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Appease The Gods by reecer9714

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made by reecer9714 for LD 43 (COMPO)

Manage an early civilization and ensure their survival for as long as possible. Sacrifices must be made to appease the Gods and gain from their blessing or you might feel their wrath.

This game was made in about 24 hours in GameMaker. Other tools include Gimp, Audacity, WolframTones.

Controls: - Drag cards to slots. - More detailed tutorial page in game.

Some tips that are not explained in game: - Kids age 4-10 will be taught if there is a teacher. - Villagers over the age of 25 start losing their ability to work. - Villagers over 30 start losing their health.

Tested on Chrome, Opera, Firefox; Firefox sound was only in left ear!

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HTML5 (web) https://reecer9714.itch.io/sacrifice
Source code https://drive.google.com/file/d/11B7Xn89BNZgnDTRBrFEnj4vs_AfnR7A2/view?usp=sharing
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/appease-the-gods

Ratings

Overall 396th 2.983⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Fun 372th 2.897⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 320th 3⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Theme 150th 3.776⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Given 29🗳️ 1🗨️

Feedback

Sarwin
03. Dec 2018 · 05:01 UTC
Nice concept. I think you forget to remove the test message saying "This is a test message Right click to dismiss it" Otherwise everthing is good
🎤 reecer9714
03. Dec 2018 · 05:08 UTC
@Sarwin That was left there to teach the player to look there for messages and that those messages can be dismissed.
arkinrev
03. Dec 2018 · 05:08 UTC
I liked this quite a bit. It is a clever combination of both card game and worker placement, which is a game type that I am a fan of. It's just the theme I hope, but the first thing I did was sacrifice a newborn. I was curious. Having an expiration date on your workers is a nice idea. Good job!
khaotom
03. Dec 2018 · 05:44 UTC
I keep forgetting what each place does. Seems you could keep the labels on there instead of making it a separate screen. The concept makes sense, but it's still really difficult, my village does not do very well at all :cat:
Hawkie
03. Dec 2018 · 17:15 UTC
I enjoyed this game and liked the card/worker placement game framework you've made. Well done on putting it in the browser. Therapeutic music was helping me keep playing. I agree with @khaotom I needed labels to help me and so couldn't work out best strategy but it was a neat game engine - one that could be reused. Well done - will check out your code.
Fernando Tonon de Rossi
03. Dec 2018 · 17:27 UTC
I spent some time to understand what should I do in the game!
I liked most the way the player has to control the population so the community may grow healthy!
Maybe putting some faces on the cards could illustrate better and create a stronger bond between player and characters!
Querk
03. Dec 2018 · 17:38 UTC
i like this game, idea, concept and all, but i think that interface is unreadable. i think that should be information of all object in game, what it do. becouse when I play I forgoted all this information. after all, it gives a lot of fun. good job :)

(ps. sorry for my bad english)
Andrea
03. Dec 2018 · 17:41 UTC
I agree with @khaotom , otherwise a solid concept! Well done!
Hempuli
04. Dec 2018 · 01:42 UTC
Hmm, I wasn't sure how not to make my villagers die of hunger, even though I put several on the job. Do sacrifices help with food production? There's potential for a fairly interesting card game with some added depth and cleared links between events.
negativice
04. Dec 2018 · 03:08 UTC
Interesting game, had a little difficult time figuring out the game mechanics, but on the 2nd go i was mostly good. Maybe you should keep the tutorial text that shows under buildings in the main game as well, also would have liked some more info on how certain gameplay mechanics worked, like the leader for example.
I made it to year 31. Seems like the villages doom is kind a inevitable.
Noah Barsky
04. Dec 2018 · 06:04 UTC
Made it to year 171 because I had to get off the game. Epic gamer moment. Would be nice if the rules were explained better though.
Arktas
05. Dec 2018 · 22:20 UTC
Nice concept a bit hard to understand but after few play you start to get old people ^^.
garygreen
08. Dec 2018 · 14:55 UTC
I liked the concept, but I didn't get very far, as I wasn't completely sure how things were affected by placing cards in different slots.
elysiagriffin
18. Dec 2018 · 19:50 UTC
Hey Reecer9714! Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my livestream!

If you'd like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/346056526?t=03h21m26s

Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D

💜 Elysia Griffin AKA Button Feedback Lady

https://www.twitch.tv/elysiagriffin