Commucity by Steing
In Commucity, participate in a community, city-building game on twitch !
You can construct buildings by entering commands in chat (for example : "!house a1" will build a house a the A1 tile). But the real challenge will be to balance the gauges because if any them goes either too much up, or too much down, everyone will lose the game and start over. Though, if you manage to fill all of the tiles on this neighborhood, you win and can continue on another one.
Try to accumulate more and more inhabitants, and to create the most convoluted, life teeming city with other players !
You can play here : https://www.twitch.tv/bicephal

| Twitch | https://www.twitch.tv/bicephal |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/commucity |
Ratings
| Overall | 213th | 3.946⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 536th | 3.607⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 3th | 4.589⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 921th | 3.357⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 254th | 4.196⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 456th | 3.545⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 1096th | 2.342⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 626th | 3.521⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 4🗳️ | 6🗨️ |
Felt really responsive, graphics look great. I'm not really sure what each bar means and how it will be affected by each building, so adding more info on that would have been a great addition.
Overall, an interesting experience, would love to see more stream games like this.
The (un)balance theme is played very well here. The only thing missing in this game is a little more explanation. What do these or those buildings do. And it would also be nice to add a description of the available commands to the stream (or even to the name of the stream)
Thank you for your entry! This was a fun experience =)
Fun to play ^^
It would be nice to add a "random effect" to add more challenge. It's always so cool to see this city grow with the community.
Sounds and graphics are very polish :)
Fascinating idea, and well executed! The pixel art is pleasing to the eye and music is nice too. The soundtrack reminds me a bit of The Sims music :)
I also love, in the busy city life bumbling, it's mostly generic People Noise but you occasionally get the snippet of conversation you can make out ("What an original comment!") - much like actually being in a busy place! It was very pleasant.
I think the helpful plane banners would be more helpful either higher or lower on the screen, as I find they also contributed to my not knowing what grid tile I was trying to get to when they blocked my view in the middle.
It was lonely and slow playing alone, but I found the music satisfying, like a really tedious game of SimCity or something? I think it would be extremely fun in a mid-size viewer stream; not hundreds, perhaps, but at least maybe 50 viewers. There's a fine balance between having fun building a city as a community versus your tiles never getting built in a high-paced chat, hypothetically speaking. I think other features might be fun in that situation; maybe the ability to cause earthquakes or something? Though !Burn covers a lot of that.
Aesthetically, the one thing I don't really like on the stream is the !command panel. Specifically, what's up with the gap on the bottom grid, bro?

I also have no idea what the blue meter is; it's either "tourists" or "dance party at the casino tonight!" but I had no trouble deducing what buildings did to the different meters.
Fun game overall, wish it had more visibility so I could play it in a group as intended! Maybe a couple bots that input random commands every time a player types one could solve that problem, lol.
There are really nice background music, ambient sound and sound effects at all. Also graphics are likeable. I like that buildings have various sprites for same thing.
I have few suggestions, what you can improve:
- build (and guages changing) animation could be a bit longer because now it's hard to notice what has been changed
- imho, plane is too fast to read tips (text becomes illegible) or it's just my fps.
- it would be convinient if command coordinates worked both ways (A1 and 1A)
PS You should add on your stream, link to your game, because if somebody show up first on twitch, not LD page, has hard task to find that page.