jocamar 2014-12-09 03:28
It's definitely an interesting concept and the humor is great. With a bit more time this could be a really interesting game. Good job!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD31 → PostFour : Reconstruction
By themonika
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 1 | 100 | ||
| Innovation | 298 | 3.38 | ||
| Overall | 367 | 3.36 | ||
| Humor | 449 | 2.67 | ||
| Audio | 528 | 2.63 | ||
| Graphics | 632 | 3.00 | ||
| Fun | 651 | 2.86 | ||
| Mood | 707 | 2.75 | ||
| Theme | 957 | 2.60 |
It's definitely an interesting concept and the humor is great. With a bit more time this could be a really interesting game. Good job!
Interesting game, but not so much my cup of tea.
I liked how much time you spent on the grpahics, but I think the trading could have been a bit more visual. Overal, a good game :). Maybe if you put in an interactive tutorial and some stages, you might improve the game.
Doesn't get past the loading screen for me on Safari.
Very cool concept, though there isn't quite enough feedback as to what your actions are doing.
Man, solving the worlds' hunger problem was easy!
This game made me feel really happy to help everyone out. Near as I could tell, I got everyone to a comfortable state. I would have loved for some visual indicator on the map to tell which planets still needed help :)
Also- while I appreciate the idea behind muting the music by default, I'd recommend enabling it. It's pretty great, show it off!
Nice! I really liked it!
When I understood that the resources would rise over time and that my fellow enemies needed my help, I was on my way to victory!
Dropbox says the game is not there :(
Dropbox has been dropped. I've moved it to google docs for now. I'm going to look into itch.io hosting.
Love the concept of cleaning up after a 4x. Not a lot of depth past 'balance the bars'.
This was a fun little puzzle. Nice work!
Hi, as requested I looked at the Safari console:
[Warning] Phaser.Loader error loading file: bgm from URL null (phaser.min.js, line 9)
Thanks! I've added a version that won't try to load the music. That should fix it.
I really enjoyed this game once I got past the overwhelming initial info and figured out what I was doing. As mentioned on stream, indicators of planet status on the map would be super helpful for making the whole game flow better. It was really cool that you used data visualization stuff to make this game. The music seemed a little intense for the situation, it started stressing me out. Also, it wasn't clear that you could do cross-species trade to stabilize everyone and then cancel trade, but some kind of tutorial or way of slowly introducing mechanics might help solve that problem. Sometimes I couldn't cancel trade and couldn't figure out why. Nice work!
This is lovely! I'm a sucker for master of orion-type games, and this one certainly made me feel good about micromanaging! I'd love more content if you want to make any. If you need pixels maybe I could help. Especially with named NPCs <3 I give this full marks
I liked rhe atmosphere and stoy, all this information panels look cool. Gameplay is pretty simple.
interesting game... great job...
I love the theme. I don't think I've seen a post-4x game, especially not one in made 72 hours. I think if you had made the trade interactions a bit more visual it would have packed more punch (hit "Trade" and it immidiately shows the effect it has on both systems).
Also, I love that you used d3.js, very clever!
Good idea and deeper than I though once I read the help, my fault.
It's a bit tedious to open and close the trading window, more info and actions on the main map would help, but it's a good game :)
I loved this game so much, at first it felt so static and boring but then I liked it and I think I am inspired to do thing(s) now! also I liked the Icons.
a question(please answer): you said if a planet is doing good it will produce extra... well how do I let the time pass? should I just keep travelling around like an idiot?
I will come back and play more later, this game is actually really fun.
here is what I think should improve:
1)the Music is nice but it does not fit %100. I think you should go for calmer one(not depressing one)
2)I think if a planet is starving it should show on the map; felt tedious to click all the planets around to get informations(same goes for other status too), and if you think it will ruin the map; you might add buttons to show/hide planets status; each type individually (you can show/hide only comfortable status for example)
3)I think you should tell how much resources you will get by time if a planet is producing. numbers can make things clearer.
the ideas to further improve the game are endless, I wont start listing them because I will end up making an entire game with politics and such, but I hope to tell me if you plan on improving the game. because I am interested in playing.
this is the longest comment I made ever; only because I think this game is so much interesting. I love it and I love you. you are awesome, now I am your biggest fan :)
overall 5/5
Glad you liked it!
To answer your question, traveling is the fastest way to pass time. You can also pass time by trading with anyone other than yourself, especially between groups that hate each other. (Politics!)
I do plan to add icons on the map to make it easier to tell who's starving, and I also plan to add some information about long it's going to take for planets to grow to full capacity and stuff. I also plan to add in some story, with politics and stuff. I'll keep you in mind for testing!
(I probably won't be able to get to it to late January, but I will get around to it because I like this game too.)
A bit much on the back and forth but fun, still. Very nice job.
Well I was playing in Safari so I couldn't rate the sound, and once all I had to do was remove interspecies trade I encounted a game breaking bug where the help would come up, but would refuse to go back down. I could switch to the treaty tab, but that couldn't be closed either. This really sucks because this game was really fun, and it was a nice puzzle wiggling trade routes to make people happy.
So despite the bugs this is honestly one of my favourite games so far, the amount of content in it was incredible. That being said I'm not sure how you justified the theme, the game played over many screens.
@p1x3lrucku - is it possible you beat the game? The close buttons go away when the game is over, and the end game screen is the treaty screen with some text replaced. I might need to make it more obvious that that is what happens.
I'll also look into it being a bug. Thanks for letting me know!
Interesting puzzle game. You may have something here.
Wonderful concept for the story, and I loved the humour in the text.
If you work on this further, I'd like to see more direct visual feedback on trade and planets (colour/icon/bar/animation).
I'd also like the planet names that appear in the link screen to be links or at least colour-coded by race, since I often found myself asking "Wablegarble? Where is *that*?" and spend a while clicking around trying to find it. (Coincidentally, clicking around trying to find something happens to be the entirety of my game.)
Good work!
Pretty cool. Like a few people have already mentioned, it could definitely do with status indicators for the individual planets. I got the the point where I had one planet left that was just surviving and it took me forever to find it.
Would also be cool if there was a more visual indicator of the amount and direction of trade flow along the route, maybe complicate things by having planets that hate each other and refuse to trade.
Cute - liked the trading aspect - wasn't quite sure what the aim of the game was though
nice game
Excellent game! Very fun, I love the concept. I want to see more!
I really like this concept, and would love to see it expanded upon.