Making Megahertz by killthealias

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made by killthealias for Ludum Dare 59 (COMPO)

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Bring the miracle of television to the masses, cheaply and efficiently. Maximize reception by placing broadcast towers, but be careful not to go over budget!

LMB - Place antenna RMB - Remove antennas

Ratings

Overall 146th 3.478⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Fun 161th 3.25⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 179th 3.227⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 105th 3.932⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 119th 3.614⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Audio 114th 3.429⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Humor 90th 2.971⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Mood 131th 3.5⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 11🗳️ 13🗨️

Feedback

metalgear
Apr 20th · 16:48 UTC
I liked the game. The game didn't suffer from AI influence for sure.
mrchip
Apr 21st · 12:49 UTC
the google drives for the builds are empty, not sure what happened
cagibi
Apr 21st · 18:50 UTC
The linux build downloaded and launched just fine for me.
Really pretty game, and sound design is simple but effective. My very minor nitpicks is that there isn't much feedback about where you are reception/budget-wise apart from the grade, and RMB removes all the antennas for some reason, not only the one under the cursor. But other than that, nice work!
Theg
Apr 24th · 00:30 UTC
took a sec to figure out the rules (hills are good!) but i got it in the end and finished it. nice little puzzle thingy :)
Podrez
Apr 24th · 07:01 UTC
Cool puzzle. The only thing missing is a clearer indication of the coverage area. There is light, but it’s a bit hard to see!

![Снимок экрана 2026-04-24 100411.jpg](///raw/080/96/z/728c3.jpg)
baknik
Apr 24th · 15:29 UTC
Nice job! It would be nice to have a better view of "budget"
Jokku
May 07th · 19:54 UTC
Nice and clean art style, I like that it was used through out the whole game consistently. Did not feel directly cozy but quite chill😊 Game length was also great. Some visualisations would have been nice for the signals, but otherwise good stuff.
jordantanner
May 08th · 03:52 UTC
I really enjoyed this one-- super minimimalist and simple, easy to figure out in just a few seconds, and fun to play through. Nice calm game/puzzle design that lets the player decide when to end the round and 'call it' was clever. Definitely got a kick out of the old school modem sounds in the background! Nice touch. The gameplay was simple in a very elegant way. For juiciness, maybe some additional polish and animations would help spruce up the miminimalistc environment and gameplay while still keeping your original vibe. Also, I couldn't find a way to exit, I had to Ctrl+Alt+Del my way out. So maybe a menu/esc to exit. Great job, I hope you get more ratings and more people get to play this.
VenomousMouse
May 08th · 09:29 UTC
Got same issue with google drive for windows, it's empty. Pity.
But the gameplay i see in ur presentation looks cool.
xotraz
May 08th · 15:46 UTC
Well done! It took me some time to figure height was important.
To fix the issue on google drive: just go to file/download on the top left bar.
The archive is not really empty.
skiddings
May 08th · 21:33 UTC
Very nice little game. A bit tricky to figure out what is covered by each tower but still an impressive compo entry. I hope you get enough ratings.
marks
May 09th · 00:26 UTC
Fun short puzzle game! I like the minimalistic isometric look (and the funny grading messages)! It feels like its really missing feedback for the player, which makes gameplay unclear:
- I wasn't able to tell the coverage so it was just guesswork. I can think of highlighting houses, attaching a sphere model or highlighting tiles as a suggestion.
- Some puzzles require multiple towers, didn't know that, maybe add a radio counter text (something like 0/2 radio towers).

Nice work, had fun solving puzzles!

![Screenshot 2026-05-09 021306.png](///raw/98d/56/z/7338b.png)
Accelerate0814
May 09th · 02:53 UTC
COOL GAME!
Agent p
May 09th · 04:02 UTC
Looks fun from the images and comments! I wasn't able to try out the game yet, though, but want to get you guys to 20 reviews!
LDJam user 0
May 09th · 04:16 UTC
Just play and rate games from fellow jammers instead of begging people to play yours.
zhangzhimu
May 09th · 04:37 UTC
This mechanism is very interesting. The game design is very thoughtful and the gameplay is also quite diverse.