Ludum Dare #23compo

Conqueror

by hume

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.77

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.53

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.05

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.69

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.42

Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.70

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.95

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.48

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★100%

Everybody has their traumas. Some people withdraw into themselves. Some people push themselves to get better.

Some people take over the world.

This is a game of knowledge. It starts easy, then it kicks your butt. For higher levels, you will need to look this stuff up.

UPDATE I've moved the game off my tiny web server onto a CDN. I hope that from this point forward, everyone gets to play.

UPDATE 2 Way less frustrating post-comp version posted. You know the rules. Rate the comp version.

Comments41

Humeauthor23 Apr 2012, 03:03

If anybody finds a bug...or finishes the game...I'd love to hear about it.

There are seven levels.

If a level is really annoying you, download the source and remove lines from the CSV in resource/data/csv.

Krisjet23 Apr 2012, 11:30

Forcing you to restart from the very beginning after failing a level sadly stopped me from finishing the game :P

nihilocrat23 Apr 2012, 13:38

Got to level 3. Here I thought Kamehameha was just something from Dragonball Z. I like the "Washington was burnt in revenge" because hardly anyone probably knows about the War of 1812 and the burning of York (Toronto).

laubori23 Apr 2012, 17:43

nice game!

ComaToes23 Apr 2012, 18:01

Good game. I had to give up at level 2, but that's only a reflection of my terrible geographical knowledge ;P

piterlouis23 Apr 2012, 18:08

Funny, It would be better if order of cities were random.

Humeauthor23 Apr 2012, 18:14

Piterlouis -- I agree; I wanted to do this. My playtester said no.

Everybody else wants it easier; we want it harder :)

chinchang23 Apr 2012, 18:42

m kinda bad at geography..but nice look.

Suese23 Apr 2012, 19:00

Learning game, ahhh! RUN! Great game, once I realized there was a second level I was pretty happy about this one. Better graphics and animation / style choices would have improved this game as well as music.

Thank you for this.

kelp23 Apr 2012, 19:11

Nice game, tough it gets a bit tedious running from one side of the world to the other, causing me to not want to retry after failing on level 3.

Humeauthor23 Apr 2012, 19:14

@Suese Agree wholeheartedly with all. Style took a left turn and I didn't update the sprites. Wrote an .XM for background music but the decoder was hanging my game and I didn't have time to convert the music to something else.

Thanks very much for the feedback.

Mago23 Apr 2012, 19:19

Interesting idea, I don't know why but this game scares me in some way. Thanks to you I will now always remember where is Sudan (I was looking for it so long) :)

ReddogStone23 Apr 2012, 20:23

Looks like the site is busy... I can't get neither the source nor the applet to load :(

jeffreybiles23 Apr 2012, 20:31

Shows a blank screen (after taking a while to load). I'm running chromium on ubuntu linux. I have a java runtime environment installed.

Humeauthor23 Apr 2012, 22:58

I think that's my hosting provider letting me down :( sorry. Working for me now.

SidetrackGames23 Apr 2012, 23:34

I like it!

Datw24 Apr 2012, 01:19

Good game, really innovative! But I do find the lack of saving relly disturbing. And, those sounds are really, really annoying hehe.

sharbelfs24 Apr 2012, 02:23

nice game and great idea, I liked

robcozzens24 Apr 2012, 05:18

That's pretty brutal having to start over at Egypt every time. Really cool earth though.

marudziik24 Apr 2012, 09:41

I like the educational value, but damn, the game is hard.

lanoiadimuu24 Apr 2012, 16:56

Geography was my worst score while at school, so this game is extremely hard for me. But it's an interesting idea and it taught me where lots of cities are. :D

Humeauthor24 Apr 2012, 18:53

Your comments are loud and clear.

I'm going to make a DO NOT RATE THIS version, a less brutal version. Time limits will be raised a little, and you will get to continue from the same level after you lose.

I can't link it here, because I don't want any confusion in the rating process. I didn't spend enough time playtesting. Fair is fair.

Thanks for all the feedback guys. You are all great.

Humeauthor24 Apr 2012, 18:54

...one...stupid...line of code...

GameOverScreen:
// context.currentLevel = 0; noooooooooo

Jacic24 Apr 2012, 21:24

Unique idea, but hard!

Darkfrost25 Apr 2012, 01:16

Nice idea :) Sadly, my geography is terrible! And I did badly! :p Seemed like a nice concept though, albeit a tad weird ;)

the8donut25 Apr 2012, 09:15

Very nice! Turns out I'm not that bad at geography either :D Graphics run very smooth, simple and effective. Good job!

orgarus26 Apr 2012, 17:28

HI HUME!
Nice game, you could sell it here in spain so the new generations could be less ass than the pasts.
The thing that I dislikes a little is the color of the map.
Cheers!

spiral1 May 2012, 12:34

My ears hurt!

azurenimbus2 May 2012, 21:05

Not game over, the "error" sound.

azurenimbus2 May 2012, 21:05

Really cool idea! The game over sound was driving me crazy. But I enjoyed it overall :)

Hazematman6 May 2012, 17:08

Very cool idea! Went with the theme very well! Sadly I couldn't get past the second level, need to study my geography more :P
I liked the game ALOT!

Make A Game6 May 2012, 18:56

Edutainment, on Ludum Dare? Hehe, it was fun, but the collision detection on the cities screwed me up a couple of times.

asfdfdfd6 May 2012, 21:01

Love this idea!

Datamosh8 May 2012, 03:09

Hard game! Definitely i dont know anything about geography. lol

cobrajs9 May 2012, 02:15

Game won't load for me... just an empty frame with a link to download the source. I'm using Firefox, in Linux, and I have a Java runtime installed.

Drabiter9 May 2012, 04:02

Wow it's really hard, especially for have to repeat lvl 1 which is tiring. Thanks to this now I'm smarter a bit :)

AdventureIslands9 May 2012, 20:13

Wait, how do I play this? Game won't load and I just get big white box with blue "download the project source" link on it.

Oye Beto11 May 2012, 03:26

I'm SO bad at geography :(

Pacifist Games12 May 2012, 04:25

Beat the compo version, took me several tries, but I did it! The dialogue was a little confusing but I love the concept. Could be a good way of teaching geography if the map was better. :)

orangepascal12 May 2012, 18:19

some better visual effects to show the resetting or finding a city could have made it more clear.. even a bigger font would have done that.. but I like it! could be a great learning-game for kids!