BALANCE

IAMGAMEDEVELOPER - This is another flash game that i develop, actually my friend and i worked together to make this game. Basically the genre is real time strategy, but we tried to make it different with the other RTS games by taking 'economy' as the theme of this game. It was finished in April, 26th 2010 and we enrolled this game for joining game contest in Atmajaya Game Show 2010, and here is the game review.

Background
The main background of this game is a condition of unbalance economy in several country, especially Indonesia. Through this game, people will learn about managing resources and learning about priority in choosing what to do first to obtain a better result in the situation of unbalance economy. In addition, the developer of this game believe that students of university are the most important asset in the future development. Therefore, resources, buildings, and jobs in this game are inspired from common things that become a primary needs in the real world.

Story
In 1999, there was a chaos in the City of Gold which affected everything there became totally destroyed. Fortunately, there were several people who still alived because they were hidding when the chaos happen, and they are ten students of Gold University, Mr.Rich, and Mrs.Rich. At the beginning, they were hopeless and did not know what they should do, and they thought to leave from City of Gold because there were nothing there, everything were destroyed, even Mr.Rich and Mrs.Rich were no longer rich. But, on the other side, they are really love the City of Gold, and do not want to leave from there. So, they decided to stay and waited for help.

Suddenly, after several days, in the night, a helicopter came and arrived in the City of Gold. A man wearing a formal suit jacket came from inside of the helicopter, and walked toward Mr.Rich and others. However, they were so happy because at least there was a help, and that man introduced himself to them that he is Master of Economy from Indonesia, and he came there to fulfill his duty for 250 days until the economy condition of City of Gold becomes balance. Thus, that man with others decided to work together to develop City of Gold from the beginning, and during that time, there were also several people from the other countries came to help.

Genre
- Real Time Strategy

Objectives
- Managing resources (Gold, Food, and Human Resource) which become the primary resources for developing building and hiring people.
- Constructing buildings to increase the development and to hire people.
- Hiring people to get better incomes and prevent bad events.

Win / Lose
- Win, if player has achieved five star rating. (explained later in rating)
- Lose, if player has not yet achieved five star rating after 250 days.

General Rules
- Player plays as the man from Indonesia who has a role to manage everthing (resources, building, and jobs).
- Controller of this game is mouse.
- At the start, there will be ten students who become assets for developing.
- One day in here is divided into day and night, each of them are only five seconds. There will be a countdown timer in the game for counting the days.
- There are gold income and food income which may increase in the beginning of the day. (only at day, not at night)

Resources
- Gold is necessary to construct building and to hire people. Also, there will be several events that may take some of the gold. Therefore, gold is very important to increase rating which is the main objective of this game.
- Food is required to hire people. As like gold, there will be several events that may take some of the food. Therefore, food is very important to increase rating which is the main objective of this game.
- Human Resource (HR) is important for hiring people. However, human resource is not a mandatory resource for increasing rating.

Buildings
- University is necessary to hire student.
- Gold Mine is necessary to hire worker.
- Farm is necessary to hire farmer.
- Power Supply is necessary to hire technician, and it will give 50% incomes at night.
- Police Office is necessary to hire policeman, and it will prevent crime event that occurs.
- Hospital is necessary to hire doctor, and it will prevent disease event that occurs.

Jobs
- Student is necessary to increase Human Resource (HR). The number of student must be same with the number of human resource. If human resource is used, the number of student is also decreased according to the number of human resource being used.
- Worker is necessary to increase gold income. One worker will add 200 of gold income.
- Farmer is necessary to increase food income. One farmer will add 3 of food income.
- Technician will allow to obtain 100% incomes at night.
- Policeman will give a bonus gold if crime event occurs. The number of policeman will decrease if crime event occurs.
- Doctor will give a bonus if disease event occurs. The number of doctor will decrease if disease event occurs.

Rating
- One star (*) rating has occured in the beginning of the game.
- Two star (**) rating will be obtained if the gold is greater than 50.000 and the food is greater than 500.
- Three star(***) rating will be obtained if the gold is greater than 100.000 and the food is greater than 1000.
- Four star (****) rating will be obtained if the gold is greater than 150.000 and the food is greater than 1500.
- Five star (*****) rating will be obtained if the gold is greater than 300.000 and the food is greater than 3000.

Event
- No event means there is no occasion.
- Be ready to pay 10% tax means in the next day, gold will be substracted by 10% of it.
- Donation event means there will be some resources that will be decreased or increased in the next day for donation.
- Mr.Rich and Mrs.Rich event means there will be an addition of resource in the next day.
- Crime event occurs after 100 days. If there is a police office, there will be no reduction in resource, and if there is a policeman, there will be a bonus of gold, but if there is no police office, there will be a reduction in resource.
- Disease event occurs after 120 days. If there is a hospital, there will be no reduction in resource, and if there is a doctor, there will be a bonus of gold, but if there is no police office, there will be a reduction in resource.
- Reminder event means there is no occasion, but it is just for reminding, such as “keep balance, keep balance”.

Screenshoot

About Developer
- Andrew Putra Jaya
xander_drew@yahoo.com
iamgamedeveloper.blogspot.com
- Andreas Bernard
Calintz_gantenk@hotmail.com