if there is interest.
Made an instructions for my game to you be able to play.
Good work!