Fun game, great job!
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #27 | 4.429 | 4.429 |
| Sound | #50 | 3.743 | 3.743 |
| Overall | #99 | 3.771 | 3.771 |
| Music | #127 | 3.571 | 3.571 |
| Story | #143 | 2.914 | 2.914 |
| Mechanics | #175 | 3.343 | 3.343 |
| Fun | #190 | 3.457 | 3.457 |
| Aesthetics | #335 | 3.400 | 3.400 |
Ranked from 35 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How many people worked on this game in total?
2
Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
Environment Pack: Free Forest Sample by Supercyan, Free Fire VFX - URP by Vefects, Stylized Lava materials by Rob luo, Free Quick Effects Vol. 1 by Gabriel Aguiar Prod, Basic RPG Icons by PONETI, GameDev Essential Kit - Capsule [Free Edition]
Comments
Why did it collapse? I thought everything was going great!
I did lightning one person just to see what would happen... did that destroy civilization?
Other than that, a neat idea. Very simple though. I didn't use the fire ability since it sounded entirely counter-intuitive to the goal of the game. So I thought, perhaps, it was a test of the player to see how long they were willing to play a nice god. But then it went kaput anyway.
164 days ago(+1)
Hi! Your civilization collapsed because they had run out of food for quite some time. You have to keep an eye on the food and happiness levels.
In the beginning the game is rolling if you just keep watering the farms. But, the people keep reproducing until the food production cannot keep up with the food consumption and eventually the happiness levels will drop. It is then, your task to make the tough decision to sacrifice some of the population so that the rest can survive.
In any case thank you very much for playing!
Ah, I wasn't watching the food counter at all. I figured if I spent all my time watering the crops it would be enough to sustain them, especially when they had so many fields close enough to each other that I could hit two to four with one rain shower. That certainly explains the use of the lightning and the fireball! Perhaps I'm not cut out to be a tiny god. :)
Thanks! We are glad you enjoyed our game.
The destructive powers have the practical outcome of reducing the population so that a balance between food production and food consumption can be achieved. That is, in addition to the fun of throwing a fireball or a lightning.
Scaring the inhabitants sounds like fun, though. We will consider adding behaviour to the followers in a future update.
Very well fitting on theme of course and a quite interesting small god sim to play.
I managed to unlock the 3rd power, so I don't know if there are more, but it definitely has a learning curve to it.
As for feedback: a visualization of what you would hit with your power would be very helpful. Hitting 2 grain fields with 1 rain is paramount to getting a high score and knowing you won't hit the grain field when trying to fireball a villager would also help a lot (my poor grain field !)
Great job !
166 days ago(+1)
There is no other power for now, so you saw them all :) Thanks for the feedback, this is something we intended to implement also!
A simple but very interesting game! It's cool to see the planet come to life with all the little pops moving around. The main menu UI is beautiful.
I also really loved how the fields keep the same texture but change height and color depending on the growth stage. It's a really smart trick.
Maybe instead of creating fields at random locations, it would be nice to give that control to the player. For example, you could introduce mechanics like: forest + fire = ash ground, then ash + rain = new field, or other combinations.
Overall, it's a chill game and a great submission!
Thank you very much!
I must say I am amazed at your score! I don’t think I have ever managed to reach year 1000, although using the thunder-strike it is feasible.
We had a thought about letting the player selecting where to place farms instead of randomly spawning them, but we wanted to give the player only indirect control. Your idea is brilliant as it is compatible with the indirect control mechanic. We will certainly try to implement it. Thanks!
168 days ago(+1)
Thanks for playing! We were thinking about adding more stuff but didn’t have enough time.
168 days ago(+1)
Ευχαριστούμε πολύ!
Yeah, it is quite hard. As I wrote in my reply to another comment the reason is that given a more or less constant birth and death rate the population grows exponentially but the food production grows linearly. :-)
168 days ago(+1)
Wow, indeed! We almost implemented the mechanic that lowers or stops faith production when the people are hungry… But we decided the game was already difficult enough at the later stages so it would not make much of a difference.
We are glad that you liked our game. Next time, you may want to thunder-strike some of your citizens… :-)
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