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Slavery Simulator 2015 by Sébastien Bernery

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made by Sébastien Bernery for LD33 (COMPO)
You are a slave trader. Take advantage of the "triangular trade" to amass wealth.
Buy soldiers in Europe, let them reduce some african native to slavery, send them in America and force them to work in fields. Sell crops in Europe. The goal is to amass 5000 gold before the year 1700.

You can upgrade Plantations in America to hire more slaves.
You can upgrade africans villages to speed up slaves' capture. Soldiers can be killed when "working" in villages. More soldiers works, less soldiers died. After some time, it becomes longer to capture slaves.

Green buttons are actions available.
Try things and see what happens.
TIPS: at first, focus on soldiers. Buy them and use them. After that, you will succeed.

Press H to display help page, M to mute sound.

Sorry for the bad english.

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Made with Haxe and HaxeFlixel. Assets made with Krita and music generated with Abundant music. Code writted with vim.

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29/08: Edit: added a link to the postmortem I wrote.
Web http://docs.bernery.eu/gamejam/SlaverySimulator2015/
Source http://docs.bernery.eu/gamejam/SlaverySimulator2015/slavery_simulator_2015_src.tar
Gitlab http://code.vikindie.fr/Sebastien/SlaverySimulator
Postmortem http://www.vikindie.fr/2015/08/postmortem-slavery-simulator-2015-ldjam/
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-33/?action=preview&uid=484

Ratings

Coolness 66% 3
Overall 3.56 177
Audio 2.71 471
Fun 3.40 216
Graphics 2.40 789
Humor 2.19 693
Innovation 3.83 60
Mood 3.23 304
Theme 3.83 188

Feedback

Raspadsistema
24. Aug 2015 · 08:55 UTC
This is actually very inventive, and even gets addictive once you get into it. Looks like a new genre, make a game like this but with good graphics?
MrDave
24. Aug 2015 · 10:10 UTC
Took me a while to really understand the game however once it twigged I realised actually you build a really solid economy here with just very simple interactions.

I will be playing this game even after I rated it
NikinCZ
24. Aug 2015 · 10:55 UTC
Loading stucks on 95%.
KodingNights
24. Aug 2015 · 11:09 UTC
Fun when you understand how it works.
Somnium
24. Aug 2015 · 11:13 UTC
Loading becomes stuck when close to completing for me as well, both in IE and Firefox
jk5000
24. Aug 2015 · 11:17 UTC
A fun little strategy game.
sydream
24. Aug 2015 · 12:21 UTC
Though not challenging when you grasp how it works, it's still super addictive. Nicely done, you got something here perhaps worth developing it further :)
🎤 Sébastien Bernery
24. Aug 2015 · 12:39 UTC
If loading is stuck, you should buy a new boat (by buying some boat parts).
Science can lead to more capacity in harbours.
Unfortunately, when harbours are full, logging window is totally flooded.
Crypto137
24. Aug 2015 · 17:49 UTC
Fun and original game, although it could use a better tutorial.
ZzCalvinzZ
24. Aug 2015 · 17:50 UTC
good audio, I liked that the stuff I could do was in green so that I knew what to do....overall pretty good
TiByte
24. Aug 2015 · 17:55 UTC
I will play this after the LD game, in my spare time. I like that it auto pauses on unfocus. But I believe in option-menus, if I ever like to turn that of.
Donutttt
25. Aug 2015 · 20:53 UTC
Unfortunately this one wouldn't work for me :/
Daukan
25. Aug 2015 · 21:03 UTC
It was an interesting concept I think. A lot of strategy games that cover this era, for example Empire Total War, never let you control slavetrade as an aspect.
Jod
26. Aug 2015 · 06:40 UTC
Wow.

That's an extremely good take on the theme.

Kudos on working that one out. Also, on making a game with actual good gameplay on it. My game's vampire has nothing on the monster I was while playing this.
Simonaiso
26. Aug 2015 · 06:43 UTC
Nice little strategy game. I really wanted to go on playing! The balancing seems off though, my soldiers that were enslaving people died within a few seconds, so getting new slaves takes a lot of time.
Sadale
26. Aug 2015 · 06:47 UTC
Fun game. But it took me a while to get how does the gameplay work.
Anyway, this game is addictive. :p
Xinelu
26. Aug 2015 · 19:08 UTC
5/5 no more no less, you achiev a aewsome game! i would love to buy a mobile version of this =)
AzureAspect
26. Aug 2015 · 19:24 UTC
Had to play it on chrome (didnt work on firefox)
I personally like these kind of games where you have to manage resources to do things. Good game!
MrNyarlathotep
26. Aug 2015 · 19:31 UTC
Really solid little economy sim that due to the subject matter embraces the theme of being a monster.
If you continue work on this post-jam some streamlining to reduce clicking (like auto selling in europe) might be nice.
30dogs
26. Aug 2015 · 19:33 UTC
Very nicely executed and balanced and great take on the theme. The only problem I had is that there is no max quantity shown for tobacco and sugar, so I ended up way oversupplying and having hundreds of both deleted before I could get enough boats to keep up.
fragileannihilator
26. Aug 2015 · 21:12 UTC
Why is audio 100% right panned?
x1212
26. Aug 2015 · 21:42 UTC
best game i played this ludum dare untile now, awesome game, very addictive very good interpretation of the theme. I think there are only 2 things that only could be at all improved, its nearly perfect (graphics, but yeahh a compo entry so very good work) sound i wished more alternating, but the actual soundtrack is awesome and very fitting for the game theme(but i played more then a hour) so i think the nearly perfect compo entry
KevinWorkman
26. Aug 2015 · 21:58 UTC
This was great. It took me a few tries to understand what was going on, but it was addicting enough that I kept retrying until I beat it. I could see this being a really neat "educational" game about slavery for kids in school. Nice work.
x1212
26. Aug 2015 · 22:03 UTC
who can beat my highscore? 128298.18248682964 in 574.096 month :-)
chikun Dev Team
27. Aug 2015 · 07:11 UTC
There is good planning behind the mechanics and the genesis of a historically engaging strategy game here. Definitely would recommend, and hope you develop these ideas into a more comprehensive game.
lemer
28. Aug 2015 · 15:18 UTC
Very entertaining game. Played for 10 -15 minutes creating slaves and becoming rich but is there any ending or final goal?
chuckeles
29. Aug 2015 · 16:27 UTC
I love games like this, great job. However, after a couple of minutes playing, the game becomes laggy and eats a lot of cpu. Not sure what's behind that.
It took me a while to figure it out, but good solid gameplay! I made a lot of money >:).
games-placeo
29. Aug 2015 · 20:08 UTC
Takes a while to understand, but after that point it is a very cool game
xvw
29. Aug 2015 · 20:32 UTC
It was a bit slow on my computer!
Great inventive and monstruous idea!
shawn42
29. Aug 2015 · 20:58 UTC
Wow. Very fun and addictive. Started to bog down and get slow after 10 minutes or so, had to stop playing. Nice work.
randomhuman
30. Aug 2015 · 09:57 UTC
Doesn't look like much, but it sure is compelling.