{"author_link":"\/users\/piscythe","author_name":"piscythe","author_uid":"1002145","comments":[{"author_name":"ixchow","author_uid":"1111979","time":"2018-08-14T07:16:25Z","epoch":1534230985,"modified":1534231408,"text":"Housing Crisis Island Wars is one of those node-based RTS's, like https:\/\/www.kongregate.com\/games\/gamezhero\/tentacle-wars or Eufloria (is there a better name for these?). I like the twist of being able to build different structure on the nodes, and also the idea that population is what kills you. All the pieces of a neat game are here, but it could use some more balance. Right now, it seems there is just one 'best' strategy (build 2's, then 1's when you have to), though it's not enough for me to conquer all the islands...","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"BaronB","author_uid":"1047181","time":"2018-08-19T01:03:50Z","epoch":1534640630,"modified":1534640630,"text":"Hey, neat game! My suggestion is to include instructions. I didn't really know what to do. (I know you mention in on this page, but I just jumped right in.)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Makbeard","author_uid":"1105210","time":"2018-08-19T01:33:17Z","epoch":1534642397,"modified":1534642397,"text":"Definitely interesting! Can see this as being a game with multiple levels of increasing difficult where you want to conquer every area","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Zicboy","author_uid":"1027576","time":"2018-08-19T06:20:53Z","epoch":1534659653,"modified":1534659653,"text":"Awesome game. I was pleasantly suprised with the overall mood of the game. Hope you develop a post jam version for this!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Danny Sun","author_uid":"1097492","time":"2018-08-19T09:25:46Z","epoch":1534670746,"modified":1534670746,"text":"Nice and interesting games! Well done!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Balance686","author_uid":"1073177","time":"2018-08-19T17:55:39Z","epoch":1534701339,"modified":1534701339,"text":"Great mechanics! You incorporated the theme well and the graphics are pleasant. The game is genuinely fun to play. Some in game instructions would be a good idea and sound would seal the deal. I'd definitely play a post jam version! Great submission!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"piscythe","author_uid":"1002145","time":"2018-08-19T19:11:05Z","epoch":1534705865,"modified":1534705865,"text":"@ixchow There is at least one strategy that consistently beats this game, and it doesn't sound like you have it. Spamming power generators as much as possible is the early game strategy, but the idea is that sometimes it's better to focus on population capacity to buy yourself time. Thanks for your feedback!\n\n@baronb That goes in the 'I didn't have time' bin. Thanks for your feedback!\n\n@makbeard I had that idea too, but I only had time to make the one map. Thanks for your feedback!\n\n@danny-sun Thank you!\n\n@zicboy @balance686 I honestly wasn't expecting enthusiasm for a post-jam version, but just reading my own comments I can see a few things that could be added or improved. That would pull time away from another project, though...","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"JulianMH","author_uid":"1013088","time":"2018-08-20T13:50:24Z","epoch":1534773024,"modified":1534773024,"text":"Hey, MacOS Version is broken. I think the LD42DEF.app\/Contents\/MacOS folder is not supposed to be empty, usually the executable file should be there.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"oddeyed","author_uid":"1107809","time":"2018-08-20T20:25:45Z","epoch":1534796745,"modified":1534796825,"text":"Pleased to report the Linux build works well on Fedora :penguin:\n\nI got totally caught out by the overpopulation draining crystals which was funny and surprising (I should read the instructions closer). It reminded me a lot of Eufloria which I really liked, but tying in the space constraint in the way you did matches the theme nicely and also speeds up the game quite a bit. The visuals are overall clear and fun, although I didn't realise the big bugs are so much more lethal until they killed all my lil' fishies.\n\nThis was definitely fun and held my attention for a few attempts (but I couldn't beat it). Great job!\n\nMy #1 feature to add would be a counter for how many fishies you have on an island because I wasn't able to tell whether I had a chance against the bugs or not.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Liven","author_uid":"1105893","time":"2018-08-26T21:13:46Z","epoch":1535318026,"modified":1535318026,"text":"Really good game","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Rahim_Pxr","author_uid":"1113679","time":"2018-08-27T00:29:25Z","epoch":1535329765,"modified":1535329765,"text":"\nNice game, I hope to see more updates and improvments sooner.\nIf you don't bother take a look at our game when we focused on Graphics and visuals and see the results that we got:\nhttps:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/spacelab-42\nCommenti haddi\n","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"folex70","author_uid":"1005915","time":"2018-08-27T00:30:02Z","epoch":1535329802,"modified":1535329802,"text":"release a web version please! if possible","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Vivoubos","author_uid":"1001988","time":"2018-08-27T12:39:12Z","epoch":1535373552,"modified":1535373552,"text":"Nice game... I loose like a noob at the end, my army was not able to kill every body on this island ^^ Good job, the game speed a long as you play :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"DarkGuardsman","author_uid":"1109134","time":"2018-08-27T17:44:11Z","epoch":1535391851,"modified":1535391851,"text":"Great game, could use a little balance work but that is about it. ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"GreenAndSubmarine","author_uid":"1052560","time":"2018-09-02T12:08:21Z","epoch":1535890101,"modified":1535890101,"text":"Reminded me a little of Candy Box, with the crystal production and indirect landgrabs. Not as easy as it looks at the start! All in all, I've really enjoyed it, good job!","likes":1,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld42\/112196-fc610910fa117ddf6f80119256445421.png"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/piscythe.com\/files\/LD42-HCIW-Source.zip","text":"Shockk"},{"url":"http:\/\/piscythe.com\/files\/LD42-HCIW-x86.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"http:\/\/piscythe.com\/files\/LD42-HCIW-x86_64-darwin.zip","text":"macOS"},{"url":"http:\/\/piscythe.com\/files\/LD42-HCIW-x86_64-linux.zip","text":"Linux"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"50134","g_author":"1002145","g_event":"LD42","g_eventkey":"73","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"233274","g_title":"Housing Crisis Island Wars","g_status":"USEAR3","g_place":"359","g_commentcount":"15","g_site2_node_id":"112196","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"112196","n_urlkey":"233274","n_parent":"97793","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/housing-crisis-island-wars","n_slug":"housing-crisis-island-wars","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"2145","n_created":"1534106438","n_modified":"1534115300","n_version":"321502","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":112196,"parent":97793,"superparent":9,"author":2145,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"compo","published":"2018-08-12T22:42:52Z","created":"2018-08-12T20:40:38Z","modified":"2018-08-12T23:08:20Z","version":321502,"slug":"housing-crisis-island-wars","name":"Housing Crisis Island Wars","body":"It's a familiar problem. You've got a lot of people, they keep making more people, and the lot of them all want roofs over their heads. Building houses is pretty fast with the fancy crystal energy generators your people have, but there's a bit of a complication. The trouble is that you happen to live on an island in the sky, and there isn't all that much space to go around. There are more islands to expand to, but they're infested with weird blue bug things. Looks like if you want to avoid running out of space to put houses, you'll have to put the 'aggressive' in 'aggressively expansionist.'\n\n- Controls: Mouse + Hotkeys (1-4)\n\n- Left click an island to select it.\n\n- Use the buttons or hotkeys to create buildings and units at the selected island.\n\n- With an island selected, right click another island to send units from the first island to the second.\n\n- Your population will grow over time. If you have more population than housing space, excess population will drain your \ncrystals. If you run out of crystals, you lose.\n\n- Use small units to fight small enemies and big units to fight big enemies\n\n\nKnown issues:\n- Unit sprites sometimes flicker or hide behind islands.\n- Victory condition is not implemented. Just try to conquer every island.\n\n\n![LD42--1.png](\/\/\/raw\/168\/z\/16ee6.png)\n![LD42-0.png](\/\/\/raw\/168\/z\/16ee9.png)","meta":{"author":[2145],"grade-06-out":"1","grade-07-out":"1","link-01-tag":"50","allow-anonymous-comments":"1","link-01":"http:\/\/piscythe.com\/files\/LD42-HCIW-Source.zip","link-01-name":"Source (Defold)","link-02":"http:\/\/piscythe.com\/files\/LD42-HCIW-x86.zip","link-02-tag":"42337","link-02-name":"Windows 32-bit","link-03":"http:\/\/piscythe.com\/files\/LD42-HCIW-x86_64-darwin.zip","link-03-tag":"42339","link-03-name":"macOS (broken)","link-04":"http:\/\/piscythe.com\/files\/LD42-HCIW-x86_64-linux.zip","link-04-tag":"42341","link-04-name":"Linux (works?)","cover":"\/\/\/content\/168\/z\/16ee5.png"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/42\/housing-crisis-island-wars","parents":[1,5,9,97793],"love":0,"notes":15,"notes-timestamp":"2018-09-02T12:08:21Z","grade":{"grade-01":23,"grade-02":23,"grade-03":23,"grade-04":23,"grade-05":23,"grade-08":21},"magic":{"cool":105.3268721647,"feedback":19,"given":17.75,"grade":22.666666666667,"grade-01-average":3.381,"grade-01-result":359,"grade-02-average":3.286,"grade-02-result":343,"grade-03-average":3.119,"grade-03-result":407,"grade-04-average":3.786,"grade-04-result":248,"grade-05-average":3.024,"grade-05-result":454,"grade-08-average":2.816,"grade-08-result":423,"smart":9.6451495668158}},"text":"It's a familiar problem. You've got a lot of people, they keep making more people, and the lot of them all want roofs over their heads. Building houses is pretty fast with the fancy crystal energy generators your people have, but there's a bit of a complication. The trouble is that you happen to live on an island in the sky, and there isn't all that much space to go around. There are more islands to expand to, but they're infested with weird blue bug things. Looks like if you want to avoid running out of space to put houses, you'll have to put the 'aggressive' in 'aggressively expansionist.'\n\n- Controls: Mouse + Hotkeys (1-4)\n\n- Left click an island to select it.\n\n- Use the buttons or hotkeys to create buildings and units at the selected island.\n\n- With an island selected, right click another island to send units from the first island to the second.\n\n- Your population will grow over time. If you have more population than housing space, excess population will drain your \ncrystals. If you run out of crystals, you lose.\n\n- Use small units to fight small enemies and big units to fight big enemies\n\n\nKnown issues:\n- Unit sprites sometimes flicker or hide behind islands.\n- Victory condition is not implemented. Just try to conquer every island.\n\n\n![LD42--1.png](\/\/\/raw\/168\/z\/16ee6.png)\n![LD42-0.png](\/\/\/raw\/168\/z\/16ee9.png)","title":"Housing Crisis Island Wars"}