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Portal Town Rescue by Archimagus

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made by Archimagus for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

An evil wizard had destroyed Portal Town! With no Magic Shop the portal to the CORE WORLD has become Unstable!

Gather resources to rebuild the town.

Rebuild the Magic Shop to restore the CORE WORLD Portal!

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This is our first game using CORE It was a combination of Anger, Frustration, and, joy all intertwined. We had no idea what to do with the theme, and just started free associating with the engine to see what sort of mechanics we could do with it, with no clear goal on what sort of a game we were making. As time went on we settled on a resource gathering and building mechanic. What they ended up as is Portal Town Rescue where you need to fix the unstable portal that leads back to the CORE WORLD.

Have fun and thanks for playing our game.

Link https://www.coregames.com/games/c18c3d/portal-town-rescue
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/portal-town-rescue

Ratings

Overall 1164th 3.194⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1173th 3⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1242th 2.806⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1307th 2.833⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1135th 3.028⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 9🗳️ 14🗨️

Feedback

Bumblebear
04. Oct 2021 · 23:02 UTC
Congrats on your first Core game! Great work!
chesschaser
05. Oct 2021 · 15:30 UTC
Congrats!
randomphantom
05. Oct 2021 · 16:31 UTC
Really great job for a first Core game, everything works and controls well, and managed to open the portal back to Core World. Hoped I could explore the houses in more detail!
owca
05. Oct 2021 · 18:39 UTC
Nice job! I like it.
Underdog
07. Oct 2021 · 00:39 UTC
Portal vibes!
Ethernal Tech
07. Oct 2021 · 00:41 UTC
The game looks amazing and conveys a lot of tranquility. Very good job: 3
artilor901z
07. Oct 2021 · 02:24 UTC
nice idea with cool art performing, Good job!
Tomssuli
07. Oct 2021 · 20:58 UTC
Nice to see you also made game with portals :)
...that magenta ring in the thumbnail looked familiar as we had been working with quite similar rings in our game 😄

I'm not familiar with Core, but I'll give your game a try later when I have downloaded the Core.
Trexxak
08. Oct 2021 · 00:32 UTC
There's sadly not all that much to do, or rather, what is to do doesn't feel too rewarding, it feels more like grinding out the next step to the Mage Tower. I imagine this game however to feel really nice with 7 or so other people all collectively working on stabilizing the portal!

Talking about other entities: The village felt spookily empty. One or two NPCs giving out some crude directions or just walking around would've done wonders, but I assume that's one restriction of Core.

Still, I do have to thank you guys for testing the waters. I think I have a better understanding of what Core is now!
JPGFG
08. Oct 2021 · 02:17 UTC
Not a bad job I'd never played a core game in my life, and this was a cool experience, good job!
VarunDevs
08. Oct 2021 · 03:54 UTC
Good one
🎤 Archimagus
08. Oct 2021 · 15:27 UTC
@trexxak Thanks for the constructive feedback. The game is multi player, so you could have up to 7 other people in there, if you could find them. We totally understand that what is there is just grinding out the next thing. It took us long enough just to figure out how to do things that we didn't have time to implement much in the line of actual gameplay.

As far as NPC's yeah, we would like to have them. It's something that is totally possible in core I think, but that is a whole nother system to add in. I think with 1 more day we could have had some rudimentary NPC's. But for now we just assume the "evil wizard" removed all the people at the same time he removed all the buildings LoL.
Ekilibr
08. Oct 2021 · 19:45 UTC
Really nice mood and level art!
I maybe had a bug because the portal to CORE WORLD was already available after taking the first portal :(

Congrats on taking the challenge of making a game on Core! We had a lot of fun on our side, we hope you had as well!
🎤 Archimagus
09. Oct 2021 · 01:13 UTC
@ekilibr The game is multiplayer. I wonder if it dumped you into a game with someone else that already nearly completed the portal? I don't fully know how Core works as far as putting multiple people into the same game.
Ekilibr
09. Oct 2021 · 07:16 UTC
Oooooh right! I think if an instance isn't closed I could land in a finished game. What you could do is either lock the game to 1 player by modifying propeeties, or turn the portal activation code to client and not networked :)
Quoc
09. Oct 2021 · 21:09 UTC
Great game. I like the graphics and the game idea. it was fun to play
digital bacon
11. Oct 2021 · 13:13 UTC
Well done on your first Core game! Interesting basis for a game (dare it say, the "core" of a game :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: ).
Forik
13. Oct 2021 · 22:18 UTC
I dont have Core now and cant test your game, but i like that you do it =) Good job!