Party Island by StevyGee
Keep the party going all night, using only solar power! Build a successful holiday destination by spending wisely and avoiding power outages! New guests arrive every day, but how many will leave early?


Our first LD submission, it was a lot of fun jamming together and having a great team! We started late and didn't spend a lot of time initially, but ended up working until 3 am on the last day. The music was recorded on a Casio CT-480 keyboard and GarageBand on iPad.
Desktop version requires Java Runtime Environment to run.
Controls
Keyboard needed - 1: Build battery - 2: Build solar panel - 3: Build hotel - Enter/Return: Next day
Soundtrack
You can get it on Bandcamp!
Team
- Code: StevyGee
- Audio: Gerd
- Art: Simpok
- Idea/Help: PeterTheOne
Known issues
- No sounds play in Edge, please use another browser
- No touch screen support
- No sound/music in mobile browsers
Changelog
Aug 7 2017
- UI: Show how many guests are leaving early vs. checking out as planned (after 7 days)
Aug 5 2017
- Add notice to press enter key
- Fix font scaling on HTML build
- Fix build sound playing on launch
- Fix build sound not playing if no more lots are left
| HTML5 (web) | http://ld39.stevygee.com/ |
| Windows | http://ld39.stevygee.com/partyisland_desktop.zip |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/party-island |
Ratings
| Overall | 619th | 3.053⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 419th | 3.158⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 491th | 2.947⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 326th | 3.632⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 781th | 2⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 124th | 3.737⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 260th | 2.824⭐ | 19🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 504th | 3.053⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 22🗳️ | 1🗨️ |
and You need a Easy, medium and hard level...But it is fun.
The music is groovy AF, what software did you use to make it? I'd love for you to add a download for it. However sometimes I would run into a bug where there would be two non-synchronized versions of the night music running, which was annoying because a single version of the night music is so awesome. Using the web version by the way.
I feel that the blurry and pixelated art of the game works poorly. I'd have preferred stylized MS paint graphics.
As @JesperSB said, the game would greatly benefit from multiple difficulty modes. I finished day 30 with 2572 guests, 500% of the stated goal. Simply adding a slider at the beginning for the effectiveness of solar panels would do wonders for the difficulty and replayability of the game.
I had severe input lag, where I would press a key and it wouldn't take effect for a good two or three seconds. It would happen instantly as soon as I moved the mouse though.
It made me sad that as my building grew it obstructed the view of my batteries and solar panels, and then after 50 hotels I could no longer see the new ones. For me personally, a lot of the joy of this game came from watching my hotel grow over time, so it was a major bummer when that stopped happening around day 20. Late-game would be a lot more satisfying with some clever rearranging of the graphics.
Overall I'm glad I played this game, it made me feel happy. Excellent work.
Thank you for complimenting on my music, I really appreciate it :)))
I have put the 2 tracks on Bandcamp, if you wanna listen to them feel free :)
I've also added my paypal; if you wanna support me as an artist,
just pay what you feel appropriate to pay :) I also make classical piano music,
film-music and Pop/Rock music.
We can stay in touch and when I am done producing my songs I can send you stuff,
or you just tell me what you are interested in :)
All the best, Gerd :) This is the link : http://gerdo.bandcamp.com/album/party-island-ost
Also I didn't understand if the people leaving my hotel was happening normally or because of some of my choices.
Good job!
Well done indeed! :D