Tiny God wants a Bigger World by Thotep
You are Tiny God, Lord of a Tiny World. But you want it to be bigger!
Create and modify land with left/right mouse buttons. If you create a good soil, after a while it will be covered in grass. After another while trees start to grow!
Black dots are your followers. They cut down trees, When one of them collects 3 trees, he builds a statue for you. Statues (purple dots) allow you to create more land! (and can even increase your powers sometimes)
But there are also evil beasts (red dots), which can destroy statues and eat humans.
Cover 50% of the world with land, before they kill all your followers!
(and remember that beasts move much slower in water...)
Post-compo version works much faster, try it if the compo one crashes/works too slow on your comp!
Created by Przemek Muller (@thotep)
Create and modify land with left/right mouse buttons. If you create a good soil, after a while it will be covered in grass. After another while trees start to grow!
Black dots are your followers. They cut down trees, When one of them collects 3 trees, he builds a statue for you. Statues (purple dots) allow you to create more land! (and can even increase your powers sometimes)
But there are also evil beasts (red dots), which can destroy statues and eat humans.
Cover 50% of the world with land, before they kill all your followers!
(and remember that beasts move much slower in water...)
Post-compo version works much faster, try it if the compo one crashes/works too slow on your comp!
Created by Przemek Muller (@thotep)
| Windows, OS/X, Linux | http://thotep-ld23.s3.amazonaws.com/tiny_god_wants_a_bigger_world_-_ld23_entry_by_thotep.zip |
| Web (applet) | http://thotep-ld23.s3.amazonaws.com/index.htm |
| Post-compo version | http://thotep-ld23-2.s3.amazonaws.com/index.htm |
| http://twitter.com/thotep | |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=12581 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 100% | 1 |
| Overall | 3.28 | 255 |
| Audio | 3.17 | 157 |
| Fun | 2.76 | 455 |
| Graphics | 3.02 | 358 |
| Humor | 2.77 | 201 |
| Innovation | 3.71 | 100 |
| Mood | 3.00 | 252 |
| Theme | 3.67 | 114 |
Wished there would be another way to stop the monsters from eating my followers.
Its really nice,and i also wish there was way to stop the monsters from eating my followers.
Other then that great job :)
You could really flesh this concept out further, maybe with a more complex victory condition. Water could yield more food through fishing to increase the number of followers, for example.
I feel like there's a disconnect between what is happening, what is fun, and what you're supposed to do.
Caring about the humans, who build stuff, is AWESOME. I wnat to continue playing that game.
Seeing how your humans are slaughtered by unexplicable monsters that cannot be stopped while you just try to create more land, effectively abusing the humans, is NOT FUN, though.
Wish there was more control over the humans, though, only five isn't enough, and they get eaten too quickly!
I was impressed by how smooth the land growing and shrinking thing worked! :D
The only thing I couldn't quite understand was how I could stop the evil guys. I managed to win the game by just being really fast, but it seemed like there was nothing you could do to really stop them. Putting water around them was an idea, but that would also destroy valuable land, so I thought that was a little confusing :3
and that's a good thing !
concept, graphical presentation and music are simply great.
I didn't manage to survive for too long - the beasts are a bit to strong in my opinion - but this is merely a balancing issue.
great game
I do wish there was some additional way to engage with the enemies; the race against time works but its less satisfying than actually being able to achieve a stable state.
I share the opinion that the enemies where too tough (I'm a bit crybaby). That makes the game shallow, as you can't control much but to build land the fastest you can.
+1 to the idea, the graphics, and the sounds :-) Well done!
But, getting owned by red dots in < 1 minute no matter what I do isn't fun.
The sound effects and music are great. I like the whole game mechanic, although it does seem to have a tipping point when you know you're going to win or lose.
Nice one.
I won, after 3-4 tries but it wasn't very rewarding. Hope you keep working on the post-competition version!