{"author_link":"\/users\/solwllms","author_name":"solwllms","author_uid":"1162889","comments":[{"author_name":"nightcrawler9001","author_uid":"1162218","time":"2019-10-06T22:03:34Z","epoch":1570399414,"modified":1570399414,"text":"The link doesn't work\n","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"solwllms","author_uid":"1162889","time":"2019-10-06T22:30:50Z","epoch":1570401050,"modified":1570401050,"text":"@nightcrawler9001 Thank you for this! I thought I was being smart by keeping everything private till submission hour, but not smart enough to set it public lol. It's been fixed now though! I hope you enjoy the game and good luck with your ratings. :smile: ","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"The Blue Hatted","author_uid":"1138771","time":"2019-10-06T22:35:34Z","epoch":1570401334,"modified":1570401334,"text":"I can't open it. I downloaded it, exported it, and lauched the exe. Am I missing a step here?","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Travis Carlen","author_uid":"1162671","time":"2019-10-06T22:43:50Z","epoch":1570401830,"modified":1570401830,"text":"That was really fun. Around the 20 minute mark I did start to notice some performance issues, but that makes sense for how many houses I built. Overall I really enjoyed it and I'm sad I wasn't able to continue much farther","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"solwllms","author_uid":"1162889","time":"2019-10-06T23:40:39Z","epoch":1570405239,"modified":1570405239,"text":"@the-blue-hatted Thank you for trying to play my game lol! I've been trying to sort this out since I saw your comment and I believe it is because I didn't ship with openal32.dll, and this just straight up crashes out. If you can please install OpenAL (for audio) [here](https:\/\/www.openal.org\/downloads\/oalinst.zip) you may need to restart. Otherwise I'll be publishing a fix very soon to let you play without audio :(. Many thanks.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"The Blue Hatted","author_uid":"1138771","time":"2019-10-07T01:29:02Z","epoch":1570411742,"modified":1570411742,"text":"Thanks @solwllms! That worked!\nThat aside, the game is amazing!, i like that you have to make powerlines and solar panels to make your houses have power but, sometimes i find myself not knowing why my houses aren't happy or powered. Also it gets laggy when you put a lot of houses, but that aside, it's an amazing game!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Syrapt0r","author_uid":"1000789","time":"2019-10-09T15:18:48Z","epoch":1570634328,"modified":1570634328,"text":"I was super impressed with how intuitive this game is, how well everything works, how much fun it is to build a city and how nice and clean it looks. Then I saw that this is a compo entry and I don't even know what to say.\n\nExtremely polished and really fun. Actually spent way too much time with this game :smile: ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"KrisDev","author_uid":"1173281","time":"2019-10-09T16:10:34Z","epoch":1570637434,"modified":1570637434,"text":"Fun game overall but after 2-3 minutes I got so much money that the challenge was practically gone. Good job, I maybe miss some more audio.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Raphiell","author_uid":"1078780","time":"2019-10-09T17:42:38Z","epoch":1570642958,"modified":1570642966,"text":"Very cool, I love city builders in the style of the old sim city games.\n\nOne thing I noticed was that I could place solar farms in the water.\n\nWell done!\n\n![boris.PNG](\/\/\/raw\/cb3\/31\/z\/292c4.png)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"solwllms","author_uid":"1162889","time":"2019-10-09T18:05:32Z","epoch":1570644332,"modified":1570644332,"text":"@syrapt0r Thank you so much for your very, very kind words. I am very proud of this project, and am glad you had fun.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"solwllms","author_uid":"1162889","time":"2019-10-09T18:07:33Z","epoch":1570644453,"modified":1570644453,"text":"@raphiell Thank you. I can't believe things like this get thru testing lol, I've added a fix (a single-line fix) to the repo for a post-compo version if that ever comes to fruition. Also, haha very much :eyes:.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"el_fideo_rubio","author_uid":"1163814","time":"2019-10-09T18:54:31Z","epoch":1570647271,"modified":1570647271,"text":"Great game I felt I could relax and build a city, I'm missing the inhabitants going around their routine and maybe a drag and drop functionality for building roads would awesome![citybuilder.png](\/\/\/raw\/6ef\/72\/z\/29323.png)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"hbocao","author_uid":"1000999","time":"2019-10-12T20:50:47Z","epoch":1570913447,"modified":1570913447,"text":"First off, the game looks pretty good. I did not enjoy that much though :(.  I did not feel challenged as I just had to wait to get money and spam the map with buildings. Trying to do city sim, especially in a jam, is really hard and you should be proud of your accomplishments. I think you should keep improving it. :)","likes":1,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld45\/171114-3c62b41a6ceea3643a22ae882b16cfc3.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/solwllms\/ld45\/releases\/download\/v1\/POPULTN.zip","text":"Youtube"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/solwllms\/ld45","text":"Youtube"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"62589","g_author":"1162889","g_event":"LD45","g_eventkey":"78","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"277006","g_title":"Population","g_status":"PVT1","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"13","g_site2_node_id":"171114","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"171114","n_urlkey":"277006","n_parent":"159347","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/45\/population","n_slug":"population","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"162889","n_created":"1570383605","n_modified":"1570628862","n_version":"525897","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":171114,"parent":159347,"superparent":9,"author":162889,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"compo","published":"2019-10-06T19:36:28Z","created":"2019-10-06T17:40:05Z","modified":"2019-10-09T13:47:42Z","version":525897,"slug":"population","name":"Population","body":"![logoc.png](\/\/\/raw\/94c\/72\/z\/26032.png)\n\n# What a populus city! #\nPOPULATION is a city-builder that focuses on the production of homes and (some) of what your people need! Use your available tools to create a sprawling hyper-suburban city that truely looks and feels like a dystopian council estate.\n\n![tools.png](\/\/\/raw\/94c\/72\/z\/26039.png)\n\n# Love this part of town #\nConstruct roads, bridges, powerlines, solar farms, houses and plant trees. Demolish till your ~~heart's content~~ wallet's empty!\n\nSave and load your city to come back to it at some other time, or just pretend you will - imagine that!\n\n![road.png](\/\/\/raw\/94c\/72\/z\/26060.png)\n\n# A true sim - witty! #\nExperience immersive terrain, with fully dynamic roadways and impressively blue water and oceans. Connect homes to power-sources with powerlines and keep that wattage up, or risk losing all power! Tragic!\n\n![road3.png](\/\/\/raw\/94c\/72\/z\/2606a.png)\n\n![screeen.png](\/\/\/raw\/94c\/72\/z\/291f1.png)\n\n******\n\nIn all seriousness, this was my first Ludum Dare after being a simple spectator for many years. I did find it much harder than I thought and I'm sure I spent many hours laying on my bed and staring trying to come up with enough energy or ideas to push forward. Regardless, I think Population is a fun and hopefully different interpretation of the theme. I realised mid way through that a city builder is a very ambitious thing to try and produce in such a small time so I had to strip out some features from my original idea, but I hope this game still remains fun enough for you to enjoy. I didn't start till mid-day Saturday as I wasn't prepared to give up my Friday night, it's still freshers fortnight you know, so with that I hope you can appreciate this all a little more.\n\nPopulation was written in C# with a custom engine written for this project. The whole game was written in the time from noon-midnight on Saturday and noon-midnight on Sunday, so I think that means it was written in 24 hours (weird flex, but okay).\n\nI hope you like what I've made here, and you can follow me on [twitter](http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/solwllms), [instagram](http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/solwllms) and [github](http:\/\/www.github.com\/solwllms) at @solwllms, visit [my website](http:\/\/www.solwllms.com) or support me via [PayPal](http:\/\/paypal.me\/sociallyabsnt) if you really want.\n\nThank you, and have a good halloween :jack_o_lantern:. Sol Williams.\n\n\n******\n***Please extract the game (and everything wtih it) rather than running it straight from the zip archive. ***\n\n***This game requires OpenAL for audio. If the above doesn't work, please download the very very small redist [here](https:\/\/www.openal.org\/downloads\/oalinst.zip) it will take literally 0 seconds to install and means u can listen to all the sweet sounds I put in. (you may need to restart!) ***","meta":{"author":[162889],"allow-anonymous-comments":"1","link-01-tag":[42337],"link-01":"https:\/\/github.com\/solwllms\/ld45\/releases\/download\/v1\/POPULTN.zip","link-02":"https:\/\/github.com\/solwllms\/ld45","link-02-tag":[42332],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/94c\/72\/z\/26790.png"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/45\/population","parents":[1,5,9,159347],"love":0,"notes":13,"notes-timestamp":"2019-10-12T20:50:47Z","grade":{"grade-01":10,"grade-02":10,"grade-03":10,"grade-04":10,"grade-05":10,"grade-06":10,"grade-07":9,"grade-08":10},"magic":{"cool":55.664993930618,"feedback":9,"given":2.75,"grade":9.875,"grade-01-average":4,"grade-02-average":3.563,"grade-03-average":2.875,"grade-04-average":3.688,"grade-05-average":3.5,"grade-06-average":2.75,"grade-07-average":2.143,"grade-08-average":3.75,"smart":-21.863816589913}},"text":"![logoc.png](\/\/\/raw\/94c\/72\/z\/26032.png)\n\n# What a populus city! #\nPOPULATION is a city-builder that focuses on the production of homes and (some) of what your people need! Use your available tools to create a sprawling hyper-suburban city that truely looks and feels like a dystopian council estate.\n\n![tools.png](\/\/\/raw\/94c\/72\/z\/26039.png)\n\n# Love this part of town #\nConstruct roads, bridges, powerlines, solar farms, houses and plant trees. Demolish till your ~~heart's content~~ wallet's empty!\n\nSave and load your city to come back to it at some other time, or just pretend you will - imagine that!\n\n![road.png](\/\/\/raw\/94c\/72\/z\/26060.png)\n\n# A true sim - witty! #\nExperience immersive terrain, with fully dynamic roadways and impressively blue water and oceans. Connect homes to power-sources with powerlines and keep that wattage up, or risk losing all power! Tragic!\n\n![road3.png](\/\/\/raw\/94c\/72\/z\/2606a.png)\n\n![screeen.png](\/\/\/raw\/94c\/72\/z\/291f1.png)\n\n******\n\nIn all seriousness, this was my first Ludum Dare after being a simple spectator for many years. I did find it much harder than I thought and I'm sure I spent many hours laying on my bed and staring trying to come up with enough energy or ideas to push forward. Regardless, I think Population is a fun and hopefully different interpretation of the theme. I realised mid way through that a city builder is a very ambitious thing to try and produce in such a small time so I had to strip out some features from my original idea, but I hope this game still remains fun enough for you to enjoy. I didn't start till mid-day Saturday as I wasn't prepared to give up my Friday night, it's still freshers fortnight you know, so with that I hope you can appreciate this all a little more.\n\nPopulation was written in C# with a custom engine written for this project. The whole game was written in the time from noon-midnight on Saturday and noon-midnight on Sunday, so I think that means it was written in 24 hours (weird flex, but okay).\n\nI hope you like what I've made here, and you can follow me on [twitter](http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/solwllms), [instagram](http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/solwllms) and [github](http:\/\/www.github.com\/solwllms) at @solwllms, visit [my website](http:\/\/www.solwllms.com) or support me via [PayPal](http:\/\/paypal.me\/sociallyabsnt) if you really want.\n\nThank you, and have a good halloween :jack_o_lantern:. Sol Williams.\n\n\n******\n***Please extract the game (and everything wtih it) rather than running it straight from the zip archive. ***\n\n***This game requires OpenAL for audio. If the above doesn't work, please download the very very small redist [here](https:\/\/www.openal.org\/downloads\/oalinst.zip) it will take literally 0 seconds to install and means u can listen to all the sweet sounds I put in. (you may need to restart!) ***","title":"Population"}