Toytown

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.89
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.52
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.02
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.09
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.89
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.63
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.30
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.26
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★71%
Toytown is a city builder and simulation game for the browser. How big will your town get? See if you can reach 10,000 inhabitants!

If it's too small in the iframe, click the Toggle Fullscreen link below it. Use Chrome for best performance, but it also works in Firefox.

Post-compo changes:
- Added WebGL support, falling back to canvas2d if not available. Speeds up rendering considerably, allowing more people to play.
- Fixed click target size on Restart link so people don't accidentally restart. (There should have been a confirmation dialog, I know...)

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Comments34

Kulomin7 Dec 2014, 22:00
Very nice!
Simple, yet beautiful and entertaining.

More building types would have been nice, but I guess there was no more time.
johnbrynte
johnbrynte8 Dec 2014, 02:19
Cool proof of concept with a really robust platform in such a short time!
liamtwose
liamtwose8 Dec 2014, 09:36
Neat little city builder-in-a-screen. Great work.
ilikescifi
ilikescifi8 Dec 2014, 11:28
Great little simulation! Good work.
Larzan
Larzan8 Dec 2014, 18:24
Great job, i loved sim city 2000, you got me hooked instantly, so simple, so good :)
Kitch
Kitch9 Dec 2014, 00:50
Ran into a bug where it would never stop telling me to rebuild houses (this was after a restart).
Otherwise, really good work. Lots of complexity in there for such a short time.
Thanks!
pancakecity
pancakecity9 Dec 2014, 01:39
This is really cool, I thoroughly enjoyed it!
pixelpig
pixelpig9 Dec 2014, 20:11
Really good job on this one, well made and executed :)
jthistle
jthistle9 Dec 2014, 20:13
Love the graphics :)
Aden Manson9 Dec 2014, 20:14
Wow this game is THE best game so far I have seen!

yet somehow I feel like a monster destroying peoples homes and the trees >:)
Larry9 Dec 2014, 20:22
Definitely reminds me of a certain city simulator. I had to stop and remind myself not to play so much.
schuranator9 Dec 2014, 20:40
A really great game, although apparently my citizens don't care too much that I just demolished every single road in the city. We've gone Green!

It would be nice to be able to rebuild trees, although I can understand why that might not be allowed.

I was also briefly confused by the prices for items, I couldn't seem to find them anywhere.

I found it a little difficult to see where I could place new structures once the high-rises started coming.
Frozen Fractal
Frozen Fractalauthor9 Dec 2014, 21:02
@schuranator: Thanks for the detailed feedback!

If their commute becomes too long, housing demand should get negative and people should leave. But I'll be the first to admit that that part of the simulation hasn't been tuned very well :)

Planting trees was something I wanted to do, but I didn't have time.

I also wanted to make things transparent in front of the cursor so you could see what you were doing, but again, no time.
Meral9 Dec 2014, 21:51
This is a very cool entry. And it even offers more space to build on than Sim City 4. ;)

I really like to get the detailed info by hovering over a space. The statistics overlays are nicely cone.

I guess it's hard to fine tune a simulation like this within the time given. Getting cash is ridiculously easy and people with high commute time won't move at least a little closer to office buildings. Removing all roads seems to be the way to go to get your population really going. ^^ Then lower the tax rate to the minimum of 5% and you should be well on your way to a population of 10'000.

The CPU load hit on this was interesting. Playing it at max. speed it used about 13% of CPU load on an i7 920 Bloomfield and 182MB of RAM.
personalurban10 Dec 2014, 20:40
I broke it really quickly in Chrome but switched to Firefox and it worked perfectly (barring a few UI errors regarding tax rate and some overlay errors in the console). Neat implementation.
Wilou142811 Dec 2014, 19:23
I really enjoyed this. Nice work!
SusanTheCat
SusanTheCat11 Dec 2014, 20:19
This game is the only one so far that I kept playing for an hour or so. :)
AdventureIslands
AdventureIslands11 Dec 2014, 20:36
This was really cool simple to play and nice tutorial, wish there was more stuff to build. Maybe you can work on extended version?
nbilyk
nbilyk12 Dec 2014, 16:56
Well done. This must have been very difficult to build in 2 days. I love the graphics and stats. There is a bug however that the game just restarted on me without warning. I'm not sure if I lost or something.
Frozen Fractal
Frozen Fractalauthor13 Dec 2014, 12:44
Oh dear! The click target on the Restart link was far too big... fixed that! Sorry!
Shide
Shide13 Dec 2014, 14:25
Simple concept and a really good and solid gameplay. Cool game, I love it. Check our game, we've finally updated the link!
hbocao
hbocao14 Dec 2014, 17:19
It's amazing what you did in 48h. Great entry! I got 5k+ by 2050 :)
puppetmaster
puppetmaster15 Dec 2014, 21:01
This is a very cool game.
The sound for building roads is awful. :-)

Well made!
CoolChesire17 Dec 2014, 17:55
Really fun, but i miss some music and sounds, also miss buildings variety.
Chris M18 Dec 2014, 08:04
This is quite an achievement for 48hrs! Nice visualisation of the data, and playing on a smaller world map (that can fit on one screen) took out much of the annoying camera issues that plague other games in the genre. I wish I had more of a sense what my citizens were feeling however.
Crosstales18 Dec 2014, 21:49
Nice simulation game and looks very polished for a compo!
It has also good graphics and an interesting concept.

Very well done!
Eggplant18 Dec 2014, 22:50
Super fun! Reminds me of Sim City. Awesome job!
redoxkun29 Dec 2014, 12:47
Very nice job!

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