Ludum Dare #58compo

Life of a Mayor

by dean-james

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.33

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.17

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.67

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.17

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.00

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.25

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.33

The Game

Life of a Mayor is an isometric city building game inspired by Anno 1404.

How to Play

There is a short tutorial in game to help the player get started. The idea is to develop your city, whilst balancing the population's food needs. You first have to build the town hall. Then, build roads. Other buildings, when the required resources are available, can then be placed next to the roads.

What Went Well

This time round, I actually quite like the graphics I was able to make. I think the houses and farm tiles look really good.

What Didn't Go Well

The isometric tilemap was more difficult than anticipated to get working. I had issues with certain buildings, especially if they were larger than a 1x1 tile, and having them render in the correct order. Sometimes, tiles would render in front of it's neighbour, even though it should be behind.

Future

If I were to continue developing the game, I would probably want to make it 3D. This would solve a lot of the workarounds I put in place to get the isometric tilemap working.

Tags: #indie, #tilemap

Genres: simulation, strategy

Tools: Unity

Comments4

Threeli6 Oct 2025, 04:08

The music really did it for me. It added this like, contemplative aura to the experience which reminded me of old Origin games. I'm a sucker for anything simulation and my only real complaint is that there wasn't more. I do though, recognize how little time there is to get a whole idea put together, and you did that solidly. Great stuff.

bereg6 Oct 2025, 09:22

A very cute and relaxing city-builder. I really liked the visuals. It feels like it’s missing some satisfying interactions and impact. animations and sound effects when placing resources, constructing buildings, and so on would really help bring it to life.

sebbernery6 Oct 2025, 10:42

The game visuals are well done ! I'm not sure if there is an ending condition in the game ?

It's very hard to do a game like this during a Ludum, so congratulations !

dhim6 Oct 2025, 15:32

Beautiful (I love the house and their color variation), simple and enjoyable. A bit slow loop at the beggining maybe.

- the UI is terrible small on my Mac/Chrome

The Game would be even better with :
- quality of life : Dragging the road instead of manual placing.
- Building upgrade

Nice to see you have used GitHub during the development process of the game. I have started collecting entries backed up by github! I have also collected a few tricks to make the repos shinier across my ld participation

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repo name and description

You can update the repository name (when you have found the name of your game) without breaking kinks (github redirect old name to new ones) and add a description for inclusion in the list
(https://github.com/dhmmasson/ld58 still redirect to my repository)

Badges

I have created badges that you can use to decorate your README:

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Topics

Consider using these topics on your github description to make your Ludum Dare entry more discoverable:
- `game`
- `game-development`
- `ludum-dare`
- `ludumdare`
- `ludumdare58`
- `ludum-dare-58`
- `ld58`

Cover Art

You can also use your cover art for the ```Social preview``` image in the repository ```Settings```

Stars

I have starred and added your repository to a list of ld58 compo:

(Also, I am on a quest to have a repo reach 10 stars. If you play my game, consider leaving a star on my repo as well.)

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