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Totally not Settlers by mr-tag

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made by mr-tag for Ludum Dare 45 (JAM)

You are a settler on an island and have to prepare for the inevitable viking invasion. You start with NOTHING (but one meeple). Gather resources, build huts to get more meeples and build up your defense so that you are ready for the vikings!

Totally not Settlers is a turnbased strategy game in which you can move little meeples and build different kinds of buildings. The only thing that counts in the end are the buildings that will give you defense points. But in order to build as much of them as possible you will have to get more meeples and build up your production!

Input: Camera movement: hold middle or right mouse button to pan Next turn: press space or enter to end your current turn (or click on the GUI button ;)

Created by Chasing Carrots Jam Devision in Godot: Dominik Schneider Paul Lawitzki Marc Mehlitz

The icons are from https://game-icons.net/ (CC BY 3.0) screen<em>1.png screen</em>2.png screen_5.png

Youtube https://mrtag.itch.io/totally-not-settlers
Youtube https://chasing-carrots.com/ludumdare45/
Youtube https://mrtag.itch.io/totally-not-settlers
Youtube https://mrtag.itch.io/totally-not-settlers
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/totally-not-settlers

Ratings

Overall 104th 4⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Fun 202th 3.739⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 570th 3.152⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Theme 289th 3.696⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 358th 3.826⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Humor 835th 2.028⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 844th 2.955⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Given 27🗳️ 6🗨️

Feedback

Human Writes Code
08. Oct 2019 · 08:18 UTC
This is great. It definitely is Totally Not Settlers. Obviously there's a little bit of influence from Settlers but the defense building and multiple worker aspects make it a completely different game imho. And it's really good! The only think missing was some nice relaxing music. Great work.
philomory
08. Oct 2019 · 08:34 UTC
This is _really_ elaborate. _Nice_ work! With a bit more polish it'd honestly feel like a commercial product. I'm going to have to come back to this one later for more.
appix
08. Oct 2019 · 08:47 UTC
It's a bit complicated, but the Art is great!
Ausstein
08. Oct 2019 · 09:05 UTC
Game feel and plays great. The graphics are really nice. For some reason I could not build mines, so I never got metal tho... It said building cant be placed here for every place and with every character i had...
zanzavar
08. Oct 2019 · 09:21 UTC
Very nice game! It took me a while to understand that i needed to stay on a tile to gather resources but as soon as i figured it out everything went smoothly :) I really liked the use of the theme and the exploration feeling. I think that a relaxed background music and a couple of sound effects for the tile selection and movement would add to the experience. Overall a great submission, well done!
aayph
08. Oct 2019 · 17:04 UTC
@ausstein
It requires to be placed on top of a mason hut with a worker. I need to check later if the description is not well explaining enough. Thanks for pointing that out.
Ausstein
08. Oct 2019 · 17:09 UTC
@aayph cool:) will try another round later maybe :)
Another thing: I often forget to move people that i can still move. I know you already have the indicator but maybe do it similar to civ where it asks you for every still active unit i before you can end your turn. Maybe I'm also just too stupid :D
Artyom Volkov
08. Oct 2019 · 22:02 UTC
Turn-based strategy is a complicated genre and I think, it's hard to make one during such a short period of time. However, you managed to do it. I like game design and simple visuals, well done.
Jonas Michael
11. Oct 2019 · 10:06 UTC
A beautiful looking game! I feel like I was running around in the beginning too much, so I wasted a lot of turns there. The idea with the workers is very nice, though it feels very slow. It would be a lot more entertaining if you would start with an explored area and some kind of tutorial on what to do though.
Still a nice idea and even more impressing concerning the time you had for creating this game! I will come back and give it another try later.
IainWay
11. Oct 2019 · 10:09 UTC
Cool game! I really enjoyed it and it seems like a really difficult game to make in just a few days! It only needs sounds (and a tutorial)!
Oneki
11. Oct 2019 · 10:22 UTC
Had not reminded me of any popular or existing Euro-style board game whatsoever.
freso
11. Oct 2019 · 10:25 UTC
Wow, that's pretty amazing to have done in a weekend. Only think lacking is some background music.
Small improvements:
- At the top left, I must click on the little number box (meeple information) to select that character. Should be possible just by clicking the entire info box.
- It took me quite a while to understand how to get wood. I thought I would have to enhance the tile, like with the others, but no, just stand in the forest. :)
- Some info saying you can scroll in and out with mouse wheel, and move map around with right click, would also be nice :)
zimennik
11. Oct 2019 · 10:29 UTC
Nice entry. Controll is a bit uncomfortable but game was fun to play!
Gaz_Ireland
11. Oct 2019 · 11:42 UTC
Fantastic Entry. No Downsides
AliceCrd
11. Oct 2019 · 12:35 UTC
Complicate to understand at the begining but a good game overall :) Good job !
NinjaCatz
11. Oct 2019 · 12:42 UTC
It reminded me of a board game from my childhood. (The game was about the Vikings and the Imperials, it seems, I don’t remember)
Eifersuuucht
11. Oct 2019 · 12:49 UTC
Very cool game! It totally embraced me for some time.
LoneWolfDev
11. Oct 2019 · 12:50 UTC
Nice resource management game, I like the mechanics, quite simple that you need to leave the worker on the place to produce the resource, but I think this should be explained in advance, as its not so intuitive.
Ausstein
11. Oct 2019 · 13:06 UTC
@aayph Just played another round understanding metal now. Realy cool. It's tough but winnable :)
dib
11. Oct 2019 · 15:48 UTC
Nicely done. I wish the picking was better though, as I accidentally skipped turns when I thought I clicked on a peasant to move it, but the game didn't register it. Good graphics, but could of course have used some music. :)
Call_me_Nutty
11. Oct 2019 · 17:24 UTC
Very enjoyable and detailed game, surprised you got all this done in only three days. Sound is definitely a must and some of the descriptions were lacking (how/ where to place buildings) but everything else was very good.

Good job! :)
Lakrits
11. Oct 2019 · 17:38 UTC
This is fantastic, you should have just thrown in some suitable royalty free music to perfect it. Most of the critique are about the lack of any audio.
Weine
11. Oct 2019 · 18:28 UTC
Interesting little turn-based strategy gem. The collection mechanincs were not fully intuitive, but once I understood it it made totally sense. Unfortunately I'm not patient enough to play it to the end, but still very well done!