ProductionVille is my submission for the 48 hour Compo!!!
*I have added a Linux version for those having trouble, it might have some problems, but it's better than nothing :/*
Synopsis: You are the owner of a randomly generated floating island... You are given $2500 and must use it to create a production city on this island, and mine it out of all of it's natural resources, and in turn make more money from that! Your goal is to make as much money as possible within 20 minutes, and to NOT go bankrupt! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
HOW TO PLAY: (PLEASE READ BEFORE PLAYING)
-You must first site a Town Hall, it can be wherever you please (but place it strategically). -Then you must create roads and bridges from your Town Hall to reach natural resources and add production facilities to them. -You must create houses for workers, and then add a certain number of workers to specific production facilities. -When a certain resource is in demand, you should put as many workers as possible on its facilities.
=Roads are placed on Grass and Sand. =Bridges are placed on Water. =Mines are placed on Stone and Coal. =Farms are placed on Potatoes. =Lumber Mills are placed next to Trees. =Apple Farms are placed on Apple Trees. =Oil Drills are placed on Oil (the dark spots in water). =Fishing Wharfs are placed on Fish (the light spots in water). =Houses are placed on Grass or Sand.
!ALL production facilities must be placed next to the Town Hall or a Road/Bridge! !ALL Roads/Bridges must be placed next to the Town Hall or a Road/Bridge! !Houses cost $20 every 20 seconds, place them sparingly! !Roads/Bridges cost $1 every 20 seconds, place them sparingly!
CONTROLS:
WASD/ArrowKeys/MouseScroll - Move Camera ScrollWheel - Move Camera Up/Down Q/E - Rotate Camera Left/Right Escape - Exit Facility Menu RightClick - Deselect Placement Click on production facilities to open their menu!!! You MUST press Escape to leave the menu!!! Number keys can be used to place buildings faster!!!
Press the MINUS key to reduce graphical quality. Press the PLUS/EQUALS key to increase graphical quality. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Changes Since Submission: -Fixed some game-breaking/minor bugs. o_o -Removed annoying right-click menu. -Added graphics quality options. -Added countdown timer. *fixed* -WebPlayer now fills browser. -Balanced game (made it winnable).
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matthias_zarzecki29 Apr 2013, 16:09
A city-builder, awesome!
Sdly it seemed to bug out after I placed something.
Remember to upload your source so this counts in the compo :P
Nice one and fun little game. I liked the day/night cycle and the lighting. It would be great to actually see a difference between an idle building and a building with workers assigned (or some workers moving between the building and the town hall).
This is a superb entry! It's amazing how much you can strip away from the building sim genre and still get really compelling gameplay. Love the day/night cycle!
Won the game with $31940. One of the most fun games I've played. There's an annoying bug in the scrolling. If I leave the webpage, the game never stops scrolling, and scrolls right off the map, so you'll never find it back.
Really nice game with a simple mechanic that's lots of fun! I love the graphics, and the procedural generation is always good fun. My only crits are that it would be nice to see a bit more "wildness" in the gen, as the different land types are a bit blobby for now. Also, just what some other people were saying about showing more feedback, ie. certain buildings showing that they are being worked at. Awesome game!
Great game, and I almost thought it's mostly undone (should have read the description first as you suggest. Once you figure out how to play it's quite fun.
Great job! Very ambitious and impressive for 48 hours! I love city-builders and I enjoy the simplicity of yours :D With some more features, I could spend a few good hours on this!
Nice game for only being made in 48 hours! I got a little frustrated however with how slow it is to build roads. You should be able to hold down the mouse and make a long road faster.
I liked the game. It was very easy to box in myself when I put down lumber mills. Also why only 1 person per house? It felt like I quickly started having to put down roads to put down houses, so my facilities could work at max capacity.
controls were basically impossible to figure out, I managed to place a bunch of roads and some mines and stuff, but then when I clicked one of the buildings I couldn't seem to be able to deselect it. Game felt overall kinda buggy. City builder concept is a cool one though. It's a shame the game lacked just a little bit more polish and some more exploration/tutorial because it seems like a lot of fun. Wished the game had some music or sound effects. Lighting effects were cool, and the "plain/simple" graphics makes for an interesting aesthetic.
It was interesting game, but I think it needed more time. It was running slow and was difficult to navigate. Once I got the hang of the controls and menus, it became a little better but I felt like it needed to be more... dynamic?
Impressive amount of work you've put into this game :O Gameplay was smooth, missing some fancy effects like people moving on streets, but in overall felt really good and fun to play. Nice day/night cycle and lightning, good use of colours as well, nice and simple.
I 'won' with $14569. It got to the point where I was just filling everything that wasn't a lumber yard with workers (since lumber yards didn't make much money, even when wood was in demand). Instead of shifting workers around, it seemed more useful to just get more workers. Regardless, it was quite fun. Great work!
Woo just made it over 10k, 10229$ is my final money. Just saw it wasn't winnable in the original submission which is a bummer, but it's pretty good now. Quite ambitious entry, very well done!
Ambitious, but you pretty much pulled it off. A few rough edges still (I don't quite 'get' the lumber mills - they keep producing even after the nearby trees are gone?) but damn good going for 48h.
I'd like to say thank you to everyone for all of the feedback! I'm very much considering expanding this idea into a full game :) I've already begun figuring out ways to optimize it further and new features to add. So thanks for the positive reinforcement/constructive criticism!
Game felt a bit easy after I figured out the controls. Pretty soon I was just building things wherever I could because money wasn't an issue, and eventually every resource was built on so I had to wait for the timer to run out.
It's a nice concept but there needs to be more risk and hard choices, I think. But still, solid entry!
Impressive 48h entry ^^ Too bad there is no sound and music to enhance the mood. Very ambitious and well executed. Bravo !
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Monxcleyr Productions9 May 2013, 11:44
Roads/bridges could use click-drag to place instead of selecting between each place. Having visible workers would have been nice. I had some trouble placing bridges sometimes, and I am unsure why. A very in-depth game, especially for 48 hours. Impressive.
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Jacques_le_lezard9 May 2013, 17:17
I won! ^^ Well ambitious and impressive. Good job for a 48h compo! For the future think about adding some sound and music, maybe allow the player to delete object if he made a mistake, and find a way to select object just on clic (and no having to press escape each time) ;)
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GaTechGrad10 May 2013, 05:01
I like the concept and art style. I've always liked the production side of RTSes and cared less for the battles. I was able to place the buildings for production (mine, lumber mill, etc), but I never knew if there were workers harvesting anything. Maybe some meters showing how much stone, lumber, potatoes, etc you have would help.
Well, I won. But my main complaint is the world generator, or more specifically, the apple tree generator. The apple trees were hard to get to (and it was constantly in demand :). I will probably play this game again though. Also, the gameplay reminds me of my evolution game (see it here: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/?action=preview&uid=11270). You did a great job :)
Considering what and where to build to produce wood interested me. If you continue to develop this, I was not sure how to place an apple farm and became annoyed at pressing key 2 for every square of road placed.
Nice try of creating a simple city building simulation. Somehow I couldn't assign workers after assigning my first ones to my mine. Seems to be bugged. I'd really like to see that game finished ans polished.
Sdly it seemed to bug out after I placed something.
Remember to upload your source so this counts in the compo :P