The preloader will hang for a couple of seconds between 95-99%. I ddin't have time to fix that.
The town was built over a cavern. Place your buildings so as not to over stress the ground! Beware, at least one of your competitors has active designs against you! You can also play it safe and place support beams to hold up your structures!
The game ends when the first player reaches $15k cash. Your final score is your 'points' times your 'cash'. You recieve rent in the amount of 1/2 of the purchase cost of all of your remaining buildings
You gain one point every time you place a building. If you lose a small building, you lose 1 point. If you lose a medium building, you lose 4 points. If you lose a large building, you lose 9 points.
Your points will go negative if you lose large buildings early in the game. This makes it extremely hard to win.
No sound. No music. Just didn't have time.
The Direct Embed link goes straight to the game. The other link goes to an index of prior versions made during this compo.
Tools used: FlashDevelop FlexSDK GiMP that's it! :) Have fun!
Pretty neat concept. I got the hang of it after a while, but it might help to give more indication of what is happening. I.E. numbers in addition to the color for the stress map, and showing how big the building is before placing it.
i don't know if it's too technical to be fun. i just had no idea how to place support beams. :) i like the style, and it certainly stands out from all the platformers!
This seems like a pretty interesting game, though at the same time it could be a little difficult to figure out exactly what the 'rules' were. Also, there was a bug where I couldn't place anything when the stress map was visible, and the cursor didn't follow my mouse correctly in those situations either.
Overall it seems pretty neat, but either I needed more patience or it needed some tweaking.
I played this for a while and it seemed interesting, but I couldn't understand the goal or why I was succeeding. Didn't seem to have anything to do with caverns either.
I didn't know how to place support beams either. This seems like a good enough idea, it just didn't get enough time to cross the line from interesting into fun (but I think it could).
The idea is interesting, but the result leaves a bit to desire.
I placed houses everywhere (as one of the AI players did), but mine kept collapsing. The different views are irritating, it would probably help, if you could see all at once (at least partially).
It was not immediately clear to me how I could strategically place my houses and when to place support pieces. Also the counting of points does not add anything to the game. With maybe only three stress levels, shown in the same view this could be a great strategy game. It's a cool concept with lots of potential.
Agreed with smx. I felt like I was just placing houses randomly (well, occasionally checking the stress map and putting in a support or two), and that the AI was doing the same.
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Overall it seems pretty neat, but either I needed more patience or it needed some tweaking.
I had some wacky input problem going on any time I had the stress map up.
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Neat creative use of the theme, too :)
I placed houses everywhere (as one of the AI players did), but mine kept collapsing. The different views are irritating, it would probably help, if you could see all at once (at least partially).
With maybe only three stress levels, shown in the same view this could be a great strategy game. It's a cool concept with lots of potential.