I love this. 20 minutes straight playing this. It's really fun once you understand it and really quite addictive. Good job!

+ very nice looking
+ nice puzzle idea
+ gets even nicer once you gain access to all block types
- I hate your grid; it should be on the bottom!

Brilliant idea, and well-executed. :D

took me awhile to get it but i like it :)

I LOVE this game. Give it a better ending (what do markets do??), some different modes, and a score and I'd pay $5 for it on iOS hands down. I'd even help you make it.

Pretty fun to just fool around with, I wish you had the time to implement something to do with wood, rock tiles, and water tiles. You lose an innovation star 'cause Triple Town already did it :). Great job!

I'm not very good at enjoying things like this, but the graphics and mechanics are charming as hell.

Cool, liked this - nice pixel art. Need to play it some more, find out what else I can make :)

That's so amazing. It took a while to find out what you can make, but then it won't let you go. Ace game!

MUHAHAHA NO END GAME, EH? http://i.imgur.com/O2EVw.png http://i.imgur.com/aUtkz.png

Oh yeah! I made a volcano :D

Really fun to mess with, especially when there are resources to gather and 'recipes' to find! At times I really wanted a button to destroy misplaced tiles, but I guess there's more of a challenge in placing them correctly if I can't blow up the land willy-nilly.

Thanks for the comments so far everyone!

@nihilocrat All of the materials are useful!

Really impressive for a 48h entry: everything looks perfect! I'm going to play to this little game for a while.... :)

This was quite fun to play around with, interesting entry. I liked the graphics a lot, but the grid was little confusing and it was pretty hard to perceive where the blocks fall in the end.

Sweet art style, clever puzzle game! Great job, loved it!

Nice game, finding out how it works is a good enough goal

Love the art style; It's really fun to experiment with different combinations to see what happens. Lots of fun!

Very nice. Played for about hour.

This is really interesting, I like it. But somehow I feel stupid, 'cause I couldn't figure out what to do with the wood and stone. Can somebody explain?

Um never mind, I got it. Planning before you put down tiles might helps a lot :-)
So the volcano advances things quite a bit.

At first I thought it was not quite a game, but then I realized what the real challenge was! I smell innovation. =)

A really GREAT game with good concept and execution! The gathering system works just fine and could open to a very good bigger game.

Great job, you are my fav :)

I like Tripple Town and i like yours! Very good pixel art and good handling. All in all own of the best for me!

Loving your pixels, enjoyed your game even though its almost the same as triple town :)

This is one of the best games I have seen.

The grid-on-top thing confused me to begin with, but getting past that I found the game really enjoyable. Played it for quite some time. Not all that close to Triple Town really - definitively original mechanics here.

Was planning to do some work tonight, instead I played this. Thanks a lot!

Fantastic, would have liked to know that there was more than those initial four things in the beginning so I knew what to shoot for, but still very nicely done.

LOL, I forgot to rate it. M'bad.

So cool and challenging!! Love it!

I love it. Excellent work, you win. I'd give 6 overall if I could :D
There is only ONE problem and that is that grid :/
Otherwise really excellent game I expect I'll play more and more.
This is one of the reasons I love LD and gamejams, because sometime really good idea manifests itself.

You know, this almost doesn't need anything else (maybe except that confusing grid and some music) to be declared full game. Some hints for player would be nice, but finding it out by myself was very rewarding.

I suggest you take this idea and put it on ipad/android to get some money rewards for your idea :)

Checked the Triple town, there are some similarities here, but I like your take better. You still rock.

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I was surprised how addictive this was! Great graphics and sound as well. I didn't get too far (About 3 mana tree things), but what I played before I gave up I really enjoyed.

Most addictive game in the competition, by far. Spent litterally hours playing it. The balancing is great!

At first I was a little disappointed to see it played a lot like triple town. But then when I had no moves left and tried right-clicking the forests, I saw there was more to it, and that the triple-town-esque mechanic was just a base for something bigger.
Couldn't wish for a better polish in a LD game! Shouldn't there be some kind of score though? The experience was fun but kinda pointless if there's no way to evaluate my progress (or is there?)

I don't see what's wrong with the grid, looks good to me. Game is fun, though I feel I need some kind of guidance as to what I'm meant to be doing, I saw mention of markets in the comments and I'm like "what?! how!?". Most interesting things I built was a giant tree and a volcano. Had good fun trying to achieve other things even if I failed :D
If anyone posts any tips I'll try again.

Spot on. Liked mechanics and graphics. I like it way more than Triple Town.

Wow, just fantastic. It's a lot of fun and really well-executed. Love the visual style, as well. I really enjoyed just messing around trying to figure out different combinations.

This is amazing!

Looking very nice!

As others said, the grid is confusing, maybe have a selection box instead of a rectangle. I only managed once to get a mana tree and worked from there. Sooner or later your grid is full though and you have to restart. I'd love to keep on clicking ;)

I got lost in this game. Absolutely love how there's inherent puzzles in discovering the game mechanics and placement patterns. A rare case where a tutorial would hinder the gameplay.

The sort of LD game I'd want to make, it captures the joy of discovery/creation while also fitting the theme and having a polished presentation.

amazing! I have played for about an hour, really REALLY good job!

Very addictive! I had to force myself to stop playing in order to continue rate other games, but I'll definitively play it again later.

Without a doubt: a winner!!
Congratulations! CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP!!!!!

AMAZING game, my only complaint is that it could use hints because i got stuck quite a bit(e.g. large trees enjoy lots of water), kinda cheated by looking in the textures to see if i had gotten as far as i could. still don't know what markets do.

I really liked this, even more than Triple Town. The grid seemed fine to me, but I did keep forgetting a step (oops, grass comes before trees) so I would have liked an undo option.

The art is charming but I'm still not sure what all of them represent. The first time I played through, I missed the 'gathering' option and didn't think it was that fun. Perhaps you could add a reminder or a notice the first time a 'gatherable' tile is available?

Overall, amazing job for 48 hours!

I spent far to long playing this game...great job!

This is really good! Some combinations / results seem like a dead end, but that doesn't always seem to be the case...

Thanks everyone for the comments! Wonderful to hear you're enjoying it.

@wgemigh Yeah it could have probably done with that; I didn't want to hand-hold the player with game mechanics tutorials, but making double-sure they know how to interact with the game would have been a good idea. As for the undo, it would be nice to have in order to rectify mis-clicks, but on the other hand I quite like for tile placement and experimentation to be permanent.

@Endurion Good idea, a transparent full 3D tile might be clearer than just a rectangle. Also if I made the sides of the tiles fade to a darker colour, and change the height of the tiles so they're clearly not placed on the grid, it would be more obvious how the 3D space works.

@chambers I thought about a scoring system. I found that it was interesting to set my own challenges though, for example making a nice forest (with no dirt or chopped-down trees) using nothing but nature tiles, or making a peaceful non-military village. A scoring system would have basically defined what the perfect landscape should look like, but I think that's a matter of the player's own tastes.

I would try it if there was a Web or OSX version.

Brilliant, I really love the economy of building certain tiles so you can purchase others, that's much more interesting than Triple Town. I just wish the game could've kept going for longer (I presume reaching the coloured squares that cost 6 gold is the end since they didn't seem to combine together)

seriously, this game is good enough that im still coming back to it trying to figure out what those damn markets do!

Just to clear it up, the markets were a last minute addition I did just to add a final secret after the castle. In-keeping with the spirit of the game, they're there to make your town look more lively, if you want to make a big town! In terms of game mechanics, they don't do anything.

Excellent game! Played it for a long while. Really like the sandbox evolving game mechanics. The grid is a bit confusing.

Superlative effort.

At first it was a toy - as I wondered how it would react to my input, then it was a puzzle to reliably place the tiles in the right order to get things to evolve, and then there was the strategy of sharing a relatively small area between each of the various resources you need, and finally there was the pleasure to be had from designing your small spot of land in an aesthetically pleasing way (mine cradled a river with two castles by the bank on one side, as if they sat on a frontier, overlooking a yet to be tamed wilderness of deep forests and in the distance, a smouldering volcano).

I didn't mind the grid. The only problem I encountered was occasionally getting stuck when learning the game, as it took me a while to work out how to plan the order of placing tiles to get them to evolve fully, and without ending up with lots of wasted space.

Seems like a simple triple town at first (two moves instead of 3) but it just keeps getting deeper, and with no objective, it's a really zen experience. I wish there was some kind of music but it almost doesn't need it.

Awesome mechanic! I'd like to see it developed further!

Surprisingly entertaining! I like the graphics and would gladly play a full-blown version of this, where I could spend gathered resources.

I've spent so much time on this! It looks great - for some time I didn't get that there was so much to do, but now, as I've seen most of it (I think!), it's just awesome.

I fooled around with it for some time, but I didn't fall in love with the mechanic. It just felt a bit too complex to do what you wanted to do :P
It seems like I'm the only one though, and it was very polished for an LD entry. Good job!

One of the few games that I've come back to and even now my girlfriend wants to play. Very nice!

Beautiful! The only problem I see, as I think it's already been pointed out, is the way the top of the tiles align with the grid, instead of their bottom; it's kinda confusing.
Other than that, a real gem!

Congratulations!

Really nice game.
I also found the grid to be confusing. But still this game could work well on mobile devices. :)

Awesome game, but I was hoping the markets would do something at the end.

The should give you a coin every few turns when next to a castle in the same way tress grow next to water!

Graphics are great and the game mechanism is really interesting.

With music it will be even better :D

I am now officially addicted to this game.

Oh boy, that's the most time I've ever spent on LD entry. I just had to unlock all of the possible tiles! Amazing execution.

However I don't quite understand how does regrowing trees work exactly. When surrounded by water, the stomp regrows once and that's it. Maybe I have to replace the water ...

The trees should regrow again and again after being harvested. Unless there's a bug, of course.

Spectacular. It's tough to judge innovation when the game is so similar to Triple Town, but you did add a ton of quality to the game, and it's clearly the superior. Nicely done, and I love the art!

By the way, your goal succeeded: if you play to the "end" you definitely have a work you're proud of. =) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/52019586/veryPreciousLand.png

That's lovely! :D I want to go to there.

Hi
I�ve just discoverd your game this evening and I find it amasing ! Can�t stop playing it!
Discorvering myself all the feature was a real pleasure (what will happen, what can i do with wood, will the right click erase every-thing, can I make a combo of 2 Volcano�)! Never give tutoriel or tips, the player must all alone find the solution/possibility!
Thanks a lot for this great moment ! We need games like this!

PS: The grid was ok after few try � no need to improve it
PS1: I�ve found everything during my first �map�, quite proud of me ;)

Great game ! Here's my land : http://www.nurykabe.com/stockage/images/divers/thisPreciousLand.png

Fascinating! I played this a lot!

I thought of posting my newest result here: http://i.imgur.com/ms8Is.png my best one so far

I actually got an even better result, I'll post it here, I want people to know where can they get: http://imgur.com/4L2Yo