Antstable by kakapoy
This is Antstable !
Here's our submission, We use Construct3 to develop it.
At first we didn't have any idea what games we wanted to make with the theme unstable, then, an idea bringing another, we decided to go for a safe utilisation of the theme. Nevertheless, we decided to take an original road from classic city builder.
The physics implementation was easy with construct3, but find the right value was the challenge. Also, there is a lot of different things for beginners as we are, families in Construct3 prove themselves very useful !
Also we had a technical problem for the game art. Unexpected delay comes, but in a final rush we make it 1h before the end.
Hope you will enjoy Antstable !!
| Playable and downloadable on our itch.io page | https://kakapos-games.itch.io/antstable |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/antstable |
Ratings
| Overall | 499th | 3.7⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 358th | 3.76⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 438th | 3.6⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 373th | 3.92⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 550th | 3.82⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 395th | 3.62⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 878th | 2.72⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 640th | 3.5⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 46🗳️ | 27🗨️ |

I really liked being able to plop down buildings (perhaps not having to re-open the menu each time would've been better idk (?))
Also found a fun feature where plopping a building in another building made them go crazy, really had fun with it :)
@vicoptp Yes I will remove the need to re-open the menu each time I don't really know why I do that ahah
I got a good chunk in and had my base explode when placing a tower in a fairly innocent looking spot; some kind of bad physics reaction. I think maybe the placed building clipped with an existing one?
Second run went without a hitch.
I'm sure that many of these things were planned - there just isn't enough time - but this game could be a lot of fun with a few of these things in place!
It's an excellent idea more unstable shape than square I didn't think of that during the weekend !
The rest was planned, but didn't make the cut during the process, I will improve it further, I loved working on it and will use your's and other's feedback to improve it and make it more enjoyable/balance.
BTW. It looks like we had kind of similar ideas for a game. Except, yours has better graphic and give more control to the player XD
@denzil-gomes Ahah we think about a post apo world soooo metal was necessary and fun ! Yeah we lack time to make the balance better and the boss more powerful.
@zimny11 The artists of the team thanks you for your appreciation of the art and music ! I didn't think it was so much a pain in the humhum... I will let the building button visible all the times in a futur update of the game, as well as some implementation that all of you gave me. I will test your game rightaway !
@chargrills21 Oooooh a health bar nice idea !
Sooo, it would be nice to add a check to prevent placing building inside building and make the whole base explode.
I was pleasantly surprised that it is a building game on a wobbly platform. Unfortunately, it blew away when I placed a house near a tower. It was a very funny situation.
Great game.
Artwork and sound design are good, gameplay is fun and interesting!
Good luck!