Empire Building by Mac Dragoness

made by Mac Dragoness for LD 39 (COMPO)

The Empire Building! Uncle Drumpf is assigning you to replace him as a real estate developer to take over his "gloomy" powerless apartment. Recently the city has just cut out some of the electricity due Uncle Drumpf was unable to pay his electric bills, your job is to make money by lighting up the apartments to attract new homes and upgrade your apartment until it reached 1,000,000 Mhz. But not only he wants the apartment to stay alive, he also wants you to take over the city by mind controlling the person living in the apartment!

Control: -WASD control camera. -Mouse scroll to zoom in/out. -Left click the room to light up the apartment. Click again to turn off the light.

Goal: -Reach 1,000,000 mwh (story mode) -none (endless mode)

Hello! This is my first ever LD Compo competition! If you find any flaws in my game please let me know in the comment!

NOTE!

Please download it instead of playing it directly through Itch.io unless your PC is good! The game is quite demanding in performance so it's better to play in your desktop rather than in the browser!

Build 3: - Fix GUI bug. - Fix click detection issues. - Change several briefings and messages text.

Build 2: - Fix GUI bug that becomes messy for all resolution size (Story Mode only).

Windows	https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3iGoDp9Nt5tOE1YSjJYTl9iMDA
HTML5 (web)	https://king72dragoness.itch.io/empire-building
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/empire-building

Ratings

Overall	370^th	3.25⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Fun	561^th	2.65⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	401^th	2.95⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Theme	527^th	3.05⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	281^th	3.4⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Humor	174^th	2.9⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Mood	395^th	2.8⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Given		24🗳️	19🗨️

Feedback

Sarah

31. Jul 2017 · 12:30 UTC

This game was pretty fun, I like the graphics style :)
The only problem I had was sometimes I had a difficult time finding the right place to click in a room to light it up. But otherwise, great job!

Swifttech

31. Jul 2017 · 12:59 UTC

Fun! I like it alot, but the black window in the top is centered to the middle of the screen, and with my big screen it doesnt line up with the stats in the top corner

DevOrc

31. Jul 2017 · 13:11 UTC

For a first submission the game is amazing! One (really minor) problem is that the text in the upper-left hand corner blends in with the surrounding buildings. I would recommend changing it to red or something like that. Otherwise, an awesome game!

🎤 Mac Dragoness

31. Jul 2017 · 13:32 UTC

@devorc & @swifttech thank you for your feedback! The bug now has been fixed!

🎤 Mac Dragoness

31. Jul 2017 · 13:34 UTC

@sarah thank you for playing! I'll fix that click issues!

madalaski

31. Jul 2017 · 14:36 UTC

Some UI anchors need to be checked but otherwise a fun and interactive games (with some good humour added on top ;)) I felt that how much power each apartment produced and how much money the people gave you could have been conveyed in a more interesting way but in other respects I did love the camera system and the whole style of the game.

Wevel

31. Jul 2017 · 14:40 UTC

Fun game, there doesn't seem to be much progression after upgrading however.

guojin

31. Jul 2017 · 16:06 UTC

It will be perfect if there were some sound effect.

Lazzor

31. Jul 2017 · 23:17 UTC

Hi, I really liked your game. Especially the graphics was nice. I seemed to have a bug at the end, where a click on "Okay" (after I got mayor) doesn't do anything. Some sound effects would have been cool, too. But other that that, great work!

Lipsch

01. Aug 2017 · 09:52 UTC

** Fun **

It made a bit of fun. But not that much. I didn't get what to do.
I just lit every room. And upgraded.. that's it.
Is it supposed to be played like that?

** Innovation **

It was kinda innovative..

** Theme **

I always had enough power.. never ran out :p

** Graphics **

I love low poly style! the trees were nice. some buildings okay. Many buildings really were just cubes.. And the people two cubes. Very minimalistic.

** Humor **

-

** Mood **

No mood -> 0. No sound no mood ^^

** Overall **

It was okay. But i could just build and build. No aspects that stop me. Very monotone.

Simon Millard

01. Aug 2017 · 10:18 UTC

Neat game! You clearly put a lot of effort into the graphics, and I really liked how the game looked. However, it was very unfortunate that the game had absolutely no sound or music; it detracts so much from the overall experience. The game-play was a bit too repetitive for my taste as well.

However, the world you created, with the small characters and the madness when they were fighting with axes(?!) at the end, was fun and very well done. Neat little project, good job! :)

Sivael

01. Aug 2017 · 10:26 UTC

Very nice!
A bit short and simple to win but nice :D

Mr.Houdini

01. Aug 2017 · 10:57 UTC

Nice low poly art.
Not as much as challenge as I expected but it works well. Nicely done.

ijona

01. Aug 2017 · 23:40 UTC

It's crazy, but fun :) And graphics is stylish. Though I'm not sure I got it all right, I enjoyed the experience.

maniac

02. Aug 2017 · 09:09 UTC

Nice idea, but it seemed to be impossible to loose.

Mathiouza

02. Aug 2017 · 10:09 UTC

Cool, but too easy. Try to add some other factor that make the game more difficult. Graphics are simple but well done. I think you could add better shading for the next time though. It lacks music ... You have to make a music, as crapy as you can, no matter, but make one, there are beautiful free software (online or not) to make one, there are also music generator on the web ! Try to make sounds too, bfrx is a good way to make some easily. Try to add some sounds the next time. I look like harsh but this is for you and your future games :) Overall good game though, keep coding :)

AJ Weeks

02. Aug 2017 · 10:13 UTC

Fun little management game. Short and sweet - perfect for a game jam :slight_smile: My only suggestion would be to name your zip file the name of your game - that way when downloading many games at a time I can tell which is game is which. Other than that really good job!