Population

What a populus city! #

POPULATION is a city-builder that focuses on the production of homes and (some) of what your people need! Use your available tools to create a sprawling hyper-suburban city that truely looks and feels like a dystopian council estate.

Love this part of town #

Construct roads, bridges, powerlines, solar farms, houses and plant trees. Demolish till your ~~heart's content~~ wallet's empty!

Save and load your city to come back to it at some other time, or just pretend you will - imagine that!

A true sim - witty! #

Experience immersive terrain, with fully dynamic roadways and impressively blue water and oceans. Connect homes to power-sources with powerlines and keep that wattage up, or risk losing all power! Tragic!



In all seriousness, this was my first Ludum Dare after being a simple spectator for many years. I did find it much harder than I thought and I'm sure I spent many hours laying on my bed and staring trying to come up with enough energy or ideas to push forward. Regardless, I think Population is a fun and hopefully different interpretation of the theme. I realised mid way through that a city builder is a very ambitious thing to try and produce in such a small time so I had to strip out some features from my original idea, but I hope this game still remains fun enough for you to enjoy. I didn't start till mid-day Saturday as I wasn't prepared to give up my Friday night, it's still freshers fortnight you know, so with that I hope you can appreciate this all a little more.

Population was written in C# with a custom engine written for this project. The whole game was written in the time from noon-midnight on Saturday and noon-midnight on Sunday, so I think that means it was written in 24 hours (weird flex, but okay).

I hope you like what I've made here, and you can follow me on twitter github at @solwllms, visit my website or support me via PayPal if you really want.

Thank you, and have a good halloween :jack_o_lantern:. Sol Williams.


*Please extract the game (and everything wtih it) rather than running it straight from the zip archive. *

*This game requires OpenAL for audio. If the above doesn't work, please download the very very small redist here it will take literally 0 seconds to install and means u can listen to all the sweet sounds I put in. (you may need to restart!) *