Hopefully this time we have more time to work on the game and we'll get something playable out of this.

Things we'll mostly use:

• Unity
• Paint.net and GIMP2 for textures and planning
• Blender
• sfxr for sound, maybe Audacity too
• Our brains (maybe)

RabbitTortoise and Tunes9

After 6 hours we have a cube planet, we can move around it and spawn things on it. YAY!

Screenshot: http://imgur.com/a/JbTko

RabbitTortoise and Tunes9

Sneaky screenshot:

RabbitTortoise and Tunes9

This was the second time I participated in LD. Like last time I made the game with Tunes9. Compared to the first time we were in LD it went very well. I don't think we even submitted the first "game".

The goal of the game is to make the randomly generated planet unhabitable and make money in the process. I think we got a pretty good game idea but we didn't get to tweak things as much as we would have liked. We got enough in so that there's some gameplay. Hopefully there aren't too many bugs. We might one day continue with this game.

Link to the game's LD page

RabbitTortoise

I finally had time to investigate why buildings sometimes weren't spawning. I think I got it fixed, fix is included in the version: Humanity Simulator (Bug fix pack 1). Original version is still available in the same place (link in the game's page).

Game's LD Page

RabbitTortoise

Thanks for the feedback given so far! We got much better response than I imagined. In this post I'd like to give some information about what was happening behind the scenes, give a response for some of the feedback given and talk about our future plans. Written in the perspective of RabbitTortoise.

Feedback

General lack of polish. Many comments said there was something that was clunky or felt weird.

• Camera. Yes, I knew that is wasn't the greatest but I did not have time to make it better as I'm kinda new to animating/controlling cameras in Unity.

• Not enough feedback when doing stuff. We were planning to make more sound effects, but there were some critical stuff that needed to be implemented so we kinda run out of time with sounds.

• More things to do. I think the things we had would have been just nearly enough, but we spent too little time balancing them.

Positive things that got mentioned frequently: * The take on the theme is interesting * The concept is good * The fun elements that we slipped in * Polluting the world is fun (Well, hopefully they are lying)

Own thoughts about development

This was my first time I participated in LD seriously and I'm really happy about the results. After few hours in, we got the rough idea for the game. The idea developed continuously and we only got the final idea and theme late in the second day. I tried a little more "free" way of coding, I normally think how I write the final code carefully but this time I just went for speed. It had its upsides and downsides but I learned a lot from it. At the third day I had school so I wasn't coding for half of that day.

I made the planet generation and the mechanics behind spawning things on it. And I'm responsible for that camera, its still better than nothing. Tunes9 made the player, all the 3D-models and the menu system. We worked closely together when designing and programming the other things. So I mostly worked on the underlying mechanics for the planet and Tunes9 worked on UI and gameplay features. Fun fact: The planet generation allows for any sized planets, we just stuck on 10x10x10 to be in line with the theme.

Future plans

We will continue with this game in the future. Tunes9 is (I think he is) working on post-jam version but I don't have time to code before the summer break. We need to rewrite many underlying mechanics because they are badly written or not too well optimized (thanks to my fast coding :D). We have many ideas how to continue the game, we just have to pick the best ones and keep the feature creep low.

Game's page

Huge thanks to everyone for the feedback!

RabbitTortoise