Builtown
Make the best tower and move to another one in our city-builder-roguelike!
How to play
You have to achieve your quota level with each building. Every turn you draw 3 random cards from your deck. With any of them you can continue the tower. However there are some limits.
There are 4 different types of blocks, they are recognised by their colour and suit. Every suit can combine with 3 suits, but not with the opposite one. You lose if you take all 3 wrong cards.
You get money for your work. Each block has its value, but the main point is to multiply the cost. When you build continious segment of the same colour you increase the multiplier, so aim to score your best with each suit!
Finish quota and go the shop to buy new cards and customize your deck. With new cards it is safer to gamble the suits, because possibilities change. There are even special cards for each suit. They are significantly more valuble, but have a flaw: they can be continued only by the same suit block. Are you ready to risk it, or you wait for it to go wrong on its own?
Comments
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This is a really good game, I mean replayability is infinite. I think art work is awesome and so is overall game play. I think there could be some more work done on the music, mix the sounds with something calmer would benefit the game imo. Great job!
Hey! I loved this game - it was really additctive! So many towers!! If you're thinking of developing this game any further, I'd love to collaborate on the music... think theres lots of fun to be found with different stacking blocks having a different music sound/style and layering them together to create full tracks as the buildings grow.
Just give me a shout if you're interested! x
I reached to the final building block!!
Absolutely love this! The sound design makes me think I'm actually stacking blocks and the music makes me want to keep playing. Gameplay is fun and scratches that "One more run" itch really well. Feels great getting 10+ of the same suit in a row and have the entire equation on screen.
Super fun little game. Found myself stuck in the "just one more try!" loop pretty quickly.
If i had to offer up criticisms, the main one would be that there's no record of your previous attempts, even a "tallest tower" tracker would be cool. That and how abrupt losing is. It just resets you, there's no real tangible "you lost" moment, which is great for keeping momentum up and bouncing back, but sad when you had a hot streak and its over with no fanfare
Really love the concept of this game. With a bit more fine tuning this could really be turned into a full fletched game! I also like the art. It reminds me of this game called: Habbo club. We used to play this in primary school lol. Nice one!
Hmm, interesting concept, but I think it needs more work to work- two block types and no gimmicks is too little. IMO:
Thank you for a detailed review! We had in mind various concepts of how to expand the game, make new blocks, add bonuses etc. However, we considered focusing on polishing the very little what we had.
I still incubate ideas of additional content, the basis of the game encourages your imagination, provokes to think widely. But for a week gamejam it can be just fine.
I personally am fond of idea of Builtown being more of a deckbuilding roguelike with strict values and multiple ways to enforce your city. We'll see if that happens in the future
Cool game and concept! I really loved the art, music, and gameplay. Maybe adding a leaderboard would make it even more engaging by motivating players to beat the highest scores. (just an idea) Overall, amazing game! Had a lot of fun with this one :D
Really fun game! Love the art, music and sound
Very cool game! Love the visuals and the music is banger!