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A jam submission

Very Scary VikingsView game page

Build a prospering village and defend your people from viking raids.
Submitted by Chunk, Fudge — 41 minutes, 48 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Enjoyment#14.0594.059
Theme#14.6474.647
Overall#33.9853.985
Gameplay/Design#33.7653.765
Originality#113.4713.471

Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your entry fit the theme?
You build up a village and defend it from viking invaders.

What would you like feedback on?
Game design, Balancing, UI, Gamefeel, how fun is it?

What assets did you use (if any)?
All assets and music made from scratch, except a few sound effects from youtube.

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Comments

Submitted(+2)

A couple days ago I wondered why no one was creating strategy games on game jams. You did. Good job. 

Submitted(+2)

Agreed with some of the other users here on the safeguarding against breaking the economy. I learned too late about needing a market to get money and being out of money, and needing wood to build lumber yards, and being out of wood. Otherwise, it kept me captivated and I really enjoyed the art style and the way you made things interact to produce the resources (villagers attacking the cows to get food, etc.) Well done and an impressive feat to be done over just a weekend!

Developer

Thank you for playing :) Yes, we realised that too late. Now we know and can implement it better into our next RTS game. Thank you for the feedback. Super helpful.

Submitted(+2)

I really like the systems, but I would recommend putting in some safeguards, so players don’t mess up the economy. For example the only building, that produces stone requires stone as resource. So if you’re out of stone, you’re out of stone, with no way to get more.

UI Layout is fine, but it doesn’t function properly. Menu won’t stay open, some clicks are not registered

Overall great entry, considering the time span

Developer

Thank you for playing :) Feedback is noted :)  

Submitted(+2)

Really impressive that you made this in two days. It seems like a ton of work was done making all of the art and enemy + villagers ai. Im guessing the unity webgl resolution totally messed up the UI, but this was really enjoyable and really cool for a weekend jam. I do wish the finish was not 60 days but it was really impressive you made all those buildings in just 2 days. Really cool game

Developer

No, it was my fault XD didn't scale to screen size, but now I know :) Thank you for playing! Thanks for the feedback as well.

Submitted(+1)

Idea and realization are nice, but 60 days challenge is too long. How big raiders army will be near 60 day? on 5 day there were 2 boats of them

Developer(+1)

Thank you! Yeah, it is impossible to get there. I Need a NASA computer to run the game after day 40 XD I will make some adjustments after the voting period :) Thanks for the feedback :)

Submitted(+2)

Wow very addicting. One of my favorite games of the jam so far! Few bugs here and there, I was a noob and just started building stuff without seeing what everything did, and I ended up with 0 coins before I ever built a Market to passively gain coins. Great job on this though, I'm for sure going to come back to this and get further. 

Developer(+2)

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it, we made a bit of a mistake by having the only building that generates money cost money to build lol

Submitted(+2)

Honestly not bad though! I was frantically looking for a way to sell units or maybe a building. Haha

Submitted(+2)

Very good and addicting game, and impressive that it was done in 2 days

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted(+2)

A few bugs here and there, but overall very fun to play. 2 recommendations: removing collision between the people and structures because they get stuck often; and looking into optimization of entities and performance because the game gets laggy by day 10 with 200 villagers. Very addicting gameplay overall though, awesome work!

Developer (1 edit)

Thank you for playing and for the feedback! unfortunately there are many bugs as we did not have much time to spend on testing all the features properly. You can try downloading the desktop build for better performance if you want.

Submitted(+2)

Very impressive scale for only 48 hours work! I enjoyed a lot of the game especially placing lights but found myself confused often as there was no/little indicators of resources increasing. But overall, very cool!

Submitted(+2)

Fun and enjoyable gameplay, awesome work. 

I had a bug when my game started lagging and some viking teleported between my buildings and got stuck there.

Developer

Hi! I am glad you enjoyed the game. There are a few bugs, but that one only happens on the web build sadly :(

Submitted(+2)

This game looks really great. I tested it for a while, and the AI is super cool. Unfortunately, I have trouble managing the economy, especially after a while when the Vikings attack and kill my villagers. But that’s part of the game and what gives it its unique edge.

The only negative points are the UI issues if the game is in a small or large resolution, and some NPCs and minor bugs, like a guard camp with a negative number of workers.

Developer

Thanks for testing out the game! Yes! The game needs a lot of balancing :) 

Submitted(+2)

Interesting idea and interesting mechanics and interesting strategy interesting everything :)

Developer

Thank you for playing! :) 

Submitted(+2)

OMG that's the full-fledged game with it's own style and I love it. I will play more until I win )

Developer

Thank you so much for playing! im happy you enjoyed it.

Developer

Thanks! I am glad you enjoyed it :)  Let me know if you get past day 22. That is my high score XD

Submitted(+2)

Well done team! RTS is a tough genre for 48 hours! Let’s play : https://f002.backblazeb2.com/file/sharex-hN8T5vpN8wZGmmwU/2024/June/02/22/02/19/753/ae41ef04-88d0-4781-9ae4-22551881782c/2024-06-02%2021-57-14.mp4

Developer

It was a very rough 48 hours lol. I really enjoyed watching the playthrough. There are definitely a lot of bugs and polishing issues as we didnt have any time left for polishing and testing but thank you for playing!

Developer

Thank you so much for the extra effort in giving us a live reaction :).  RTS code is where horror stories are born XD

Submitted(+2)

super solid RTS very impressed by how quickly this was made! great job

Developer

Thank you :) Glad you enjoyed it.