Puny Planets by ray-caster
You are an Old One trying to care for little specs of meat that you created on a small rock in space. You must be tactically cruel to ensure the survival of your servants.
Not a very fun game, lacking in many features, and far from balanced. Most of the game was designed in the last 12 hours of the compo. That being said, the core idea is actually very good, and I would like to see similar God themed strategy games that relinquishes the player of all control of the characters on screen in favor of having the player maintain an equilibrium between systems that constantly try to out-compete one-another by controlling, say, natural phenomena.
DOWNLOAD
Since the page won't allow me to upload the package yet, you can find it here (only Linux binaries and source code): https://www.dropbox.com/s/718x2yw6hx3euul/puny_planets.zip?dl=0
I will update the entry when I can add proper download links.
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/puny-planets |
Ratings
| Given | 0🗳️ | 0🗨️ |
Also the graphics are clever, just rotating the sprites around the center point to make it look like a little planet. Simple but effective!
I downloaded and played the Linux binary, and ran fine. Only glitch I noticed is the text seems to be a little messed up (stray pixels, like the sprite is blitted with an offset).
As you said it could use a bit more content to be more fun, although as basic as it is now, I did actually play 3 times to see if I could keep it going longer... the core concept is definitely a good one, you should finish it! :)