{"author_link":"\/users\/bjornstahl","author_name":"BjornStahl","author_uid":"1214493","comments":[{"author_name":"BjornStahl","author_uid":"1214493","time":"2020-10-05T19:36:38Z","epoch":1601926598,"modified":1601926598,"text":"Just had a thought, since this is a text based game and I didn't make the font, should I have opted out of graphics?","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"melvinng","author_uid":"1226789","time":"2020-10-05T21:50:04Z","epoch":1601934604,"modified":1601934604,"text":"Interesting concept, but I personally find the gameplay mechanics quite confusing. Reached negative food and not sure how to return from there onwards haha. Overall good game!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Profugo Barbatus","author_uid":1148812,"time":"2020-10-05T23:40:18Z","epoch":1601941218,"modified":1601941218,"text":"Its not clear how to manage your resources and what the costs are for them. I managed to get negative everything, and it broke. Food loss events gave me food, etc.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"BjornStahl","author_uid":"1214493","time":"2020-10-06T14:26:38Z","epoch":1601994398,"modified":1601994398,"text":"@melvinng @profugo-barbatus Yeah it's a bit difficult to get out of negative food unfortunately. I'll have to change the production balance later after the vote is done.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"DanyVk","author_uid":"1131723","time":"2020-10-06T19:25:42Z","epoch":1602012342,"modified":1602012342,"text":"Wow, congrats. Nice game","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"BEK","author_uid":"1217223","time":"2020-10-07T07:26:50Z","epoch":1602055610,"modified":1602055610,"text":"prettty good game needs to be more simpler ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"OddSocks","author_uid":"1141674","time":"2020-10-07T17:09:39Z","epoch":1602090579,"modified":1602090579,"text":"Nice game. I managed to get a good ratio on the sliders and started doing pretty well. Tis a good LD entry. Congrats :raised_hands: ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Antrimplato","author_uid":1179086,"time":"2020-10-07T17:11:45Z","epoch":1602090705,"modified":1602090705,"text":"interesting, but too difficult","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"nablaz","author_uid":1201442,"time":"2020-10-07T17:33:36Z","epoch":1602092016,"modified":1602092016,"text":"I had fun playing and no problem whatsoever with the mechanics... I actually thought it was simple to grasp and won pretty easily! If anything, I would suggest to add some music in the background to help in setting the mood. Overall it was a pleasant experience, good job!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Jetyh","author_uid":1216719,"time":"2020-10-07T17:39:33Z","epoch":1602092373,"modified":1602092373,"text":"I really enjoyed playing through and I was surprised by the apparent depth to the mechanics and overall game. Maybe some buttons to allow for small adjustments to the sliders would be helpful but overall, a good game.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Ale","author_uid":"1003064","time":"2020-10-11T14:31:55Z","epoch":1602426715,"modified":1602426715,"text":"This was very polished and well made, but it was really difficult. I was doing alright in the beginning, gaining some pop at a decent rate, but then everything just went into the red and I couldn't figure out how to claw my way out of that hole. Maybe adding a pause button to let you think about your decisions would make the game easier. As it is, there are a lot of sliders to think about, not to mention figuring out what they're even supposed to do. Some in-game descriptions\/tool-tips the describe the functions of the sliders would go a long way!\n\nStill, this was a nice little idle game. If you polish it up a bit more, I think it could become really addicting!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Arad HamidSamiee","author_uid":"1219929","time":"2020-10-13T13:44:48Z","epoch":1602596688,"modified":1602596688,"text":"soothing soundtrack, the game was a bit hard for me. felt nostalgic","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"VPhyre","author_uid":"1103011","time":"2020-10-16T20:20:56Z","epoch":1602879656,"modified":1602879656,"text":"A very creative and strategic game. You can spend hours playing. It is a very fun game. The sound is immersive, and the texts are very understandable. I would like to see an expanded version of that game. Good job.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"lilkrit","author_uid":"1015723","time":"2020-10-19T15:28:15Z","epoch":1603121295,"modified":1603121295,"text":"Nice game. Very deep mechanics for a jam game :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Savvy Community","author_uid":"1172984","time":"2020-10-19T15:56:37Z","epoch":1603122997,"modified":1603122997,"text":"Hey there! Playing your game was very pleasant and fun, I liked the RNG and managed to secure a win against the Queen pretty easily! Gets you hungry for mooOOoooore ;). Of course it seems a bit complicated at the beginning, but the nice other comments lead me to keep playing, and since you can get your town back on its feet pretty quickly, you get a clue on how things work without needing tutorial or introduction.. It reminds me a bit of a game we made during a jam last year, feel free to try it out: https:\/\/savvy-community.itch.io\/what-we-do-with-consequences (and try our entry for this one as well)!\nCongrats! 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The goal is to grow your settlement and armed forces strong enough to defeat the person responsible for the time loop and  thus breaking it.\n\nEdit - With the balance right now it is very difficult to get out of a negative food supply, better start over.\n\n![Screenshot_003.png](\/\/\/raw\/dd5\/43\/z\/36ec0.png)\n\n**Features**\n\n- If the year reaches it's end or the population reaches 0 the year starts over and plays out exactly the same.\n- Manage your population, decide how many settlers should be farmers, artisans, builders and soldiers.\n- Change the focus of your workers, have the artisans make more arms instead of tools and make you soldiers more professional and more expensive.\n- Events will occur every week, both to your gain and your loss.\n- Choices has to made, save some slaves, attack an outpost or trade with a merchant.\n- Grow you army, defend against bandits and battle entire armies.\n\nUse the sliders to change your resource production, more farmers give more food, more artisans more tools\/arms etc. \n\nEverything except the sound is made by me.","meta":{"author":[214493],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/dd5\/43\/z\/36e93.png","grade-06-out":"1","link-01":"https:\/\/bjornstahl.itch.io\/ayear","link-01-tag":[42336],"link-02":"https:\/\/bjornstahl.itch.io\/ayear","link-02-tag":[42337]},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/47\/a-year","parents":[1,5,9,212256],"love":0,"notes":15,"notes-timestamp":"2020-10-19T15:56:37Z","grade":{"grade-01":28,"grade-02":27,"grade-03":27,"grade-04":28,"grade-05":26,"grade-07":24,"grade-08":29},"magic":{"cool":108.22526129477,"feedback":25,"given":26.5,"grade":27,"grade-01-average":3.077,"grade-01-result":1349,"grade-02-average":2.88,"grade-02-result":1291,"grade-03-average":2.92,"grade-03-result":1223,"grade-04-average":3.038,"grade-04-result":1302,"grade-05-average":2.479,"grade-05-result":1448,"grade-07-average":1.977,"grade-07-result":1193,"grade-08-average":3.074,"grade-08-result":1138,"smart":0.92167846991639}},"text":"**A Year** is a text based colony builder where you are stuck in a time loop that spans a year. The goal is to grow your settlement and armed forces strong enough to defeat the person responsible for the time loop and  thus breaking it.\n\nEdit - With the balance right now it is very difficult to get out of a negative food supply, better start over.\n\n![Screenshot_003.png](\/\/\/raw\/dd5\/43\/z\/36ec0.png)\n\n**Features**\n\n- If the year reaches it's end or the population reaches 0 the year starts over and plays out exactly the same.\n- Manage your population, decide how many settlers should be farmers, artisans, builders and soldiers.\n- Change the focus of your workers, have the artisans make more arms instead of tools and make you soldiers more professional and more expensive.\n- Events will occur every week, both to your gain and your loss.\n- Choices has to made, save some slaves, attack an outpost or trade with a merchant.\n- Grow you army, defend against bandits and battle entire armies.\n\nUse the sliders to change your resource production, more farmers give more food, more artisans more tools\/arms etc. \n\nEverything except the sound is made by me.","title":"A Year"}