Pushback Cities by tulevik.EU

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made by tulevik.EU for LD30 (COMPO)
Pushback Cities

Web port is missing some features that are in the Windows version.

A local 2 player game. Build, block your opponent from building and try not to be blocked yourself. Buildings are separated into two categories - residential and workplaces.

When you build your first residential building, 100 people will move in. From there on 10% of your current population moves in daily until your houses are full. Each different residential building type houses a different number of people (1000 - 8000).

Once you build your first workplace building and have at least one residential building, then 100 of them will start working. From then on 10% of your current population is added to the workforce daily until population or workplace limit is reached. Different workplace buildings support different number of workers (4000 - 7000).

You get $0.2 (20 cents) tax per each worker daily.

Winning condition will be checked when the time runs out or ESCAPE is pressed.

Didn't manage to include keyboard configuration, AI, music, settings saving and some additional features in time.

Player 1:
W and S to select tile
A and D to select building
E to place building
Q to destroy building

Player 2:
UP and DOWN to select tile
LEFT and RIGHT to select building
ENTER to place building
RIGHT SHIFT to destroy building

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/
Ludum Dare 30 competition entry for the theme "Connected Worlds".
The whole game and related all assets were done in 48 hours by Riho Peterson using GameMaker Studio, Paint.NET, PyxelEdit and Bfxr.

(C) 2014 tulevik.EU

Ratings

Coolness 64% 3
Overall 3.34 418
Audio 2.36 734
Fun 3.00 585
Graphics 3.32 409
Humor 2.76 316
Innovation 4.03 50
Mood 3.15 420
Theme 3.57 316

Feedback

Contraspect
25. Aug 2014 路 10:18 UTC
Very nice game! It took me a while to really get it, but I had some fun wit it. Making up new stretegies is fun.
McFood
25. Aug 2014 路 10:33 UTC
Sim City meets Upside Down.
This was really fun even playing against myself.
McFood
25. Aug 2014 路 10:35 UTC
I should mention. The installer might turn some people away, is it possible to make it standalone?
馃帳 tulevik.EU
25. Aug 2014 路 10:41 UTC
Thanks for playing and thanks for the comments so far!
I'll look into making a web port of this and also a version that doesn't use an installer. This was my first ever GameMaker Studio project, so I don't know all that's possible yet :)
S0rax
25. Aug 2014 路 14:14 UTC
ambiant missing, but it's fun with friends !!!!
SaintHeiser
25. Aug 2014 路 14:44 UTC
Looking very interesting as concept. Like theme using =)
Clavus
25. Aug 2014 路 14:50 UTC
Didn't have anyone to play with, but I can see how it's supposed to go. Nice concept!
igoramendola
25. Aug 2014 路 18:39 UTC
Interesting concept and fits well to the theme. Nice graphics too.
I have to find someone to play against :D
gnx
26. Aug 2014 路 11:07 UTC
I'll confess I didn't have a second player to test this with. However I wanted to rate it, because I think it is a cool game :)
I really like how you've mashed up a puzzle game and a sim-style game in this. It also works very well with the theme.

Graphics look very nice. All I was missing was some music to create some urgency in the setting.

Very nice!
psychonull
26. Aug 2014 路 19:47 UTC
awesome game!, it took me some time to get it how it works but it's a good idea. great work!
Z.B.G.E.
26. Aug 2014 路 20:55 UTC
The idea is really good. A good feature would have been to be able to reverse buildings ;)
pjimmy
27. Aug 2014 路 12:26 UTC
nice, very inovative
danidre14
28. Aug 2014 路 13:13 UTC
I had no one to really play it with, but I played with myself, and got the hang of it in no time flat! Well done for a 48 hour entry!
Gareth Jenkins
30. Aug 2014 路 14:04 UTC
I don't know what's happening, but I like it.
jukimv1986
30. Aug 2014 路 14:54 UTC
Great local multiplayer game!! Would be awesome to be able to play online against other players... Great job!!
xrm0
01. Sep 2014 路 10:34 UTC
nice
Jupiter_Hadley
05. Sep 2014 路 18:10 UTC
Interesting Two player game! I included it in part 15 of my Ludum Dare 30 Compilation video series, if you鈥檇 like to check it out :) http://youtu.be/oHxpkDX49XQ