We turned off the Downloadable Version so that some errors wont happen again. Sry bout that! =D
Hope everyone enjoyed it!
We created a sandbox style game, that you need to explore all the possibilities that the island holds for you! We all hope that you guys enjoy this game!
And post here the achievements you guys unlocked!!! Would be fun! =D
Just a note, I had problems to play the game. First, I had to upgrade my unity player and then I had to allow it to run because Chrome for some reason was blocking it. It was very quickly and easy to solve it, just saying because I hadn't this problem with others' unity games.
About the game, the game is VERY beautiful and charming, it really makes someone who is looking want to play it, but, the game is quite complex too. It could have a better feedback of what your objectives and somewhere to see the commands while you playing would be nice. In conclusion, wonderful job guys, you should be proud of it.
Tip: Remove the https:// from your url, and replace it with http://. That should make the "you need to upgrade unity player" message go away.
Seems like a very cool, deep game. Love the visuals! Suggestion: walk the player through some actions at the beginning, rather than presenting them with a wall of text. It's a bit overwhelming, not sure what I'm supposed to do first!
Tip: Remove the https:// from your url, and replace it with http://. That should make the "you need to upgrade unity player" message go away.
Seems like a very cool, deep game. Love the visuals!
Suggestion: walk the player through some actions at the beginning, rather than presenting them with a wall of text. It's a bit overwhelming, not sure what I'm supposed to do first!
Game looks great, and has a lot of potential, but I found it really buggy and eventually unplayable.
Initially, I had difficulty getting the web version working, which was due to Chrome. No big deal, I just downloaded the Windows version.
Next was a resolution issue on the game. You game doesn't scale well from the intended 800x600 image size. Unity defaulted to 1024x768 and when I had it selected the title screen was off center and the action selector was rendered over the play field instead of at the bottom.
Next one of my tribes dissapeared. They were still there (I could hover over them and see their stats) but they did not render.
Half way through the second age I could no longer perform any actions, I could select and action, and it would use up a time unit on the bottom, but nothing would actually happen in the game.
Very cool, very interesting, and very unique. I love the art/style, but gameplay was a bit confusing. I reached the end a couple times but wasn't sure what I had accomplished or how to accomplish different things instead. Really beautiful though
Nifty things: -Very polished, and graphically pleasing. -Nice music and sound effects. -Seems like there's some interesting mechanics going on. -To me, it appears the winning strategy is to focus on the central area, and try to shift all the other areas to the same color.
Not so nifty things: -To be honest, I don't really know what's going on. -From the intro screen, I understand what the buttons do, but that's about it.
A technical issues: -I tried the downloadable and web version. Both seem similar to me, but the downloadable version has a tendency to shift the command half circle into the play area. Both when selecting windowed and full frame, the half circle would appear in the play field, sort of blocking the left hand clickable areas.
We tried to create a game where you can just play with the world variables like the type of terrain, the different types of creatures and so on. A sandbox like game, where you can explore the possibilities.
We didn't had enough time to create a nice and polished tutorial, so for that we apologize!
The game consist in explore the combinations of different creatures in the same island, so you could unlock some funny achievements. I think its not so clear thou. Ok its fine, we had only 72 hours to create the game!
About the resolution bug, we know that if the resolution is different from 800x600, the GUI would look kinda messy, but there was not enough time to adjust that too, and for taht we apologize again!
We turned off the downloadable version, so that error wont happen again.
We want to polish this game even more, and add more features so we could take this to another level. But now, we just hope you guys enjoyed the "feeling" we put in the game, and give us some nice feedbacks like that, so we could think about them for the next version of the game!
Thanks again for all the feedbacks, and sry about the errors and the "bad" experience some of you had with the game. We'll fix it soon enough!
Honestly, had no idea what I'm doing on this game but overall I liked it. The tutorial seemed blurry to me for some reason and there was a few times where I hovered over invisible creatures but it was a nice game.
I really enjoyed this. I only wish the ending would have given some sort of feedback as to what happened, or would have frozen the screen so I could inspect my results.
Very nice. Though some bugs are present, like sometimes creatures become invisible. (or is it a feature? Because I didn't really understand what I was doing haha) Anyway, I really liked the concept. I'm sure it'd be amazing if worked on a bit more. Well done!
The graphics were good, the critter were very cute. But like other I had no idea what should I do. Also, did you use the sound from age of empires (when you add more animals)?
A similar concept but a very different execution from my own game. The graphics and sound were good (despite fact several sounded like they had been taken from age of empires, but that's okay for the Jam). I like the menu screen and the game has some charm with the creatures with hats. I just had no idea what I was meant to be doing or how.
It would have been nice to get some sort of hints to what kind of terrain each creatures liked best. I had a few that just randomly died. Once or twice I evolved them and they completely disapeared as well.
That stuff aside, this is a really neat idea! Good job!
I am in love with this game, the music, ambientation and those voces *yolo* from Age of Empires xD Lol, why is the game ending if I have several species living in the isles? you nasty murder! XD
Beautiful game, and right on theme! Congrats for finishing it! The intro screen was a bit scary (so many controls and stuff going on, without any initial context to make sense of it). If you had more time, perhaps making things more progressive could make the game easy to learn? Also, I ended up clicking pretty aimlessly - some of the tools didn't seem to work, and I had no idea what it meant to have "3 leaves" for example. The game kind of looked like it was meant to present a challenge (were the seasons a threat to my animals?), but I never got the sense that there was much danger, or much of a link between my clicks and what was happening. Some animals appeared sad. Is that a bad thing? Anyways, if the player's goal is to reach achievements, it may be good to show a place where the achievements will go, so we get this feeling that there's something we want to get! Overall, beautiful art and cool idea, but I got lost playing it.
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Cake&Code4 Sep 2012, 05:23
The game is adorable and looks great! And I had fun with it for the most part. At some point some of the sprites disappeared, but there were implications that they didn't die so I was a bit confused as to what happened.
Got bunny in the hat achievement. As many others, couldn't figure what to do exactly, but anyway, it seems there is a good concept here. I think what is lacking the most is a manual. Also yeah, I'm not sure you're allowed to use AOE sounds
Animals are so cute, but game it's so complex.. Showing all buttons at startup and pretend the player will remember all these functions without a hover-text it's a problem. Maybe it's just me, but i refreshed, alt-stamp'ed the tutorial and keep that open at the side of the game.
Good job with the mechanics, I like how you got everything to work well, it's just that I didn't like how you couldn't do anything during the disasters.
I did like the feeling you put in the game (and graphics and audio), but as others have said, it's hard to keep track of things. Every time I was playing with something, something happened (Virus! Winter!) that destroyed everything that I was doing, and that's just not really fun.
Looks fantastic, would be nice to have the help screen accessible throughout the game though - I had to restart the game to view it again. It was quite confusing initially but it is a very polished entry.
after reproducing the units a 2nd time they would disappear pretty sure that's not suppose to happen. other than that a very cool little game. would have liked to have seen what the achievements are without having to earn them first. otherwise great job!
Looked and sounded great but didn't really know what I was doing. There doesn't seem to be any limit to how often you can use the abilities, and no way to control anything that happens. After clicking buttons for about 10 minutes the bottom bar disappeared and then I was back at the menu. I don't know why. Did I win? Did I lose?
Because I didn't know what I was trying to achieve, I didn't really care what happened. Without some guidance the game is just boring. Sorry!
The game looks amazing, but seems a little too confusing to really figure out. There's a lot of potential to turn this into a really polished game. I think adding a tutorial / walkthrough step-by-step would solve for this.
I'm impressed that you were able to build something so big and complicated, but I feel like you would have been better off keeping it simple. For Ludum Dare, I didn't really feel like I had enough time to dedicate to this game to really understand what was going on.
It does have lovely graphics and sound, though, so I have rated on those aspects only.
About the game, the game is VERY beautiful and charming, it really makes someone who is looking want to play it, but, the game is quite complex too.
It could have a better feedback of what your objectives and somewhere to see the commands while you playing would be nice.
In conclusion, wonderful job guys, you should be proud of it.