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Nature

By rjerez192

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1133.9157
Fun3473.5157
Innovation2093.7057
Theme1504.0657
Graphics1264.0858
Audio1133.7956
Mood1683.6953

Comments

courtmac 2020-04-20 02:33

Your html link did not function properly for me

zonvoi 2020-04-20 02:36

the html doesn't work

sacrface 2020-04-20 02:36

Screenshot look awesome, but the html link is broken. Have you set your game to public on ITCH?

croze 2020-04-20 02:38

Sadly the link does not work, leave a comment on my game when you fix it and I'll come back around!

jbasinger 2020-04-20 02:46

Hey man, the link to your itch page is busted. If you want some help, shoot me a message and I'm more than happy to help out. The art looks too cool to pass up.

barelos 2020-04-20 02:46

I would love to play but HTML faulty

rickzyyt 2020-04-20 02:48

From the screenshot and video it looks really fun but the HTML link doesnt work.

pulkit-garg 2020-04-20 02:49

link does not work

blackopsben 2020-04-20 02:50

Link broken. Let me know when working. ;)

splicedev 2020-04-20 02:51

Video looks good, but it looks like the itch page isn't published.

igoreshka 2020-04-20 02:52

Seems like a fun)

rjerez192 2020-04-20 02:53

@jbasinger jeez when I click the link it loads properly :S

dreamer 2020-04-20 02:53

the link is 404

rjerez192 2020-04-20 02:55

@zonvoi @sacrface @croze @jbasinger @barelos @rickzyyt Sorry guys. The game was in draft mode. I left it public, you should be able to play it now.

barelos 2020-04-20 03:02

Very nice game, My only issue is that I had to really try and read into the numbers to get a general understanding of what is going on. The premise is clear from the description and the controllers and what they do are very clear but it is hard to understand what are the consequences of your actions. That said I am amazed at the amount of work you were able to put into this, the music is great, calming and nice and the graphics are also very very nice.

thegamegoyal 2020-04-20 03:05

My favourite game so far. Amazing art style and audio. Also very good mechanics. Great Submission overall!

zonvoi 2020-04-20 03:10

it was really fun, i lost on year 96 LOL, i liked it!

bmo 2020-04-20 03:17

I think overall the presentation and experience of the game was great! I had fun figuring things out the first minutes. I think the description in the beginning is helpful, but its hard to parse an entire paragraph. The game got a bit stale after a couple minutes, but overall I was very impressed!

sacrface 2020-04-20 03:34

Fun game and really nice artwork. I love the concept and would play this for hours.

Hotkeys? Rather then have to click the button at the bottom of the screen, can I just hit a button on the keyboard to start building food/wood/stone?

Need a bit more feedback. After two playthroughs, I'm still not sure exactly sure what the requirements are to advance the civilisation or grow the town.

rjerez192 2020-04-20 04:40

@barelos Thank you. I really worked hard on it. The calculations under the hood and how to present the content and numbers to the player, giving feedback on the impact of the actions taken, was by far the hardest challenge and I know is the weakest point of Nature.

@thegamegoyal Thank you. I liked the art too.

@zonvoi Thank you. You almost made it. I haven't been able to finish the game on normal mode.

@bmo Thank you for the feedback. Yes I had a hard time trying to explain things to the players and I also felt the game got a stale after some minutes and kinda crazy at the end. I need to tweak some values to speed it up.

@sacrface Thanks. Hotkeys would be a great addition. I didn't think of it. I will add the requeriments to get expansions and advance in the stages to the main page. :love_letter:

tomeks 2020-04-20 04:54

such a strong entry, Did you play the music by yourself? Beautiful graphics

rjerez192 2020-04-20 04:56

@tomeks Yes i made the music out a microphone and an acoustic guitar. layered 2 tracks and added a 3rd one with higher bass equalization. Thanks for playing :D!

tomeks 2020-04-20 05:06

@rjerez192 that's great, very catchy tune.

dreamer 2020-04-20 05:19

Very Nice, it's hard core

rjerez192 2020-04-20 05:59

Thanks @dreamer

proshinyscarab 2020-04-20 05:59

This game turned out pretty great, and I really enjoyed playing it!

thooom 2020-04-20 07:05

This is one of the best ones I've tried so far. And it's so pretty. Would love some keyboard controls to go with it tho. Love the tooltips, makes the game really easy to pick up. I got modern age in 56 years :)

retti01 2020-04-20 07:22

Nice game. Lots of fun to play.

rjerez192 2020-04-20 07:23

@proshinyscarab thank you. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

@thooom Thanks! I really believe the hotkeys are a great idea. I didn't have enough time to tweak time speed very well. I would like for player to get to modern on year 60+.

mikesalyh 2020-04-20 07:40

Really fun graphics + music. Placing the resources and watching them dwindle is satisfying too.

At first, I was intimidated because it looked complicated, but once I got into it I enjoyed it. (The tool tips helped a lot). It took me until year 80 to realize how the temperature worked though.

snory 2020-04-20 07:49

This is absolutely astonishing. I am amazed what you were able to create in 48 hours. There is everything - good sounds, good graphic, feedback of your actions, warnings, tool tips. Wow. :)

doenerti 2020-04-20 07:53

great game!

corporation 2020-04-20 08:42

A bit hard to figure out numbers and mechanics, but overall - this is amazing! Sounds and graphics so smoooth and pleasing. Love how everything is animated. Nice job!

jabdownsmash 2020-04-20 10:01

Lots and lots of visual polish on this one. Messing with the numbers until you get fun moments is quite difficult with a game like this, and you've done well so far!

munkkeli 2020-04-20 10:05

Wow, amazing stuff! Great graphics and style. Great music. The gameplay is good, but starts off a bit slow. The resource usage and need could also be communicated better. Overall a very strong entry!

kneehatgames 2020-04-20 13:43

Nice I liked this game. Initially I lost because of food starvation and then I got the hang of it and survived for a long time. Good job :)

mailman 2020-04-20 15:59

Really cool all that you packed in there! I enjoyed it and was able to last for a long time. I hit my guys with the big disease to slow down pollution and survived with only 6 people lol. I ended up losing because progress was too slow it said. Seemed weird because I made it to year 100, was that intended? Either way lots in there for a 48 hour jam!

derkuchen 2020-04-20 16:28

Nice game. I like the animations and the art style. The gameplay is a bit slow at the start, and it's not always clear what should be done, but its fun to play if you keep going. Maybe a small tutorial could help?

rjerez192 2020-04-20 17:25

@mikesalyh Thanks! The game isn't very hard and yeah some aspect need better explanaition. Will improve that in the future.

@snory Thanks I appreciate it. This is my first jam and I put all of me into it.

@doenerti Thank you!

@corporation Thanks for noticing the animations. Most of them are just scale X-Y transformations, but they seem to fit properly for the art style.

@jabdownsmash Yeah, the numbers was for sure the hardest part. I wan't to so bad to fix some parameters to improve the gameplay.

@munkkeli Thanks! At some point I thought on leaving the resoure consumption percentages visible to the player so it isn't necessary to move the mouse over and it seems I forgot to add it.

@kneehatgames Thanks!

@mailman If you saw that losing message it was because you reached year 100 but the civilization was not in the modern age. Anyways, nice job surviving that much. Thanks for playing :D!

@derkuchen Yes! I thought so much about adding a tutorial or giving the player the abilities in steps (lets say every 5 years unlock a new ability), yet I didn't the enough time to pull that out.

anchoredtoad 2020-04-20 19:18

That was fun, the graphics are really clean!

joskerdu 2020-04-20 19:39

Great work. I'm impressed with how feature rich the game is. The graphics are sweet and of course the music is solid. Tho I was waiting for the djent and growl to drop. ;)

rrsmtz 2020-04-20 20:23

I love it, I'm surprised you could do this just in the game jam, it's very fully featured.

Notes: * I couldn't motivate myself to read all the instructions until after I had played a while. I feel like adding the instructions into the game itself, when the new mechanics are unlocked, and having age objectives somewhere in the play area, would help a lot with learning the game.

rrsmtz 2020-04-20 20:23

Double post, sorry

ironygames 2020-04-20 21:17

That's a lot of mechanics to do in a single compo, congrats! It really feels like a full strategy game. The idea of having population control is new to me, and pretty interesting.

As feedback, I think you could keep the resources' %s on at all times, to see them quicker.

rkuhl 2020-04-21 00:27

Html was working for me, fairly fun game, it was kinda hard for me to tell if I was progressing or not. It kinda felt like my job was to just put things down in big clumps and say good luck humans, maybe that's the norm for games like this, not really my thing but I still enjoyed it.

rjerez192 2020-04-21 01:31

@joskerdu Jaja. I didn't have enough time to make the sounds, in fact I spent like 30 minutes between the theme and the sound effects. Thanks for playing!

@rrsmtz Thanks for the feeedback! Yeah I also believe those point will help a lot, among other variable changes like the pollution generated by latter stages and the speed of the game itself. Should have left more room for playtest.

@ironygames Thank you! I thought about that and forgot to add it xD

@rkuhl Thanks for the feedback! It have some problems of speed and difficulty in the later stages. I planned for a lot more things, like random earthquakes to struggle the players, however I left those out in order to polish other aspects of the game.

kunonooni 2020-04-21 01:48

This was a really cool game. I music was soothing and the graphics were cute! I loved the over design and mechanics of the game. Well Done!

rodrigo-castro 2020-04-21 02:19

Simple the best! All in this game is perfect! Graphics, sound, concept, gameplay... I`d play this game for hours! congratulations!

bonyok77 2020-04-21 05:36

Pretty cool, nice and simple art, but I think you can decrease the amount of tiles and make the arts bigger.

jeremyfa 2020-04-21 08:51

Nice little game! The music fits well with the content and the mechanics are clear. Overall a good entry, well done!

heyllopotato 2020-04-21 19:42

Overall it was a nice game, I really enjoyed making it very cold and then hot and then cold and then hot and then cold and then hot. Also killing people with the virus... Maybe im a little dark but that doesnt matter. Good job on the game!

oceanm 2020-04-21 21:43

Really relaxing game with some nice music and graphics. I had a little bit of trouble knowing what I was doing and when to do certain things, but i'm not very good at these types of games so that could just be me, but I think a little more guidance for at least the easy mode could help a lot.

rjerez192 2020-04-22 00:02

Thanks everyone!

@bonyok77 That is actually a great idea. I have never found myself using all the tiles and it would add more difficulty while allowing the player to see the art better. Thank you so much for that idea!

@oceanm Yeah, I'm planning on doing that for a post-jam version. We'll see how it goes.

ponypen 2020-04-22 04:48

Really nice little game, the music is lovely and fits with the relaxed feeling of the game. As for how to improve the game, it would be cool if there was some sort of tutorial built into the beginning of the game so that you dont have to read to much at the beginning or learn through trial and error (like I did) lol x But great game, neat and smart! xx

pilarius 2020-04-22 21:16

I salute to you doing a strategy build up game during a game jam, must have been a pain to balance. Great entry :)

marcusnystrand 2020-04-24 22:28

Very relaxing game! Interesting concept of a strategy game, it has great potential. Solid graphics and solid audio work.

I feel the only thing lacking is more content and stuff to do, but this is impressive given the short time

Overall, super well made game!

inka-mcatee 2020-04-28 09:41

Super cute Concept, like it <3

kevin-prehn 2020-04-29 01:23

Nice job! The feedback notifications warning me about certain stats helped a lot especially at the start when I didn't understand everything yet.

rjerez192 2020-05-12 04:36

Thanks everyone!

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