Les liens du sang by Steing

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made by Steing for LD 44 (JAM)

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In this game you have to make your family grow and thrive through the ages. The only way to do this, is by marriage !

Earn money and influence by managing the lives of your heirs.

The fate of your family rests in your hands, try not to be the one who will end your own name.


Code : BOMBAIL Hugo

Code : GARCIA Axel

Sound Design : CHASTAGNOL Thomas

Musics : SALESSE Matthieu

Graphics : FURLAN Marine

Game Design : ESPINASSE Marine

Game Design : CLAISSE Jean


Ratings

Given 6🗳️ 3🗨️

Feedback

Erkberg
01. May 2019 · 19:54 UTC
Very interesting game! The mechanics are unusual and intriguing, it's not often that you see a game like this in a jam. The visuals are quite nice, as are the music, sounds and writing. I played two rounds, one that ended very quickly and one longer one and really enjoyed it. Is there an end to the game besides having no more heir?
RaisetheDead
01. May 2019 · 21:35 UTC
Hello @erkberg and thanks for your comment ! The game is like and endless mode, we wanted to have a leaderboard at the end but sadly we ran out of time ... Nice to hear that you enjoyed the game :)
PixScope
01. May 2019 · 22:01 UTC
I love it !
-banzi
01. May 2019 · 22:03 UTC
Nice one. I like that age doesn' matter :D what a beutiful world.
Xahell
01. May 2019 · 22:11 UTC
Hey, nice to see another french team around here ^^

I see you are students from Angoulême, were you among the students showing their games during the VEF?

Your game is really great. One flaw: the font you have chosen makes things hard to read, but apart that, it's a good entry :)
ryusui
01. May 2019 · 22:14 UTC
Makes me think a lot of Reigns. Some of the event dialogue was confusing; it could definitely use a proofreading/editing pass. I'll also admit it's sometimes hard to tell male and female characters apart, and characters will often appear in their portraits without hair. Overall pretty solid, but it could use some polish (not to mention some actual explanations of what the different stats mean).
kostasvs
01. May 2019 · 22:16 UTC
Enjoyed the game, reminds me of Reigns (a game for Android). The font felt a little hard to read sometimes, but otherwise very well made game.
Kebableykan
01. May 2019 · 22:56 UTC
Thank you all for your feedbacks!

Yes, well guessed @xahell, some of us have indeed presented their games during the VEF ! ;)
Xahell
01. May 2019 · 23:00 UTC
@kebableykan Small world :p

I was in the crowd, and I later met the team with the special plane controller and the team doing the "don't look" game.
Kebableykan
01. May 2019 · 23:06 UTC
@xahell ahah yeah indeed! I actually work on don't look and also on the feel-good RPG (merci de rien) with @bomb-x !
RaisetheDead
02. May 2019 · 09:27 UTC
@pixscope @banzi Thanks a lot for your feedbacks ! That was a fun weekend for all of us, thanks for playing !
RaisetheDead
02. May 2019 · 09:29 UTC
@kostasvs Reigns was on of our influences, alongside the Guild. Thanks for you comment :)
p0nce
03. May 2019 · 00:32 UTC
This game is absolutely hilarious as a french! Congrats
almost
06. May 2019 · 08:46 UTC
The concept is very unique, and it seemed like there was a lot of content in terms of random events and randomly generated people.

When I lost (no heir) I still had a bunch of unmarried people. Were they all the wrong gender then? Some random event set my blue-red-black-white icon to 0 and another set it to 100, so I kind of started to ignore that deciding it was very random. It would be nice if the random event outcomes showed me the status change.

It was interesting to see the dialogs of things happening, but it was hard to decide what I should be trying for (other than money I guess).

I think the hearts were related to the number of children, but I wasn't entirely sure what the symbols meant.