Puny World by Joe Cowman

made by Joe Cowman for LD 38 (COMPO)

You are Ludarius, a lesser god.

You are a student at the Heavenly School for Divine Beings and Other Ghosty Things.

For your senior project, you are tasked with ruling a world for one year.

It shouldn't be too hard, right? It's such a small world.

For Ludum Dare 38 (Theme: A Small World), I created a goofy god-simulation game. Gameplay consists of answering the prayers of your followers.

Disappointingly, I ran out of time to create a lot of story content. So this is more of a mechanic demo! If you like it, try the post-jam version! It has more characters and choices, and I plan on updating it more in the future.

Links

Play Online (Compo Release): https://joecowman.itch.io/puny-world
Play Online (Post-Jam Release): https://joecowman.itch.io/puny-world-post-jam
Source: https://github.com/jcowman2/Puny-World

Original URL

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/puny-world

Ratings

Overall	396^th	3⭐	21🧑‍⚖️
Fun	158^th	3.474⭐	21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	222^th	3.25⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Theme	298^th	3.316⭐	21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	366^th	2.95⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Audio	415^th	1.471⭐	19🧑‍⚖️
Humor	15^th	4.15⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Mood	154^th	3.45⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Given		9🗳️	15🗨️

Feedback

camilo

01. May 2017 · 04:55 UTC

I laughed a lot with your game haha.
I'm an horrible god.

Maybe more choices and music would had been a cool addition.

Overall very creative and well executed game!

ColeSlaughter

01. May 2017 · 05:23 UTC

I love the butterfly effect goin' on here! It felt like I was desperately trying to backpedal as a seemingly innocuous decision quickly spiraled out of control. xD Love the concept! Would love to see some added scenarios in the future.

LaceMattley

01. May 2017 · 07:36 UTC

Reminds me of the game Reign with less banquet choking. Would've been great to have more content but I did chuckle for a couple of minutes :)

Flipsy

01. May 2017 · 07:51 UTC

Very funny, love the little characters and story-lines. More content and characters would be great.

Faithcaio

01. May 2017 · 15:17 UTC

I granted all the wishes. Killing and resurrecting Zombiebirds to infinity.
Fun game!

Rahtainka

01. May 2017 · 18:02 UTC

Short and funny game :) would like to see a extended version ^^ I love to be god!

Querk

01. May 2017 · 19:06 UTC

Really funny game, especially "zombirds", the graphics are nice, animations are cool.

I LOVE IT

(Sorry for my bad english)

philomory

03. May 2017 · 07:37 UTC

I love this, it reminds me very strongly of the game Reigns (which is a good thing, Reigns is absolutely fantastic). I'd love to see a version with more content, particularly in the form of more unrelated prayer-trees (as opposed to making the existing prayer trees longer and more complex). My new passtime is repeatedly destroying and resurrecting the world's birds.

(An _exceedingly_ minor niggle, but there are _way_ more than 300 million birds on Earth. Also, the comma placement is real weird on the score screen).

Breno_M

04. May 2017 · 02:31 UTC

Sadly, the game is very short. But the concept of a humorous god simulator is good. Yes for bird marriage.

Breno_M

04. May 2017 · 02:31 UTC

###### *Sorry for the double post. It's a site bug.*

yyam

04. May 2017 · 17:03 UTC

Haha, had fun playing this, even though it was really short! I love the idea you came up with, very funny :) Played the post-jam version too.

pcmaster

04. May 2017 · 20:15 UTC

I played the compo version. It is indeed short. But funny :)

k8n

04. May 2017 · 20:25 UTC

I tried to be a just god, but Huck Wallace is a peacock now.

Mars

05. May 2017 · 19:37 UTC

This feels a little bit empty, but I get the gist from the little content available.

I like the humor, I liked seeing what kinds of things happened by trying the other branches. As I tried getting all the endings I noticed that it become kind of tedious to wait for the prayers to arrive, the little wait inbetween them felt kind of annoying after a while. Some way to skip ahead to soothe the increasing impatience as that little pause arrives again and again would probably be nice.

I like the concept too, I think with more complex branching and maybe even some deeper storylines, it could be a pretty compelling experience. Obviously it needs some sound as well, as audio done well always enhances an experience.

So, good job on your entry!

ToonTeamJ

06. May 2017 · 00:24 UTC

The compo version is indeed a little short. Just a little. This could be fun with some expansion.

kenrickrilee

06. May 2017 · 02:43 UTC

The plot-lines are so cute!

BladeSides

06. May 2017 · 03:50 UTC

This game was awesome as hell!
Only one downside - Short :/

SubWooferX3

06. May 2017 · 04:26 UTC

Very funny and very cool game, would love more content but with even the little amount I had fun!

candlesan

06. May 2017 · 04:35 UTC

Short but sweet and I got some good chuckles. I think I saw 8 different endings? I love short games that have multiple endings. And you writing is funny :)