{"author_link":"\/users\/otresnjak","author_name":"otresnjak","author_uid":"1051073","comments":[{"author_name":"Starkium","author_uid":1050955,"time":"2019-04-29T01:13:18Z","epoch":1556500398,"modified":1556500398,"text":"genuinely enjoyed the game play here, it was quite hard. Only things I would have like is the option to quit the game mid way through when you realize you're going to lose and also be able to highlight multiple humans","likes":3,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"DaniDev","author_uid":"1140117","time":"2019-04-29T10:13:13Z","epoch":1556532793,"modified":1556532793,"text":"Very hard, but cool and unique concept! I really liked how you could tell how old someone was by the color of their hair!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"chuckeles","author_uid":"1033631","time":"2019-04-29T10:19:42Z","epoch":1556533182,"modified":1556533182,"text":"![altar of a dark god 2019-04-29 12.17.36.png](\/\/\/raw\/f53\/8\/z\/21d49.png)\n\nKnights killed my entire village... How do I even defend against them?\n\nI found out that I spend a significant portion of the game hunting for elderly people and sacrificing them before they die. :clap: ","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"otresnjak","author_uid":"1051073","time":"2019-04-29T10:29:12Z","epoch":1556533752,"modified":1556533752,"text":"It's funny, here I was genuinely thinking I'd made the game way too easy! :D\n\nFWIW, it's best to build smithies to arm your villagers against early knight attacks. Build them near where you see villagers congregating because they have a limited range. If you have to you can herd villagers in a direction you want by sacrificing some of them to scare the others.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Aret24","author_uid":"1097594","time":"2019-04-29T10:43:46Z","epoch":1556534626,"modified":1556534626,"text":"Cool game with cool music and 3d graphics and i sacrifised all humans :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"leary93","author_uid":1073330,"time":"2019-04-29T10:53:23Z","epoch":1556535203,"modified":1556535203,"text":"Enjoyable game, not too easy, not too hard. Feels very cool thematically as well!. ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Simone","author_uid":"1033138","time":"2019-04-29T10:53:27Z","epoch":1556535207,"modified":1556535207,"text":"Just lovely :D \nVery compelling. I had stuff to do, but I could not stop playing","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Joe Bell","author_uid":"1145081","time":"2019-04-29T11:00:36Z","epoch":1556535636,"modified":1556535636,"text":"The gameplay features are really enjoyable, hard to put down and fits the theme accordingly. I would recommend removing the screen blur as it makes navigation a bit difficult to manage","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Lubaka","author_uid":"1143181","time":"2019-04-29T12:38:59Z","epoch":1556541539,"modified":1556541539,"text":"Very hard but good game! It took me a while to figure out how to do things but i managed to get a good run before the knights destroyed my town. The dramatic music set the mood and i was actually very impressed by it!\nGreat job!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"MoonLens","author_uid":"1148163","time":"2019-04-29T14:32:10Z","epoch":1556548330,"modified":1556548330,"text":"I enjoyed it, well done","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"shp","author_uid":"1083802","time":"2019-04-29T14:56:48Z","epoch":1556549808,"modified":1556549808,"text":"For your ugliest game it's not that ugly :)\n\nThe gameplay was fun, apart from selecting your followers which was a bit unresponsive, the music was excellent.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"kristinnes","author_uid":"1140857","time":"2019-04-29T16:04:52Z","epoch":1556553892,"modified":1556553892,"text":"This is a great game :) I enjoyed the atmosphere. The graphics are oddly fitting in with the overall game.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Skalex","author_uid":"1143387","time":"2019-04-29T16:05:28Z","epoch":1556553928,"modified":1556553928,"text":"Really cool apart from the inbreeding.\n","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"MantarayTV Games","author_uid":"1147573","time":"2019-04-29T16:07:52Z","epoch":1556554072,"modified":1556554072,"text":"This was awesome! I think I'm addicted to it now!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"SilvervaleGames","author_uid":"1064606","time":"2019-04-29T18:26:13Z","epoch":1556562373,"modified":1556562373,"text":"It's a pretty difficult game, but I like the concept of it. I couldn't ever get really far in it though... Great job though!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Matterox","author_uid":1077714,"time":"2019-04-29T18:30:35Z","epoch":1556562635,"modified":1556562635,"text":"Awesome, but a bit hard) Knights are OP \ud83d\ude03","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"stevenjmiller","author_uid":"1000147","time":"2019-04-30T20:03:48Z","epoch":1556654628,"modified":1556654628,"text":"Really fun game, by the end I had enough houses for over 300 people and enough graveyards and statues to no longer need to sacrifice anyone manually.  I don't think the game is too hard, though it might be a good idea to start the game off with one or two houses and an early single knight spawn just to get people used to the mechanics.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Gludo","author_uid":"1121354","time":"2019-04-30T20:29:16Z","epoch":1556656156,"modified":1556656156,"text":"Good game, but it's hard to follow all your citizens arround ! Knights are op boy ahahahah","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"otresnjak","author_uid":"1051073","time":"2019-05-01T04:55:52Z","epoch":1556686552,"modified":1556686552,"text":"@stevenjmiller good advice, thanks-- made me realize a lot of strategy games start you with a 'town hall' or something for a reason!\n\n@skalex haha yeah, it was weirdly difficult to prevent inbreeding without affecting population growth in unintended ways, but I think I've figured out a way to deal with it...","likes":0,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld44\/140753-1af0d91ae2c311bc6e720a63300ce424.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gitlab.com\/otresnjak\/ld44","text":"Source code"},{"url":"https:\/\/otresnjak.itch.io\/ld44","text":"Windows"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"37574","g_author":"1051073","g_event":"LD44","g_eventkey":"75","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"255968","g_title":"altar of a dark god","g_status":"USEAR3","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"19","g_site2_node_id":"140753","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0.976613"},"nds":{"n_key":"140753","n_urlkey":"255968","n_parent":"139254","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/altar-of-a-dark-god","n_slug":"altar-of-a-dark-god","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"51073","n_created":"1554345709","n_modified":"1556535428","n_version":"448132","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":140753,"parent":139254,"superparent":9,"author":51073,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"compo","published":"2019-04-28T18:07:10Z","created":"2019-04-04T02:41:49Z","modified":"2019-04-29T10:57:08Z","version":448132,"slug":"altar-of-a-dark-god","name":"altar of a dark god","body":"A simple strategy game, featuring a lot of programmer art, excessively dramatic music, and so, so many bugs.\n\nMade with Unity 2019, Photoshop, Maya, and Hookpad.\n\nYou are a dark god, trying to gain a community of followers so you can gain enough power to emerge into the world.\n\nYou can sacrifice your followers to gain power (their lives are your currency), then use your power to build new buildings for your community. Pick off only as many as you can afford, since you also need them to create more followers for you!\n\nYour followers will fall in love, grow old, and die. If you arm them, they'll even fight for you (but they're bad at it).\n\nThe basics (most of this is explained in-game too):\n- Followers will only fall in love (and thus make new followers) if there's available housing. So start by making some houses.\n- Use towers and smithies for defense.\n- Use temples to gain followers faster.\n- Use graveyards and statues to gain power faster.\n- **The bonuses granted by temples, graveyards, and statues each stack up to 10 times.**\n- If you have a lot of power but not enough followers, choose a follower and press [E] to make them spontaneously have a baby. An EVIL baby. (Okay, it's just a regular baby.)\n- Once you have a lot of followers, you can use Mass Sacrifice [M] to sacrifice a lot of them at once and gain lots of power!\n\n![darkgod00.png](\/\/\/raw\/187\/c\/z\/20f32.png)\n\n![darkgod01.png](\/\/\/raw\/187\/c\/z\/20f38.png)\n","meta":{"author":[51073],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/187\/c\/z\/20f39.png","link-01":"https:\/\/gitlab.com\/otresnjak\/ld44","link-01-tag":"42332","link-01-name":"bugs, bugs, bugs!","link-02":"https:\/\/otresnjak.itch.io\/ld44","link-02-tag":"42337"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/altar-of-a-dark-god","parents":[1,5,9,139254],"love":0,"notes":19,"notes-timestamp":"2019-05-01T04:55:52Z","grade":{"grade-01":27,"grade-02":27,"grade-03":27,"grade-04":27,"grade-05":27,"grade-06":27,"grade-07":27,"grade-08":26},"magic":{"cool":101.91404922753,"feedback":13,"given":26.875,"grade":26.875,"smart":7.5101928118518}},"text":"A simple strategy game, featuring a lot of programmer art, excessively dramatic music, and so, so many bugs.\n\nMade with Unity 2019, Photoshop, Maya, and Hookpad.\n\nYou are a dark god, trying to gain a community of followers so you can gain enough power to emerge into the world.\n\nYou can sacrifice your followers to gain power (their lives are your currency), then use your power to build new buildings for your community. Pick off only as many as you can afford, since you also need them to create more followers for you!\n\nYour followers will fall in love, grow old, and die. If you arm them, they'll even fight for you (but they're bad at it).\n\nThe basics (most of this is explained in-game too):\n- Followers will only fall in love (and thus make new followers) if there's available housing. So start by making some houses.\n- Use towers and smithies for defense.\n- Use temples to gain followers faster.\n- Use graveyards and statues to gain power faster.\n- **The bonuses granted by temples, graveyards, and statues each stack up to 10 times.**\n- If you have a lot of power but not enough followers, choose a follower and press [E] to make them spontaneously have a baby. An EVIL baby. (Okay, it's just a regular baby.)\n- Once you have a lot of followers, you can use Mass Sacrifice [M] to sacrifice a lot of them at once and gain lots of power!\n\n![darkgod00.png](\/\/\/raw\/187\/c\/z\/20f32.png)\n\n![darkgod01.png](\/\/\/raw\/187\/c\/z\/20f38.png)\n","title":"altar of a dark god"}