Tiny World God by Lawrence Esswood

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made by Lawrence Esswood for LD23 (COMPO)
*IMPORTANT* Move your mouse to the bottom of the game to get the menu to 'pop up'

My first entry - A space sandbox where you get to play god and control your own 'Tiny Worlds'. I hope somebody gets some enjoyment out of this! I know I had great fun making it (most of the time).

Something that maybe didn't come across in the tut - if you get a lot of life on a planet, you can sell it for mucho mucho stardust. Have fun!

Ratings

Coolness 71% 3
Overall 3.56 121
Audio 2.86 275
Fun 3.59 67
Graphics 3.13 311
Humor 2.12 491
Innovation 4.15 23
Mood 3.24 146
Theme 3.87 62

Feedback

mrspeaker
23. Apr 2012 路 11:16 UTC
That's a fantastic game! I've been stuck in it for the last 2 hours... I hope you polish it up after the compo - there's something super cool about it.
DeviSerene
23. Apr 2012 路 21:02 UTC
A great game, very fun, something I'll share with my friends. As the other poster mentioned, I hope you continue to work on it (and other games!) afterwards.
robcozzens
24. Apr 2012 路 00:54 UTC
It didn't seem to be loading.
sharbelfs
24. Apr 2012 路 02:21 UTC
I could not enter the site, looks like its off. I am from brazil
馃帳 Lawrence Esswood
24. Apr 2012 路 10:31 UTC
Sorry, hosting site was down. please try again!
Gornova
24. Apr 2012 路 13:51 UTC
awesome!
Lacutis
24. Apr 2012 路 23:24 UTC
Very cool game, I like what you did with it. I wish there was a way to knock a planet further out of orbit once its locked in though.
馃帳 Lawrence Esswood
25. Apr 2012 路 10:25 UTC
Fire another planet at it, or use the shockwave spell!
galman
25. Apr 2012 路 10:40 UTC
Great idea! If you'll add some more objectives to the game it will be super fun! Great Work.
Chinchilla
25. Apr 2012 路 10:42 UTC
So much fun to play with! I couldn't work out how to get more stardust though?
馃帳 Lawrence Esswood
25. Apr 2012 路 10:48 UTC
Planets with life sell for more stardust, get a few K people on a planet and you will be laughing.
spooks
25. Apr 2012 路 21:16 UTC
This is one of my favourite entries! Perfect for the theme. It was a little tricky to get the hang of it, but I love it, great job!
Jiddo
25. Apr 2012 路 21:17 UTC
Nice game. Who would have guessed that playing God would be that entertaining? The UI was a bit laggy for me tho and I'm not sure why. But it is a very nice concept. I'd love to play a version of this with more stuff in it.
TheGamingProject
25. Apr 2012 路 21:43 UTC
Very addictive. Definitely keep going and polish up what you have. Great gameplay mechanics. My only gripe was that there wasn't really anything to 'prep' me as to what I should be doing when I started.
馃帳 Lawrence Esswood
26. Apr 2012 路 13:26 UTC
What about... THE SCRIBBLE TUTORIAL. No I have no idea what came over me to do that. A lot of my friends had the same gripe that you have to guess a bit as to how to play it. Thanks for the feedback, means a lot!
tripleVisionGames
28. Apr 2012 路 13:24 UTC
Nice and innovative and good fun. Also the music was really nice and relaxing
caranha
28. Apr 2012 路 13:56 UTC
Very very interesting! It is a bit hard to get things set up, but I like what you did here. Maybe you should add small numbers hovering over each planet as a reminder of the life/etc levels?

Also, a tool tip for each of the god's powers would be awesome!
馃帳 Lawrence Esswood
28. Apr 2012 路 17:11 UTC
There is a tooltip - use the '?' on the menu.
zkenshin
28. Apr 2012 路 17:43 UTC
One of my favourites so far :)
Chaoseed
28. Apr 2012 路 19:22 UTC
I didn't know what to do for five minutes, until I accidentally waved my mouse pointer down to the bottom and the menu appeared. Why is it ever hidden at all?
Hattered
28. Apr 2012 路 23:37 UTC
That was fun! I didn't know what to do at first, then saw Chaoseed's comment about the hidden menu at the bottom. I was playing the web version (filefactory wouldn't let me download it) and had to scroll down to see the bottom, which didn't help. Once I got past that, the controls were pretty intuitive. I like how asteroids increase the size of what they hit; it helps keep things from stagnating.

Count me in as one who'd like to see you expand on this.

Spontaneous life!
(Seconds later, the planet falls into the sun)
Extinction!
Zillix
29. Apr 2012 路 01:44 UTC
Really neat world toy!
jwolf
29. Apr 2012 路 04:47 UTC
Really cool! This is a very fun toy to play around with. The only thing lacking is maybe the ability to zoom in and out, although that might just be the web version.
summaky
29. Apr 2012 路 12:14 UTC
Cool game, but I had a hard start because I didn't notice that I had "tools" at the bottom of the screen. I guess some mini-tutorial would be a good addition.
pighead10
02. May 2012 路 16:31 UTC
Great game! It was very tricky but fun enough to want to keep playing every time you fire 50 planets into extinction. I think getting started should be easier, I couldn't get the planet to get into orbit for ages.
MrBarnslig
03. May 2012 路 05:21 UTC
This is really interesting. The physics are fun to play with on their own. It's sad that I feel like you might lose a lot of people from not having the menu obvious - I didn't find it until I read the comments here. Making a little planet and having stuff flying around is inherently fun. There's definitely something here, agree with the others, worth exploring after the competition.
Pitoum
04. May 2012 路 22:57 UTC
Very nice entry ! I like it a lot ! Even if I didn't understand all the possibilities :)
Congrats !
Cyboot
13. May 2012 路 19:52 UTC
awesome Simulation!
I love the way you introduce the Controls after clicking the Help button, very good Idea.

Very nicely done!