Colonize by JustinM
About
First Ludum Dare Attempt, Resource Management game, build up your colony to greatness! Use the side buttons to complete tasks and see your colony grow. Talk to your villagers with the chat(extremely limited) and click on the rock and tree to help your villagers gather resources.
Controls
Click the buttons and type in the chat box
Voting Category Opt-outs
- Audio
Links
- Web: https://jmosur.itch.io/colonize

| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/colonize |
Ratings
| Overall | 710th | 2.682⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 711th | 2.364⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 753th | 2.045⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 543th | 3.091⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 452th | 3.318⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 649th | 2.636⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 17🗳️ | 21🗨️ |
The graphics are basic but work well enough. A shame there's no sound.
More one time, great concept, but you need to rethink about the mechanics..
The graphics are nicely done, The idea that the villagers naturally wander off and need to be found was kind of funny. I liked the idea of being able to chat with the villagers but i could only get them to respond to "Hi, How are you". Also when i tried fullscreen the text didn't line up with the UI anymore.
The game was really easy to play and easy to finish. Something is needed to the end to motivate the player to continue. All I have to do at the end was finding more villagers for maybe 15 times. Thats kind of boring.
Overall I like the idea.
Nice work!
Should have read the description *before* playing. Was always low on villagers, and wasn't sure if building up the city did something (other than progress). But finished it, so that's a good thing, I like these kind of games.
**What I liked:**
- The art
- That I could help the villagers with mining
- The whole feel of the game (building a village)
- Possibility to chat with villagers
**What could be better:**
- More resources
- Make villagers more useful - I felt like there was no need for having more than 6 villagers
- The ending was a bit plain
Overall nice entry, simple but fun, really reminds me of games like Ikariam/Travian
I did however like the art style and the beginning of an idea to be able to chat with villagers.
The graphics are quite nice though and with more gameplay elements I could see this becoming a good game, keep it up!