Life of a Mayor by Dean James
The Game
Life of a Mayor is an isometric city building game inspired by Anno 1404.
How to Play
There is a short tutorial in game to help the player get started. The idea is to develop your city, whilst balancing the population's food needs. You first have to build the town hall. Then, build roads. Other buildings, when the required resources are available, can then be placed next to the roads.
What Went Well
This time round, I actually quite like the graphics I was able to make. I think the houses and farm tiles look really good.
What Didn't Go Well
The isometric tilemap was more difficult than anticipated to get working. I had issues with certain buildings, especially if they were larger than a 1x1 tile, and having them render in the correct order. Sometimes, tiles would render in front of it's neighbour, even though it should be behind.
Future
If I were to continue developing the game, I would probably want to make it 3D. This would solve a lot of the workarounds I put in place to get the isometric tilemap working.
| Link | https://github.com/Dean-J-K-James/ludum-dare-58 |
| Link | https://dean-j-k-james.itch.io/life-of-a-mayor |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/58/life-of-a-mayor |
Ratings
| Given | 0🗳️ | 0🗨️ |
It's very hard to do a game like this during a Ludum, so congratulations !
- the UI is terrible small on my Mac/Chrome
The Game would be even better with :
- quality of life : Dragging the road instead of manual placing.
- Building upgrade
Nice to see you have used GitHub during the development process of the game. I have started **collecting entries** backed up by github! I have also collected a few tricks to make the repos shinier across my ld participation
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# repo name and description
You can update the repository name (when you have found the name of your game) without breaking kinks (github redirect old name to new ones) and add a description for inclusion in the list
(https://github.com/dhmmasson/ld58 still redirect to my repository)
# Badges
I have created badges that you can use to decorate your README:
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# Topics
Consider using these **topics** on your github description to make your Ludum Dare entry more discoverable:
- `game`
- `game-development`
- `ludum-dare`
- `ludumdare`
- `ludumdare58`
- `ludum-dare-58`
- `ld58`
# Cover Art
You can also use your cover art for the ```Social preview``` image in the repository ```Settings```
# Stars
I have starred and added your repository to a list of ld58 compo: <https://github.com/stars/dhmmasson/lists/ludum-dare-58>
(Also, I am on a quest to have a repo reach 10 stars. If you play my game, consider [leaving a star on my repo](https://github.com/dhmmasson/tilesCollector) as well.)