Puny World

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.47
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.25
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.32
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.95
Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.47
Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.15
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.45
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*You are Ludarius, a lesser god.*

*You are a student at the Heavenly School for Divine Beings and Other Ghosty Things.*

*For your senior project, you are tasked with ruling a world for one year.*

*It shouldn't be too hard, right? It's such a small world.*

For Ludum Dare 38 (Theme: A Small World), I created a goofy god-simulation game. Gameplay consists of answering the prayers of your followers.

Disappointingly, I ran out of time to create a lot of story content. So this is more of a mechanic demo! If you like it, try the post-jam version! It has more characters and choices, and I plan on updating it more in the future.

Links

- Play Online (Compo Release): https://joecowman.itch.io/puny-world
- Play Online (Post-Jam Release): https://joecowman.itch.io/puny-world-post-jam
- Source: https://github.com/jcowman2/Puny-World

Comments19

camilo
camilo1 May 2017, 04:55
I laughed a lot with your game haha.

I'm an horrible god.

Maybe more choices and music would had been a cool addition.

Overall very creative and well executed game!
ColeSlaughter
ColeSlaughter1 May 2017, 05:23
I love the butterfly effect goin' on here! It felt like I was desperately trying to backpedal as a seemingly innocuous decision quickly spiraled out of control. xD Love the concept! Would love to see some added scenarios in the future.
LaceMattley1 May 2017, 07:36
Reminds me of the game Reign with less banquet choking. Would've been great to have more content but I did chuckle for a couple of minutes :)
Flipsy
Flipsy1 May 2017, 07:51
Very funny, love the little characters and story-lines. More content and characters would be great.
Faithcaio1 May 2017, 15:17
I granted all the wishes. Killing and resurrecting Zombiebirds to infinity.

Fun game!
Rahtainka
Rahtainka1 May 2017, 18:02
Short and funny game :) would like to see a extended version ^^ I love to be god!
Querk1 May 2017, 19:06
Really funny game, especially "zombirds", the graphics are nice, animations are cool.

I LOVE IT

(Sorry for my bad english)
philomory3 May 2017, 07:37
I love this, it reminds me very strongly of the game Reigns (which is a good thing, Reigns is absolutely fantastic). I'd love to see a version with more content, particularly in the form of more unrelated prayer-trees (as opposed to making the existing prayer trees longer and more complex). My new passtime is repeatedly destroying and resurrecting the world's birds.

(An _exceedingly_ minor niggle, but there are _way_ more than 300 million birds on Earth. Also, the comma placement is real weird on the score screen).
Breno_M
Breno_M4 May 2017, 02:31
###### *Sorry for the double post. It's a site bug.*
Breno_M
Breno_M4 May 2017, 02:31
Sadly, the game is very short. But the concept of a humorous god simulator is good. Yes for bird marriage.
yyam
yyam4 May 2017, 17:03
Haha, had fun playing this, even though it was really short! I love the idea you came up with, very funny :) Played the post-jam version too.
pcmaster4 May 2017, 20:15
I played the compo version. It is indeed short. But funny :)
k8n
k8n4 May 2017, 20:25
I tried to be a just god, but Huck Wallace is a peacock now.
Mars
Mars5 May 2017, 19:37
This feels a little bit empty, but I get the gist from the little content available.

I like the humor, I liked seeing what kinds of things happened by trying the other branches. As I tried getting all the endings I noticed that it become kind of tedious to wait for the prayers to arrive, the little wait inbetween them felt kind of annoying after a while. Some way to skip ahead to soothe the increasing impatience as that little pause arrives again and again would probably be nice.

I like the concept too, I think with more complex branching and maybe even some deeper storylines, it could be a pretty compelling experience. Obviously it needs some sound as well, as audio done well always enhances an experience.

So, good job on your entry!
ToonTeamJ6 May 2017, 00:24
The compo version is indeed a little short. Just a little. This could be fun with some expansion.
BladeSides
BladeSides6 May 2017, 03:50
This game was awesome as hell!

Only one downside - Short :/
SubWooferX3
SubWooferX36 May 2017, 04:26
Very funny and very cool game, would love more content but with even the little amount I had fun!
candlesan6 May 2017, 04:35
Short but sweet and I got some good chuckles. I think I saw 8 different endings? I love short games that have multiple endings. And you writing is funny :)

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