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Ludum Dare #51compo

Airport

by grilladroid
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.33
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.08
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.60
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.71
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.92
Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.82
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.40
#### A creative/tycoon/sandbox game, where the player creates an airport for a busy city into sea.

:airplane_arriving: :airplane: :airplane_small: :airplane_departure: :airplane_arriving: :airplane: :airplane_small: :airplane_departure: :airplane_arriving: :airplane: :airplane_small: :airplane_departure: :airplane_arriving: :airplane: :airplane_small: :airplane_departure: :airplane_arriving: :airplane: :airplane_small: :airplane_departure:

#### Can you build and optimize the airport so that it can receive _every plane_ arriving _every ten seconds_?

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#### Known problems/limitations

- :airplane_small: Please draw runways from left to right. :pencil2: :slight_smile:
- :airplane_small: When taxiing, planes sometimes go onto a reserved runway. :sweat_smile: :boom:
- :sound: I ran out of time, so I cut out all audio from this project. :sweat: :hear_no_evil:

Comments38

LDJam user 2969172 Oct 2022, 16:38
It's a really wonderful game, but after I built my third runway, a plane stuck on the third runway's entrance.
And the third runway was occupied forever.
thegamearchitect3 Oct 2022, 10:53
An interesting idea, rather annoying how you cant build in an area if youve accidentally added a single square in there already. This would be a cool game to play without the theme aswell!
LDJam user 226027author3 Oct 2022, 10:57
Thanks! I didn't make it to bulldoze tool in my task list. :slight_smile: Consider it a permadeath sandbox, then!
fnelix3 Oct 2022, 11:10
Cool idea, fun little builder! Would like to see this fleshed out!
Izzet3 Oct 2022, 11:40
Yeah, I second the plane sticking to the beginning of the runway (for me it occurred for both third and fourth runway). Maybe something to do with them being connected by a taxiway corner? Anyway, good effort for compo.
LDJam user 174638
LDJam user 1746383 Oct 2022, 19:01
Great game, it took me a bit to understand what I was doing wrong at first but when I got it, it was a pretty fun idle game.
I can see this being a great "Airport tycoon" with more polish. :D
BridgeOnAStick
BridgeOnAStick3 Oct 2022, 21:29
nice game. It's a lot of idle time before you can really start adding more stuff. It's a nice idea.
SageWare
SageWare4 Oct 2022, 11:42
Fun builder with a cool premise. I wish you success as you advance with this game after LD. I really think you should continue it further.
LDJam user 2333474 Oct 2022, 14:07
Fun game, but hard to start.. at least it took me a while to get started.
Too bad about the audio, but hey, it's a compo :slight_smile:
busisen
busisen4 Oct 2022, 14:27
I dig the idea. Didn't really understand what I was meant to do at first but once I did it was enjoyable. Nice job, and I hope you develop it further in the future :)
LDJam user 226027author4 Oct 2022, 14:52
Thanks for the feedback! It definitely needs some tutorials or similar to get the player started. :thumbsup:
Pixelydian
Pixelydian4 Oct 2022, 15:19
Really neat concept! I must admit, I had a little trouble getting started. Maybe I'm just bad at reading directions, but I was struggling a bit with the building requirements. BUT once it all clicked I started really enjoying it. It was a exciting moment when my first plane landed. I think your game has some good legs and could be expanded. Minor post jam tweaks I'd add - a bulldozer, and I'd adjust the resolution so your build tiles aren't so tiny. Otherwise, great game and application of the theme!
LDJam user 226027author4 Oct 2022, 18:36
Thanks for sharing your experience and the feedback!
Eugenik
Eugenik4 Oct 2022, 20:08
This game is gorgeous, awesome work!.
Corporation
Corporation6 Oct 2022, 20:26
Nice game) reminds me what I played on the phone, where you need to land planes by drawing trajectories
Dr_V
Dr_V7 Oct 2022, 09:44
Building requirements are a bit unintuitive, but with a bit of polish could be fun little game. Spent way too long playing it.
LDJam user 226027author7 Oct 2022, 09:56
Thank you for the feedback! Definitely the game needs to explain why something cannot be built.
Furano
Furano8 Oct 2022, 07:45
A great tycoon game! I would love to see it expended upon with more features related to airports like driveway for example.

Good job for a compo!
Aggrathon
Aggrathon8 Oct 2022, 12:38
What a fun relaxed (aka youtube on the second monitor) tycoon game! The building requirement took some trial and error, but after that the game was quite intuitive and clear (in a minimalistic way). I really wanted to be able to delete old taxiways (when I had designed a better layout).
Akkara
Akkara8 Oct 2022, 15:21
Cool game! Hard to understand at first, but then it's quite interesting to play. It's impressive that you didi this alone in compo, great job!
LDJam user 259831
LDJam user 2598318 Oct 2022, 16:53
Really cool concept! I wish the building requirements were easier to figure out, it took me a long time to figure out how it worked.
UkuleleFury
UkuleleFury14 Oct 2022, 20:26
How can I play this? Did you remove the game link?
LDJam user 226027author17 Oct 2022, 04:14
It’s available only on this page, through the new LD embed feature. Press play on the cover image? @ukulelefury
UkuleleFury
UkuleleFury17 Oct 2022, 14:18
@grilladroid Ah, oops! I somehow thought the big box with a play button was a YouTube trailer, not the game embed!
Sparkinex17 Oct 2022, 22:35
Nice idea! As some others have mentioned I also had some trouble getting started but once I got it figured out it went smoothly. Not a big deal but there was a bunch of overlapping UI elements making it unplayable I had to adjust my browser zoom to in order to get it to display normally.
LDJam user 305343
LDJam user 30534320 Oct 2022, 06:14
Interesting idea for a game. The system for building could use some work, though. It should be possible to remove tiles that are already built, and build on top of tiles of the same type. A guide that tells you the size of what you're building would also be nice.

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