This is mine and my 16 year old daughters first Ludum Dare. I did the development, using Game Maker Professional. She did the graphics using Gimp and Graphics Gale Free.
Just click on the screen to place a hut while you have wood available.
This is out take on a resource management/Tower Defense game, where the goal is to place resources WHERE they may be destroyed when the volcano god speaks. We fit the theme, because we used one screen for all gameplay, plus we used a pithy name, utilizing wordplay on the theme.
I had some trouble figuring out what to do in the beginning. It looked like I started getting more wood whenever the fire stream hit a house that I placed, so i started doing that. Came back to to actually read the game description and found that that is the overall goal. Good work and grats on a cool game!
@egooze, did you d full screen? The object should be placed with the top left corner where you click the mouse. Do you think center placement would be better? In the time allowed I kept everything default. Thank you for playing my game. I enjoyed your game.
@egooze, I now see what you meant? It is for some reason moving it ten pixels below the mouse LOL. I will fix it after the jam judging ends I have made allot of changes(breeding works now, marriage), you can't place huts in water. I just have to wait until the judging ends to move it up to git and my server.
Certainly a nice concept! Given some extra time, and a little polish, you could have something very snazzy! I like the slightly morbid undertone to the gameplay, too. Very clever!
@EvantGibbs, thank you for the nice comments. My daughter would never get into IT type activities, even though she would do well in it. She use to come to my work when I coded at a Fortune 200 company. She thought my job was typing and talking to people all day(we had lots of meetings). I wanted he to see the fun is in the thinking, planning, executing, delivering something. It was a good bonding activity, we plan to do a overnight Jam coming up with the Cleveland Game Developers meetup.
I figured out that if you click on the lava as it's erupting you get lots of points and wood, so I eneded up filling the entire screen in huts! A little broken, but simple and fun.
@RobotLovesKitty, fixed that in the new version. I just am waiting to upload after the judging is done. I have marriage working(if two diff gender villagers touch they become a new entity and start breeding. You can not place on water and lava. The world shakes before eruptions, and building now takes time after you click. The wood you get for the building is based on where it is in construction. That way pieces placed during lava give no points. When yu run out of wood you lose a life, three losses game is over...
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