{"id":1876,"edition":10,"categories":1,"features":0,"size":13265,"name":"Afterlife","authors":[{"name":"Piesku","url":"https://piesku.com","twitter":"pieskucom","login":"piesku"}],"description":"<p>Where do Pac-Man’s ghosts go when they die?\nThey come here — to the ghost town full of life!</p>\n<p>Make the third life of the duszki* go smoothly and pleasantly by expanding their eternal resting place in a way that meets all their needs in this city builder simulation straight from the golden era of computer games!</p>\n<p>duszek (n., pl. duszki) — The second-order spectral form of ghosts from Pac-Man, which they transform into when they die. Duszki are playful and hard-working; they enjoy nature, gourmet food, and spending time with other duszki.</p>\n<p>Update: There was a bug in ghosts’ AI which made them die of hunger and exhaustion even when a relevant building was just next to them. If you have previously built a city you’re proud of, the saved state won’t work with the version of the game fixing the bug. The old version (and your saved game) is still available at <a href=\"https://js13kgames.com/games/afterlife/v1.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://js13kgames.com/games/afterlife/v1.html</a></p>\n","source":"piesku/duszki","stars":5,"dc":"https://piesku.com/afterlife/play","comments":[{"at":315628313,"author":"Javi Agenjo","login":"jagenjo","gh":393515,"url":"http://tamats.com","twitter":"tamat","text":"<p>Lovely game, the visuals and the music helps create that charming chilling atmosphere. Some challenges along the game would had make it more fun.</p>\n","games":["EVAC3D"]},{"at":315631736,"author":"Sebastian Dorn","login":"sebadorn","gh":1146318,"url":"https://sebadorn.de","text":"<p>An adorable game and one of my favorites.\nI wondered why I can place trees if they have no real purpose &amp; until I was told to build parks. That was an “Aha!” moment I liked. I also just found out that the game saves your progress.\nSome more building types or upgrades may have been nice.</p>\n","games":["Hel's Trial"]},{"at":315784607,"author":"Brian Hambley","login":"Hambo3","gh":10634997,"text":"<p>Nice. I play these type of games for far too long :D. Dragged away eventuallly</p>\n","games":["Death or Gloria"]},{"at":315799891,"author":"Mark Vasilkov","login":"mvasilkov","gh":140257,"url":"https://mvasilkov.animuchan.net","twitter":"mvasilkov","text":"<p>Buildings look nice, and I love how the trees make clusters, it’s such a nice touch.</p>\n<p>\u0014CH:8!</p>\n","games":["The Neatness"]},{"at":315896259,"author":"Thiago Romão Barcala","login":"thiagorb","gh":821208,"text":"<p>very cute game but I missed more types of buildings</p>\n","games":["Death Tournament"]},{"typ":2,"at":315903903,"author":"Victor Debone","login":"debone","gh":763457,"url":"https://javascri.pl/","twitter":"javascripl","text":"<p>Hello! Thanks for your submission to js13k!\nI’m sure you’ve worked hard on your game, but I’m not aware of how much time you spent on it, so excuse me if things I mention were in your mind, but got left out in the rush of the month or just because you hit the 13kb limit :)</p>\n<ul>\n<li>My first impression:\n<ul>\n<li>I expected a fairly normal “Sim City” game.</li>\n<li>It turned out it was closer to Roller Coaster Tycoon. I was totally expecting a duszek to vomit or something hehe.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li>Great work on:\n<ul>\n<li>Theme of the game, you settle out to make it a comfortable experience for duszki and the player. No pressure, no crazyness, just the zen of adding buildings as they needed.</li>\n<li>The map controls, the UI, and the coherent art.</li>\n<li>Actually having the whole simulation inside the size limit :)</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li>I liked that you:\n<ul>\n<li>Added a very cozy music. It added a lot to the feeling of a comfy and happy life. Did you watch “The Good Place”? :)</li>\n<li>Added those prompts where it reminded the player of the overall feeling of the population. “Duszki needs more parks!”</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n<li>You could improve (again, I’m aware you might already know all the below):\n<ul>\n<li>It seems that the afterlife also depends on the capitalism to exist :P When you have the eternity, would money make it all much sense? Not sure.\n<ul>\n<li>Going forward on this thinking, given you already have some pieces in place to make it possible, what if the goal of the game would not to just make the money to add buildings, but make it an organising challenge on the afterlife of the duszki? I imagined something more like “Mini Motorways” where we are not much concerned by an economy, but how the duszki enjoys the best the layout we settle for them. Like if duszki collided or paths accepted only one way, so the player, in order to have like 25 duszkow living happily would need to work through the organisation of it all.</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Here are some screenshots I took during my play <a href=\"https://imgur.com/a/gv4uSrV\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https://imgur.com/a/gv4uSrV</a></p>\n<p>Dzi\u0019kuj\u0019!</p>\n"},{"at":316005149,"author":"Gabor Héja","login":"gheja","gh":1894642,"url":"https://gabor.heja.hu/","text":"<p>I love the graphics, especially the dynamic tiles (roads, trees). It is a nice, chill game, except when sometime duszki forget they wanted to take a turn at the cemetery. Not sure why, I guess even ghosts are forgetful sometime. The messages about the things to do were very helpful!</p>\n","games":["Cooking for Skully"]},{"at":316034260,"author":"Elias Ku","login":"eliasku","gh":3038174,"url":"https://eliasku.win","twitter":"eliaskuvoice","text":"<p>Really good sim game! Remembered the old good Afterlife game. Would be nice to have ability set simulation speedup (like in city-builders). Miss sounds and music.</p>\n","games":["13"]},{"at":316257212,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"<p>An interesting concept. Fun to build little communities.</p>\n<p>Was a little slow to get started but once I got things going I didn’t have to wait to build for as long.</p>\n<p>Would be good if there was more than 3 building you could make. I’m glad the roads were free otherwise it would take even longer.</p>\n<p>I wasn’t sure if I needed to build roads all the way around, or just to the “front door” or to any point on the building blocks.</p>\n<p>Didn’t work in FF, produced an error\n-&gt; Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: A mutation operation was attempted on a database that did not allow mutations.</p>\n","games":["Bee Kind"]},{"at":316270797,"author":"Jerome Lecomte","login":"herebefrogs","gh":1383818,"url":"herebefrogs.com","text":"<p>Cute spin on SimCity, but how do I build some parks?</p>\n","games":["Stand By Me"]},{"at":316925273,"author":"Jonas Olmstead","login":"sanojian","gh":428082,"text":"<p>Very laid-back game.  I really enjoyed building the little retirement village.  I wasn’t sure what the goal was, other than to make more of everything.   Really cute graphical style.</p>\n","games":["DEAD AGAIN"]},{"at":317009299,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"<p>The game is really fun but some things are not clear. I’m not sure what is considered a park, is it just trees or do they need to be next to houses and roads? My people were dying and I’m not sure why. There was also a problem where “there were not enough chapels” because they all insisted on going to the same one while the other were empty. Another issue is that several residents die on arrival because they exhaust themselves trying to reach their first home that is too far away!\nAnother issue was that some tiles were not deletable for some reason. I think perhaps someone died there.\nThe reset button doesn’t seem to work.\nBut apart from the AI quirks and some tiny bugs, the game is fun, looks great and has really cute music. This game is right up my alley. I liked the fact that buildings suffer inflation.</p>\n","games":["Planet B"]},{"at":317034245,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"<p>very well made, great pixel art and music. Controls work well. Like the mini-map and being able to zoom!</p>\n<p>Could make a great post jam game with more content</p>\n","games":["Soul Jumper"]},{"typ":2,"at":317190375,"author":"Matt Hackett","login":"richtaur","gh":24601,"url":"https://valadria.com","twitter":"richtaur","text":"<p>Very cute little town builder! Nice graphics and easy to lay down tiles. Some more explanation/tutorializing would have helped me figure out how to play.</p>\n"},{"at":317338608,"author":"John Edvard","login":"johnedvard","gh":656024,"url":"https://reitgames.com","twitter":"ReitGames","text":"<p>Fun that we now know what happened to all the ghosts in PacMan. The art looks cute, and I’m happy I could zoom in to take a closer look at the trees and the ghosts. I had some problems panning the map, but figured it out eventually (right click mouse and drag.)\nThe game runs slowly on my machine. I tried both Safari and Chrome. It’s difficult to latch on to the music, but maybe that’s intentional.</p>\n","games":["Hang by a thread"]}],"results":{"theme":{"rank":27,"min":1.05,"score":3.52,"max":4.5},"innovation":{"rank":57,"min":1.19,"score":2.92,"max":4.11},"gameplay":{"rank":51,"min":1.09,"score":3.04,"max":4.33},"graphics":{"rank":39,"min":1.62,"score":3.68,"max":4.7},"audio":{"rank":55,"min":1,"score":2.68,"max":4.43},"controls":{"rank":44,"min":1.05,"score":3.12,"max":4.33},"primary":{"rank":42,"min":7.53,"score":18.96,"max":25.2},"label":"Overall"}}