Pixel Nations by purenickery

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made by purenickery for LD34 (COMPO)
Pixel Nations is a randomly generated turn-based strategy game where you control a budding nation amidst a slew of moderately developed countries. Noting their distinct weaknesses, you've decided to take over the whole world as your own. Grow from a small little capital city to encompass the whole globe!

-Right click to scroll around the map (or use WASD if you want to break just using the 2 mouse buttons ;) )

World Sizes
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-Small (recommended, quick loading time, quicker play time)
-Medium (a little bit longer to load and play)
-Huge (not recommended, takes a very long time to load initially and in-between turns. It is pretty cool though)

Buildings
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Place a building down when you have the money and resources to buy it. Then, get a laborer over there to finish it off. The laborer must have all of his moves left in order to Construct it though.
-Geostation: use this to study the area for resources. Areas with a lot of iron will show up red.
-Mine: mines up the iron under the ground for you to use. Place these where a geostation shows a red spot.
-Barracks: produces good units for you to destroy your enemies. You need iron to build one though.

Units
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You begin the game with 2 grunts, a laborer, and a scout
-Scout: can move very quickly but cannot attack or defend
-Grunt: the very basic combat unit
-Laborer: use to build roads (let you move faster), build farms (gives you good to support your army), and to construct buildings
-Brute: better attack unit from a barracks
-Militia: better defensive unit


Move onto an enemies town in order to destroy it. Try to cover at least 70% of the total land area!



Made with LibGDX, MSPaint, and FruityLoops.

If you want to follow any of my other adventures, just hit me up on Twitter! (@purenickery)

Ratings

Coolness 50% 3
Overall 4.04 40
Audio 3.92 43
Fun 3.60 184
Graphics 3.85 147
Humor 2.42 454
Innovation 3.76 131
Mood 3.70 102
Theme 3.80 428

Feedback

Piepenguin1995
14. Dec 2015 · 06:52 UTC
Seriously impressive for only 48 hours!
BoUnDtOtHeEaRtH
14. Dec 2015 · 06:58 UTC
I'm running this on a mac but its not working. The awesome music fades in nicely but its just a black screen. Would love to try this game out (especially after hearing the music)
beastletsplay
14. Dec 2015 · 07:05 UTC
Great game, but a little complicated and cluttered for how the ui is set out. The music is fantastic btw.
Chubb1337
14. Dec 2015 · 07:11 UTC
Pros:
-Good music, nice and relaxing
-Good looking game
-Very impressive to have made in only 48 hours.

Cons:
-It takes a long while before I sort of understood what to do
-I dislike have to control each and every one of the 'people' individually.
-It crashed when I tried to build a barracks
pinion
14. Dec 2015 · 07:52 UTC
Like the graphics style, love the music.

Didn't really understand the game though, maybe that's just me but I didn't know what the red outlines and blue outlines meant.

Also I got a crash very often when trying to build. I think it was if I select 'build' then the building, then move the green square into the darkness.

Impressed you created so much though.
Bogden
14. Dec 2015 · 08:12 UTC
Crashed a few times, but super impressive game with what I've seen. The music is amazing for something you did in just 48 hours!
Piscythe
14. Dec 2015 · 18:46 UTC
This looks really cool. There are a few big issues here, though. First, it could use a bit more instruction - no where in or out of game is it mentioned that you can increase Yellow income, and I never figured out how to use the geostation. Second, either I'm missing something, or units take forever to produce. I never actually managed to make a new unit. That was also because of 3), the game keeps crashing. It's really cool that you made a good-looking turn-based strategy game, but I can't get anywhere because of the crashes. I'd like to see a bugfixed post-compo version.
Darkflint
15. Dec 2015 · 22:47 UTC
A turn-based strategy game in only 48 hour? holy...
BMacIntosh
16. Dec 2015 · 07:17 UTC
Love the idea. Unfortunately it crashed when I tried to build a mine.
adrian09_01
23. Dec 2015 · 16:18 UTC
Civilization? Cool theme use. Growing... nations. I could use this myself. Extra * for graphics thanks to the pixels. What? Graphics is evolving!
ninos
01. Jan 2016 · 10:44 UTC
Awesome game, really impressive
euske
04. Jan 2016 · 08:28 UTC
Tried several times. Eventually it crashed at every time. It's sad as it looks very cool and has a lot of potentials. Since I couldn't finished it, no rating from me.