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The Village by Gipzo

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made by Gipzo for LD 38 (JAM)

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It is tough to manage small flying roadside village.
Travelers always want something and they want it fast.
Knights want their spears to be repaired by best blacksmith.
Peasants want girls in taverns and pumpkin juice.
Merchant want to park their horses only in two-storied stables...

Can you pull this off? Dare to try?

PLAY ON ITCH.IO (WebGL, Win, Mac)

Some tips:

  • Upgrade your buildings to provide best service to travelers!
  • You can collect pumpkins to earn some spare gold!
  • Please your travelers with shower of pure gold coins!
  • Craters can be fixed with gold too!

HAVE FUN!

​Team​
Artem Shambalev @gipzo - Programming, Game Design, Sound
Vitali Poliakou @chimerasnest​ - Art, Game Design
Katrina Bohush @katrina-bohush​ - Art

Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/​

Update 26.04.2016:
Fixed bug with disappearing buildings.
Added small text tutorial at start of level. I hope this doesn't count as feature... :pray:

Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/village-pillage

Ratings

Overall 251th 3.591⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 375th 3.182⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 427th 3.048⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Theme 279th 3.636⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 89th 4.364⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Humor 192th 3.211⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 109th 3.85⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Given 9🗳️ 7🗨️

Feedback

aidenm125
25. Apr 2017 · 08:49 UTC
It's not bad, but it seems a little too hard unless you know what you're doing. I'd imagine it being quite fun for those who know the patterns, although it's not very beginner friendly. Really like the music and art though, very nice.
aidenm125
25. Apr 2017 · 09:05 UTC
I think I broke it :(

https://imgur.com/gallery/J2gl9
🎤 Gipzo
25. Apr 2017 · 09:21 UTC
@aidenm125, Yeah, I found it today too :sweat_smile:
I'll fix it soon.

Also I need to write some kind of short tutorial, I guess :smile:
aidenm125
25. Apr 2017 · 09:28 UTC
@Gipzo after properly reading the details you provided in how to succeed, I got further (until it broke). But a short, interactive tutorial would also be nice.
drestuff
03. May 2017 · 20:11 UTC
This was a really pleasant experience! Upgrading buildings and watching travelers pass by the little village felt cool but I really loved being able to just throw a bunch of gold at people! :moneybag::moneybag::moneybag:
Eli Delventhal
10. May 2017 · 20:52 UTC
A nice little game. I would have liked more of an ending, or something, and I never even got close to people being aggressive – gold showers solved everything. Eventually it was all updated and I said, "oh... it's over?" Good experience during play.
mwcz
10. May 2017 · 22:21 UTC
Very nice! Really impressive all-around polish. Great music, great art, fun gameplay. Throwing gold at people was fun. My only critique is that sometimes meteors left craters in the top-right road, behind the mountains, so I couldn't tell if I was repairing them correctly. For some reason the aggressive villages only ever attacked my tavern. Really fun to play!
Nomaki
12. May 2017 · 12:40 UTC
Excellent little game, love the graphics and music - A fun quasi-simulator which was enjoyable to play.

A few points though:
- The game is really easy, I don't think I had any aggression from travellers, or even close - Just chucking money at everything fixed all problems (reflective of life!)
- As mentioned before, I played for a few minutes after upgrading everything, wondering if something else was going to happen, or an ending condition - just sorta had to stop playing and assumed it was over.

Nice work!
pcmaster
12. May 2017 · 15:54 UTC
Thumbs up for the pumpkin juice! Also the graphics, choice of the music, animation, the four portals, everything is super nicely polished :) Good job, guys!
tweedle
12. May 2017 · 18:24 UTC
One of the best I've played and rated, really well done all around! My only complaint is I couldn't KEEP upgrading things - but it was just fun pouring coins over the masses for a few minutes :smile: 5 stars!
masterkrepta
12. May 2017 · 22:12 UTC
I loved the visual and audio style of this game, I found it to fit together quite well, I did notice one small bug where i would go to upgrade a building, only to have the repair window hover around for a while, until i clicked on that same building again.
Jaenis
14. May 2017 · 10:28 UTC
Great game! The music is really catchy, good pick for the game!

Managed to get all buildings upgraded and then I just showered all NPCs with money and all of them were happy. They'd need more demands on the "endgame" :) But that is not a complaint for LD game! Amazing work here!
Tommyflower
16. May 2017 · 19:43 UTC
Great! Had so much fun. Love everything. The music is perfect, love all the animations and graphics, they jump around in an adorable way. Appreciated the tutorial part. There's so much going on that the only thing I would change ,in a post jam life, is adding tasks more gradually. Amazing job!
magns
16. May 2017 · 23:56 UTC
Relaxing and fun. Shame it's so short; would love to see a post-jam version with a campaign of sorts!
jeiting
17. May 2017 · 00:27 UTC
Had no idea what i was doing but I liked when they said WTF!
kleinzach
17. May 2017 · 00:35 UTC
Nice implementation. The graphics looked great and the music was good. I wish there was more to do, because once I got the buildings all upgraded there didn't seem to be anything else to do. Throwing money at all your problems is a fun mechanic and I liked seeing the immediate response to my actions. Great submission.
Random-storykeeper
17. May 2017 · 00:52 UTC
The travelers saying "WTF" and YEAH" were just the right amount of humour that didn't make it seem over-the-top. I didn't realise you had to continually shower travelers with gold, and thus I ended up losing as I was focusing on upgrading my buildings too much. Nonetheless, I got some enjoyment out of this; I really love the art; the colours are just beautiful and makes for a very relaxing atmosphere, along with the choice of the music. I would have liked to hear some sound effects, which would elevate this entry even more. The game was fun for the time I spent figuring out how it worked. (the tutorial was good)
zwrawr
17. May 2017 · 01:28 UTC
Nice game, biggest draw back is it's length. I would of played longer if there were more upgrades.