{"author_link":"\/users\/tolmera","author_name":"TolMera","author_uid":1004837,"comments":[{"id":1124258,"author_name":"Haokai XU 1999","author_uid":"haokai-xu-1999","epoch":1744035452,"text":"Never seen anyone make game with JS, very surprised. ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1126471,"author_name":"TolMera","author_uid":"tolmera","epoch":1744074838,"text":"Couple of screen shots from playing and testing - I would love to see what y'all make.\n\nI think there's some emergent gameplay, it's like decorating a snow-globe.\n\nAnd I'm loving how if you try to keep a geometric pattern from the top or the bottom, it doesn't work - so you have to make bigger geometric patterns, while still keeping things balanced so the solar panels don't end up being rotated out of the light :)\n\n# Please share your screen shots! :)\n\n![Screenshot from 2025-04-08 11-11-06.png](\/\/\/raw\/5e2\/1\/z\/6af7f.png)\n![Screenshot from 2025-04-08 11-11-35.png](\/\/\/raw\/5e2\/1\/z\/6af83.png)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1126515,"author_name":"TolMera","author_uid":"tolmera","epoch":1744075376,"text":"@haokai-xu-1999 - did you manage to run it? I updated the link to the live game if you wanted to try again :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1127291,"author_name":"Joel Davis","author_uid":"joel-davis","epoch":1744083236,"text":"Pretty neat, I couldn't really figure out what to do but I like the idea of a colony sim on a triangular grid. I think if you simplified and focused on giving the player more feedback it could be a pretty compelling sim-style game.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1127679,"author_name":"TolMera","author_uid":"tolmera","epoch":1744088207,"text":"@joel-davis Did the tutorial help?  Or the \"story\" button on the main page","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1135934,"author_name":"Jared Saizdelamora","author_uid":"jared-saizdelamora","epoch":1744165477,"text":"This is fantastic. Bold choice of engine, but it looks and works great. Awesome job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1136850,"author_name":"TolMera","author_uid":"tolmera","epoch":1744182542,"text":"Thank you @jared-saizdelamora.  I regularly do HTML games because they are so accessible, Phone, Mac, Linux, Windows doesn't matter everyone can play, and I love that.\n\nI tried it on my IPad, and wish I had of had time to add touch events, so you could rotate around the sphere with your fingers, would have made it feel so visceral.\n\nPlenty could be better, but thank you for the praise :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ldjam-media\/sha256\/f5\/f5079188b2faada20a0d631050f038c09b02c441e4dd7c98616b82315aa161c8.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/TolMera\/ld57","text":"GitHub"},{"url":"https:\/\/tolmera.github.io\/","text":"Play Online (browser)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"96630","g_author":"1004837","g_event":"LD57","g_eventkey":"111","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"448017","g_title":"The Cloud Cities","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"282","g_commentcount":"7","g_site2_node_id":"407129","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"407129","n_urlkey":"448017","n_parent":"406845","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/57\/the-cloud-cities","n_slug":"the-cloud-cities","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"4837","n_created":"1742250045","n_modified":"1778825130","n_version":"1292653","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD57","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":6,"author":4837,"body":"# A City Building Game\n\nInspired by my last attempt at Ludum Dare, and the growing power of Web technologies, I've build a fully HTML\/JavaScript based game.\n\nI used the frameworks Webix and Three.JS to provide me with a simple interface and 3D utilities respectively.\n\n## Objective\n\nThe objective of the game is to keep your city alive.  You are the overseer of the last bastion of humanity.\n\nGrow your city into a self supporting ecosystem where humanity can once again find it's feet.\n\n## Story\n\nThe earth was destroyed (read the story from the main menu).  You have been shipped off the Venus (that's right, Venus!)  with 100 other people, to restart humanity.\n\nBecause Venus is a very inhospitable place, with sulfuric acid rain, Carbon Dioxide for the bulk of its atmosphere.  You and the survivors of Earth were sent with a Balloon ship, a space capable vessel that transported you from earth to Venus, descended into the atmosphere and inflated to form a surface on which you can construct machines and factories in order to provide for your needs.  Humanity is alive and hopefully well, living on the inside of the sphere away from the acid rain!\n\n## Fun\n\nBecause you're building on the outside of a sphere, and you're floating in the atmosphere, and because ballast is heavy, your city could easily flip over if you put something heavy on top with nothing to counterweight it on the opposite side.\n\nBalance your city so the things that need to be at the top (solar power, plants, et-al) keep pointing up (sunlight) and heavy things are at the bottom of your city so it doesn't tip over!\n\n![Screenshot from 2025-04-07 11-39-25.png](\/\/\/raw\/5e2\/1\/z\/69f69.png)\n\n# RATING!\n\nPlease do not rate me for art for the little intro video, it's AI generated - but everything else I did myself.","comments":7,"comments-timestamp":"2025-04-09T07:09:02Z","created":"2025-03-17T22:20:45Z","files":[],"files-timestamp":0,"grade":{"grade-01":23,"grade-02":23,"grade-03":23,"grade-04":23,"grade-05":21,"grade-06":3,"grade-07":23,"grade-08":23},"id":407129,"love":0,"magic":{"cool":142.10842759951,"feedback":9,"given":38.875,"grade":23.142857142857,"grade-01-average":2.738,"grade-01-result":282,"grade-02-average":2.405,"grade-02-result":291,"grade-03-average":3.048,"grade-03-result":201,"grade-04-average":2.19,"grade-04-result":292,"grade-05-average":2.684,"grade-05-result":273,"grade-06-average":1,"grade-07-average":1.905,"grade-07-result":238,"grade-08-average":2.429,"grade-08-result":285,"smart":-8.2071575452316},"meta":{"author":[4837],"cover":"\/\/\/content\/5e2\/1\/z\/69f6a.png","grade-06-out":"1","link-01":"https:\/\/github.com\/TolMera\/ld57","link-01-name":"GitHub","link-01-tag":[50],"link-02":"https:\/\/tolmera.github.io\/","link-02-name":"Play Online (browser)","link-02-tag":[42336]},"meta-timestamp":"2026-05-15T06:05:30Z","modified":"2026-05-15T06:05:30Z","name":"The Cloud Cities","node-timestamp":"2025-04-07T01:52:59Z","parent":406845,"parents":[1,5,9,406845],"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/57\/the-cloud-cities","published":"2025-04-07T01:52:59Z","scope":"public","slug":"the-cloud-cities","subsubtype":"compo","subtype":"game","type":"item","version":1292653},"text":"# A City Building Game\n\nInspired by my last attempt at Ludum Dare, and the growing power of Web technologies, I've build a fully HTML\/JavaScript based game.\n\nI used the frameworks Webix and Three.JS to provide me with a simple interface and 3D utilities respectively.\n\n## Objective\n\nThe objective of the game is to keep your city alive.  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