Intelligent Homes
This game is from the old Ludum Dare platform. You can try viewing the original page on Web Archive
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How many times haven't you heard about intelligent homes that are promised to come in the future? Yet technically we already have the technologies to do it. Now you have the chance to sell intelligent fridges as a service to homes and work places. Deal with keeping fridges supplied so that they never run out of food.
=== Controls ===
The game is played using left mouse button. Click on buildings to show available actions. You cannot scroll the map, so don't try to figure out how to do it. :-)
=== Gameplay hints ===
Click on a house, and send out a seller to try to convince it to become your customer. When you get more customers, you need to choose to either fill their homes with fridge capacity or get more trucks so that you can make frequent deliveries. Homes are easier to start with than work places but also pays less.
You cannot really win the game, but if your bank balance gets below -10 000 bucks, then game is over.
=== Development Notes ===
The game is developed in Javascript with HTML5 canvas. The only external library is jQuery. It is my first game that I have made using JavaScript + HTML5 canvas, though I have done plenty of 2D graphics programming with SDL and other backends in other game projects using mainly C++. I have tested Intelligent Homes on several browsers: Firefox, Opera 12, Opera 22, Chrome, Internet Explorer 11, Safari on iOS 7, Opera Coast and Android 2.3. However, I don't know how well it handle older IE versions. It is designed for desktop, but works on phones too if you zoom in to aim your clicks.
This is my first Ludum Dare and I don't know if you are supposed to wait with releasing sources or not (if you do), so I will put them up on GitHub later. Though as it is JavaScript and no backend code it is essentially open already.
As the LD Mini 53 allows splitting up development time, this game was developed over five directly following weekday evenings (and some minor stuff for breakfast), but in in total staying well below 48 hours.
=== Controls ===
The game is played using left mouse button. Click on buildings to show available actions. You cannot scroll the map, so don't try to figure out how to do it. :-)
=== Gameplay hints ===
Click on a house, and send out a seller to try to convince it to become your customer. When you get more customers, you need to choose to either fill their homes with fridge capacity or get more trucks so that you can make frequent deliveries. Homes are easier to start with than work places but also pays less.
You cannot really win the game, but if your bank balance gets below -10 000 bucks, then game is over.
=== Development Notes ===
The game is developed in Javascript with HTML5 canvas. The only external library is jQuery. It is my first game that I have made using JavaScript + HTML5 canvas, though I have done plenty of 2D graphics programming with SDL and other backends in other game projects using mainly C++. I have tested Intelligent Homes on several browsers: Firefox, Opera 12, Opera 22, Chrome, Internet Explorer 11, Safari on iOS 7, Opera Coast and Android 2.3. However, I don't know how well it handle older IE versions. It is designed for desktop, but works on phones too if you zoom in to aim your clicks.
This is my first Ludum Dare and I don't know if you are supposed to wait with releasing sources or not (if you do), so I will put them up on GitHub later. Though as it is JavaScript and no backend code it is essentially open already.
As the LD Mini 53 allows splitting up development time, this game was developed over five directly following weekday evenings (and some minor stuff for breakfast), but in in total staying well below 48 hours.