Tiny Empire by Matthew Roelle

made by Matthew Roelle for LD 38 (JAM)

Build as large of an empire as you can by building your army and colonizing planets. Think of a simplified RTS set in space, where you build a simple base on each planet, and build a fleet of ships to both protect your current empire and wage war to expand it.

Web: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ludum-dare-f0c839a/index.html

Source: https://github.com/Mattykins/ld38

Original URL

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/tiny-empire

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raincole

02. May 2017 · 14:29 UTC

The stylish graphics is great! It's one of the minimalistic games that actually look beautiful. It provides too many options at the beginning and I dont know what should I build first. But considering it's a strategy game made in 72 hours, the lack of tutorial is completely understandable.

michaelb

07. May 2017 · 06:22 UTC

I really liked the art style and the interface was great. Responsive and effective, in general what I could play of it felt really solid. I'm a fan of minimalist space RTS games like the Galcon series, Creeper Wars, etc which this totally reminded me of.

Sadly, I couldn't figure out however how to get to other planets! I built my econ structures, upgraded my shipyard, built a bunch of settlement ships, scouts, drones etc... and tried clicking on "deploy all", which caused their icons to appear over the menu, but they never flew off or gave me an option of choosing a planet or anything like that. Shame, since I kinda wanted to conquer some planets. All in all great start and would honestly love to play a fleshed out version!

matita

07. May 2017 · 16:10 UTC

I like the concept, and also the minimal icons for the buildings, ships, etc. is very cool.

Being a game done in 72 hours I think it's normal that there isn't a tutorial and not many informations on the items you can build, but with some try and fail the basic logics of the game are understandable.

My highest score so far is 7669, I don't know if it is good or not.

There are some things I don't understand:
* is it me or maybe the game is a bit unbalanced? I couldn't manage to conquer more than 3 planets, and as soon as I get to that a lot of enemies come and destroy everything, like it was a zerg rush against a noob...
* what should I do as soon as a planet finishes all the available resources (the number at the center of the planet)? Just use it as a ships factory?
* it isn't clear that every planet can have only 5 buildings, maybe an indicator or a feedback when I try to build the sixth building wouldn't hurt
* some stats would have been helpful about the ships you can build: what is a drone for? What is the difference between scouts and tanks?

Other than that I think this game has good potential!

Great work!