Energia by aemiliu5
You are an evil corporate overlord seeking to control the city's power plants. You must conquer them all by attacking them, sustain your corporation with enough money and energy and in the end, drain the city of its power so you can manipulate them. But remember, the city can and will fight back.
How to play: Click on Power Plants (bulb-shaped buildings) to see possible actions.
| Windows | http://gamejolt.com/games/energia/273401 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/energia-1 |
Ratings
| Overall | 650th | 3⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 460th | 3.087⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 321th | 3.217⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 492th | 3.391⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 693th | 2.739⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 346th | 3.143⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 370th | 2.526⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 673th | 2.7⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 25🗳️ | 3🗨️ |
I like the concept and want this one to be more "filled out" so that it can be more fun to play!
But gameplay is pretty straight.
Interesting mechanics, feels like a strategy game. The map is nice, even if you can't interact with all the objects. The graphics are not so bad, everything follows the same theme.
**Bad:**
Too little visual feedback. It's easy to understand what you are doing, but you can interact only with the power plants, so you get bored after a time.
[Danae streams Ludum Dare 39: Day 2, part 1: Energia](https://youtu.be/bhOEvC7XxZo?t=1h56m30s)
It's a cool little game, but it is in dire need of good UI feedback! I would like to know which power plant I have currently selected, which skill does what by means of tooltip (instead of having to go to the separate help screen), when I gain skill points. I would like to know which of my power plants is under attack, without having to look around the whole map, same for attacks. Plants hiding behind the sidebar are a problem.
Other than that, how about some variety in the plants themselves? E.g. some could be "large", some "small", and the small ones could only perform two of the three utility / defend actions, etc.
It's a simple game (with a cool soundtrack!), but good job!
good game overall tho.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dVM7BlhmKw
Thanks for being part of the stream :)
Otherwise though, I liked the game, it needs a bit more feedback, and a few hover prompts, but I liked the idea, trying to take over the city :)
In some moment I did not receive more XP so I could not transform money into energy so I could not use all the power of the game. But I won ;)
I love these strategy stuff. But it would be more enjoyable if I could see what are the abilities makes direct in the skill tree. Because to switch every time to the help window is contra productive for the game flow. Thanks for this long gameplay. :)