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Automate to Triumph

By juin and Staubify

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1793.7321
Fun1043.7821
Innovation3593.1521
Theme2643.7321
Graphics6952.7321
Audio5162.5221

Comments

gooy 2017-08-01 12:48

Neat! it was fun, although it took me a while to understand everything i got it in the end and had a little community! i liked and spent a good half an hour on it!

reggnos 2017-08-01 12:54

Its fun, and not too complicated. I'm not sure if you are suppose to hold E for the wheel to make energy. And i'm not sure why are you even making power, are you a robot?

ericquagmire 2017-08-01 12:59

Very fun game, nice mechanics but graphics is bad :)

2017-08-01 13:23

Its fun !

smbe19 2017-08-01 13:26

I really enjoyed the game. Once you got some automation going it is really satisfactory to watch them work. The graphics are ok, even though your artist disappeared...

Btw. you can change the ?dl=0 in your urls to ?dl=1 so that we don't have to do a few extra clicks to download the game.

d4nin3u 2017-08-01 13:31

The beginning was quite tough (and I died at first due to my incompetence), but then it really picks up and becomes what I'd call cookie clicker like: you just watch your production grow and don't even know why. The assets are, as you mentioned, programmer like and the only thing I didn't like was that everyone was running even if you were standing. With that chill soundtrack in the background: enjoyable!

unit684 2017-08-01 13:46

Really fun resource management game. I played it a few times to try and beat my score, it's quite hard to start until you get the hang of it. It's difficult to find that balance which I think you've done really well!

Little things like different animations for each task and sound effects when clicking on different things would be nice but no major complaints here. Good job!

bogreen 2017-08-01 13:50

Nice project. Really difficult to balanse all resources. But if food lower than 250 over time appears attention message, it's annoying.

theflyingkeyboard 2017-08-01 13:52

Nice concept of gameplay and innovative approach to the theme. Really fun game to play, especially when things start being automated.

zgragselus 2017-08-02 00:00

Fun game, I like the concept - and of course I've died quite fast! On the first time. Balancing resources is extremely hard and takes quite bit of time to get used to it and balance.

tinfoilboy 2017-08-02 01:54

Nice game! Good for passing time or a good mindless game to play when talking to a friend. I found your integration with the theme to be well done, and this was, in my mind, a very good game.

sgstair 2017-08-02 23:23

Nice little game; it took me a few attempts to complete, and it takes a /long/ time to complete. The start is very fussy and I couldn't make it work without 2 farms before making power. After that though, it pretty much went about like a clicker game does; slowly and uneventfully :) slowly replacing objects with higher producing ones and upgrading them.

I was confused by the "low power" notifications when I was at ~96 power, I think it's just because both of my power workers were sleeping but this seems a bit bad.

Overall, there's a fair amount of depth with the upgrades, though it's hard to observe any real improvement with the upgrades. The upgrades also help counteract some of the sort-of mean spirited design (Power consumption increases when low?! limited uses on the beds, that's just evil!) It kept my interest to the point where I completed it, but I did feel like it was dragging on.

I played this on stream at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/163826993 - Time 0:44:15

sleepystudios 2017-08-19 13:02

Started off quite grindy but it slowly became chaotic and frantic which I liked a lot. Nice work.