It's a game about managing a band and "keeping it alive". But please read the description, what follows is an early little post-mortem of the game.

So. This is an unusual one.

For the first time in my Ludum Dare history (6 games + 1MiniLD + 1 warmup) have I failed to complete a game. The result is not very playable and there is no win nor lose conditions and I do not wish to continue to improve it. There are still bugs and the balancing is wildly inconsistent.

I am obviously disappointed in the result but glad of the lesson learned (and I kinda like the Power Metal song name generator) : start small and expand on it. Do not waste time on big stuff and try to check if it is worth it and feasible before starting to develop it. I spent less times on entries that are way better than this.

I wasted a whole day on the map navigation and trying to add cities to it. In the end the map is useless and there are no cities on it because I approached the problem too naively and it would have required hours of work to place all the cities, for something that wasn't even needed by the gameplay.

I still want to post the result because there is stuff to show. I barely finished the main gameplay loop with horrendous code during the last hours and now i don't want to ever place my eyes on it. But I am not ashamed of it. I'm sure it happens everytime to a lot of participants of the Ludum Dare. It's just part of the risk and I will continue to take part and try to make a more pleasant game next time. I hope all of you who reads this are proud of your creation and hope you get nice reviews. See you on the next jam and rate this entry as harshly as it should be ;)

I have opted out of graphics because the only graphics are the ones in the UI lib and I didn't draw the world map myself obviously, just modified it to make it "my own".