Gempire by Gr3yps
A short project about growing Gems and making buildings to sell the gems.

Here is how to play the game.
Escape will quit.
| Itch.io | https://gr3yps.itch.io/gempire |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/gempire |
Ratings
| Overall | 797th | 2.579⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 807th | 2.222⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 709th | 2.694⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 423th | 3.684⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 660th | 2.842⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 500th | 2.053⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 640th | 2.125⭐ | 18🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 783th | 2.412⭐ | 19🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 25🗳️ | 5🗨️ |
Help !
- Selection through keys isn't the most convenient way, maybe just buttons with all possible seed & building types would be simpler to use?
- Sometimes the game has black text on dark background which is a bit hard to read.
- Scrolling the map is a bit painful: the scrolling itself is too slow yet has large inertia, meaning it always takes the player too long to scroll and then one has to stop the movement manually due to inertia. Would be nice to have faster camera movement, which can be achieved with a mouse or maybe with arrows or WASD keys.
- Speaking of scrolling the map again, there isn't much point in that other than to make the player angry :) There isn't anything on the map except a few soil spots & building spots, and they could all be in one place to prevent the player from needing to painfully drag the camera here and there all the time.
- The game doesn't seem to have any specific objective, and after you've figured the mechanics the gameplay pretty much boils down to a whole lot of clicking, so I'd say this needs some work, too.
A bit of explanation on that could be really helpful, I really liked the pixel art and the camera dragging felt super nice
However, I'm gonna agree with @lisyarus here, I don't understand why force the player to scroll the map when everything could fit in a single screen. Or at least, make it so we can move more more quickly.
Also, the keyboard shortcuts are useful but having a way to select the seeds with the mouse would have been nice too!