flo-m 2017-05-11 09:41
I like the idea but I'm having a bit of trouble being able to tell which planet the displayed population refers to (although your last image looks exactly like what I'd want!)
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD38 → SCATTER
By Trever Yarrish, dr-argus and Trever Yarrish
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 3.00 | 3 | ||
| Fun | 2.00 | 3 | ||
| Innovation | 3.00 | 3 | ||
| Theme | 3.00 | 3 | ||
| Graphics | 2.00 | 3 | ||
| Audio | 3.00 | 3 | ||
| Humor | 2 | |||
| Mood | 2.00 | 3 |
I like the idea but I'm having a bit of trouble being able to tell which planet the displayed population refers to (although your last image looks exactly like what I'd want!)
I got the general idea of this game pretty quickly, but the UI does a very poor job of communicating what's going on. I'd like to see a color/texture change based on the current population. I never would have guessed that the other planets would have tiny population limits. Background music is quite nice, but the transfer sound effect gets repetitive pretty quickly. If you want to make the gameplay more frantic, you may need to limit how quickly people can be moved around in the early game, where as long as you're willing to click a lot you can basically keep the home planet subdued almost indefinitely (it seems)
I played this on stream at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/141469699 - time 2:22:15