A Very Short Age of Very Small Empires by ZYXer

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made by ZYXer for LD31 (JAM)
Do you want to play a real-time strategy game, but don't want to scroll around a large map? Then this is a game for you... A real-time strategy game - all on one screen.


INSTRUCTIONS:
Build up your town, train military units and destroy the evil Ork base.


HINTS:
- You can create laborers in the town center.
- You need to assign laborers to buildings for them to produce resources.
- The number of unassigned laborers is displayed next to the hammer symbol.
- Buildings will be built by unassigned laborers, so keep some laborers unassigned.
- You don't need resources to place buildings. The buildings will be built once you have enough resources.
- Click on your town center to see how many resources you have.
- Only military units can be controlled directly.
- Hold the left mouse button and drag to select military units.
- Iron mines can only be built on iron ore rocks.


IMPORTANT - WHY YOU CAN'T RATE GRAPHICS:
I wasn't able to finish all graphics before the Jam deadline, but I needed to make them so that the player could understand what's going on. That's why the graphics for some houses and all units were made after the Jam deadline.

Ratings

Coolness 50% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.82 94
Fun(Jam) 3.77 79
Humor(Jam) 2.72 428
Innovation(Jam) 3.05 497
Mood(Jam) 3.49 206
Theme(Jam) 3.98 148

Feedback

March
09. Dec 2014 · 04:02 UTC
I like this game, (I love strategy games).
If you will be developing game more you should make introductionary tutorials that will introduce one building for every level. Not almost everything at once.
For strategy games there is a lot of time required.
The current UI is ok it is not confusing.
Good work.
Kopeph Developers
09. Dec 2014 · 04:07 UTC
Oh man this game is riveting
ajayajayaj
09. Dec 2014 · 23:29 UTC
Great game but it takes forever to build stuff. I have all my laborers free and it won't build new houses.
Luke Molnar
11. Dec 2014 · 11:56 UTC
This was insanely impressive. Did you really code that AI in only a few days? wow
SinistraGames
11. Dec 2014 · 14:58 UTC
Great game!! This one was fun to play and really well made. You should make this into something bigger !! : ) Full score from me
BoaHeck_ArtGent
11. Dec 2014 · 20:26 UTC
Fun. A good entry considering time constraints. I had a good bit of fun with this thank you.
Jaenis
11. Dec 2014 · 20:29 UTC
Amazing! Really good game, lost on my first "playthrough", have to try again! Great stuff!
Pat Kemp
12. Dec 2014 · 05:09 UTC
Wow, really impressive! Lots of detailed features and very playable for a game jam. Nice job!
LTyrosine
12. Dec 2014 · 13:46 UTC
Always good to see RTS entries, I've been playing it for the last 30 minutes and won. What amazing game, first one in LD31 that I will give 5/5 in fun. I would buy a mobile version of this for sure.
ynots
12. Dec 2014 · 20:38 UTC
simply the best..
Night
12. Dec 2014 · 20:46 UTC
Good game. I was defeated first time I've played, but I'll get revenge) I like graphics very much. It's sad, that I can't vote for it.
Mr.Greenhat
13. Dec 2014 · 00:25 UTC
Impressive work! I like the idea of the whole playing field on one screen. Good use of the theme.
Slepice1
13. Dec 2014 · 13:23 UTC
Amazing, I miss this simple strategies.
indie4fun
13. Dec 2014 · 16:21 UTC
Ludum Dare strategy game. What a nice surprise! :) I really like it, quite addictive, I've played several times!
madlee
15. Dec 2014 · 00:17 UTC
Enjoyed it quite a bit, up until the point where I got wiped out :P I guess I waited too long to build military units. Was fun though. Too bad about not being able to rate graphics, I thought they were nice!
zemeon12
15. Dec 2014 · 00:37 UTC
sometimes your laborers even when they are free they don't build, can't progress untill it is fixed.
Pulsartronic
15. Dec 2014 · 09:35 UTC
Nice game. Did you all in a weekend? Nice then !! Absolutelly stunning skills :D. Congratulations
TheNewPhoenix
15. Dec 2014 · 13:55 UTC
Very good game, It just reminds me a lot about Townsmen, another game.
Shivur
15. Dec 2014 · 17:19 UTC
Very good and easy to understand.
darthballs
15. Dec 2014 · 17:53 UTC
it says very short but it was too long for my attention-span (which is 3 seconds)
overall pretty good
mahu
15. Dec 2014 · 18:48 UTC
AWESOME!!!!!! I'm waiting for the VSAoVSE 2!!!
tobyp
15. Dec 2014 · 19:37 UTC
Really great achievement for the Jam. For some reason my workers just all stopped doing anything at some point, so I didn't quite finish it.
ChrisMingay
15. Dec 2014 · 20:03 UTC
Love how detailed this is, I really appreciate games where you can see each individual character.

This is the type of game I'd love to make one day
schizokoa
15. Dec 2014 · 21:43 UTC
Really impressive!
dcolgan
19. Dec 2014 · 01:01 UTC
This game is surprisingly addictive and I played until I won. This seem like it could be a really cool mobile game.
SeriouslyCrunchy
23. Dec 2014 · 00:30 UTC
Absolutely amazing. I wish there were more of these.
Jupiter_Hadley
28. Dec 2014 · 17:32 UTC
Beautiful game. I Included it in part 20 of my Ludum Dare 31 compilation video series, if you would like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/SGfwL84KAH0
PetorialC
29. Dec 2014 · 02:46 UTC
Like it!