Unstable Volcano

by itskdog

co-authored: @caloudon

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.92

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.76

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.53

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.74

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.21

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.47

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.53

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.60

Unstable Volcano!

Manage a village that was built next to a volcano.

Basic Instructions:

Left click-drag to select a villager or multiple villagers.

Then right click on the forest or Mine to gather resources
.

Or, click the House, Farm, or Wall button for build mode. You can place the building when it turns green with a right click.

Buildings need to be built close to each other. Walls do not.

Use the mouse wheel to zoom in/out.
Move the mouse to the edge of the screen to scroll the map.
You can name the villagers if you would like.

Comments24

Taximan9816 Oct 2021, 08:49

The programming for the systems on this game you can tell it really good! It was pretty easy so I never saw my villagers burn in the lava but thats probably for the best, I got attached to their names as well lmoa

Daniel Eduardo Martinez6 Oct 2021, 09:07

love the voice acting, and really like the building system, had a little trouble getting NPC's to listen to at the beginning, but I started getting the hang of it later down the line, great job.

LDJam user 2592136 Oct 2021, 09:26

cool idea with awesome voice acting :) i feel like something like a build-queue would have been an awesome feature especially to build the wall.

GHubert6 Oct 2021, 09:36

nice

PashaLoban6 Oct 2021, 09:56

Good game

CloudLunar6 Oct 2021, 10:03

I am very interested in game mechanics
But when I enter the construction mode, although the house has turned green, I still can’t use the right button to build the house. I don’t know why

Itskdogauthor6 Oct 2021, 10:16

@cloudlunar you must have a villager selected in order to build. When I first started making it, the build indicator wouldn't show at all unless you had a selected villager. This made it tedious to keep clicking the build button. I should have should it red if a villager was not selected.

CloudLunar6 Oct 2021, 10:25

@itskdog Oh, yes, I didn't realize that I had to choose the villagers first.

Let me play it again. Nice game.

Itskdogauthor6 Oct 2021, 10:41

@taximan981 thanks for playing. Easy is really easy. Normal isn't too bad either. But hard and unstable are almost impossible.

Itskdogauthor6 Oct 2021, 10:43

@daniel-eduardo-martinez
Thanks for playing. I put in multi selection at the last minute. Wasn't going to have that at all.

Itskdogauthor6 Oct 2021, 10:47

@linus-szokody you are right about the build system. I didnt get around to. I first just wanted it to where you could only select one character. At the last minute I added the multi select. It did make the game harder and feel more frantic when you could only select on villager.

AnimalX6 Oct 2021, 17:37

Took a little while to get used to the mechanics, but after I got the hang of it it was quite fun! I love the sfx, it reminded me of playing Warcraft2 and having 100s of villagers cut wood at the same time. I would have liked to see villagers return to their job after eating, not doing that makes it more challenging. Overall enjoyed the experience!

Itskdogauthor6 Oct 2021, 19:54

@animalx we made the voice low so it would be like Warcraft 2. I was thinking that for the food also.

Kerrindor7 Oct 2021, 18:55

This is a solid game. The audio is great and there’s a lot of attention to detail.
As you said earlier it could do with better feedback to the player when you can't build, because no one is selected.
I’d also like a rumble or something a few seconds before the volcano erupts. That might just be because I’m not very good at forward planning!

TwistedHawk8 Oct 2021, 00:36

This is fun! I love the humor of the game, and I always find resource gathering games addicting! It's like if animal crossing suddenly had a volcano!

Nice work!

zet8 Oct 2021, 13:40

Loved the RTS game style!

Itskdogauthor8 Oct 2021, 15:18

@kerrindor The rumbling idea would have been nice. I didnt have the time for all the sound I wanted. I should have done a camera shake effect.

Itskdogauthor8 Oct 2021, 15:20

@twistedhawk Thanks for comparing it to Animal Crossing. That would be a neat idea.

Itskdogauthor8 Oct 2021, 15:21

@zet It does have a good rts feel.

jackiex95279 Oct 2021, 17:04

wow! A rts in game jam ! Well done !!

chesiq9 Oct 2021, 17:06

Really nice to see a smart game as a submission! I was too scared to have first entry be a management\sim game but I enjoy them myself the most! Really happy that someone else did make them this jam!

Quoc10 Oct 2021, 18:28

Really cool game. I like the graphics and the game idea behind id. Really enjoyed it

Lychee10 Oct 2021, 18:39

I thought the game was well designed! I liked building up a lot of units. My suggestion would be to make buildings more expensive each time you build one, because once I got enough villagers I had way too many resources (but I also played on easy because I'm generally bad at rts's). Good game loop for the jam length though!

KubikZ10 Oct 2021, 19:05

I think that's the best game on ld so far! I was getting a good chuckle every time I heard the voice, love that voice and . Although I was strongly impressed with villager selecting system, it could be (just slightly) improved. I don't like the default Unity buttons and sliders, but I guess that's a trade-off for a fantastic gameplay. I had a ton of fun playing that game, huge thanks for making it!

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