First year entering Ludum Dare!! Starting with only a few resources try to grow your world as large as you can. Making your world bigger and better rewards you more points to buy things with! Try to unlock everything!
Fun world-building game. You can unlock most stuff pretty early, so there'slittle to no challenge,but it's kind of a fun 'paint-within-these-constraints' kind of game. I really like the light simulation aspects, where tiles influence those around then and you can kind of combo terrain changes.
It might be fun to turn the timer around - each thing you place gives you build points and a additional time, and you see how big you can build before you mis-spend your points or time runs out. That would let you add more game elements by having different tiles cost differently, give different points or time as a reward, etc.
Finally, I think in a game like this the more tile options you have or can unlock, the better. I found myself wishing I could combine enough boulder and grass tiles to make mountain tiles, things like that.
It might be fun to turn the timer around - each thing you place gives you build points and a additional time, and you see how big you can build before you mis-spend your points or time runs out. That would let you add more game elements by having different tiles cost differently, give different points or time as a reward, etc.
Finally, I think in a game like this the more tile options you have or can unlock, the better. I found myself wishing I could combine enough boulder and grass tiles to make mountain tiles, things like that.
This was a fun experience. Thanks for the entry!