Interesting concept, I'd love to play a complete version sometime! Looks like it could have been fun with a little more time!

I can see how the game could have turned out pretty interesting if given enough time. I see you're working with Gamemaker, so here's a little suggestion/tip for you to make your life easier: Check out scribble! It's a free and easy to use package you can import into your project to expand on game maker's text options. In a game like your's it could be used to prepare small sprites to be integrated into text. Like icons for food, iron and stuff. Also let's you change text color mid-string, to make color coding of resources easier.

The concept is pretty cool. Even incomplete, you submitted something.