This 'game' only lets your interact with it's world once. When you place the first village.
From then on the simulation's rules handle the growing village. The villagers will gather food, grain and building materials to increase their population and village size. If you choose a bad location then they will die.
The simulation isn't perfect yet, well actually it's pretty far off from perfect. The balance on resource gathering is out of whack and world generation sometimes goes a bit haywire. The latter of which requires a restart. The former is just how it goes. I'll fix that as I continue with the simulation after LD ends.
If you want to run it from source you'll need to have python and pygame installed. The game will run on any platform that pygame can be installed on.
Instructions: Your villagers will need to gather three resources from their environment. Grain, building materials and food. Building materials are gathered from mountains and forests in the form of wood and stone. Food in the form of meat or fish from grasslands, and rivers/lakes. They gather grain from the farms they produce. Once they expand they will also gather meat from pastures they construct. You will need to choose a starting location that gives them a good selection of resources in their environment.
Controls: n = regenerate world y = confirm village start location click = choose cell
Colour scheme: Green = Grasslands Dark Green = Forests Blue = Rivers/Oceans/Lakes Grey = Mountains Red = Village cells Yellow = Farms White = Pastures
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Icoates16 Dec 2013, 04:31
This is very interesting to look at. Is there a way to find out the controls? It took me a bit to find them, but once I did, it was a very interesting simulation.
Cool concept and great use of the theme! The progress was rather slow though. Warring factions fighting over the map would definitely make this awesome.
This game reminds of how badly I wanna make a DF clone :~) As a programmer I can respect your effort, especially the terrain generation is neat. For a game, I think the theme got a bit in the way of the gameplay, but as a pixelated terrarium it is awesome.
This is great, but it could do with some background music and maybe some more tiles, but "continue with the simulation after LD ends." so I'll let you off ;p
Oh and also, I don't know why but it crashes when I reach around 100 population.
not the first time I see similar ideas on ludum, and here it kinda bugs me that villagers don't seem to anything remotely interesting. I mean, it's mostly like a premise of One Hundred Years of Solitude, but all they seem to be doing is getting born and harvesting stuff. just once, it would be awesome for someone to get crazy and set the church on fire or something. but your name-generating thing is truly impressive.
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The progress was rather slow though.
Warring factions fighting over the map would definitely make this awesome.
For a game, I think the theme got a bit in the way of the gameplay, but as a pixelated terrarium it is awesome.
Oh and also, I don't know why but it crashes when I reach around 100 population.