This is a pretty neat game. The idea of making a puzzle around building a town to meet specifications isn't something I've seen before. It was quite enjoyable trying to figure out how to set things up. I like how there's some leeway with the placement so there isn't just one perfect configuration (at least not in the earlier levels).

I think there could be some quality of life improvements though. I spent a lot of time swapping between looking at street names/layouts, checking the rules, checking the measurements, and placing the buildings. It would be good to reduce the swapping around. I'm not sure how to solve all of it, but it would be definitely be an improvement to have the rules always listed at the side of the screen. The game seems to be 4:3, so you could make it wisescreen and use the extra real estate to show the list.

The gameplay aside, the game feels very polished. There seems to be a lot content. There's lots of nice smooth animations in the menus and interface. The graphics in general look very nice. The sound effects are good and music is okay, though it got a little repetitive. Perhaps something more quiet and down tempo would work better for contemplative puzzle solving.

PS: As Eric (and possibly Illdie) mentioned, there's something wrong with the Fiddasfield level. For some reason the game doesn't accept putting the town hall above the street it's supposed to be on, but it does accept putting it below.

It's an interesting concept, and I love the art style. However, it was a bit annoying to play because:

1. You can't just destroy one building at a time.
2. The actual law you broke is ambiguous. So, it was frustrating when one single building was placed one tile too far, and I had to redo the entire village. And that frustration was enhanced by my non-knowledge of why exactly I couldn't place it there. All in all, this could be a lot more fun if you changed those two things.

This is really super impressive for a 48 hour game jam. The amount of content and polish is astounding.

All the aspects of the game combine perfectly to make an engaging casual puzzle game. My main feedback would be that I would have liked to be able to cross items of the rules list, I'd find myself reading through them over and over again. Some small details that I didn't understand at first, and slowed down my progress (basically, I got stuck on): I didn't realize houses being diagonal counted as being on a road. Also I think the Fiddasfield rule for the village hall doesn't make sense (The top of the building counts but the bottom doesn't?)

But really, super awesome game. Very well done, congratulations! :D

Read the rules!

Nice building game, but you need to follow rules when building!

Good to see that you had so much ready for the game in so short time, good job!

Great looking art and the happy music will make the Village Inc. a good entry for the jam!

Though it isn't what I seek in a game, I still enjoyed playing. The art is nice, and the sudoku-esque gameplay is interesting. I wish the construction guy gave some more constructive feedback though, as it is frustrating not knowing what is wrong. I did rage quit on level 2, so there's that. I think the music is a bit intense for building villages, but it has a nice groove to it. I'm a fan.

The presentation is good - the sound and graphics are very cute.

The concept is really nice, quite different to the games I've played so far and an interesting take on the theme.

It can be quite hard to juggle all the rules at once, maybe the game should start off a little simpler to ease you into the mechanics. But it was generally fun all round!

It was good concept, though I would have liked the instructions be on side or something similiar, and possiblity to manually checkmark list, if I had done one rquirement or not. Automatic one could have helped, but it would have changed feeling a bit. But most what I would complain are polishing things, which take time. On outside it looks nice, so in this case polishing is needed in gameplay feeling. But not that much either ^^ But it was good entry :)

edit. Yes, of course it would have needed bit rework in hud and game world view. Currently I had close and open it several times, couldn't have glance at 'first sight', which was the problem in game feel.

Nice! I really like the concept, and the aesthetic worked really well. It's already been said, but a little more to go on for figuring out which rules I'm not following properly would have been nice. Also my middle mouse button is broken, so I had to figure out how to measure distances myself (diagonals made that a bit hard.) All in all, very good game and a cool, fun interpretation of the theme!

This was a fun little game, although it did have a few somewhat frustrating moments for me. I recognize that a large part of the gameplay is figuring out what went wrong, but I had a layout on the 5th level (I think?) that I couldn't figure out for the life of me what was wrong with it, and that's when I quit.

Still, I really enjoyed the levels before that one, and I think this could be a fun little puzzle game with enough conditions. If you do continue working on the game, here are a few things I would like:

• An easier way to pull out the ruler. Middle mouse to bring it out and then scroll wheel to size it was a bit awkward
• Checkboxes in the list the player can click when they think they've successfully completed a condition
• Slightly better clues (for example, instead of "something about street planning" it could be "the boss says you have too many/not enough buildings on a street")
• It would be nice if the street names popped up faster.

Still, I really enjoyed my time with the game, and I would play the shit out of a post-jam version.

Pretty cool game. I'd expect it to be on mobile or something. I hope you port it.