GENERAL IDLER (GMTK24)
GENERAL IDLER is an engaging idle game where you build and expand your army to dominate the world, one country at a time. As the supreme commander, strategize your way through tactical decisions and upgrades to strengthen your forces.
Start with humble beginnings and watch your military might grow exponentially as you unlock new units, enhance technologies, and expand your influence globally. Can you conquer the entire world while managing resources and deploying troops efficiently? The fate of every nation is in your hands.
Key Features:
- Build and upgrade a vast army.
- Strategically conquer countries one by one.
- Unlock new units and powerful technologies.
- Scale your military strength through idle progression.
- Simple yet addictive gameplay with deep strategic elements.
Conquer. Expand. Dominate. Are you ready to become the ultimate General?
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This version was developed by Me (Danar) within 96 hours of the GMTK24 Game Jam, I used some assets from:
- POLYGON - Military Pack (by Synty Store)
- 2D Flat World Map (by DFY Studio on Unity Assets Store)
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Currently in development for the full release!
Wishlist the game on Steam ^_^
Development log
- Wishlist on Steam!1 day ago
- Update (v0.0.3)12 days ago
- 1268 GENERALS!16 days ago
- Update (v0.0.2)19 days ago
- Insane Army Power in Less than 24hr of the launch!24 days ago
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Hey General Idler!
Great News, now the game page is live on Steam and you can support the full version by wishlist and share:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3200810/GENERAL_IDLER/
a way to see the total amount of ap you generate per second would be nice
I love this idea! will write it down to be included in the full version
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Great news, GENERAL IDLER now available to wishlist the full version on Steam!
would appreciate your support ^_^
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I love how invading New Caledonia is as easy as invading the US
Hehehe, you most welcome :P
in future update this will be changed, it will depend on the size & population of the country :D
thx
It should also change based on whether the country is near or far away from your territory.
Agree!
Hello ^_^
Great news, GENERAL IDLER now available to wishlist the full version on Steam!
would appreciate your support ^_^
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Big Salute to the 1268 GENERALS! 🫡 Crazy General Idlers with crazy Army Power! #RESPECT
This needs a saving system. When I close the game or my PC restarts (Power outage or Updates), I shouldn't have to start all over again.
I totally agree, its in the plan for the future update, but was not a priority since its originally was done in a game jam and still testing the game balancing, so leaderboard resetting and starting from scratch is expected. Thanks a lot for playing and giving your feedback ^_^
Very understandable. Speaking of balancing, smaller countries should be easier to take over while bigger ones are harder.
The game is called General Idler so there should be some strategy to the game which would also add replayability.
Totally agree! the original plan was to make the countries progress AP in realtime as you do based on there size and population and you should only be able to attack ones that you share borders with...
probably i will add these step by step in the future updates ^_^
I'm guessing the plan is that island & coastal countries will be able to attack other islands & coastal countries regardless of how far they are as long as you can get to them without crossing land.
Maybe , or i will apply a radius of how far you can attach...not sure yet, but im going to make it super realistic :D
Hello ^_^
Great news, GENERAL IDLER now available to wishlist the full version on Steam!
would appreciate your support ^_^
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GENERAL IDLER Update (v0.0.2)
First of all I want to thank all the 612 General who played the game in (v0.0.1) SALUTE YOU GENERALS!
I checked all your feedbacks and comments, and this is first update after GMTK voting period over, which includes;
Bug Fixes:
Improvements:
New:
Thanks for playing and looking forward to hear your feedback to improve the game until it reach the full release ^_^
No wonder the leaderboard wasn't updating anymore. Here's my results as it ended (4.03e-23).
Oh! I'm so sorry about that, but this is something that might happen when the game in testing phase :( Sorry!
I salute you General Idler! your effort will not be forgotten! Never!
a way to know when you conqured all land would be nice
Yes! like an end game! like the idea ^_^
Hello ^_^
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would appreciate your support ^_^
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for some reason the auto tank upgrade does not work
Yeah there is a bug when upgrading the auto while a production is in progress, just wait for the wait amount of time and it will appear
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would appreciate your support ^_^
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a way to speed up the rate of gains is very much needed
Good point. thanks for your feedback ^_^
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would appreciate your support ^_^
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Love the game, but I've noticed the Tank costs significantly less than the APC, but seems it should cost more. Is this Intentional?
Yeah i think i made a mistake here :D missed couple of zeros lol...will be fixed after GMTK24 voting.
Thank you for playing, Glad you liked it ^_^
if yoru gona raise the price of tanks lower the price of other things as the game is a slog with out them
I'm always glad to help out!
Hello ^_^
Great news, GENERAL IDLER now available to wishlist the full version on Steam!
would appreciate your support ^_^
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3200810/GENERAL_IDLER/
I've been playing since launch. I made the mistake once of pressing F5 and lost all progress.
I love this genre so this one is pretty nice.
Balancing an incremental for a jam is quite a challenge, so feedback on that is pointless, but will add my 5 cents, in case you continue the development. I think the initial upgrades should be cheaper and faster to unlock. Also, adding comas the costs would be very much welcomed.
Awesome game guys, I'm enjoying it a lot.
Thanks for the feedback, Glad you liked it ^_^, I agree the balancing need a revisit and many tests.
and the comas OMG i saw the issue when i saw the big numbers some players reached lol
Oh and a saving progress is a must so you wont lose your progress...Sorry about that :'(
Hello ^_^
Great news, GENERAL IDLER now available to wishlist the full version on Steam!
would appreciate your support ^_^
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3200810/GENERAL_IDLER/
Insane Army Power in Less than 24hr of the launch!
Less than 24hours of the release, a player reached an insane Army Power (1,608,257,528,038,760,000) breaking all leaderboard readability lol!
Not sure who did cause the leaderboard sign in is anonymous due to the limited time i got in developing the game but would love if he/she could contact me to ask about his/her experience and if unlocked all countries!
That's because the game is broken, you can get absurd amounts of AP in just a few minutes.
The bug? Don't buy upgrades, attack a country and then buy ONE upgrade, instead of adding a fixed amount, it will be multiplied, if you repeat this with all the countries you will obtain an absurd numbers. Then you can buy a single upgrade for each unit, all of them will go to more than 1e20.
Another bug is that the auto stops working and I'm not sure but I think it's when you buy an upgrade at the moment the auto activates. If I buy other auto it fixes itself.
you are amazing! thanks a lot for reporting this bug, will work on the fix once the GMTK24 voting ends.
Pretty sure that was me. And yes I unlocked all the countries. You get to a point where the multiplier from countries outpaces the cost of attacking the next one, and it just snowballs from there.
I think the Tank unlock cost is supposed to be ~400k, but it's only ~400. Looks like you swapped a comma for a period :)
Also, Greenland's pip calls it Denmark
Oh really! oh thanks for the catch!
and will fix the Greenland ^_^ after GMTK24 voting period.
Hello ^_^
Great news, GENERAL IDLER now available to wishlist the full version on Steam!
would appreciate your support ^_^
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3200810/GENERAL_IDLER/