Complete Control by Mikhail
Made mostly from scratch in java! Except my custom game library/engine.
Windows has been tested and should work.
OS/X and Linux have not been tested but should work fine (Leave a comment and maybe I can fix it)
*** NOTE ***
Make sure you extract the game and file from the zip file! If you do not, there is no guarantee that the game will work properly!
Music: Destroyed by Russ Makiwicz
https://machinimasound.com/music/destroyed/
Gameplay:
You are the dark blue square and the other countries are denoted by different colors
Right click
- anywhere on the screen and you can choose buy and empire info
- on a country that isn't your own you can choose country info or declare war
Left click anywhere on the screen to hide the popup menu
Buy mines to increase your income
Buy barracks to increase your power
Your power, money, income, and # of tiles you have will all be taken account for when deciding if you win the war.
Goal:
Conquer all of the countries
-The game is pretty easy I know
The countries will, over time, take over other countries which will make it harder to conquer them.
*** Bug Fixes***
When store/empire info/country info windows are up the screen doesn't update
Helpful feedback is appreciated!
Windows has been tested and should work.
OS/X and Linux have not been tested but should work fine (Leave a comment and maybe I can fix it)
*** NOTE ***
Make sure you extract the game and file from the zip file! If you do not, there is no guarantee that the game will work properly!
Music: Destroyed by Russ Makiwicz
https://machinimasound.com/music/destroyed/
Gameplay:
You are the dark blue square and the other countries are denoted by different colors
Right click
- anywhere on the screen and you can choose buy and empire info
- on a country that isn't your own you can choose country info or declare war
Left click anywhere on the screen to hide the popup menu
Buy mines to increase your income
Buy barracks to increase your power
Your power, money, income, and # of tiles you have will all be taken account for when deciding if you win the war.
Goal:
Conquer all of the countries
-The game is pretty easy I know
The countries will, over time, take over other countries which will make it harder to conquer them.
*** Bug Fixes***
When store/empire info/country info windows are up the screen doesn't update
Helpful feedback is appreciated!
Ratings
| Coolness | 66% | 3 |
| Overall(Jam) | 2.70 | 993 |
| Audio(Jam) | 2.19 | 697 |
| Fun(Jam) | 2.82 | 783 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 1.73 | 1019 |
| Humor(Jam) | 1.52 | 852 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 2.76 | 757 |
| Mood(Jam) | 2.59 | 888 |
| Theme(Jam) | 3.45 | 712 |
Iterate some more and this might become something very addictive :D
I liked the simple colorful graphics too heh.
In my opinion, what you need to improve for next jam is your feedbacks, get a more immersive tool than a droplist, polish the HUD, and probably work on the performance, and you'll ship the next TotalEmpire ;)
Overall a brave concept needing some polish.
Currently the game is:
1- spend 1 minute buying/waiting for resources
2- declare war on smallest empire, repeat.
Maybe that could be solved with an AI that reacts faster than the current, I'm not sure.
I did run into a bug, if I clicked out of the drop down menu, sometimes it would leave a grey box and then the whole screen would stop updating (except the menus). And then attempted to move window which made the whole screen grey. I'm on a windows 8 x64 laptop.
Perhaps there should be limited resources, or other countries should be able to declare war on you?
The music also added good atmosphere to the game!
Really, the problem I had was that the game was too large for my screen (1366 * 768) and this made it hard to click on the pink empire to conquer them.
Unfortunately, for really great strategy it needs better graphics (actually it needs some graphics...), better controls (for sure! these controls are so unpractical), balanced gameplay (now the gameplay is: spam mines, spam barracks, win everything) and better UI.
But there is one aspect, which I liked a lot - the music! I really liked that dystopic mood of the music - I really felt like great emperor ruining the whole world in the huge war. But sometimes it's maybe too much dystopic and scary. :-D
Would be more difficult if the enemy built more and attacked more often!