YOU KING HAVE FUN by kiv

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made by kiv for Ludum Dare 54 (COMPO)

ldscreen.png You are The King who rules The Kingdom. You need to control the population of your servants. Because the more servans you have, the more food they need.

If the populations grows too high, you need to punish (literally kill) some of your servants.

If the population became too low, you need to make love with someone to reproduce more people.

Controls:

Arrows - Move

"X" button - Make Love

"Z" button - Kill

You need to carefurly control the amount of Food. If it drops below zero, you lose. Collect growing food in the bottom part of the game field. The better harvest you make the more food your people will get.

Plague! There is a plague in your kingdom. Keep an eye on Plague factor.

Harvest and Plague depend on seasons. Try to survive at least the first winter!

Good luck, have fun!

Ratings

Overall 80th 3.905⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Fun 64th 3.929⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 103th 3.738⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Theme 206th 3.548⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 172th 3.524⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Audio 76th 3.69⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Humor 6th 4.381⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Mood 82th 3.714⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 19🗳️ 20🗨️

Feedback

don.shinski
03. Oct 2023 · 04:04 UTC
Feeling pretty good about making it to the second winter, but alas, my subjects perished due to a winter famine :sob:. The stick figure animations are cute and the :heart: censor got me to smile. good job.
I hope you get more time to try other tools you mentioned wanting to :smile_cat:
Francisco Lucas
03. Oct 2023 · 04:20 UTC
I spent some time playing, and it was surprisingly fun! Good game :)

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Nikolaj
03. Oct 2023 · 04:27 UTC
hilarious.. i had a trouble keeping track of the different metrics which maybe is a good challenge, but i feel like some progress bars would have been quicker to read. Overall interesting entry!
deniskazantsev
03. Oct 2023 · 11:06 UTC
![2023-10-03 14.03.52.jpg](///raw/aeb/a1/z/5f2f1.jpg)
This was fun and shows how easy we can shift our mind in the role of king. Killing people, grabbing all resources and f-king everyone. Even the plague is not a danger for him. But sooner or later even kings dying..
Rezistor
03. Oct 2023 · 11:35 UTC
I mean.. it's life...
DiscoFish
03. Oct 2023 · 13:58 UTC
Vibe and mood of the game is really great! Main mechanics also on top level. Great job!
minjutin
03. Oct 2023 · 20:54 UTC
My kingdom was doing alright. Then winter came.

Brutally fun in it's twisted way. Made me quite wordless. A great simulation of being a king
quasilyte
03. Oct 2023 · 22:39 UTC
Behind the silly appearances, a there is a deep gameplay. So deep, you probably would never forget about getting there...

It's weird that this game gives you this guilty pleasure satisfaction. Gameplay-wise, it's quite cryptic, but after a couple of runs you just "get it" (if you don't drop the game at this point, that is).

I played it with my friend and we laughed our asses off. Well done. xD
We found a cool strat that carried us through ~8 years & 3 months.

The plague mechanics is unclear though. We couldn't figure out whether it correlates with anything or not.

But anyway, this game gave us some good time. Thank you. :3
TTKayttis
04. Oct 2023 · 16:13 UTC
Really fun game, i dont think i would have played it so long if not for funny animations and good music. I love playing as tyrannical king who does wtf he wants. Mechanically harvesting your own food is good but it kinda ruined my fun, why do i need stop f*** and killing to collect some crops myself, aren't my children for that.
khaotom
04. Oct 2023 · 16:19 UTC
I had fun as a king until everyone died. I like the push pull of growing and culling the population while the harvest adds a frantic element to it all. Great entry!
Anper
05. Oct 2023 · 07:33 UTC
Oh my god it's genious!)
zealous-coder
06. Oct 2023 · 01:35 UTC
Nice cat! Also oh the slaughter!
kanity
08. Oct 2023 · 01:47 UTC
first time i thought they died of hunger because I was too busy having sx, but then I dedicated myself to farming and they still died of hunger, so I realized I probably HAVE to murder them in cold blood to keep their numbers lower and I didn't really want to do that ^^" coughing sound/music was funny and the game is wacky. I am not violent enough for it though ;_;
seurimas
09. Oct 2023 · 04:33 UTC
People shouldn't make that sound if they're not actively ill 🤢 Very funny, though, good job!
Fernando Tonon de Rossi
09. Oct 2023 · 20:17 UTC
haha very funny game, I liked the "art style" and it is quite well balanced, as most people, the first time my population died, because the king was just making love, then I tried to only kill, they still starved, then I realized I would need to crop as well... haha overall quite funny! congrats!
LeviDSmith
09. Oct 2023 · 23:40 UTC
Neat concept. Things can get overcrowded really quick. Maybe delay the babies for 9 months. 😄
gamebuilder
17. Oct 2023 · 01:59 UTC
Very unusual and addictive in a way. Learning how to survive the winter was tough but eventually I figured out a strategy. Malthus would be proud. Good game.