Deep Space Diggers

jeremia 2021-04-27 13:04

I feel like most of the time, you just wait for the dwarfs to finish sleeping/eating/partying, and nothing is happening.

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eusekerci 2021-04-27 23:13

Great concept, and it is unbelievable to make this in 3 days. If the game is more smoother/faster, I would enjoy it much more.

It feels like Fallout Shelter at first glance, but it is a different type of tycoon game when you go deeper.

I would like to see more challenges and motivations to continue playing.

Well done :thumbsup:

yigit-doruk 2021-04-28 00:20

I think the game lacks a proper goal to guide players. I spent most of my time to figure out what to do. But the concept is interesting, reminds me the games like fallout shelter. I hope you could execute your vision after the jam, I believe there is a potential here. Keep up the good work <3

ragnor 2021-04-28 16:12

Thanks for the lovely comments. Unfortunately we could barely finish the game just in time so we didn't have much time to balance or prepare a guide or tutorial. But our biggest sin is we couldn't add enough game feedback to players. We had planned to add small icons on dwarfs to indicate what are they up to for example.

The game definitely needs work but comments like these gives us real motivation to work on and make it better.

jk5000 2021-04-29 10:37

For me was a fun little prototype. The game looks pretty good and the music was also good. The gameplay balance could have been better, and the AI is not perfect, but it's all okay for jam game. I would like there have been a goal, or perhaps a way to lose the game. But anyway a pretty good jam game. Well done.

jokubasg 2021-04-30 09:37

Very interesting and fun game, good music, game would be better if it had a goal, but for 3 day game jam it's very good.

incal 2021-05-01 19:06

Nice idea, impressive for a jam. My dwarves always stop doing things and just stand there, would be nice to have some feedback on what's going on.

c4scar 2021-05-01 22:43

Needs a lot more improvement in terms of player feedback but I think it could turn out really cool. I could not tell if the dwarves were dead or eating for example. The speed at which they seem to die or lose motivation also should be reduced because it seems like you basically need to build everything over ground immediately to make sure your stats are in the green. Maybe you could add a little UI card that comes up when you hover over a dwarf that shows your relevant stats like hunger, thirst, and current task that way the player can 'debug' what their little colony needs. Also a speed up/down option would be nice to reduce waiting.

raphiell 2021-05-02 15:08

Great entry, I found sometimes my dwarves weren't building anything new for some reason, unsure why. Great 3d models and good job completing something so ambitious!

Well done!

ragnor 2021-05-02 15:19

Thanks for all the great feedback!

If your dwarves just standing still is probably a bug, something went wrong in their AI and they just stuck there. But also it could because they need food, sleep, for fun but there is not empty building to go, so they stand still and wait. This is our fault for not putting enough feedback for the players. We planned for some but we were run out of time and have to cut most of it. I think right now they just gave out a sounds for being hungry, sleepy or bored but it is easy to miss also not enough as you don't understand which dwarf that made that sound.

james-macgill 2021-05-03 23:27

Lots of potential here - I see from your responses so far that you had to cut things, we fell foul of the same thing. You did get a working game loop going and I'm busy growing my dwarf population!

alexey-erzyukov 2021-05-04 10:11

It was interesting to play. As I write a review, the dwarves are still digging. :D