life was beatiful by x1212

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made by x1212 for LD33 (JAM)
Try to let your people survive as long as possible.
Build Houses for your workers to gather food (by hunting rabbits), clothes (by hunting foxes) and wood.
You need food to survive, clothes to hire workers, and wood to build they houses.
Over time other people will join you, and they will eat your food.

The food-chain on this island works as follows:
- Trees spawn Grass
- Rabbits eat Grass and spawn more Rabbits
- Foxes eat Rabbits and spawn more Foxes


WASD to control camera
Select the type of worker you want to build a house for and click where you want to place it.
A house costs 5 wood.
A worker needs 2 clothes to spawn.
Food is consumed over time, if none is left your people will begin to starve to death.

I fear the connection between this game and the theme is not obvious this time, but we at least tried to have one ...



Idea, Sound and parts of the Graphics by HûntSt°rJonny
Code, Graphics and parts of the Idea by x1212



Font by "Kenney.nl" (http://opengameart.org/content/kenney-fonts)
Also thanks to the developers of the Godot Game Engine (http://www.godotengine.org) for sharing this great tool as Open Source.

Ratings

Coolness 56% 3
Overall(Jam) 2.90 804
Audio(Jam) 2.79 521
Fun(Jam) 2.79 726
Graphics(Jam) 3.21 605
Humor(Jam) 2.16 838
Innovation(Jam) 2.97 560
Mood(Jam) 2.75 792
Theme(Jam) 2.13 1069

Feedback

TheZoq2
24. Aug 2015 · 10:03 UTC
Pretty interesting game though it was a bit hard to understand what was going on at times. It would have been nice if there was an indicator for when you are about to run out of resources. It would also have been nice if the controlls allowed you to pan the camera instead of just rotating it.

Even though the music sounded a bit strange in the beginning, I really liked it after a while.
micdoodle8
24. Aug 2015 · 16:17 UTC
I wasn't able to run it on windows, I'll give it a shot on Ubuntu later. It appears to crash on the game engine splash screen with no error :/
lanestp
24. Aug 2015 · 16:30 UTC
OSX64 version crashes on start. Sorry :-(
Wevel
24. Aug 2015 · 16:40 UTC
Shows promise, I killed all of the animals then everyone died. Also the camera is a bit difficult to controlled.
AdenMansonGames
24. Aug 2015 · 16:42 UTC
Amazing! Very good concept.
Cosine
24. Aug 2015 · 16:43 UTC
Won't run on Windows for me :(
kaitokidi
24. Aug 2015 · 17:03 UTC
the game crashes :_ (
🎤 x1212
24. Aug 2015 · 17:58 UTC
Ok, tried this on my Windows 7 and it looks like only the 64-Bit release in the link with new versions works ... not sure why yet ... everything worked fine in wine ...
KingGames
24. Aug 2015 · 18:38 UTC
Very Good Game! Amazing Graphics, Gameplay, and overall fun!
HiVE interactive
25. Aug 2015 · 14:29 UTC
Seems a little buggy, but good entry nonetheless :)
darklightteam
25. Aug 2015 · 14:52 UTC
Not a bad idea, far from the theme and it's easy to waste resources and get stuck (for example I've build wood houses but somehow my wood remains at 4 constantly and then, it was impossible to build a new wood house). A "Sell house" option is missing.
WizzardMaker
25. Aug 2015 · 15:46 UTC
Neat game, the theme is not really hit and the sound of killing a fox sounds a bit weird, but everything else is rather good
sergicollado
25. Aug 2015 · 16:39 UTC
In windows doesn't start, I'll play later from my linux :(
sergicollado
25. Aug 2015 · 17:43 UTC
I like graphics, the control is hard, it needs more feedback to know what is happening. The idea it's awesome, humans are the true monster of this world :P
BlackQuiltro
26. Aug 2015 · 01:18 UTC
Nice idea! Far from the theme but I liked it. Nice music, I liked it a lot, very weird but fit the theme for me.

Perhaps it needed some sort of score like total population or something. I would slow down a bit the speed for tree chopping and fox killing so you can try more combinations before running out of resources!
kaitokidi
26. Aug 2015 · 10:55 UTC
Gg
stevenlr
26. Aug 2015 · 20:38 UTC
Nice game, I like the graphics style. Not so the music though. I ran out of foxes pretty early unfortunately. The game mechanics are simple but well executed. Camera control feels a bit clunky, for it is not too much of a problem when playing the game.
Vaiaphraim
26. Aug 2015 · 21:00 UTC
Nice graphics - I just wish I could take a closer look at my population on demand, rather than zooming in and hoping that somebody would run past the camera :P

My bottleneck was wood... I never saw trees regrow, so, eventually, even a single woodcutter would cut the last trunk, no grass, starving the rabbits, starving the foxes, and the humans, too...

It's really fun to play, setting a few houses, and listening to the fox(?) noise :P
veoviscool12
26. Aug 2015 · 21:18 UTC
Interesting game :) Reminds me of You Must Destroy the Tower.
peecestudios
27. Aug 2015 · 02:25 UTC
Wonderful!!!!!!!!!! It was hard to understand though and how much everything cost but then i figured it out. Loved the day change and shadows!
KaiseanGames
28. Aug 2015 · 15:31 UTC
Cool concept! It would have been better if the UI shown somehow the amount each building costs. And sometimes it's unclear how each building benefits you. But it's nice! The style reminds me of Darwinia :)
puppetmaster
29. Aug 2015 · 23:27 UTC
Nice entry, cool day and night switch, thx for voting mine.
struffy
03. Sep 2015 · 18:36 UTC
I like the graphics style and changing light - that in itself has the potential as effecting the game - id had not thought of that!