stevenjmiller 2017-08-01 03:24
Really great game, it is reminiscent of Mini Metro, and the graphics are very polished and elegant. I loved the audio and overall presentation. My best score was 56.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD39 → Supernode
By dustyroom
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 8 | 4.40 | 66 | |
| Fun | 45 | 4.01 | 66 | |
| Innovation | 22 | 4.25 | 66 | |
| Theme | 25 | 4.29 | 66 | |
| Graphics | 64 | 4.42 | 66 | |
| Audio | 10 | 4.38 | 65 | |
| Mood | 20 | 4.33 | 64 |
Really great game, it is reminiscent of Mini Metro, and the graphics are very polished and elegant. I loved the audio and overall presentation. My best score was 56.
What a great game. An Android version will be nice.
I love it! In the line of Mini Metro, very clean and addictive. I like how you need to combine the energies. Fav!
Great game, loved it. Mechanics, visuals, sounds are great. This game has a lot of potential, you should relese this game on mobile.
Very nice game! Love the simplistic style to it, and the polishing :) Got up to around 90 points, really gets complex after a while, which is challenging. Didn't see an ending screen, I could still drag one energy source, but nothing else happened. Maybe it could benefit from a timer that tells you when an outlet will disappear, but that may change the gameplay :) Great job!
Great idea. Music is realaxing and gameplay is so pleasant. Definitely worth a shoot releasing this game on mobile. And by the way, you could add some indication when there circle nodes are gonna disappear.
Very clever idea and use of the theme. Makes you feel nice and relaxed at the start then soon becomes manic. I really enjoyed it.
Wow, I could see myself killing a fair amount of time on the bus with this game. Really simple concept, but it goes deep. My only gripe is that I'd like to be able to speed up the game timer at will so I don't have to sit there waiting for another node to show up. That might break the zen-like mood you seem to be going for though. Solid entry. Thanks for sharing!
There's a definite Mini Metro vibe here, not only the minimalist visuals, but in the ever increasing demand that you need to meet. It has the same pitfall too, in that I sometimes feel a bit helpless when I draw bad outlets and lose, and then I wonder if I could have done things differently that would have saved the situation. But since the draws are random, I can never know!
Regardless, great use of the theme, and very good presentation.
Like other have said, very Mini Metro-esque in the best way. Fun to watch my network slowly become a mess as I build it up. Great game mechanic, replayability, and production value.
I love the calm feel of this game, it gives me chills. The animation is super smooth and sounds fit so well. It's extremely polished, good job!
yeah, looks good
Fantastic game! Really entertaining. Loved the minimalist style.
The color palette is great, the music is soothing and the gameplay is totally relaxing. That game is perfect IMO.
5 stars! amazing relaxing and fun game. I can't stop playing it. Just a great game ! Release it on android and I'll buy it!
This is a very polished game! I loved the art style, the animations / interactions and the music.
Did not understand at first that there was no real sense of "level", but a continuous evolution of the board, which is very nice.
This game's got a professional polish on it! The sounds and music make a really zen mood until things get crazy. xD I had a good time with one exception which struck me as a glitch. (btw, I played the Jam version)
I'm not sure if I was playing wrong or something (I played 3 times). Every time I would run into a situation with an outlet getting juuust enough power to stay unfilled by a sliver and it was frustrating. In one case I tried cutting all other power (I thought maybe when a factory is putting out to more sources, it puts out less frequently?) and it still just kept hanging on by that thread. This was the only thing that put me off the game, otherwise I could've played this for a looong time:)
Holy cow you guys have smashed it again! Amazing stuff, love me some mini metro and this scratches that itch so well. The design is really clean and intuitive, picked it up effortlessly without reading any instructions, and the difficulty ramps up perfectly. And obviously it looks and sounds fantastic. Kudos!
Very nice game! I found it on itch first (it is one of the top ones in the html5 section) and then noticed it was done in LD39... :D I liked it so much that I had to track you down here and give a review (at least you used the same username :D)
Nice job!
Love the exceptionally clean UI. Also like that it escalates fast... it's hard, and you get to the challenging bit sooner. Excellent work.
I love how simple it is and yet super entertaining. Fits perfectly with the theme, the sound is great, and it's super clean. Great work!
Very Mini Metro-esque (in a good way, of course). Initially I was thinking we need an option to speed things up, but then late-game it became kind of obvious that wasn't needed. Great use of theme, gfx, audio - its one of those 5 star across the board entries!
Really nice. Relaxing. The sound effects add a lot and fit perfectly with the action.
Really chill game, I love the aesthetic
Looks like i'm not the first one to notice, but this has a huge "Mini Metro" vibe. And that's amazing, 'cause that's a game i love, for it's elegance, simplicity and depth. And you amazingly got that.
(Btw... this doesn't affect rating, but i had to say it. After ending the game for the first time, the game froze and the "Play again" and score button didn't appear. I had to F5 the webpage. Also, the "Post compo" fixes link is broken, at least now.)
Well... really, i don't feel like there's much more i can say. I just really enjoyed it, my only real complain is that, when a node starts beeping 'cause it's running out of power, it mostly means you've already lost, it's either too slow getting energy there or it beeps too late. However, making it beep earlier, may make it annoying... honestly, i don't know what i'd do otherwise, so i can't blame it.
Overall, you got a 5 from me. I just enjoyed this game a lot.
Simple and clean design, nice game.
Very nice and polished look. Great experience at all!
Some small points that could be improved in my opinion:
- the tutorial is nice and short but after replaying it for the 4th time a skip button would be nice - the possibility of moving created nodes around for an easier alignment later in the game - if you work in a "*" and a "/" note it could be also used for educational purpose as well as some more game play possibilities
FYI it wasn't possible to play the game in Firefox: "The browser could not allocate enough memory for the WebGL content. If you are the developer of this content, try allocating less memory to your WebGL build in the WebGL player settings."
Overall Great Entry!
Oooh, the game is great with a zen ambiance, good concept (but the tutorial could be better), good sounds that enhance the ambiance, good graphisms that reminds me of Mini Metro. :)
Beautiful and minimal game. Would be a great game to play on mobile.
The game overall is pretty good :) loved the mechanics, and the music helped creating a very shoothing atmosphere. As others have said, you should release it for mobile devices.
- This game is really really fun and challenging to play - A little nice of work on graphics will give you a really boost to your game - make it for mobile and with proper marketting This game can have the potential to reach millions
I remember when you guys totally blown me away when I first played Empty two editions ago, I was fascinated by the utter cleverness of the design and clean look of the artstyle. This time, however, things have been a little different...
At first, I was puzzled trying to figure out what the nodes and numbers were representing. I usually try not to read the instructions right away, making a attempt to learn the mechanics through gameplay. The tutorial was not enough for this, but after my first game over, right into my second play, something finally clicked. From this point onwards, I was progressively impressed by how well everything worked altogether. You have done it again, this entry is a masterpiece in game design (especially given the constraints of a jam).
I hope you two keep making games until I can pay for them in some big store, because this is definitely some quality material. Seriously, amazing job.
Great game ! Gameplay works well and aesthetic is minimal but pretty and efficient. Well done !
This is great, a unique little puzzle game and an innovative take on the theme!
I really liked how simple the basic concept was, and how quickly it got challenging. The style is also superb; clean but with colors that really make it pop.
There are a couple minor issues I had: - Creating extra nodes helps reduce clutter as the game picks up, but I played a few rounds before realizing you could add nodes WITHOUT making sums. - Using the same color for multiple things can be confusing. I've mistaken 1-producers for 1-consumers multiple times because consumers all use the white color. (Yes, after a few seconds I realize the shapes are completely, obviously different)
Overall I really liked this, and hope to see more of it!
Really awesome game! I like the colors and the sound they fit together really well. Great Job!
Loved this. A really well put together real-time puzzler. Excellent work!
amazing game. Everything is very well done. the pacing of the game is maybe a bit to easy but it work really well for some kind of zen game.
I had the same sensation playing with this game as I had with Mini Metro or Alto's Adventure. This is an amazing thing, for sure. Simple but solid idea, with nice art and audio work, really well put together. I did a 162 score, which seems a little bit low, but I enjoyed a lot the experience. Good luck, great job!
Amazing! The concept is really cool, very clever, i just love this game, you really should plan on an android release it would work IMHO! The music is amazing, just the perfect fit for the mood of the game. I really can't think of anything wrong, you could maybe improve the game feel with more feedbacks, particles, effects or that kind of stuff. Impressive entry overall!
The art in this is great, so clean and well done. The colours work so well with the clean minimalist visuals. Did struggle at first to connect the nodes and not sure why that was happening, but once I got it going it was really nice to play. Very polished entry.
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