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Dnalsi

By bildramer

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness3421
Humor732.57
Theme793.33
Community1292.08
Innovation1572.21
Overall1712.21
Graphics1812.00
Fun1941.57

Comments

Almost

My unit was hard to find since he is tiny and offscreen to the topleft and roughly the same color as the water that he is sometimes on. Also, it is possible to select enemy units. I couldn't get into this. The resource numbers were illegibly too small, as were the unit sprites. Also, it's hard to tell when resources are/are not being harvested when here is no movement/animation associated with the resource gain.
Still, the map generation is good and it looks cool.
If the world was smaller, and everything drawn at 2x scale this might be more fun.
Also: there were two exe files in the zip. I think they do the same thing.

Hempuli

This one has a lot of potential! As Almost said, the player is hard to be found, the HUD is hard to read and I couldn't really understand what I was supposed to be doing, but the map generation is very good and I could definitely see myself playing a more worked-on version of this! :)

pekuja

I couldn't figure out how to play the game, so I left most of the ratings as N/A. Also, why are there two exes in the zip file? Is your source code really one huge file? You're braver than you look. O__O

the31

Incredibly hard to read the resources, but other than that I thought it was fun. Really easy, once I knew what I was doing, though.

Endurion

Quite ambitious, especially with the small time frame you had left.
That probably also explains quite a few flaws:
Things are damn tiny. Text is really really hard to read. Hiding the own unit off screen is not good.
Somehow I built everything up to power plant, tried to gather resources, but nothing seemed to happen. I moved the builders over resources (yellow spots in gray) which according to your readme should be the way to gather them.

Cleaning out the flaws, adding sounds and bigger display this could get quite fun.

cptalbertwesker

Sorry I really did not understand what I was doing in this game, it was really tiny so I couldn't see anything, and the readme didnt really explain what was going on, or what was units

demonpants

I just play this because I had no idea where my guy was, how I was supposed to do anything, or what the point was. Eventually I clicked a character who actually responded to my right-clicking, but he was stranded on an island. This might be a good game, but the fact that it is so incredibly difficult to understand (even after seeing the readme) creates a giant barrier to entry.