Rogue Planet

firewill 2017-04-29 06:17

Okay, I gave it a go, first criticism right off the bat is, it's too slow!

I like this type of game a lot so I did wait around a lot, I understand what the fantasy is, and I think its awesome, managing this colony in this unknown planet, having to go by some very basic info and manage resources, that's very very cool, but frankly at this moment its not delivering, speed to me is glacial slow, I think I understand why you did it this way, but it's just... boring.

I don't think any of my guides was killed by a creature, and just one or two got stuck *I think* but I had no way to note that, so that other guides didnt go and get stuck there too. I really had no way of knowing how effective navigation and senses change how a guide behaves, and even at 2 speed it was sooo slow.

I think I would, change Caution, Light Power and Crystals into a single drop down, up the speed quite a lot, and then go either of two ways

• Make the game more like minesweeper:

Get a bigger grid and base your decisions around information you can infer from how guides behave, turning the game into a puzzle game.

• Make the game more of a simulation:

You probably need to add more features, liek you planned, research, base building or something close to it, etc

I really like the idea, and it's one of the best uses of the theme I have seen, really creative, and very atmospheric, maybe add some text adventure elements, just uploading a version with... x10 speed would go a long way to make me revisit this.

lars-dk 2017-04-29 10:22

Hey! Excited to see another JS game :)

I really liked the concept. Lots of fun to play with. It really drew me in.

The sound I could barely hear. Not really sure if that was an issue on my end. A few sound effects couldn't have hurt though.

The visuals were fine for this style. I liked the glow effect. I felt like the world itself could have been developed a little more graphically, though. Having the guides animate rather than jump might have helped a little bit, or alternatively making it some sort of radar display.

I actually thought the coding was fairly impressive. I got an idea or two by browsing the source lol. However, I feel like maybe some of the elements of the design didn't make a lot of sense to me: first, I'd rather that if a colonist returns to my base, I should be able to send them out again. Otherwise it feels like all my guides are going to die anyway so I might as well kill them off searching for stuff. Second, I felt like the control over the pathing simulation had little effect on my success or failure in the game. It just felt like a level of complexity the game could have just managed. Maybe I'm missing something. I'd have preferred that effort invested into developing the world or more content.

Considering this was a compo game it's really impressive and could be the basis for an awesome post-compo game. Hats off :)