Ludum Dare 25 Entry - GiTA

[budsan]

Hi guys,

We made this game for Ludum Dare Jam, it only requires SFML and it's free software:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=11961

Here's the code:
https://github.com/Dirbaio/Durum-Lare

What is this game about? It's a crowd city simulator where a villain can kill everyone around him in a single knife stab and take their money. People will get scared and they will run away, and police will get alarmed and they try to catch you. Goal: Get all money you can.

There's more instructions in the Ludum Dare entry page and a Windows build.

Screenshot:

[panithadrum]

As a friend of Budsan (and also a developer myself), I must say the best point of this game is the AI.

Fool around and try to guess how it works 

[eXpl0it3r]

This is really great but also challenging.
Nicely done!

[MrMuffins]

As a friend of Budsan (and also a developer myself), I must say the best point of this game is the AI.

Fool around and try to guess how it works 

I had a cop hiding in one of those tall grass..got me on my killing spree :x
Thought it was another person to get but nope 

[Nexus]

Cool

It should be somehow possible to flee from the police (it works very rarely), otherwise it doesn't pay to attack crowds of people. At the moment, a strategy to get a lot of money is to stab only in corners with few people -- it's easy, but it takes long and is somehow boring

[eXpl0it3r]

Okay so my actual score is 151 with 39 people, but then took advantage of some AI bug I got up to 248.

I think to have noticed two bugs:

• After a while playing it (idk 10min?) I came to the cross section, see image below.
• I'm not sure if people who got killed spawn again, but it seemed to me in two situation that they did and that they haven't forgotten that I killed them, or better that they saw me kill someone. Is such a bug even possible?

Also would it be possible to disable the sound, because the looped crowd noise get annoying quickly.

[FRex]

Removing surrounding.ogg from /audio seems to do the trick.

I escaped from police pretty easily unless I ran into one while another was chasing me, but that's a feature imo.

[budsan]

Hi guys, thank you for your reports.

We're actually considering making a new non ludum dare version with all that issues fixed. That crowded streets issue is due to out pathfinding algorithm. All citizens go at a random point at the city through the shortest path and some streets are a very likely to be included in the citizens walking plan. As soon as a few citizens are stacked that thing grows at infinitum. Replanning their walks every time that the game detects a overcrowded area should fix it.

We're considering to add cops stunning or even killing and adding some sounds. We also probably would add a menu for selecting new gameplay modes for example:

- 10 polices and 1 citizen in a 10x10 city (stealth mode)
- 1 police and 1000 citizens, very fun (urban terror mode)

Again, thanks for your reports!

[Nexus]

We also probably would add a menu for selecting new gameplay modes for example:

- 10 polices and 1 citizen in a 10x10 city (stealth mode)
- 1 police and 1000 citizens, very fun (urban terror mode)

That sounds like a very good idea

Something else: I would personally like to get the money directly when killing people, sometimes one has to go back to collect it on the street...