Placeholders vs Golems by mcdima

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made by mcdima for Ludum Dare 56 (JAM)

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The game is still quite buggy and is missing a lot of features, but is playable in its current state with win and lose conditions.

Placeholders vs Golems is a strategy game where you command your tiny placeholder creatures to gather resources and fight enemies with the goal of destroying the golem tower. Your enemy will send units to attack your camp and if you let it get destroyed, you lose.

You can produce workers and fighters from your camp which cost: Worker - 50 Food - Square Unit Fighter - 50 Food, Wood, Stone, and Ore - Circle Unit

You can move the camera around with WASD, select units with Left Click, order them with Right Click and zoom in the camera with your Scroll Wheel. You can also drag around units or Shift click them to select multiple of them at a time.

This is my first game jam (and pretty much first game), I didn't quite manage to add everything I wanted since I ran out of time but I guess it still counts as a (semi) completed game. I hope you atleast find it interesting :sweat_smile:

Ratings

Overall 1022th 2.818⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 938th 2.841⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1009th 2.477⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 917th 3.045⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Humor 731th 2.682⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Mood 999th 2.714⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 45🗳️ 9🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 305869
07. Oct 2024 · 18:59 UTC
Can't get the game to load :(
adjo
07. Oct 2024 · 19:49 UTC
It's an ambitious genre for a game jam, but you got pretty far with it! Good job for a first game jam :)
Prepe
07. Oct 2024 · 20:05 UTC
its a great first try. I still think that 3D Games a way to ambitious for jams. Keep at it, there is a lot of potential to build on.
tinykidtoo
07. Oct 2024 · 23:50 UTC
The interface and selection seems pretty polished, great job on that. Are the testing tools supposed to be enabled?
oldzombie14
08. Oct 2024 · 02:56 UTC
nice work!
TheChadRampage
08. Oct 2024 · 03:01 UTC
Couldn't get the project to load but that might be because of my potato lol. Still liked the style in the image I saw!
Torami
08. Oct 2024 · 09:58 UTC
Please make an itch.io page for this as I as many others aren't able to play it here.
rkhadder
08. Oct 2024 · 17:13 UTC
game wasn't loading - consider making an itch.io mirror and tagging us!
Joshua_Reumann
08. Oct 2024 · 19:36 UTC
game isnt loading unfortunatly. Maybe try to host it on itch.io
🎤 mcdima
09. Oct 2024 · 00:10 UTC
I have added an Itch.io link, thanks for the tip and thanks for your time if you try it :smile:
@joshua-reumann @rkhadder @thechadrampage @torami @zimonitrome
Nick Halstead
09. Oct 2024 · 01:37 UTC
This is a super cool concept! I like the direction the game is going in a lot (this was my first game jam and game too). The perspective and 3D objects that were really only used in 2D was a novel concept.
Memz
09. Oct 2024 · 01:56 UTC
I like the town-esque concept. Good job.
DareDevinBegins
09. Oct 2024 · 05:07 UTC
Seems like you had a tough time with your game, but it seems playable and not a bad attempt! The logic seems self-explanatory and is playable, i'd love to see this fully decked out in the future!
Joshua_Reumann
09. Oct 2024 · 07:11 UTC
![Screenshot from 2024-10-09 09-09-59.png](///raw/fbb/c5/z/682f3.png)

Thank you for adding it to itch.io. Now i could play this fun little game. What would be nice is if the fighters would automatically attack the golems in their reach if they get close enough.
djidanebe
09. Oct 2024 · 12:23 UTC
Very ambitious for a solo game jam, but you still succed to have a playable game in so few time. Well done !
DavidCode
09. Oct 2024 · 13:43 UTC
I agree that the game concept is ambitious, especially for a solo mode! I couldn't get it to load here,, Itch.io worked well. It’s impressive bet for such a short development time.
Pierre-Marie
09. Oct 2024 · 13:54 UTC
It's not the easiest concept to realize, especially for a first jam, but the first mechanics implemented are really on the right track!

Congratulations on your first jam, and keep up the good work! :D
bacalear
09. Oct 2024 · 20:13 UTC
nice
lectvs
09. Oct 2024 · 21:06 UTC
I'm not great at strategy games like these but I liked it! Even though the graphics are simple, it actually looks pretty good since you were consistent in your art style. :smile: This is seriously impressive for your first jam, great job!
Ronn Fever
10. Oct 2024 · 02:48 UTC
Wow - for a first game this is excellent - and doubly so considering you did it with the extra stress of a game jam! Congrats and here's to many more games to come!
stormburpee
10. Oct 2024 · 04:54 UTC
Thanks for adding the itch.io link, you killed this for the first game you've made! I love the concept of using placeholders in a game - it's cool and shows the developer side of it. Good work mate!
Damien Black
10. Oct 2024 · 05:45 UTC
Hey, this is really well laid out, and an excellent framework. Well done. The UI told me everything I needed to know to jump in. What is happening is clear. This is good game dev right here.
Nasturra
10. Oct 2024 · 07:57 UTC
Love this
🎤 mcdima
10. Oct 2024 · 08:01 UTC
Thank you all so much for the kind feedback :smiley:
betovf
13. Oct 2024 · 08:38 UTC
Nice entry! I miss some audio effects and I was unable to restart when defeated :sweat_smile: