theColony

kierancoppins 2020-04-20 01:38

Loved the art style of the planets and the ship! Super addicting game and would be interesting how many days I could survive. I don't know if this was an intended mechanic but I found it easier to put all the food on the closest planet so whenever the colony was starving I could grab a load from the nearest planet that seemed to have infinite storage. Only thing I'd suggest is some visible ship upgrades and a jet effect that suited the style of game. But other than that, super fun game.

falstro 2020-04-20 11:09

@kierancoppins Thanks man! Yeah, redoing the jet effect was the very next thing on the list that didn't make the cut. The infinite storage is quasi intended - I wanted to limit it to the original amount the planet had, so you could use them for logistics chains (but not infinite storage), but I honestly simply forgot to do that. The visible upgrades to the ship were on the todo list, but weren't quite as close to making the cut like the jet effect was :D

week-of-the-agents 2020-04-20 19:56

Pretty good, stylish, music fits game atmosphere. A bit easy but I know how hard to balance game at last few hours. Some problems with canvas elements in choosed resolution. The reason is why I never use canvas in unity. One tip - use dl=1 in the end of dropbox links for instant downloading.

falstro 2020-04-21 14:47

@week-of-the-agents oooh thanks for the tip about the dl=1 didn't know that. I tried updating the links but it doesn't seem to save it for some reason [edit: never mind it was just slow to show the updated links]. It's my first project with Unity - what is the issue with the Canvas? I tried resizing the window and messing with it and it looked decent enough to me, and I didn't bother to look further.

week-of-the-agents 2020-04-21 16:22

@falstro Canvas and its elements are not like other unity objects and causes problems for different aspect ratios and they lost proportions or positions even with anchors. So I usually develop my own UI elements from sprites and other standard objects.

elektroney 2020-04-25 22:06

GJ Keep it up man!

gildar76 2020-04-26 00:08

Great job. Loved this game. Wish I'd made something similar.

arefnue 2020-04-26 00:23

Nice work!

nimphious 2020-04-26 00:31

Was great. Stopped being able to play when the UI for a planet broke and I was unable to close it because the button ended up below the bottom edge of the screen. Had fun up until then though. I spent so many points on engines trying to find interesting planets!

gaming-night 2020-04-27 12:55

Nice game! Really liked the low-poly style of the ship and the planets. Controls are smooth and make the game pleasant to play (not only the ship, but also the switches from game to map and to menus, with the zoom effect). I found the game a little bit too easy, but I guess balance was hard to make with such an amount of planets.

falstro 2020-04-27 15:20

@nimphious Thanks man! I appreciate the feedback! Yeah it's one of the bugs listed on this page - I thought I had fixed it (the camera for the planet UI is moving with the map), but as soon as it got reported I went back to check and apparently in my tired state I had somehow scratched it off my todo list as done despite not being fixed.

falstro 2020-04-27 15:22

@gaming-night Thanks for the feedback! And yes, the balancing is off, it's definitely too easy (though I have managed to lose a couple of times by being lulled into false sense of security). ;) I didn't really have time to do a lot of play testing. I think reducing the amount of food and materials overall would've been a good first step.

eternalxp 2020-05-08 11:12

Man I love this game. It just seems so well done. The ship steering is perfect. The animations are great. The art is cool and the mechanics are interesting. The music suits the gameplay and even though the gameplay is a bit repetitive it is kinda addictive. It has a sort of Cookie Clicker vibe. All around a fun game.

tompudding 2020-05-11 22:04

Great visuals, I loved the clean polygons of the ship and planets. The music is great, and the feel is just right. The game itself is not very engaging to me at the minute, I think it could use a few additional mechanics for the player to balance perhaps?

snowtoast 2020-05-11 22:29

Looks and controls great

thomas-bringer 2020-05-12 12:56

Great game! Visuals are great. Gameplay itself is pretty fun. I think adding a clear goal or a motivation to explore (find an item, rescue someone, discover a certain type of planet...) could be interesting. But for 48 hours it's already a very nice and polished experience. Congrats! :)

randomhuman 2020-05-12 13:43

Very nice art, I like the variety of planets. The map overlay is cool as well. There's not much challenge to it right now but what is there is well polished.

honey-pony 2020-05-12 16:58

Neat little game. I like the vast amount of space you have to explore, and all the unique planets and their names. I think I mostly just find that the game goes too slowly--it took me half an hour to build up a reasonable amount of engine upgrades and cargo space, and then I decided to try exploring the outer planets and got softlocked on the orbit menu :(

There are two things that annoyed me. The first is that it was sometimes absurdly difficult to actually enter into orbit around a planet, especially with the upgraded engine. I think that the range where E will put you into orbit should be expanded a bit. The second is that the engine upgrades didn't feel like they really did anything. I could notice a difference once I had like 10 upgrades, but I couldn't notice the incremental change of each one. I feel like there is probably some way to make the engine upgrades feel a little more meaningful.

I also think it would be nice if the map would either tell you how many resources were left at planets that you already visited, or at least marked them if they were completely out of one or both.

All told, I had a good amount of fun playing this (enough to play for half an hour!) I think it could just be more engaging with some gameplay rebalancing and some tweaks to some of the mechanics.

falstro 2020-05-12 18:11

@honey-pony Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, sorry about the soft-lock :see_no_evil: I wrote about it in the "known bugs" in the description, and I haven't had time to fix it. I know I fly through these descriptions when trying the games so I don't think many people saw that note. Definitely needs some balancing too, that's for sure.

honey-pony 2020-05-12 18:23

@falstro I actually did see the note but forgot about it. At least it was fun to see one of the outer planets... :P