Name or group member names
Katey Campbell and Paul Osinski

Game name
Idle Villagers (Villager Idol?)

Game description
When we started our game jam, we thought it would be funny to make a game like Age Of Empires with an 'uncooperative population'. Games like AOE or Starcraft give players ultimate control over the world they make. Villagers are slaves to the player's will. This kind of thinking is fun in a video game but is very toxic in the real world - look at the example set by mega CEOs like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos.

We wanted our game to have villagers in it who 'cooperated' with the player but who weren't necessarily interested in helping them achieve their military goals. At first our game would start like a standard RTS, but slowly become frustrating as you realize your 'villagers' aren't going to help you build your big castle and would rather just do their own thing.

The game would end with some 'enemies' invading your base, but it turns out they're just here to come to one of your villager's birthday parties and they're not an actual threat. (Maybe they're here for a singing competition?)

Anyway, it turns out that building an RTS is actually pretty complicated, so we didn't get far from a very basic prototype of the game mechanics.

We hope to keep working on the project to see if we can realize our dreams of an anti-work RTS. We still think the idea is funny.

Playing instructions
Click on some stuff and what happens. Look at the cool animations. Imagine the possibilities..?