December 13th-16th 2013 :: Theme: You Only Get One
[ Real World Gatherings | Ludum Deals | Warmup Weekend ]
Walk through the history of the human race and force inventions to help the growth of intellect, the industry and future technology.
You can decide the fate of the human race and figure out if we can make it to the stars or perish.
You Get Only One chance to make it right!
The negative effects (Plague, Food Shortage...) are sadly not colored differently and definitely need better explaining. They kill off a percentage of the population and reduce the growth. If they happen too often it will set the growth to negative value and thus humans die off.
Written in pure Java, no libraries but one huge mess ;p
Images for the font are done in ASESprite. Programmed with eclipse. The earth and the clouds are randomly generated using Perlin Noise and some coloring magic. The rendering engine is a simple BufferedImage upscaled and using BufferStrategy for double/triple buffering.
Tested with Java 7 on Windows 8 (x64).
Make sure you extract the whole zip and either run run.cmd or run.sh depending on your OS.
Get Java here: http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp
Downloads and Links
Ratings
| #202 | Innovation | 3.39 |
| #248 | Theme | 3.33 |
| #317 | Graphics | 3.28 |
| #326 | Mood | 3.00 |
| #331 | Overall | 3.21 |
| #365 | Humor | 2.56 |
| #557 | Fun | 2.78 |
| #1358 | Coolness | 36% |
Comments
Interesting and fun concept. I also liked the humorous invention descriptions.
At first i had problems recognizing the loss condition and the effects of the humanity events (e.g. Plague and Food Shortage) because of my focus on the inventions.
Those descriptions were definitely the best part! Would love to see an expansion on this idea.
Fun and interesting. as mentioned it would have been easier to see what was going on if maybe the effects were colored different or something. also sometimes a loss would come almost instantly and i had no clue what caused it.
Nice idea and I like the descriptions.
I won first time having invented everything so I didn't really see the effects until reading the rest of the comments here though! Could certainly use a little work to make what's going on a little more readable.
Wow, this is really challenging! Sometimes a little bit tough to make a decision in such a short time. This often leads to not very wise decisions which make me lose very fast :( But overall a nice game!
I'd like to play it, but I couldn't figure out how to run it.. :^(
Yes, I beat it! Really good concept for a game made in 48h. It's basically the opposite of Pandemic 2: you take care of the human race.
Well, I'm not sure that I've understand everything. But, game looks so great!
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Yay, I did it ;)
Cool idea, and with more time I think you could make this into something really interesting where your choices have subtler and more varied influences on humanity.