{"author_name":"NoWandStudios","cat":"LD #33","comments":[],"epoch":1440973920,"likes":2,"metadata":{"p_key":"13148","p_author":"NoWandStudios","p_authorkey":"50652","p_urlkey":"48402","p_title":"KAIJU TYCOON POSTMORTEM","p_cat":"LD #33","p_event":"LD33","p_time":"1440973920","p_likes":"2","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"50652","us_name":"NoWandStudios","us_username":"nowandstudios","event_start":"1440115200","event_key":"29","event_name":"LD33"},"text":"

A new edition of the LudumDare; and No Wand Studios, a small studio of four Spanish young people, participates for the second time to show our craziness.<\/p>\n

This time we liked the theme more than the last one. The brainstorming was shorter and better ideas came out of it. In the studio, we are big fans of the tycoon genre and we also love kaijus (Who doesn\u2019t?). So out of all the ideas we decided soon to join those two concepts.<\/p>\n

As in all brainstorming we began with great and very funny ideas … but very costly in time. So we had to reduce it to a single gameplay mechanic. You would have to blend kaijus and send them against cities. When this was done, we saw that the battle\u00a0may\u00a0be somewhat boring. As we were (or we thought) on timetable we decided to add some of the features that we had though during the brainstorming. We also included some goodies for a feed stage and world news with a lot of references to geek & freak culture.<\/p>\n

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This complicated the game a little more. Now the kaijus had three stats and towns responded to the attack. All of this went along great until the last two hours until delivery. The last two hours were absolutely crazy, our programmers almost collapsed, but they withstood the pressure well.<\/p>\n

Thus, we face Kaiju Tycoon, a simulator where you carry the kaijumancer and you send your creatures to destroy the world.<\/p>\n

Summarizing, we talk about the pros and cons:<\/p>\n

Pros:<\/u><\/p>\n