Forest Nothing by Corporation

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made by Corporation for Ludum Dare 54 (COMPO)

Forest Nothing is a resource management real time strategy, set in the dense forest

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Chop wood to clear up space. Build houses and create more workers.

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Research technologies and advance to the new era.

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Build a Wonder to win the game!

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This game is inspired by AoE 2 map.

Controls:

Use WASD or mouse at the sides of the screen to move the camera, press F to recenter.

Left click to select worker, right click to give orders. Workers can move to position, chop wood or use farm. After harvesting they need to drop off resources to the storage. Sometimes they can get stuck if there's no resources near, or there's no path. If you see exclamation mark - worker is idle, and you should reassign him.

Left click on a building to select it and open available actions. It can create workers or research technologies. Press ESC or anywhere else to close building panel. Press red skull to destroy building.

Buildings can be placed on the free tiles, workers also can block it, so you need to move them.

Creating workers requires population space, you can increase it by building houses.

Gold can only be gained in the market, by selling wood.

Personal best

My current personal best score is 1608, maybe someone can beat it. Best.png

Credits:

Game created using my own engine (https://github.com/filscorporation/Steel). All art created using Aseprite.

Ratings

Overall 37th 4.091⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 39th 4.068⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 197th 3.333⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Theme 109th 3.955⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 85th 3.909⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Audio 144th 3.357⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Mood 151th 3.429⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 16🗳️ 23🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 234567
02. Oct 2023 · 18:40 UTC
I love strategie game. Good job for making this one in 48h. Everything works smoothly and intuitively
TRASEVOL_DOG
02. Oct 2023 · 19:28 UTC
Hahaha I didn't expect to find a Forest Nothing recreation, though it does fit the theme! :joy:
This is pretty cool! The controls feel a bit janky but maybe it's just because I'm so used to having keyboard shortcuts for everything in AoE2. :smile: Still it's very impressive you managed to make this in only 48 hours, well done!
🎤 Corporation
02. Oct 2023 · 19:32 UTC
@trasevol-dog glad to find other AoE2 fans out there) for sure it's far from original well developed controls, but I mean... they had 20 years to do so XD
MajoMirez
02. Oct 2023 · 19:32 UTC
It's pretty fun! it's a nice minimalistic city builder and it feels a bit nostalgic (idk why tho, maybe the color palette). It have some path finding bugs where some workers get stuck between buildings. Also, sadly the music didn't play :c
🎤 Corporation
02. Oct 2023 · 19:39 UTC
@majomirez yeah, there's no music unfortunately( Not sure about pathfinding bug, workers can get stuck if you block all the paths for them, buildings have square borders a bit bigger then their visuals.
LDJam user 372063
02. Oct 2023 · 22:46 UTC
I'm getting "VCRUNTIME40.dll not found" and "MSVCP140.dll not found". There are some similarly named dlls in the zip but renaming them just gets me to the next round of missing dlls. I'm guessing I need to install visual studio or a VC++ distro, but it does look like you intended the dlls to come with. Maybe it's just a windows sandbox thing? It's a pretty limited os.
LDJam user 280036
02. Oct 2023 · 23:19 UTC
You managed to recreate my childhood AoE2 memories in 48h

I loved this game. I put on the AoE2 soundtrack in the background while I played, it all fit perfectly together. This game made me happy, well done :smile:
red-stake
03. Oct 2023 · 10:17 UTC
I like how chill this is, and the cute color palette and lo-fi presentation. My only issue is that I didn't realize I had it on the slow speed until half-way through playing so I was stupidly waiting a while for everything to be completed. Other than that I liked it, but maybe would tweak the balancing a little, so you can get a bit more food and bit less wood.

Thank you for making this, I really liked playing it!
🎤 Corporation
03. Oct 2023 · 10:41 UTC
@sarah-northway windows sandbox? First time I'm hearing about it, probably that's the cause. Game is developed with my home brew engine, no way it supports platforms like this(

@googlypoo glad I brought back those memories!) Nice idea with soundtrack, I wish I could recreate something like it for my game in a jam time

@red-stake thanks for the feedback! Excessive wood is kinda the theme of this game, but I understand that it feels unbalanced)
LDJam user 165453
03. Oct 2023 · 17:55 UTC
Very impressed with how many of the strategy game features you made. Works very well also! Great game
quasilyte
03. Oct 2023 · 19:05 UTC
Oh shoot. I was hoping I could play this game without a need to download anything.
I guess I can run this game on Linux using Wine, but it's so much more efforts than just pressing "play".
🎤 Corporation
03. Oct 2023 · 19:26 UTC
@quasilyte yeah, unfortunately no way my engine supports this, maybe one day(
quasilyte
03. Oct 2023 · 20:15 UTC
Oh dayem, I you used your own engine for this.
You have my respect.
Flying Butter Studio
03. Oct 2023 · 20:48 UTC
Really impresive to have a game like this one in 48h! Great job, the game is fun to play and the stategy aspect is interesting.
Impressive work, nice done and interesting take of the theme :smile:
Congrats !
zimny11
04. Oct 2023 · 18:39 UTC
Really fun an unique! Great job, especially for a game in Compo! A fan of T90 and Forest Nothing? :D
🎤 Corporation
04. Oct 2023 · 18:51 UTC
@zimny11 a fan of AoE2 overall I would say) it was the first game I was ever gaming back in early 2000s and it's still so entertaining
IDidGame
05. Oct 2023 · 14:52 UTC
great entry, i love an rts thats not actively stressfull
even though there was no time pressure i still tried to optimize my build
just watching the workers walk about is pretty fun
Paul-Maxime
06. Oct 2023 · 00:33 UTC
Not being able to place farms (or other buildings) under villagers is criminal!

As everyone else said, pretty good remake of AoE2. :smile:
MasterOfCheese
06. Oct 2023 · 00:35 UTC
I love the age of empires influence! It's a little long, but it was still pretty fun and I'm very happy you added the speedup button. The only annoying thing was there seemed to be some trees that couldn't be chopped down? Anyway, very cool game, and very cool you used your own engine.
JKazuk
06. Oct 2023 · 04:35 UTC
omg this is amazing. :laughing: Fits the theme so well
HelloImBenjamin
06. Oct 2023 · 05:55 UTC
Amazing Job! It's really fun and I love the art style.
🎤 Corporation
06. Oct 2023 · 06:07 UTC
@paul-maxime yeah, I think for me it was also the most needed improvement, didn't manage to do it it in time(

@masterofcheese glad you liked it! Length is always a hard thing to balance, I'm usually aiming for <10 minutes in jams, this can be done in 6-10 using speed up
LDJam user 352490
06. Oct 2023 · 22:19 UTC
This is a game after my heart -- I used to create custom AoE2 maps as a kid that I'd just fill with 100% forests, and sit and watch the NPCs try to chop their way through the forest. It's an awesome spin on the theme.

Took a few tries, but beat your high score :)

![wood1569.png](///raw/ae0/65/z/5fe9e.png)
🎤 Corporation
07. Oct 2023 · 06:04 UTC
@sudocoffee wow, this is very impressive! Thanks for sharing it, glad you enjoyed)

I wonder if you've been using delete starting TC trick to achieve it)
LDJam user 352490
07. Oct 2023 · 18:28 UTC
On one play-through I tried deleting the initial TC for a quick market, but it didn't work out great. Seemed like having a constant stream of new villagers was a better strategy. For the 1569 score I didn't even purchase the Wheelbarrow and Treadmill Crane upgrades (I couldn't tell if the 1500 extra wood or the 1/2 time wonder were a better pick).
Jesús González
10. Oct 2023 · 22:53 UTC
My T90 farms were extra hard to manage. Loved it.
vfqd
19. Oct 2023 · 13:26 UTC
Omg I found the Age corner of LD - I love it
🎤 Corporation
20. Oct 2023 · 07:10 UTC
@vfqd you're in the right place)

P.S. just found that Terra Nil also started at LD, what a great addition to my list of inspirations!)