{"author_link":"\/users\/solwllms","author_name":"solwllms","author_uid":"solwllms","comments":[],"epoch":1570632841,"event":"LD45","format":"md","ldjam_node_id":174955,"likes":4,"metadata":{"p_key":"136746","p_author":"solwllms","p_authorkey":"1162889","p_urlkey":"353022","p_title":"Population - My first Ludum Dare submission!","p_cat":"LDJam ","p_event":"LD45","p_time":"1570632841","p_likes":"4","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":"1162889","us_name":"solwllms","us_username":"solwllms","event_start":"1570147200","event_key":"78","event_name":"Ludum Dare 45"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD45","removed_author":false},"_superparent":159347,"_trust":1,"author":162889,"body":"![logoc.png](\/\/\/raw\/94c\/72\/z\/26032.png)\n\n# What a populus city! #\nPOPULATION is a city-builder that focuses on the production of homes and (some) of what your people need! Use your available tools to create a sprawling hyper-suburban city that truely looks and feels like a dystopian council estate.\n\n![tools.png](\/\/\/raw\/94c\/72\/z\/26039.png)\n\n# Love this part of town #\nConstruct roads, bridges, powerlines, solar farms, houses and plant trees. Demolish till your ~~heart's content~~ wallet's empty!\n\nSave and load your city to come back to it at some other time, or just pretend you will - imagine that!\n\n![road.png](\/\/\/raw\/94c\/72\/z\/26060.png)\n\n# A true sim - witty! #\nExperience immersive terrain, with fully dynamic roadways and impressively blue water and oceans. Connect homes to power-sources with powerlines and keep that wattage up, or risk losing all power! Tragic!\n\n![road3.png](\/\/\/raw\/94c\/72\/z\/2606a.png)\n\n![screeen.png](\/\/\/raw\/94c\/72\/z\/291f1.png)\n\n******\n\nIn all seriousness, this was my first Ludum Dare after being a simple spectator for many years. I did find it much harder than I thought and I'm sure I spent many hours laying on my bed and staring trying to come up with enough energy or ideas to push forward. Regardless, I think Population is a fun and hopefully different interpretation of the theme. I realised mid way through that a city builder is a very ambitious thing to try and produce in such a small time so I had to strip out some features from my original idea, but I hope this game still remains fun enough for you to enjoy. I didn't start till mid-day Saturday as I wasn't prepared to give up my Friday night, it's still freshers fortnight you know, so with that I hope you can appreciate this all a little more.\n\nPopulation was written in C# with a custom engine written for this project. The whole game was written in the time from noon-midnight on Saturday and noon-midnight on Sunday, so I think that means it was written in 24 hours (weird flex, but okay).\n\nI hope you like what I've made here, and you can follow me on [twitter](http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/solwllms), [instagram](http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/solwllms) and [github](http:\/\/www.github.com\/solwllms) at @solwllms, visit [my website](http:\/\/www.solwllms.com) or support me via [PayPal](http:\/\/paypal.me\/sociallyabsnt) if you really want.\n\nThank you, and have a good halloween :jack_o_lantern:. Sol Williams.\n\n\n******\n\n# Downloads and Source!\n- Download the game for Windows [here](https:\/\/github.com\/solwllms\/ld45\/releases\/download\/v1\/POPULTN.zip)\n- Get the source code [here](https:\/\/github.com\/solwllms\/ld45)\n- Please leave a rating and feedback, I'd love to hear it! [here](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/45\/population\/)\n\n***Please extract the game (and everything wtih it) rather than running it straight from the zip archive. ***\n\n***This game requires OpenAL for audio. If the above doesn't work, please download the very very small redist [here](https:\/\/www.openal.org\/downloads\/oalinst.zip) it will take literally 0 seconds to install and means u can listen to all the sweet sounds I put in. 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Use your available tools to create a sprawling hyper-suburban city that truely looks and feels like a dystopian council estate.\n\n![tools.png](\/\/\/raw\/94c\/72\/z\/26039.png)\n\n# Love this part of town #\nConstruct roads, bridges, powerlines, solar farms, houses and plant trees. Demolish till your ~~heart's content~~ wallet's empty!\n\nSave and load your city to come back to it at some other time, or just pretend you will - imagine that!\n\n![road.png](\/\/\/raw\/94c\/72\/z\/26060.png)\n\n# A true sim - witty! #\nExperience immersive terrain, with fully dynamic roadways and impressively blue water and oceans. Connect homes to power-sources with powerlines and keep that wattage up, or risk losing all power! Tragic!\n\n![road3.png](\/\/\/raw\/94c\/72\/z\/2606a.png)\n\n![screeen.png](\/\/\/raw\/94c\/72\/z\/291f1.png)\n\n******\n\nIn all seriousness, this was my first Ludum Dare after being a simple spectator for many years. I did find it much harder than I thought and I'm sure I spent many hours laying on my bed and staring trying to come up with enough energy or ideas to push forward. Regardless, I think Population is a fun and hopefully different interpretation of the theme. I realised mid way through that a city builder is a very ambitious thing to try and produce in such a small time so I had to strip out some features from my original idea, but I hope this game still remains fun enough for you to enjoy. I didn't start till mid-day Saturday as I wasn't prepared to give up my Friday night, it's still freshers fortnight you know, so with that I hope you can appreciate this all a little more.\n\nPopulation was written in C# with a custom engine written for this project. The whole game was written in the time from noon-midnight on Saturday and noon-midnight on Sunday, so I think that means it was written in 24 hours (weird flex, but okay).\n\nI hope you like what I've made here, and you can follow me on [twitter](http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/solwllms), [instagram](http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/solwllms) and [github](http:\/\/www.github.com\/solwllms) at @solwllms, visit [my website](http:\/\/www.solwllms.com) or support me via [PayPal](http:\/\/paypal.me\/sociallyabsnt) if you really want.\n\nThank you, and have a good halloween :jack_o_lantern:. Sol Williams.\n\n\n******\n\n# Downloads and Source!\n- Download the game for Windows [here](https:\/\/github.com\/solwllms\/ld45\/releases\/download\/v1\/POPULTN.zip)\n- Get the source code [here](https:\/\/github.com\/solwllms\/ld45)\n- Please leave a rating and feedback, I'd love to hear it! [here](https:\/\/ldjam.com\/events\/ludum-dare\/45\/population\/)\n\n***Please extract the game (and everything wtih it) rather than running it straight from the zip archive. ***\n\n***This game requires OpenAL for audio. If the above doesn't work, please download the very very small redist [here](https:\/\/www.openal.org\/downloads\/oalinst.zip) it will take literally 0 seconds to install and means u can listen to all the sweet sounds I put in. (you may need to restart!) ***","title":"Population - My first Ludum Dare submission!","wayback_source":[]}