Still as usual, although busy with work but never forget to play the game and post it on hive blog.
Yep, I usually if I want to get rid of boredom I don't need a vacation, I just need to play games to get rid of boredom and also looking for the latest games for me to play. Yeah, today I found my latest game and according to me this game can relieve stress. xD ☕
Okay this is the game that I found today namely, Townscaper is a simple game of town builder made by Oskar Stalberg. This game makes town on the water with a certain level of randomness. Townscaper provides a very unique experience for the players. You will be challenged to build a settlement like Sim City. But with a much simpler mechanism, you just have to put the building close together, it will automatically connect. Eventually the building you put on continues to develop into a dense settlement.
Gameplay
For the first time we play this game, on new game is only shown a vast ocean or lake. We can left click until the road appears. And if we left click on the road then a town will appear. And every town still looks the same shape first made. And after we make it, it will extend horizontally or vertically, and we can see it starts to feel a difference in each of its creations.
Then we can choose the color of the town before being clicked by selecting the pallette on the left side of the screen, and the selected color is still limited to only 15 colors and dominant with bright colors. And some town connections can become roads on the roof together with other town and can be erected another town on the road. And sometimes there are balconies that can be made between connections between the roofs. Each roof can be a road or a tower depending on how many town are connected. We can build horizontally or vertically but still feel random. Then right-click is used to delete the town. And for newly created town, you can delete them with undo or ctrl-Z. Overall, this game uses more mouse than the keyboard, we use full screen mode and by default it's already fullscreen.
And there are some things that need attention. First, this game can be rotated by holding left, so be careful when left clicking which can make buildings accidentally. And luckily we can undo so it doesn't make it complicated, holding right click can make drag and zoom using the wheel button. Second, save this game using hashing on the clipboard, there is a save to clipboard so we can save it in the form of hashing in the text and then we can load from the hash. And there is no save to image until early access is tried.
For the design used in this game based on the layout of the hand sketch or free hand. Animation of the appearance of town is shown with a simple pop up and looks smooth with a stone's throw from the direction of the town when it appears and splashing water when building on water. Sometimes there is an animation of a town that appears instantly turns into a road, but it's only for an instant.
And the design of the menu is shown to resemble a sticker and pin up attached to the paper. The menu is placed on the right side of the screen and is still simple to start the game, save to clipboard, load to clipboard, undo, redo, fullscreen, Pin UI, to the grid.
This game has no puzzles and elements of strategy like Islanders. The existing building was only one town compared to Islanders. This difference is what makes this Townscaper game I am still waiting for its development. This game is perfect for relieving stress because the point is just to build randomly. This game is very light because it is still early access and can become its own art when has feels satisfied to make it. 😁☕
