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Click For Living

By d3w, iradchenua and oleksandra

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall9533.3748
Fun10133.1849
Innovation4693.5747
Theme7083.5847
Humor9622.5941
Mood5953.5444

Comments

h1soka 2021-10-04 18:12

Very interesting and fun game.

cookie-dragon 2021-10-04 18:18

Very cute! Keeping the ecosystem stable is very engaging.

florianbald 2021-10-04 18:20

This game is refreshing. Like, having to keep a balance to rise your score ? That's actually a great idea, completely opposite from the usual "spam the stronger unit", well done! I'd encourage you to continue with this base, it might be a great game outside of the jam!

xyterix 2021-10-04 18:23

Interesting concept! Not sure I 100% understand how the balance works but it was fun to try

kristinamay 2021-10-04 18:26

This game was really interesting! My main issue was that I wasn't sure what the various things did and how I was supposed to use them. So I didn't quite understand what I needed to balance. Also I felt really bad when my animals kept just keeling over immediately. But the music was chill and the controls were straightforward!

binary-coder 2021-10-04 18:26

Clever concept! One thing that would have been helpful to me (maybe I missed it somewhere), would be how each of the animals interact with each other. It's mostly intuitive, but some were a bit unclear.

kromeboy 2021-10-04 18:32

if I did understend how the game works it culd be usefull to have the number of animals alive in the simulation, and not only the cap

d3w 2021-10-04 20:01

@h1soka @xyterix @kromeboy @kristinamay @florianbald @binary-coder @cookie-dragon Thank you for feedback ❤️ We consciously don't show all relations among creatures. Some of it is not so obvious. Unfortunately we didn't have enough time for balance.

e-m 2021-10-04 20:11

Good concept!

kregames 2021-10-04 21:19

Pretty nice game. I really like the music and the models. Probably some other camera view would be better (more like a look down view). Some feedback how many things are alive could be useful. It's a nice start for a cool clicker game. Great work!

d3w 2021-10-04 21:22

@kregames thank you for warm words. Camera not our strong side =) We will be better.

kukurammus 2021-10-04 21:45

Very creative idea. Would be cool to visualize parameters of the balance, and have some kind of random events, so you could adapt to them as a player. But overall really cool stuff

bodamat 2021-10-04 21:47

Simple, but interesting science game :)

hiisileiri 2021-10-04 21:51

I don't know how things affect to each other in this game. Spawning dinosaurs if fun, but all i created seems seems to be dying. Are the animals like placed in food chain or something? I though first the numbers means something to carbon oxides the creatures makes. There are a massive amount of graphics and details in this game though, and still interesting atmosphere.

d3w 2021-10-04 21:52

@kukurammus nice idea, it would be open unstable topic even more, but jams time frame )

d3w 2021-10-04 21:52

@bodamat thank you ❤

tims 2021-10-04 21:58

This is very relaxing

rzfmzn 2021-10-04 22:00

I would love to see this game move forward :) this is my kind of game. It still lack more feedback so I understand what is going on :) but liked a lot (was playing for 30'+ when the game crashed my firefox :( )

popertots 2021-10-04 23:09

I fell into that for a bit too long haha

nefylem 2021-10-04 23:55

Technically intricate game, not sure I followed how everything tied together, but I liked it.

kalevrk 2021-10-05 03:48

I liked the atmosphere and watching things change over time. I didn't quiet understand how the balancing worked, so some guidelines would be helpful.

master-age 2021-10-05 08:01

This is an interesting twist on a typical clicker game where you need to put some thought into buying the next upgrade. It's a cool concept and I like the animals running around and the day night cycle.

My main gripe, however, is that I wasn't sure how the balancing was working. Perhaps you could improve this by adding an indicator for each life form that showed how close it was to stabilising.

Otherwise, Good Job! :)

d3w 2021-10-05 08:29

@tims happy to hear

arthur-mairs 2021-10-05 09:26

This was fun and i definitely played it for longer than i should have while rating games! I love clicker games, and this one has some different mechanics to it! the models of the animals are really good, as well as the animations!

devundead 2021-10-05 10:00

Great game. Love the graphics and sound, it's a beautiful game

d3w 2021-10-05 10:09

@rzfmzn thank you for the feedback, we are thinking about going further with the game. Any chances that you remember what happened before the game has crashed?

rzfmzn 2021-10-05 10:33

Sorry, no :/ you are counting on an old mind :(

d3w 2021-10-05 12:48

@popertots @nefylem @kalevrk @master-age @arthur-mairs @devundead thank you for feed back from everyone from our team ❤️❤️❤️

randomphantom 2021-10-05 14:36

nice subversion of a clicker trope. I think yes the details of the interactions between the various beings aren't very clear as I see the stronger units falling to their death upon spawning, which is a bit hard to understand. Nice graphics and chill music to accompany the simulation style gameplay.

queenofsquiggles 2021-10-05 14:49

This has been a pretty interesting game. I love simulation games and seeing how everything interacts. This game reminded me of Equilinox. Really well done! Once I got to my first T-Rex I thought, "Wouldn't it be funny if the danger sign is just a human." I did have trouble understanding what was happening sometimes. It looks like everything was dying really fast but my numbers for different creatures stayed the same. If you want to take this game a step further, having the animals reproduce and then also die would be very interesting. That level of simulation could be as educational as it would be fun.

d3w 2021-10-05 14:52

@randomphantom Thank you for replay. I am about to make discovering interaction part of gameplay.Because if we uncover it at the start it will be not so interesting.

d3w 2021-10-05 14:58

@queenofsquiggles hehe, It seems the goal of danger sing was achieved! =) Thank you for such big feedback seeing people's reactions I think we definitely should go further with this game.

belickim 2021-10-05 15:59

Very cool concept! I'm not exactly sure why bees seem to eat the grass but otherwise it's fun and pretty engaging :)

d3w 2021-10-05 16:37

@belickim It is approximation =) There are also some flowers =)

belickim 2021-10-05 16:45

@d3w I know, I immediately thought they would pollinate them and make more grass :) Anyway, kudos and I hope to play the finished version someday! :)

kyrylo-kalienich 2021-10-05 19:14

Цікавий концепт! Динозаври круть)

uraffululz 2021-10-05 19:24

I guess this is what Adam did before Eve came around. I'm just going to assume this is universal canon.

Seriously, though, this is an excellent project. Nice graphics, excellent audio, and thoughtful gameplay. What more can you ask for?

liss1024 2021-10-05 19:26

Quite fun game, i didn't understand anything, but liked it anyway.

d3w 2021-10-05 19:47

@liss1024 @kyrylo-kalienich thanks 🤗

d3w 2021-10-05 19:48

@uraffululz After your comment I am about to add woman as last piece of chain =)

doc-kaos 2021-10-05 20:33

That was enjoyable and very relaxing. Although my cow kept dying as soon as it was spawned :smile:

I also wondered if I really wanted a T-rex in my garden :thinking:

johnathan-peres 2021-10-05 20:38

Great concept and execution, hope we have an update in the future :)

d3w 2021-10-05 20:39

@doc-kaos sometimes T-rex exists in your garden, want you it or not... ))

coda-highland 2021-10-05 21:12

Well then, not bad at all! :) I definitely appreciate the additional depth beyond a normal clicker game.

Maybe achievements would be a good addition if you want to expand on it post-jam.

singular 2021-10-05 21:41

I Like the idea, but Ive got no idea was I have to do or what creature afect another. A tutorial would be nice. But I still like the idea.

lelulagames 2021-10-06 02:17

I enjoyed the concept. A chill clicker style game... It was interesting trying to find a balance between the different creatures. I would have liked more feed back to tell me why the creatures were dying, and if it was a natural thing to happen as things progressed. I also would have liked the ability to turn the music down, but otherwise it's a really nice game.

rock-gong 2021-10-06 03:12

Relaxing gameplay and music. Love it.

d3w 2021-10-06 04:56

@coda-highland @singular @lelulagames @rock-gong) thank you for feedback!

morhailen 2021-10-06 18:41

We also wanted to make a game in this style. Мы хотели игру в подобном стиле делать.

morhailen 2021-10-06 18:48

Heh, creatures and trees filled the screen so much that I lost the cauldron and couldn't click on it. As I understand it, are they all connected and eat each other? Хех, существа и деревья настолько заполонили экран, что котёл потерялся и стало невозможно на него кликнуть. Насколько понимаю - все связаны между собой и друг друга едят?

d3w 2021-10-06 18:57

@morhailen Yeah ours trees doesn't ask anyone where they can grow =) Ага, наши деревья ни у кого не спрашивают, где им расти =) Correct, Everything related. Правильно, всё связано.

morhailen 2021-10-06 21:00

@d3w, делайте мобильную версию! =9

julia-schwarzberg 2021-10-07 08:49

Самая дорогая трава в моей жизни.

d3w 2021-10-07 12:25

@julia-schwarzberg 😂

laurari 2021-10-08 19:23

Super cute game!! Just missing some feedback on why my T-Rex keeps dying so dramatically :laughing: some instructions on how to maintain the balance would be amazing, but this game is super cute and nice to play!! good job :thumbsup:

One small suggestion, do not trigger the same sound when you don't have funds to buy something, it is quite confusing :sweat_smile:

d3w 2021-10-10 05:34

Thank you for feedback @laurari =)

nikiprotiv 2021-10-10 15:40

To be honest, it's not clear how to play. The music ended early and all my animals were dying all the time. But I realized that I needed to plant more trees!

iradchenua 2021-10-11 09:18

@nikiprotiv thank u =) We are still working on concept how world rules can be introduced to player :)