Potentiam Limitatam by biag

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made by biag for LD27 (COMPO)
POTENTIAM LIMITATAM - Latin for "Limited Power"

A strategy game. You give your villagers orders during the night; they will carry them out during the day. Your villagers can only perform one task per day each, and they'll each eat 2 food every day, so food management is important! Your goal is to get your population to 100.

Controls: mouse-only. Click on a resource tile (trees, rocks, and bushes) to designate it for harvesting. Right-click a grass tile to bring up the build menu. Click on a farm or granary to toggle its production on and off.

If you have fun with it, please comment and tell me why! If you don't, please comment and tell me why! This is my first LD ever, as well as my first "completed" graphical project ever, so I'd love to get some constructive feedback.

Note: it may or may not be possible to get to 100 people depending on the generated terrain. Sorry!

Feedback

Frozen Fractal
26. Aug 2013 · 21:06 UTC
Wow, this is pretty hard! Maybe it's also because the text is so tiny and you don't have much time, but I kept dying of starvation because it's difficult to check on inflow and outflow of resources. But with some work on the interface, this could be a really nice game.
WesleyJohnson
27. Aug 2013 · 00:37 UTC
I agree with Frozen, this is pretty cool. I ran into issues where I'd have a tile highlighted for action, but it was never harvested and so I'd end up with 1 of me 2 starting population never harvesting anything. Would like to see this fleshed out some more.
Anachron
29. Aug 2013 · 01:59 UTC
A nice puzzle-like challenge!
Velro
31. Aug 2013 · 23:43 UTC
I ended up playing this for half an hour. Great game!!
archaeometrician
04. Sep 2013 · 11:27 UTC
Really nice ! Love the rts gameplay and the isometric graphics !
foumart
06. Sep 2013 · 18:14 UTC
Interesting game. Would be nice if food was auto-collecting (tired of trailing down every pile again :)
🎤 biag
07. Sep 2013 · 19:03 UTC
Just checked this page- didn't expect anyone to see it, so I definitely wasn't expecting comments! Thanks for the feedback!
LTyrosine
08. Sep 2013 · 18:43 UTC
This game is amazing!!!
One of my favorites.
Playing 30 minutes reached 61 population. No more stones to build houses. Some notes:

* Resources on map border sometimes cannot be harvested
* Its not clear on instructions but looks like a worker is used on harvest day at farms and granaries.
* Would be great to allow place order in daylight (to be executed next day, of course)
* Its hard to get help on what building does in 5 seconds menu
* Visual indication of disabled buildings
Capro
16. Sep 2013 · 09:30 UTC
Very fun game. I like it.
rincewind_cz
16. Sep 2013 · 22:02 UTC
Really nice and really hard (maybe because I played it using touchpad).. :-) And the guitar song is just great. Good job.