The Problem with Putties by jimmothysanchez
Warning: This game is unfinished. I ran out of time. There is no win state.
The putties need power to keep on putty-ing around. Build huts to make more putties. Burn trees and drill oil to make more energy. Survive as long as you can.
Controls:
WASD to move the camera
Left click to select putties
Right click to send them on tasks
Buildings: Huts - Produce a constant stream of putties. More huts means more putties, but be careful too many putties currently drop the frame rate.
Oil rigs - You can send a putty to this building and they will collect oil.
Furnaces- Putties need to burn trees and oil to turn it into energy. Build more of these so putties don't have to walk as far.
| Windows | https://jimmothysanchez.itch.io/the-problem-with-putties |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/the-problem-with-putties |
Ratings
| Given | 2🗳️ | 1🗨️ |
- Cool if you did this all by yourself in the time limit. I suppose the main lesson is the classic issue of scope, and trying to figure out you could have prioritised over other things to have a more complete game quicker.
- For example, if I were you I wouldn't have bothered spending the time animating your character until you had the core design more functional. I think it would have been fine if they just floated around, and remember that you're designing everything, so you can do sneaky things like simply make your characters floaty ghost style things that don't require animating ;)
- More broadly, the visuals are nice but you could have gotten away with simpler, quicker stuff to give you more time on the game itself.
Still though, I don't want this to sound negative - it's cool and I bet it was interesting to work on :)