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Sacrifice LUL by jdelaay025johnd1788

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made by jdelaay025johnd1788 for LD 43 (JAM)

It's a balance of Love and Fear. Help them too much and their love will increase. Sacrifice too many and their fear will increase. If you have too much love, demons will come and fix that. If you have too much fear, you will be deemed unworthy to lead! Good Luck PRESS ENTER TO VIEW THE CONTROLS AND PLEASE LEAVE COMMENTS TO HELP ME FIGURE OUT HOW TO MAKE IT BETTER. THANKS

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  • W,A,S,D to move
  • Hold right mouse button to rotate

Using powers: Power buttons on hotbar or press the following - 1 : trees - 2 : rocks - 3 : farms

  • click to chop trees/pickaxe rocks/tend to farm
  • shift + click to place new objects

Not using Powers: - press 'F' to clear powers and go to city interaction mode - click on grey plebs to claim their potential (level up special plebs) - click on normal plebs to sacrifice them - click on objects to destroy

(pleb == people / citizens)

Windows https://jdelaay025.itch.io/sacrificeslul
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/43/sacrifice-lul

Ratings

Overall 906th 2.908⭐ 40🧑‍⚖️
Fun 906th 2.667⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 760th 2.846⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Theme 800th 3.026⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 868th 2.663⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Audio 584th 2.718⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Humor 577th 2.722⭐ 38🧑‍⚖️
Mood 881th 2.705⭐ 41🧑‍⚖️
Given 36🗳️ 49🗨️

Feedback

Alastairwyn
04. Dec 2018 · 05:17 UTC
Really cool idea! The sound was pretty good, and the controls were a bit annoying but still fine. My only complaint is the fact that there is no cap to how many things you can place, so you can just spam a random object the slow time down and sacrifice a lot of people, without any consequence.
🎤 jdelaay025johnd1788
04. Dec 2018 · 14:48 UTC
@alastairwyn You're absolutely right. Limiting items is something I'm definitely going to do. But not with a standard limit (maxnumtrees = 200; LUL) I'm going to make the game tile based so you can only place that one tree or that one rock or that one farm. That way, you still have uncapped resources, only limited by space. I don't really know what to do about the controls. I tried to make it similar to other games like this. the only part I couldn't do properly was the zooming. I could probably stand to smooth out the movement and rotation as well.
DrSkort
04. Dec 2018 · 18:54 UTC
This game is great and has a lot of potential. I like the little citizens which are moving around and trying to do stuff. And I totally get the rome reference ( pleb = plebus = a class of lower educated and poor citizens in rome). The game looks a bit unpolished without music many graphics etc. and you can fly out of the world ( I saw that interesting room under the world ). But all in all it is really cool. I see the work you put in here and you can create a full game from this seed. Good Job :)
Adrian Guevara
04. Dec 2018 · 19:19 UTC
Firstly the idea it's good but de design could be improved. The controls aren't family friendly, for example, why do I have to change between tree, rock and farm to break them?.

In relation to the graphics I like the kind of graphics you are trying to do, the people looks good, but there are a lot of things that need to be better.

In conclusion if it's only one person, I think there are a lot of work in here and I apreciate that. But I have to say that it's too ambitious for one person.
🎤 jdelaay025johnd1788
04. Dec 2018 · 23:27 UTC
@drskort thanks so much. Yeah it definitely has potential.Yes I definitely need to limit the camera. Yeah. The room under has a special use. One day it will be in use. And the full game will definitely happen!!
🎤 jdelaay025johnd1788
04. Dec 2018 · 23:34 UTC
@adrian-guevara thanks so much for the feedback. Yeah the controls are pretty standard in 3D modelling software and are similar to those in Unity lol bit of an oversight on my part. Great suggestion to make breaking the farms,rocks,and trees regardless of what's selected. The placement is a bit more tricky but I think i have a solution for that. some kind of selection can appear when you hold shift and you chose which one you want to place. but the breaking should work regardless. and yes It's just me making the game. Much too ambitious I agree. But I went for it and got pretty deep into it. And now I just want to keep going. Thanks for the feedback!!
ruddgasm
04. Dec 2018 · 23:53 UTC
Interesting game. I was a little confused on what the overall objective was, it wasnt super clear. The overall controls were a bit muddled. I had to keep looking at the controls to figure out what I was doing. Another thing that I noticed was the people kept gathering in large groups in the corners of the map and would start to bug out if too many were there. Once those things got out of the way it was enjoyable it just needs that extra step to be taken. Overall I liked the concept and I think you made good use of the theme.
Cristiano T.
05. Dec 2018 · 01:35 UTC
Very cool concept of the game, diferent game play with a good idea ! CongratulationS!
Rytannic
05. Dec 2018 · 07:25 UTC
I enjoyed the game. Art style was cute and the concept is sound. One problem I had was that it felt like the camera moves too slowly. I also didn't really know what my end goal was. Perhaps if there were some missions or something to work against...

All in all, great work! :)
saoi-games
05. Dec 2018 · 08:28 UTC
Thank you for sharing your game with me. I played it on my stream tonight at https://www.twitch.tv/saoigames

I have rated your game, but all of my feedback was captured in the stream.

You can hear my comments in the archive at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/344864136
py_g
05. Dec 2018 · 09:34 UTC
such a creepy face
PopDaddyGames
05. Dec 2018 · 10:30 UTC
You made a great little game- hope you can add some more graphically in your next entry! :)
StratosKakalis
05. Dec 2018 · 16:35 UTC
Hahahahahahahahaha try placing a farm block under a citizen and watch what happens... that made my day! Cool game, unfortunately it feels unfinished or at least non polished. A cool concept though, I actually had a lot of fun playing it!
Zarqus99
05. Dec 2018 · 17:28 UTC
OMG I LOVE THIS GAME. Till now it's the best game i've try. I suggest to u to continue dev to this game bc it's very good :D
Pat Farnach
05. Dec 2018 · 21:16 UTC
Fun concept around balancing sacrificing versing maintaining power. It feels a little unpolished graphically and some adaptive audio would really sell the changing moods of the gods. I hope you keep working on it and keep up the good work!
FDR
05. Dec 2018 · 23:30 UTC
I enjoyed being a ruthless god and only sacrificing the plebs! Well done!
ursagames
06. Dec 2018 · 08:51 UTC
Your game was played on my stream ( twitch.tv/ursagames ) for the second day of Ludum Dare streams - you can find the timestamp of your game here: https://goo.gl/N2rkr8
sorlok
07. Dec 2018 · 04:42 UTC
Interesting take on a city-building sim. The theme felt a bit forced, but the mechanics were pretty good. It was unclear to me when the game was "done" --I got to 5,000 points, but wasn't sure what to do after (although I might have missed something somewhere). Hand animations were surprisingly choppy, since the rest of the game ran very smooth!
LukeL
09. Dec 2018 · 17:38 UTC
Hmm, nice idea, reminds me of black and white game abit :)
Abit odd how citizens go to the edge of the map and just stand there though xD
huf0001
10. Dec 2018 · 03:54 UTC
Was a bit confused on the controls at first and how to put stuff down and whatnot. Looks nice and clean, nice sound effects.
🎤 jdelaay025johnd1788
10. Dec 2018 · 16:03 UTC
@ruddgasm there was no objective honestly!! lol I was just trying to get the shell of a game i eventually want to create to work. I have some of the basics now. And found out there is a bug in the game that makes all of my little plebs run along the side of the map because they couldn't figure out their pathing lol
🎤 jdelaay025johnd1788
10. Dec 2018 · 16:04 UTC
@rytannic thank you!! Yeah, there is no goal in the version you played. Sorry. I tried but couldn't work one in there in time. With that being said, I'm working on a version of the game with a solid goal.
🎤 jdelaay025johnd1788
10. Dec 2018 · 16:05 UTC
@py-g LUL sorry!!
🎤 jdelaay025johnd1788
10. Dec 2018 · 16:06 UTC
@popdaddygames thank you for that. I eventually want to get someone to model things for me but still keep the lo-poly style going. but yeah, this game will continue development and eventually release!!
🎤 jdelaay025johnd1788
10. Dec 2018 · 16:07 UTC
@stratoskakalis I haven't tried that specifically but I'm thinking they go crazy because you cut a whole in the pathing system from under them!! LUL I have to try it!!
🎤 jdelaay025johnd1788
10. Dec 2018 · 16:08 UTC
@zarqus99 THANK YOU!! I will try and continue making it better so it can actually live up to that awesome statement
🎤 jdelaay025johnd1788
10. Dec 2018 · 16:10 UTC
@pat-farnach definitely right. It is very unfinished and unpolished. I wish I had more time to figure out the different aspects that I wanted to polish. I will definitely be working on it more and it will eventually release as a full game
🎤 jdelaay025johnd1788
10. Dec 2018 · 16:10 UTC
@fdr LUL well. That's apart of it so, cool lol
🎤 jdelaay025johnd1788
10. Dec 2018 · 16:12 UTC
@sorlok I wanted to try and make the hand feel scary. It didn't work LUL but yeah, the over 5,000 is something i didn't even think about. lol and there was honestly no goal at the time of posting. That has sense changed and I will eventually put up a much more polished version
🎤 jdelaay025johnd1788
10. Dec 2018 · 16:14 UTC
@lukel yes you found the notorious bug that i didn't even know was in the game until I watched @saoi-games play it on stream LUL It was awful / hilarious. I've since fixed that issue by making the things you spawn not cut a whole in the navigation mesh.
🎤 jdelaay025johnd1788
10. Dec 2018 · 16:15 UTC
@huf0001 yeah. the controls are a bit rough. I'm working on that in my free time after work. I learned so much from this feed back. Thank you all for the help
Hi Im Greg
11. Dec 2018 · 22:32 UTC
This game made me question the futility of life. Interesting game, reminded me of black and white.
🎤 jdelaay025johnd1788
12. Dec 2018 · 15:05 UTC
@hi-im-greg LUL sorry. Didn't mean to do that lol But it was definitely fun to make. Had a hard time balancing things but ultimately, a game jam game that will continue to be developed and released one day!!!
HDugmag
23. Dec 2018 · 20:51 UTC
Really cool game, the theme implementation was well-executed and the graphics were appropriate. Well done! But I had no idea how to increase the influence and was clueless to what the number under Fear/Love meant :(
dcrdro
25. Dec 2018 · 17:30 UTC
Funny farm simulator, but after a while it gets boring :/
🎤 jdelaay025johnd1788
26. Dec 2018 · 03:54 UTC
@hdugmag thanks for playing, yeah the number under fear and love was supposed to be the balance between them loving or fearing you too much. But the fact that I didn't differentiate between when you're in fear or love got very confusing. even for me lol
Thanks for the complements!!
🎤 jdelaay025johnd1788
26. Dec 2018 · 03:56 UTC
@dcrdro thanks for playing. Yeah I definitely needed to add some more mechanics in there that create a bit more long game for the player. Once you figure out how to balance things, it definitely doesn't hold up as a solid game. I'll try and work on that