{"author_link":"\/users\/corny","author_name":"Corny","author_uid":"1009169","comments":[{"author_name":"oliverlevay","author_uid":"1041327","time":"2017-12-04T13:00:46Z","epoch":1512392446,"modified":1512392446,"text":"Can't play this on my Mac in school - gonna have to play it when I get home. I do recommend that you port the game though.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"javicepa","author_uid":"1001499","time":"2017-12-04T13:09:17Z","epoch":1512392957,"modified":1512392957,"text":"I love the aesthetics! The gameplay is a bit difficult to understand but cool entry overall.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"William Bundy","author_uid":"1000554","time":"2017-12-04T13:12:17Z","epoch":1512393137,"modified":1512393137,"text":"Is it possible for you to upload a zipped version rather than an installer?","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Sintel","author_uid":"1061992","time":"2017-12-04T13:14:52Z","epoch":1512393292,"modified":1512393292,"text":"A bit complicated. I like the graphics though!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"wsKilljoy","author_uid":"1055525","time":"2017-12-04T13:18:18Z","epoch":1512393498,"modified":1512393498,"text":"Aesthetics and sound are quite nice! However, the gameplay is unintiuive and difficult to understand.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Corny","author_uid":"1009169","time":"2017-12-04T13:24:33Z","epoch":1512393873,"modified":1512393873,"text":"Update: Uploaded a .zip to Gamejolt; I can't figure out how to port it to Mac through GM:S, I'll try making a HTML5 port though. Might consider making a tutorial or at least an instruction manual booklet-thingy because it seems as though it's a bit too confusing for new players","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Priweejt","author_uid":"1002593","time":"2017-12-04T13:30:51Z","epoch":1512394251,"modified":1512394251,"text":"Found a small bug - if the cave spawns at the bottom of the screen, traitors will get stuck when spawning. Great game though!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Corny","author_uid":"1009169","time":"2017-12-04T13:38:44Z","epoch":1512394724,"modified":1512394724,"text":"Yeah, I noticed that one after the deadline :\/\nAnd thanks :)","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"William Bundy","author_uid":"1000554","time":"2017-12-04T13:47:07Z","epoch":1512395227,"modified":1512395227,"text":"It's a great compo entry for your first time! The graphics, sound, and design are good, but you don't explain what the point of the game is or how to win. I personally find the font quite hard to read, but I'm just as guilty of inflicting bad bitmap fonts on people. \n\nThe classic game design solution for teaching some of this stuff would be to force the player to perform a basic action before introducing it to them fully; maybe the first thing you'd do is place your castle, then create a king with it so the player knows how to do that for the other buildings later.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Corny","author_uid":"1009169","time":"2017-12-04T13:57:53Z","epoch":1512395873,"modified":1512395873,"text":"Yeah, the font is especially hard to read when combined with the king's yellow or the peasants' teal. That's a huge mess-up on my behalf.\n\nAs for the instructions part I figured the \"how to play\" button would be enough but maybe I was too faithful in people thinking they'd actually click the thing. I also think that my absolute lack of skill in explaining things in-game was the final nail in the coffin for the game's understandability.\n\nHuge thanks for the feedback, man! Cheers!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"rincewind-cz","author_uid":"1032240","time":"2017-12-04T16:47:19Z","epoch":1512406039,"modified":1512406039,"text":"Wow, this is really complex game for game jam, and it's actually working. Good job! Of course I downloaded it, said myself that I'm not an idiot so I can play without reading instructions (who have time for those, anyway?), failed miserably, spent few minutes by reading all stuff in manual (side note: used font is fancy but bit hard to read) and in the end I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised. Obviously this took lot of work, so again, good job. And don't worry (or at least not much) about people who says it's too complicated\/difficult or anything along those lines. Maybe I'm just too nostalgic, but sometimes I simply daydream about times when I was about 8 years old, knew literally about 20 english words, and been trying to figure out how to play some game for days...","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Dario Zubovic","author_uid":"1001661","time":"2017-12-04T18:15:34Z","epoch":1512411334,"modified":1512411334,"text":"I love it! :) Music and art are great. I was at first baffled on how to play it, but it turned out to be really rewarding as well as challenging. Keep it up!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"corc0","author_uid":"1053449","time":"2017-12-04T22:06:21Z","epoch":1512425181,"modified":1512425181,"text":"This is impressive. Really, really good-looking. You've got style! The music's a little overwhelming but it's a nice track. Took me a minute to figure out how things worked - I think there's just so much you can do that it's hard to find a place to start - but it's well-paced and I feel like I'm getting the hang of it with each playthrough. Nice work!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Matthew Roelle","author_uid":"1019696","time":"2017-12-04T23:12:25Z","epoch":1512429145,"modified":1512429145,"text":"That was awesome! The music was great and I loved the overall aesthetic. Great job :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"valkyrie","author_uid":"1005459","time":"2017-12-05T08:41:13Z","epoch":1512463273,"modified":1512463314,"text":"Surprisingly complicated for a compo game. I like the graphics but it's a bit hard to see what's going on.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"PepperSalt","author_uid":1056703,"time":"2017-12-05T12:07:52Z","epoch":1512475672,"modified":1512475672,"text":"Nice work. One big problem is that you can simultaneously lose and win - your king dies, but then you upgrade the fourth wall and it goes to the win screen.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Corny","author_uid":"1009169","time":"2017-12-05T12:16:46Z","epoch":1512476206,"modified":1512476214,"text":"Huh. Never really considered such a situation.\n\n\n\nLet's just say once your village ASCENDS the king gets ressurected.\n\nThere. Now it's all intended behaviour. Thanks for the feedback man!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"PepperSalt","author_uid":1056703,"time":"2017-12-05T12:32:55Z","epoch":1512477175,"modified":1512477175,"text":"LOL!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"hadesfury","author_uid":"1002246","time":"2017-12-05T14:05:09Z","epoch":1512482709,"modified":1512482709,"text":"The start is really hard .. I like the idea .. really\nBut what you achieved is great...\n\nWell done","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Nights87","author_uid":"1053147","time":"2017-12-06T13:28:11Z","epoch":1512566891,"modified":1512566891,"text":"*First thing I do is plant two orchard at the beginning of the game* Me:'Uhhhhhh i think I just stuffed up' Hahahah\nThis game was real fun! The music really grew on me and I found it to be the best part, I'm still humming it even after playing. The sound effects were great too. Congrats on a solid game!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Roy87","author_uid":"1069455","time":"2017-12-06T15:28:30Z","epoch":1512574110,"modified":1512574110,"text":"like a very very old game :DDDD oh congratulation! Nice art! Can I follow it also on indiexpo? Do you have also a page there? This looks great! I looked for the games that used the #LDJAM but I don't find yours. So good luck!! I will hope to make a video about it!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"fluidvolt","author_uid":"1003056","time":"2017-12-06T20:12:16Z","epoch":1512591136,"modified":1512591136,"text":"I love the presentation. The zx-spectrum vibe to the visuals and the simple music and I'm a huge fan of old games with black backdrops. The little guys bobbing up and down... So I'm definitely sucked into the game! I also dig the minimal UI, it works well. Though I was a bit confused at first when it said \"build a x first\". I thought that meant that's what I was going to do when I clicked it. Nothing major though. I did the two orchard thing at the start too and was very confused. But I got it the second time through! Very enjoyable. Good work.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"niterich","author_uid":"1056986","time":"2017-12-06T21:27:34Z","epoch":1512595654,"modified":1512595654,"text":"Very nice game! Really digging the visual style especially. It's also probably the most different concept I've seen at this jam so far. It's a bit difficult to get started, though. Should probably mention somewhere that you should start with both a house AND an orchard, so you don't get people like me stocking up on apples before realizing they couldn't afford a house. Though once you're into it, it's a blast!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Kutase","author_uid":"1002846","time":"2017-12-06T21:33:15Z","epoch":1512595995,"modified":1512595995,"text":"Good job. I like this Speccy-like style of graphics.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"stefenism","author_uid":"1002903","time":"2017-12-06T22:05:15Z","epoch":1512597915,"modified":1512597915,"text":"This game is pretty awesome.  I maybe played it for a bit too long.  Well done, solid entry.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Shivur","author_uid":"1003701","time":"2017-12-06T23:01:32Z","epoch":1512601292,"modified":1512601292,"text":"Cute little game!","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Marc Grabow","author_uid":"1013457","time":"2017-12-10T05:56:58Z","epoch":1512885418,"modified":1512885418,"text":"Oh no, they got my king again, damn you bloody traitoooorrs!\n\nWow. I try to play each game for 5min so I can play a few but I spend way to long on this one :D Fantastic polish and I love the art style. Hope you make this a full game one day mate!","likes":1,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld40\/64154-cc6d9a92ae353c207ab133b708c4b1f6.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/chrobreusz.gamejolt.io\/monuments","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/9lboazbokjp16e1\/Monuments.gmx.zip?dl=0","text":"Source code (GM:S project of version 1.0 in a .zip)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"39645","g_author":"1009169","g_event":"LD40","g_eventkey":"70","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"222616","g_title":"Monuments","g_status":"USEAR3","g_place":"143","g_commentcount":"27","g_site2_node_id":"64154","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"64154","n_urlkey":"222616","n_parent":"49883","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/40\/monuments-build-em-up","n_slug":"monuments-build-em-up","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"9169","n_created":"1512319374","n_modified":"1512423778","n_version":"183313","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":64154,"parent":49883,"superparent":9,"author":9169,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"compo","published":"2017-12-04T01:39:49Z","created":"2017-12-03T16:42:54Z","modified":"2017-12-04T21:42:58Z","version":183313,"slug":"monuments-build-em-up","name":"Monuments","body":"Erect 4 monuments while taking care of your peasants and fending off any fiends!\n\n\nEvery time a new building is built its price increases. The same is with soldiers and peasants.\nThe more excess food you hold the more likely traitors are to attack you\n\n---\n![Screenshot 2017-12-04 01-27-22.png](\/\/\/raw\/1d3\/2\/z\/ac85.png)\n\n![Screenshot 2017-12-04 01-11-05.png](\/\/\/raw\/1d3\/2\/z\/ac89.png)\n\nBasically a more chaotic version of Stronghold with Downwell's aesthetic look.\n\n---\nBut...\n...how the hell do you even play this?\n---\n\nBASICS\n* Click your soldiers and the king to move them around\n* Placing your mouse over the castle shows you the amount of coins, excess food, peasants and the king's health\n* Click a building to access its upgrade\/build menu (try it out on the castle first)\n* Orchards (trees) provide 3 units of food per day to your castle\n* Each house summons 2 peasants and provides a way of buying more\n* Mines can only be built on rocks\n* Miners can be employed in the mines\n* Soldiers can be recruited in the barracks\n* Walls stop enemies from walking through\n* Walls can be upgraded to monuments. Building 4 of them wins the game.\n* The cave on the bottom periodically spawns enemies\n\nCASH & FOOD (i.e. the confusing part)\n* Each peasant and soldier needs 1 piece of food per day to sustain themselves\n* Each peasant pays 1 coin every day\n* Miners require 1 extra piece of food for a total of 2 per day to sustain themselves, but they pay out with 2 coins\n* Each soldier needs to be paid 1 coin per day\n* If there's not enough food to sustain your village the first ones to go hostile are the miners. Then the peasants will follow, and lastly the soldiers.\n* Excess food from the previous day gets deleted, meaning that waiting will not get you any extra apples.\n* The more excess food you have the more often traitors will spawn\n\nTIPS\n* DON'T place 2 orchards at the beginning of your game. Just don't do it man.\n* Keep an eye out for prices of crucial items. You don't want to be caught with your pants down or overpay for your troops, now do you?\n* Quickly place all 4 walls. You may try to block the traitors' cave with them. When you succeed just remember that traitors can't see 2 feet ahead of themselves.\n* Look out for your food supply. Too much excess food will lure in the traitors while too little will make your peasants riot.\n\n---\nTOOLS USED\n\n* Game Maker: Studio (code, sprites)\n* LMMS (music)\n* SFXR (sound effects)\n* My hands (keyboard input)\n\n---\nCHANGELOG\n---\n\n1.0 \n---\n* initial release\n\n1.1\n---\n* fixed the cave spawning too low on the map and preventing traitors from moving\n* made yellow and teal text a bit more readable\n* added some additional sound effects\n* made monuments a bit more sparkly\n* made peasants more talkative","meta":{"author":[9169],"grade-07-out":"1","cover":"\/\/\/content\/1d3\/2\/z\/ab01.png","link-01":"https:\/\/chrobreusz.gamejolt.io\/monuments","link-01-tag":"42337","link-01-name":"All versions available here","allow-anonymous-comments":"1","link-02":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/9lboazbokjp16e1\/Monuments.gmx.zip?dl=0","link-02-name":"Source code (GM:S project of version 1.0 in a .zip)"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/40\/monuments-build-em-up","parents":[1,5,9,49883],"love":0,"notes":27,"notes-timestamp":"2017-12-10T05:56:58Z","grade":{"grade-01":35,"grade-02":34,"grade-03":34,"grade-04":33,"grade-05":36,"grade-06":36,"grade-08":35},"magic":{"cool":131.11631996705,"feedback":4,"given":50.5,"grade":34.714285714286,"grade-01-average":3.727,"grade-01-result":143,"grade-02-average":3.516,"grade-02-result":224,"grade-03-average":3.063,"grade-03-result":375,"grade-04-average":3.387,"grade-04-result":370,"grade-05-average":3.765,"grade-05-result":165,"grade-06-average":3.515,"grade-06-result":137,"grade-08-average":3.439,"grade-08-result":161,"smart":22.390456606358}},"text":"Erect 4 monuments while taking care of your peasants and fending off any fiends!\n\n\nEvery time a new building is built its price increases. The same is with soldiers and peasants.\nThe more excess food you hold the more likely traitors are to attack you\n\n---\n![Screenshot 2017-12-04 01-27-22.png](\/\/\/raw\/1d3\/2\/z\/ac85.png)\n\n![Screenshot 2017-12-04 01-11-05.png](\/\/\/raw\/1d3\/2\/z\/ac89.png)\n\nBasically a more chaotic version of Stronghold with Downwell's aesthetic look.\n\n---\nBut...\n...how the hell do you even play this?\n---\n\nBASICS\n* Click your soldiers and the king to move them around\n* Placing your mouse over the castle shows you the amount of coins, excess food, peasants and the king's health\n* Click a building to access its upgrade\/build menu (try it out on the castle first)\n* Orchards (trees) provide 3 units of food per day to your castle\n* Each house summons 2 peasants and provides a way of buying more\n* Mines can only be built on rocks\n* Miners can be employed in the mines\n* Soldiers can be recruited in the barracks\n* Walls stop enemies from walking through\n* Walls can be upgraded to monuments. Building 4 of them wins the game.\n* The cave on the bottom periodically spawns enemies\n\nCASH & FOOD (i.e. the confusing part)\n* Each peasant and soldier needs 1 piece of food per day to sustain themselves\n* Each peasant pays 1 coin every day\n* Miners require 1 extra piece of food for a total of 2 per day to sustain themselves, but they pay out with 2 coins\n* Each soldier needs to be paid 1 coin per day\n* If there's not enough food to sustain your village the first ones to go hostile are the miners. Then the peasants will follow, and lastly the soldiers.\n* Excess food from the previous day gets deleted, meaning that waiting will not get you any extra apples.\n* The more excess food you have the more often traitors will spawn\n\nTIPS\n* DON'T place 2 orchards at the beginning of your game. Just don't do it man.\n* Keep an eye out for prices of crucial items. You don't want to be caught with your pants down or overpay for your troops, now do you?\n* Quickly place all 4 walls. You may try to block the traitors' cave with them. When you succeed just remember that traitors can't see 2 feet ahead of themselves.\n* Look out for your food supply. Too much excess food will lure in the traitors while too little will make your peasants riot.\n\n---\nTOOLS USED\n\n* Game Maker: Studio (code, sprites)\n* LMMS (music)\n* SFXR (sound effects)\n* My hands (keyboard input)\n\n---\nCHANGELOG\n---\n\n1.0 \n---\n* initial release\n\n1.1\n---\n* fixed the cave spawning too low on the map and preventing traitors from moving\n* made yellow and teal text a bit more readable\n* added some additional sound effects\n* made monuments a bit more sparkly\n* made peasants more talkative","title":"Monuments"}