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Goblin Fortress by AtkinsSJ

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made by AtkinsSJ for LD25 (COMPO)
Build and manage your own goblin settlement! Goblins are the perfect starting point for your nefarious empire: They eat, they sleep, occasionally they do some work... Wait, let's not focus on that!

Your goblins can:
* Dig holes!
* Build ramshackle huts!
* Breed delicious goats!
* Butcher delicious goats!
* Eat delicious goats!
* Sleep!

Your goats can:
* Eat!
* Sleep!
* Wander aimlessly!
* Be carried off by hungry goblins!

This was an attempt at a Dwarf Fortress-style management game. I'd wanted you to be able to send marauding goblins to pillage nearby villages, but that was more than I had time for. Whoops!

Web (Flash) http://samatkins.co.uk/games/ld25/
Source https://github.com/AtkinsSJ/ld25
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=1049

Ratings

Coolness 56% 3
Overall 3.36 173
Audio 3.00 169
Fun 3.33 141
Graphics 2.94 366
Humor 3.07 187
Innovation 2.72 421
Mood 3.16 178
Theme 2.66 587

Feedback

har_g
16. Dec 2012 路 19:39 UTC
Nice.
munchor
17. Dec 2012 路 00:14 UTC
Everything was working fine until all the goblins just froze and I couldn't get any more stone to spawn new goblins. They all just stopped on the middle of my map.

Nice game, though...
drakfyre
17. Dec 2012 路 11:20 UTC
Nice work, love the sprite work! Reminds me of the good ol' days of warcraft!
馃帳 AtkinsSJ
17. Dec 2012 路 11:32 UTC
munchor: It's not made clear, but goblins go to the campfire (Looks like a ring of rocks, notably lacking any fire) to eat. If there's no food, they just wait there. I'm guessing that's what happened.
bwdevel
17. Dec 2012 路 11:49 UTC
Very nice sim.
ParaPup
17. Dec 2012 路 12:14 UTC
Good Job I liked having to get my own stuff and whatnot.
joekinley
17. Dec 2012 路 12:43 UTC
Nice game. Overall it was fun to do stuff and watch your goblins do stuff. Although they were very lazy breeding new goats until they had to.
Nice work, had much fun playing it.
CoffeeOnimal
17. Dec 2012 路 12:44 UTC
Very nice. I enjoyed this. Especially the sounds effects.
Pixel graphics for the sprites were great, backgrounds could use some work.
I'd like to be able to lead a goblin raiding party! Please keep working on this!
celeron55
17. Dec 2012 路 13:06 UTC
A good start for a strategy game. Any plans to make a more complete version, some day?
myachin
17. Dec 2012 路 15:01 UTC
nice but where are villains?
boxerbomb
17. Dec 2012 路 16:57 UTC
this is one of the best game so far
Birchmountain
17. Dec 2012 路 18:40 UTC
A game with a lot of potential. But without a real goal it all seems pointless. I really love the sounds though, nom nom nom!
h.attila
17. Dec 2012 路 19:03 UTC
I liked the game, especially the sound effects.
I understand that you didn't have the time to finish the game as you originally wanted to, but I still think it could have had some simple goals (like get X amount of resources, raise your population to Y members, etc).
Mava
18. Dec 2012 路 19:37 UTC
This is a nice relaxing game, fun to play and watch the little goblin go about his life.

They felt like living characters and that was very enjoyable :)

Well done!
atraxgames
19. Dec 2012 路 16:16 UTC
It's a very good start. I hope you continue to develop it.
wzl
20. Dec 2012 路 12:52 UTC
Thumbs up for nomnom sounds :D
Cute rts like. Would be nice if you could assign jobs to goblins. Looking forward to the pillaging part of the game. Loved the animations aswell :D

minireview: http://ldmr.wzl.vg/#AtkinsSJ
pighead10
20. Dec 2012 路 17:13 UTC
Awesome feel to the game. An objective would have really helped, I didn't really have anything to work towards. Also, I felt as though there should have been music.
huhwhozat
21. Dec 2012 路 07:52 UTC
I'm sad there wasn't any time to add a goal. Just building up is surprisingly fun though! I love the sounds! Although the sprites were very cute, having the gobbos walk behind buildings really detracted from the experience for me. Even if you didn't have time to implement pathfinding, I'd have prefered them to appear on top. I'm afraid I can't give you much for theme, as all there is at this point is a loose tie-in to Dwarf Fort. Overall, I enjoyed it!
Porpentine
21. Dec 2012 路 10:58 UTC
i love the freeform nature of this, designing cities in the goblin plains, watching it slowly grow

i wanna play a version of this with more stuff
Norgg
21. Dec 2012 路 15:10 UTC
A nice start to something, it becomes a bit easy once you've got a stable source of food and stone though, would be nice to have something to be fighting against. The omnomnom sound is great.
aare
26. Dec 2012 路 14:44 UTC
I like when the gnomes make "OMNOMNOM!" sound xD
fishbrain
01. Jan 2013 路 11:33 UTC
"Nyum nyum nyum nyum nyum" lol
Nice work!
mcc
05. Jan 2013 路 07:39 UTC
didn't get very far, but i liked what was there (and i enjoyed the sound effects)
azurenimbus
07. Jan 2013 路 05:01 UTC
Interesting elements in this strategy game. Nice use of the goats, too, one of the best I've seen :D