"Brothers! Jand is once again upon us, and we haven't even begun the sacrificial bonfire! If we don't finish it in time... I shudder to think of what horrors will befall our land..." - Aeret Drazius, High Priest of Aramoor
Celebration of Jand is a game that I made in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 34. Due to a tie in the theme voting, there were two themes: "Growing" and "Two button controls". This game follows both of those themes.
The goal of the game is to command your peons, gather enough resources, and prepare for Jand by building the sacrificial bonfire. Trees are worth less resources than stone, but are more plentiful.
Using your mouse, you can left click to select individual peons, or do a box selection. Once you have some peons selected, you can right click on a resource to tell them to gather it.
To gain additional peons, you can sacrifice one peon and 100 resources by selecting a peon and right clicking on the bonfire.
Really like the little peons. But there didn't seem to be much challenge. (Btw, would you be able to try my game again and tell me if the zip file works)
For games where you're getting resources for the sake of resources, it's important to have a cutoff point. Something simple like "get 10,000 resources and the game will display a bad drawing of a bonfire" provides a goal to work towards and makes the tasks along the way seem at least somewhat meaningful.
As it stands, though, I had an embarrasing amount of fun throwing peons to their doom and watching an endless centipede of workers carrying stone to and fro.
One minor issue is that I had a tree spawn below the resource counter so I couldn't read the second digit at all. Maybe put a bit of a margin on the left for the resource spawner?
You're moan for killing peons is great. I do however get the impression that you were intending on doing more. As other's have mentioned, there doesn't seem to be anything negative in the game such as a time limit or resources being depleted. It looks like you can just assign the peons to a resource and let the game run on it's own. Specifically, I currently have 2049 peons mining the same location and over 100,000 resources. I'm guessing this was just a matter not enough time.
What I am impressed about is how buttery smooth the game runs with 2000 peons; it's using almost no CPU resources, and the game doesn't shirt at selecting them all at once. So for reasons unknown I decided to take this to an absurd level. At once point I had over 100,000 peons on the screen (see https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/87314864/TooMuchJand.png). The only slowdown I saw was when I mass sacrificed them. Finally, mass-sacrificing 120,000 peons in one shot took down your game.
I know this probably wasn't the intention of your game, but I did have a far too much fun trying to break it.
It's funny. I especially liked the scream when killing peons. Like others have mentioned, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be doing aside from killing my peons to get more -- but it's strangely fun anyway.
Very smooth and the little people are funny to command. Always liked a god game. Not much purpose to it all though.. really seems like you meant it to be a bit more?
Overall I do like this game, but I wish there was an endgame. To finish it all I did was mine enough resources and sacrificed al 51 peons at once. All that happened was I got 99 more peons.
I like RTS-games, but not idle clicker games. This is kind of a mix between those two. Sound is really loud. The graphics are simple but OK. Would be nice to have a goal to reach and any challenge.
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The game is fun. I like the pixels ;-)
Good job for fitting both theme.
I don't understand how to start the fire, tho. I have 1324 resources earned. Do I need more?
As it stands, though, I had an embarrasing amount of fun throwing peons to their doom and watching an endless centipede of workers carrying stone to and fro.
One minor issue is that I had a tree spawn below the resource counter so I couldn't read the second digit at all. Maybe put a bit of a margin on the left for the resource spawner?
What I am impressed about is how buttery smooth the game runs with 2000 peons; it's using almost no CPU resources, and the game doesn't shirt at selecting them all at once. So for reasons unknown I decided to take this to an absurd level. At once point I had over 100,000 peons on the screen (see https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/87314864/TooMuchJand.png). The only slowdown I saw was when I mass sacrificed them. Finally, mass-sacrificing 120,000 peons in one shot took down your game.
I know this probably wasn't the intention of your game, but I did have a far too much fun trying to break it.
You should mention the you game requires "Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015".
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145
Well Done!
I let them gather enough resources to be able to burn'em all. Then the new workers resume the work.
I'm so sadistic... :v