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Conqueror by Hume

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made by Hume for LD23 (COMPO)
Everybody has their traumas. Some people withdraw into themselves. Some people push themselves to get better.

Some people take over the world.

This is a game of knowledge. It starts easy, then it kicks your butt. For higher levels, you will need to look this stuff up.

** UPDATE ** I've moved the game off my tiny web server onto a CDN. I hope that from this point forward, everyone gets to play.

** UPDATE 2 ** Way less frustrating post-comp version posted. You know the rules. Rate the comp version.

Web http://humespeaks.tumblr.com/ld23-conqueror
Web (post-comp, more fun) http://humespeaks.tumblr.com/games/conqueror
Timelapse http://humespeaks.tumblr.com/post/21631781353/here-is-a-time-lapse-of-my-ludum-dare-23-entry
Source http://ld23-conqueror.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/source.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview&uid=11218

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall 2.77 556
Audio 1.70 681
Fun 2.53 593
Graphics 2.42 668
Humor 1.95 573
Innovation 3.05 379
Mood 2.48 566
Theme 2.69 593

Feedback

馃帳 Hume
23. Apr 2012 路 02:58 UTC
If anybody finds a bug...or finishes the game...I'd love to hear about it.

There are seven levels.

If a level is really annoying you, download the source and remove lines from the CSV in resource/data/csv.
Krisjet
23. Apr 2012 路 11:25 UTC
Forcing you to restart from the very beginning after failing a level sadly stopped me from finishing the game :P
nihilocrat
23. Apr 2012 路 13:33 UTC
Got to level 3. Here I thought Kamehameha was just something from Dragonball Z. I like the "Washington was burnt in revenge" because hardly anyone probably knows about the War of 1812 and the burning of York (Toronto).
laubori
23. Apr 2012 路 17:38 UTC
nice game!
ComaToes
23. Apr 2012 路 17:56 UTC
Good game. I had to give up at level 2, but that's only a reflection of my terrible geographical knowledge ;P
piterlouis
23. Apr 2012 路 18:03 UTC
Funny, It would be better if order of cities were random.
馃帳 Hume
23. Apr 2012 路 18:09 UTC
Piterlouis -- I agree; I wanted to do this. My playtester said no.

Everybody else wants it easier; we want it harder :)
chinchang
23. Apr 2012 路 18:37 UTC
m kinda bad at geography..but nice look.
Suese
23. Apr 2012 路 18:55 UTC
Learning game, ahhh! RUN! Great game, once I realized there was a second level I was pretty happy about this one. Better graphics and animation / style choices would have improved this game as well as music.

Thank you for this.
kelp
23. Apr 2012 路 19:06 UTC
Nice game, tough it gets a bit tedious running from one side of the world to the other, causing me to not want to retry after failing on level 3.
馃帳 Hume
23. Apr 2012 路 19:09 UTC
@Suese Agree wholeheartedly with all. Style took a left turn and I didn't update the sprites. Wrote an .XM for background music but the decoder was hanging my game and I didn't have time to convert the music to something else.

Thanks very much for the feedback.
Mago
23. Apr 2012 路 19:14 UTC
Interesting idea, I don't know why but this game scares me in some way. Thanks to you I will now always remember where is Sudan (I was looking for it so long) :)
ReddogStone
23. Apr 2012 路 20:18 UTC
Looks like the site is busy... I can't get neither the source nor the applet to load :(
jeffreybiles
23. Apr 2012 路 20:26 UTC
Shows a blank screen (after taking a while to load). I'm running chromium on ubuntu linux. I have a java runtime environment installed.
馃帳 Hume
23. Apr 2012 路 22:53 UTC
I think that's my hosting provider letting me down :( sorry. Working for me now.
SidetrackGames
23. Apr 2012 路 23:29 UTC
I like it!
Datw
24. Apr 2012 路 01:14 UTC
Good game, really innovative! But I do find the lack of saving relly disturbing. And, those sounds are really, really annoying hehe.
sharbelfs
24. Apr 2012 路 02:18 UTC
nice game and great idea, I liked
robcozzens
24. Apr 2012 路 05:13 UTC
That's pretty brutal having to start over at Egypt every time. Really cool earth though.
marudziik
24. Apr 2012 路 09:36 UTC
I like the educational value, but damn, the game is hard.
lanoiadimuu
24. Apr 2012 路 16:51 UTC
Geography was my worst score while at school, so this game is extremely hard for me. But it's an interesting idea and it taught me where lots of cities are. :D
馃帳 Hume
24. Apr 2012 路 18:48 UTC
Your comments are loud and clear.

I'm going to make a DO NOT RATE THIS version, a less brutal version. Time limits will be raised a little, and you will get to continue from the same level after you lose.

I can't link it here, because I don't want any confusion in the rating process. I didn't spend enough time playtesting. Fair is fair.

Thanks for all the feedback guys. You are all great.
馃帳 Hume
24. Apr 2012 路 18:49 UTC
...one...stupid...line of code...
GameOverScreen:
// context.currentLevel = 0; noooooooooo
Jacic
24. Apr 2012 路 21:19 UTC
Unique idea, but hard!
Darkfrost
25. Apr 2012 路 01:11 UTC
Nice idea :) Sadly, my geography is terrible! And I did badly! :p Seemed like a nice concept though, albeit a tad weird ;)
the8donut
25. Apr 2012 路 09:10 UTC
Very nice! Turns out I'm not that bad at geography either :D Graphics run very smooth, simple and effective. Good job!
orgarus
26. Apr 2012 路 17:23 UTC
HI HUME!
Nice game, you could sell it here in spain so the new generations could be less ass than the pasts.
The thing that I dislikes a little is the color of the map.
Cheers!
spiral
01. May 2012 路 12:29 UTC
My ears hurt!
azurenimbus
02. May 2012 路 21:00 UTC
Really cool idea! The game over sound was driving me crazy. But I enjoyed it overall :)
azurenimbus
02. May 2012 路 21:00 UTC
Not game over, the "error" sound.
Hazematman
06. May 2012 路 17:03 UTC
Very cool idea! Went with the theme very well! Sadly I couldn't get past the second level, need to study my geography more :P
I liked the game ALOT!
Make A Game
06. May 2012 路 18:51 UTC
Edutainment, on Ludum Dare? Hehe, it was fun, but the collision detection on the cities screwed me up a couple of times.
asfdfdfd
06. May 2012 路 20:56 UTC
Love this idea!
Datamosh
08. May 2012 路 03:04 UTC
Hard game! Definitely i dont know anything about geography. lol
cobrajs
09. May 2012 路 02:10 UTC
Game won't load for me... just an empty frame with a link to download the source. I'm using Firefox, in Linux, and I have a Java runtime installed.
Drabiter
09. May 2012 路 03:57 UTC
Wow it's really hard, especially for have to repeat lvl 1 which is tiring. Thanks to this now I'm smarter a bit :)
AdventureIslands
09. May 2012 路 20:08 UTC
Wait, how do I play this? Game won't load and I just get big white box with blue "download the project source" link on it.
Oye Beto
11. May 2012 路 03:21 UTC
I'm SO bad at geography :(
Pacifist Games
12. May 2012 路 04:20 UTC
Beat the compo version, took me several tries, but I did it! The dialogue was a little confusing but I love the concept. Could be a good way of teaching geography if the map was better. :)
orangepascal
12. May 2012 路 18:14 UTC
some better visual effects to show the resetting or finding a city could have made it more clear.. even a bigger font would have done that.. but I like it! could be a great learning-game for kids!
KevinWorkman
13. May 2012 路 18:51 UTC
This is a fun concept, but the game was a little frustrating from having to restart by getting one city wrong. Nice work for 48 hours though.