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Death City by Sintinium

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made by Sintinium for LD 44 (COMPO)

Info

"My life isn't currency, YOURS IS!" - Mayor of Death City

DeathCity is a city builder style game where its population is the currency. Want to build a new house? That's gonna cost an arm and a leg literally... Maybe even a few.

To keep your "lovely" citizens ~~alive~~ happy you need to keep up with supply and demand. Each building has a set size (didn't have time for tooltips sorry!) that is based on it's price. The bigger the building the bigger the size.

To earn more population each building is "taxed". If there's not enough population for that building it won't be taxed though so beware!

Once your population hits 0 it's game over. Good luck!

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Tools Used

Engine

  • Godot 3.1
  • Jetbrains Rider

Art

  • Aseprite
  • Pyxel Edit

Audio

  • Audacity
  • Abundant Music

Controls

  • Arrow keys to move
  • <> OR -= to make time go faster or slower
  • Space to pause/resume time

Buildings are grouped from left to right. The underline under each building tells it's type: - Residential is green - Commercial is blue - Industrial is red

Any feedback about Linux and Mac builds would be great. I can't afford a Mac (sorry if you dont't speak broke) and I currently don't have Linux installed on this computer but I'm willing to help solve any issues.

Source Code https://github.com/Sintinium/LudumDare44
Windows https://sintinium.itch.io/death-city
Linux https://sintinium.itch.io/death-city
macOS https://sintinium.itch.io/death-city
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/death-city

Ratings

Given 27🗳️ 9🗨️

Feedback

Flightless
29. Apr 2019 · 18:39 UTC
Great art and music. For me the gameplay was very confusing. I did manage to make some progress after a while though :)
The game worked fine on my machine (Windows). Nice to see other engines than Unity being used.
zampi
30. Apr 2019 · 04:32 UTC
I like graphics, music and overall experience, but I spend sometime to figure out what I should to do
velvetlobster
30. Apr 2019 · 05:16 UTC
I spent quite sometime deciding what i should do ... nevertheless the music is absolutely great and the atmosphere is perfect
SamuelDeboni
01. May 2019 · 01:17 UTC
The Linux build crash when I hit play
SamuelDeboni
01. May 2019 · 01:27 UTC
I like the graphics, and the ideas is nice, and I really like city building game, but the lack of a description or names for the buildings makes the game almost unplayable, unless you already know what the icons means.

Side note, I glad so see games made on Godot :D
🎤 Sintinium
01. May 2019 · 03:32 UTC
@samueldeboni Did you get it to run in Linux? Also thanks Godot is awesome! I ran out of time so I didn't get tooltips added or a proper tutorial
rosypenguin
01. May 2019 · 05:11 UTC
Great work and level of polish for a compo game! I ended up getting into a good flow by putting the speed on 3x, waiting for my population to grow, and then pausing and building what is needed. For the most part, the building types are grouped on the screen correct? The first 4 are residential, next 4 are commercial, and the rest are factories?

I ran into a game crash when I tried to bulldoze a road though!
🎤 Sintinium
01. May 2019 · 05:15 UTC
@rosypenguin Thanks! And yeah they're grouped. I didn't have time to properly group them so the underline tells what each is (green is residential, blue is commercial, red is industrial).
Calzep
01. May 2019 · 06:56 UTC
Linux build crashed when I hit play
Bajtix
01. May 2019 · 06:59 UTC
I really like the gameplay, although it sometimes is confusing. The art is nice and I love the main music theme.
MrSchlag2
01. May 2019 · 10:44 UTC
It's a cool game ! Implementing the theme in a city builder game was a good idea. Graphics and music are nice. I found world mechanics were too confusing. How to make more profit ? what is the benefit of building expensive buildings ? I tried it on mac, it ran well, I had a bug I think, when my population dropped at 0 nothing more happens, no more people dying :) first time I got a game over. Thanks for this game, I had good time playing.

Edit : I got a crash when I tried to remove a house too.
SamuelDeboni
01. May 2019 · 12:06 UTC
@sintinium The way I played on Linux was by downloading the source and opening on godot
slotha
01. May 2019 · 20:13 UTC
Brilliant game! the music was amazing! i liked the death messages too they are just too good!
although i also had mine crash when trying to bulldoze a road,
The gameplay itself was really fun and i can see myself coming back to play it again after the jam!
mikelovesrobots
02. May 2019 · 06:03 UTC
The mac build seems fine except for a crash when trying to bulldoze. Nice work!
Lombax
03. May 2019 · 13:04 UTC
wow good music. hmmm i made around 25 building, but i didnt realy understand what i did :dog:, when i felt that i had enough population i made some shops and jobs, but im not sure what the graphs in the lower right is telling me. but the game looks promising. :dog: :dog:
cerkiewny
03. May 2019 · 21:43 UTC
Haha, we had similar idea with our game! nice job, I like the idea, but it could use the tutorial and building description :dog: :dog: