Aquaduct

by dikkop

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.66

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.34

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.81

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.63

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.14

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.74

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.23

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.52

The world is burning and your only hope is to build an aquaduct in time!

Build tiles to connect the aquaduct to the mountains.

Controls:
WASD or hold middleMouse to rotate around planet
Leftclick To place an aquaduct tile (Only Next To Another Aquaduct tile)
Rightclick to rotate aquaduct Tile
Scroll to zoom in/ zoom out

Lightning clouds are evil and create fire!
Rain clouds put fire out, they spawn when you reach a mountain.

Can you connect all 12 mountains and witness the epic ending?

Credits:
Music And Playtesting by Jelle van Aanholt
Gameplay, Audio, Art And Programming by Valentijn Muijrers

Comments29

Virtu13 Aug 2018, 17:18

Amazing art! Nice game!

panda14 Aug 2018, 06:17

Beautiful graphics, nice music, and the sphere is cool! I would perhaps change the text on this web page to make the instructions easier to read. Adding commas and avoiding Title Caps would help. Also consider offering a key to replace right-click for those playing on laptops with touchpads. I ran into a bug where the tile didn't show up graphically, but then I couldn't place anything in that spot anymore!

dikkopauthor14 Aug 2018, 09:26

Thanks for the feedback! There was a bug in the level reloading.

Goutye14 Aug 2018, 11:07

Really polished entry! Nice art, and I love the globe! I think the explanation could be cut down a lot. It would be even better to explain them during the game as event happens! :smile: Well done! :v:

Mazzletov14 Aug 2018, 11:13

When I saw the game at the frontpage I was directly compelled to try it. But man, the fps is soo low that I can't even place a piece correctly? :(

Alien14 Aug 2018, 11:14

Really Great Game, The Graphics are really good. The sound track fits well. Overall really great game

fivenamefivesocks14 Aug 2018, 11:15

Really good game! Enjoyed it, the concept is smart, the music and art are great. Nice work !

Red Pill14 Aug 2018, 11:17

Great game! Love it! But it crashed a couple times. It is really hard because of the pieces that are do this 315º angle. The music is really good

Hinkarn14 Aug 2018, 11:20

Game ran terribly on my computer(web version).
Other than that, fun game! Couldn't finish it because fires blocked the path to the last well.

radow14 Aug 2018, 11:29

Amazing graphics, well tuned difficulty and a surprising amount of polish for a jam game. So far it is one of my favorites.

Bismark14 Aug 2018, 11:31

Really pleasant game ; just missing end-game detection (blocking state when no more aquaduct piece can't be added )

ImtehQ14 Aug 2018, 11:35

It looks really nice, sadly in the browser its a bit laggy.
The controlls are really good, rotating around works better then expected and placing system had now isses for me.

Gamescalation14 Aug 2018, 11:39

Fun game, sometimes i had some issues placing the pieces.

Ja_viera14 Aug 2018, 11:51

Fun game, really cool idea and artwork. Also I think I ran out of options to put the next tile but I didn't get a game over, not sure if that was a bug or just my fault XD

Loic Nageleisen14 Aug 2018, 12:34

Interesting take on the way space gets consumed... quite literally!

Great style, but sadly hard to play on:
- non QWERTY keyboards due to WASD->ZQSD (AZERTY here)
- laptops that don't have a middle button (maybe use a modifier+drag)
- laptops that do right click as two-finger click (maybe have a key to rotate)

I definitely got hooked by this tiny timed puzzle game.

MrHankey14 Aug 2018, 13:51

I really like the atmosphere and felt the pressure when wildfires started to appear. I could've used some visual feedback about the ability to place an aquaduct or not though. The day/night effect was also done very nicely though I think the world shading should be flipped because currently the part of the world opposite of the sun is lit brightly.

Vekstr14 Aug 2018, 13:59

I feel like players should be able to destroy/skip aqueducts, otherwise it all just depends on luck. Beautiful graphics though :slight_smile:

kamranwali14 Aug 2018, 15:24

Nice game. Love the idea behind it. The game looks good and the gameplay was nice.

Mowztouch14 Aug 2018, 16:10

very intersting game :) So far sometimes the aquaduc does not connect to some water source, and i don't really undestand why. I didn'y manage to get the 11th and 12th. But idea is really intersting, i liked it. Also really nice graphics and audio. Well done !

kimonoh14 Aug 2018, 16:59

Nice graphics and hard (but somewhat fair) gameplay. It was a bit annoying that there was no way of discarding pieces you don’t want, leading to a waste of time in trying to find somewhere to put a piece that I didn’t even want in the first place.

Ravengar15 Aug 2018, 07:27

Nice, nice graphic, a button to remove part of the Aquaduct when I mess up would be perfect

FireHawk15 Aug 2018, 11:35

Nice idea and graphics. Gameplay is intuitive but sometimes is really hard. Good job!

meatpudding15 Aug 2018, 11:43

This is really cool. I like the concept and it makes for a fun and challenging game.

TomekS15 Aug 2018, 11:47

Really nice looks, love the night and day distinction. The game play is confusing when the block changes rotation in another position. But very nice idea effects and lovely music and sounds. Well done.

teekeks15 Aug 2018, 11:57

What a solid entry! Well done! The only 2 things I can criticize it that the tiles did not keep their rotation if I moved over to another place and that the audio cut a bit too harsh, but these are both so minor things. Well done!

chrissx223 Aug 2018, 19:17

Loved the gfx and it's a great idea for a game. Sadly the HTML version was running poorly and some of the connections didn't work even tho they looked like they should :(.
Still a great LD entry!

Alastairwyn24 Aug 2018, 07:49

Really cool game! great premise and amazing mood. My only complaint is the fact that you can't delete your aqueducts. This made it very annoying sometimes when you need the right shape and you keep getting different ones which you have to place down, taking up all of the lines.
Oh and could you check out my game as well?
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/size-invaders
Thanks

Nehal2 Sep 2018, 13:31

Nice game. I really like the graphics.

Papaver2 Sep 2018, 21:28

Nice game, I enjoyed the awesome music and the pretty graphics. First try I quickly stranded, with no building options left, and then I missed a reset button. I enjoyed placing the aquaducts on the planet. Sometimes I found the game too dark, it was hard to find the last wells. Finding a place for unwanted pieces was often hard, and during that I often got lost on my little planet. ;) I got till 10/12.

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