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City2048 by shrekshao

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made by shrekshao for LD 42 (JAM)

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  • Mouse only control, left click to build, right click to orbit, wheel to select buildings.
  • Buildings consumes some blocks to produce some other blocks
  • Trucks runs on road and pickup and deliver those blocks. You can acquire them by building transport center (see description)
  • You need yellow block(Gold!) to build new buildings. Business area and Attraction can produce such block (see description)
  • Two buildings with same type and level will automatically merge into an upgraded building, which use less space and produce blocks faster. Try it!

  • Be sure to use your land wisely before they runs out.

  • Due to limited time for tweaking numbers, I don't think the gameplay is any of chanllenging now :) And There are a lot to refine, as always

  • Made for LD42 by shrekshao and Huai boqun.

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Post jam update: vehicle smooth interpolation, Fix destroy building. (Minor visual changes)

Windows https://shrekshao.itch.io/city2048
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/city2048

Ratings

Overall 103th 3.929⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Fun 162th 3.714⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 210th 3.619⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Theme 126th 4.071⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 30th 4.524⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Mood 460th 3.263⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 25🗳️ 8🗨️

Feedback

Trystan-SARRADE
14. Aug 2018 · 02:36 UTC
It's a good management game. Some SoundFX would be great ! The possibility to see and build one tiles that are behind buildings is necessary.

The gameplay is cool, I love that !
🎤 shrekshao
14. Aug 2018 · 02:54 UTC
@trystan-sarrade Thanks for playing and commenting. You can orbit camera with right click.
squabbler
16. Aug 2018 · 02:21 UTC
Pretty fun game. I played through a couple of times: (1) first time I tried building the roads as things popped up... bad idea. (2) I built essentially a loop highway where everything could be touched, worked out much better.

Good job. I wish there was audio, and the trucks were fluid animations.
Bloc97
16. Aug 2018 · 03:05 UTC
Pretty nice entry, it was relaxing to look at the city growing by itself. Some sound would have been nice. But otherwise this was a pretty solid management game.

![City2048.png](///raw/c7b/81/z/19efd.png)
*You can never have too many post offices...*
Niccolas Suprik
16. Aug 2018 · 04:20 UTC
Nice work, I love the blocky, simplistic art style. Like others have said, sound would be nice (I could just have youtube playing some chiptune music in the background I suppose) , but over all it is a very fun and addictive game. I will probably be playing this one again!
aeveis
16. Aug 2018 · 09:07 UTC
Had fun! Was able to see most of the combined buildings (combines 4 times I think), though it was hard to get the same buildings next to each other without some other building spawning where you wanted to place the next one (seemed to happen a lot for me). Perhaps you could remove buildings to get some gold back, and so you could arrange the city as you want (though I guess the buildings spawning add some variation). Nice building models, good job!
🎤 shrekshao
17. Aug 2018 · 05:11 UTC
Wow... Thank you all for your kind comments and to-the-point advice. Feels like I need to polish more (like truck position lerp) @aeveis @bloc97 @niccolas-suprik @squabbler
🎤 shrekshao
17. Aug 2018 · 05:48 UTC
@aeveis removing function is actually made at first but somehow I hide it... Cuz the original idea was you can't add buildings on your own, but just wait for spawning and remove those not working well. I should reveal this functionality back though, with like 5 gold blocks needed for removing(after my vacation lol
The_Icy_One
19. Aug 2018 · 18:58 UTC
The combining mechanic is neat, but imo could use some tweaks to allow the player to control where the combined building goes, or at least see where they will combine to. It seems like it always combines on the position of the oldest building, but that wasn't obvious in the gameplay. Also it seems that buildings that combine lose their blocks.
🎤 shrekshao
19. Aug 2018 · 19:13 UTC
@the-icy-one Yeah as you go deeper, definitely there's more details to fix and tweak. Thanks for pointing out
chrissx2
19. Aug 2018 · 19:59 UTC
I just adore the little animations and visual style. I can see a bigger game here! Great job guys!
Carlos Giraldo
19. Aug 2018 · 20:36 UTC
Oh how I love the animations and the building designs. Gameplay-wise, could not really follow and didn't really feel challenged. But really liked the style. I think with better feedback to the player and clearer goals, there is something special here!
🎤 shrekshao
19. Aug 2018 · 20:44 UTC
@carlos-giraldo The design tries to make you properly deploy builds and roads so that each type(color) of block can be produced at their fastest speed. But clearly the production speed is far from getting finely tweaked to make it very challenging, you are fucking damn correct about this lol
Abhis1Kadian
19. Aug 2018 · 21:16 UTC
@shrekshao I loved the animations and the art style of ur game, liked playing ur game. would like to play the full version of the game.
AdonisDevs
19. Aug 2018 · 22:40 UTC
Cool game! I played it for quite a while, it's definitely addicting. It's impressive how many different building models you were able to create in such a short time. It would be nice if there was an option to speed up the game. Great job :)
BelowParallel_Ian
19. Aug 2018 · 23:09 UTC
I like this game a lot. It could definitely be better with some better balancing, but it is already a ton of fun as it is.
Zicboy
19. Aug 2018 · 23:58 UTC
Awesome game! really enjoyed the mood and graphics for this entry!
Laurim
21. Aug 2018 · 03:51 UTC
Really fun game! I definitely played a lot longer than I was expecting lol.

One thing that I noticed though that got a bit frustrating was that the trucks never seemed to bring the red blocks to my businesses.

They seemed to always prioritize the factories, so the cycle would end up like:
- Truck brings Red to Factory
- Factory makes Black and Purple
- Truck brings Black to Apartment and Purple to Business
- Apartment makes Red
- Repeat

This ended up with my businesses having tons of purple, but rarely got the reds they needed to make the "good stuff."

![businesses.png](///raw/78b/41/z/1a57b.png)



I also kind of wish you could destroy/rebuild roads since I kind of messed up some placements towards the beginning. Agree with other comments that sound effects/audio would be a nice touch too.

Really fun and addicting game though!
🎤 shrekshao
21. Aug 2018 · 04:00 UTC
@laurim Wow! Thanks for this feedback. Honestly I never played this long to discover this bug. (The deliver task actually push to a queue. it might be because when business task ask for red there's always nothing left?) But certainly a valuable feedback. And thanks for playing this game!
Andaron_Noob
21. Aug 2018 · 04:15 UTC
Really fun! I like city building games so this is right up my alley!