life was beatiful

by x1212
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.90
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.79
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.97
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.13
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.21
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.79
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.16
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.75
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★56%
Try to let your people survive as long as possible.
Build Houses for your workers to gather food (by hunting rabbits), clothes (by hunting foxes) and wood.
You need food to survive, clothes to hire workers, and wood to build they houses.
Over time other people will join you, and they will eat your food.

The food-chain on this island works as follows:
- Trees spawn Grass
- Rabbits eat Grass and spawn more Rabbits
- Foxes eat Rabbits and spawn more Foxes

WASD to control camera
Select the type of worker you want to build a house for and click where you want to place it.
A house costs 5 wood.
A worker needs 2 clothes to spawn.
Food is consumed over time, if none is left your people will begin to starve to death.

I fear the connection between this game and the theme is not obvious this time, but we at least tried to have one ...

Idea, Sound and parts of the Graphics by HûntSt°rJonny
Code, Graphics and parts of the Idea by x1212

Font by "Kenney.nl" (http://opengameart.org/content/kenney-fonts)
Also thanks to the developers of the Godot Game Engine (http://www.godotengine.org) for sharing this great tool as Open Source.

Comments23

TheZoq224 Aug 2015, 10:08
Pretty interesting game though it was a bit hard to understand what was going on at times. It would have been nice if there was an indicator for when you are about to run out of resources. It would also have been nice if the controlls allowed you to pan the camera instead of just rotating it.

Even though the music sounded a bit strange in the beginning, I really liked it after a while.
micdoodle8
micdoodle824 Aug 2015, 16:22
I wasn't able to run it on windows, I'll give it a shot on Ubuntu later. It appears to crash on the game engine splash screen with no error :/
lanestp24 Aug 2015, 16:35
OSX64 version crashes on start. Sorry :-(
Wevel
Wevel24 Aug 2015, 16:45
Shows promise, I killed all of the animals then everyone died. Also the camera is a bit difficult to controlled.
Cosine24 Aug 2015, 16:48
Won't run on Windows for me :(
kaitokidi
kaitokidi24 Aug 2015, 17:08
the game crashes :_ (
x1212
x1212author24 Aug 2015, 18:03
Ok, tried this on my Windows 7 and it looks like only the 64-Bit release in the link with new versions works ... not sure why yet ... everything worked fine in wine ...
KingGames24 Aug 2015, 18:43
Very Good Game! Amazing Graphics, Gameplay, and overall fun!
HiVE interactive
HiVE interactive25 Aug 2015, 14:34
Seems a little buggy, but good entry nonetheless :)
darklightteam25 Aug 2015, 14:57
Not a bad idea, far from the theme and it's easy to waste resources and get stuck (for example I've build wood houses but somehow my wood remains at 4 constantly and then, it was impossible to build a new wood house). A "Sell house" option is missing.
WizzardMaker
WizzardMaker25 Aug 2015, 15:51
Neat game, the theme is not really hit and the sound of killing a fox sounds a bit weird, but everything else is rather good
sergicollado
sergicollado25 Aug 2015, 16:44
In windows doesn't start, I'll play later from my linux :(
sergicollado
sergicollado25 Aug 2015, 17:48
I like graphics, the control is hard, it needs more feedback to know what is happening. The idea it's awesome, humans are the true monster of this world :P
BlackQuiltro
BlackQuiltro26 Aug 2015, 01:23
Nice idea! Far from the theme but I liked it. Nice music, I liked it a lot, very weird but fit the theme for me.

Perhaps it needed some sort of score like total population or something. I would slow down a bit the speed for tree chopping and fox killing so you can try more combinations before running out of resources!
stevenlr
stevenlr26 Aug 2015, 20:43
Nice game, I like the graphics style. Not so the music though. I ran out of foxes pretty early unfortunately. The game mechanics are simple but well executed. Camera control feels a bit clunky, for it is not too much of a problem when playing the game.
Vaiaphraim
Vaiaphraim26 Aug 2015, 21:05
Nice graphics - I just wish I could take a closer look at my population on demand, rather than zooming in and hoping that somebody would run past the camera :P

My bottleneck was wood... I never saw trees regrow, so, eventually, even a single woodcutter would cut the last trunk, no grass, starving the rabbits, starving the foxes, and the humans, too...

It's really fun to play, setting a few houses, and listening to the fox(?) noise :P
veoviscool1226 Aug 2015, 21:23
Interesting game :) Reminds me of You Must Destroy the Tower.
peecestudios27 Aug 2015, 02:30
Wonderful!!!!!!!!!! It was hard to understand though and how much everything cost but then i figured it out. Loved the day change and shadows!
KaiseanGames28 Aug 2015, 15:36
Cool concept! It would have been better if the UI shown somehow the amount each building costs. And sometimes it's unclear how each building benefits you. But it's nice! The style reminds me of Darwinia :)
puppetmaster
puppetmaster29 Aug 2015, 23:32
Nice entry, cool day and night switch, thx for voting mine.
struffy
struffy3 Sep 2015, 18:41
I like the graphics style and changing light - that in itself has the potential as effecting the game - id had not thought of that!

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