FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD51 → Arcade Station

Arcade Station

By clementc, LeJoCarry and Lène

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall4453.6433
Fun5133.4533
Innovation4583.4633
Theme3453.9033
Graphics3443.9533
Audio1123.9833
Mood1374.0133

Comments

lululululu 2022-10-04 01:12

really fun, simple but felt well tuned. great vibes, had to turn it off before i accidentally lost an hour to just clicking a button every 10 seconds

sholyu 2022-10-04 13:29

The population goes up way too quickly so everybody is homeless but happy! Good game anyway ! good job !

nottahipster98 2022-10-04 22:04

Love games like this. The circular map really made city planning interesting. GG

nobuna-no 2022-10-04 22:20

I enjoyed playing it for 10 minutes but at some point new choices that could influence several factor, or random events (meteor shower, riot, ...), could have spice the things up imho. Also is there any negative effect to just let people be homeless or hungry? At the end it just felt like nothing was really important except the energy as the station would black out. Anyway, thanks for the great time :)

I must also add that I loved the voice acting x)

thedude3600 2022-10-04 23:02

Great Atmosphere! (hehe) But for real, it had a really coherent aesthetic. At one point, I realized it felt like there was no real consequence for having the values go into the red and I was just trying to keep them out of the red because that is typically how things are played in other games! lol. It did get frustrating that occasionally the building I needed would not show up for several rounds. Made me feel a little helpless and unable to do anything, unless thats what you were going for (a space colony would definitely be at the mercy of circumstance). Good Job!

fluffy-kaeloky 2022-10-04 23:08

Yummy~

As said by Nobuna-no, I wish there was something happening later in the game. Perhaps when you finish the first ring ? Gameplay is a bit simple otherwise but pretty chill.

Congratulations on making it to the LD51 !

keip 2022-10-04 23:29

all in all well done. nice graphics, the sound was great (the melody a bit monotonous after 10 minutes), but unfortunately there is no sense of achievement. very sad. an ending or so . still well done

psv-games-studio 2022-10-04 23:41

Very fun and addictive game! I spent several minutes in a row clicking on the buttons, I reached almost 650 people (although they were a little hungry during the journey). Captura de Tela (664).png

marcodeevil 2022-10-05 00:11

nice game!

ineso 2022-10-05 08:00

This was maybe my favourite game I played this jam ! Although it was repetitive (I would have loved some events to happen and shake things up), it was also fun ! The universe was very aesthetic, I also loved the music.

kaech 2022-10-05 10:51

I liked this one, but what kept me in it was the music and art. I think it was a little too repetitive - after 3rd ring started I thought it was already a little bit too long with not enough variations.

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joedev 2022-10-05 11:02

This was really great! Love the setting and the idea! Would 100% play a more complete version of this with greater variety of building and events.

Would be really cool to see people moving around the station and having building give you feedback as to what they are providing/using on the stats. Could also possibly have people visually arriving (on space ships/space ladders from earth) so you can plan for population increases accordingly.

morepixels 2022-10-05 11:03

Fun game, although very repetitive and basic. Was never able to find a balance, population always increases which means the player never has any time to rest. However, the concept and theme are excellent, and its very addicting. This could easily turn into a full game with a lot more features and time!

fax 2022-10-05 19:47

Really nice entry for the Jam. I really like the aesthetics. Congratulations.

fadrikalexander 2022-10-06 04:30

Three choices are not enough to create any complex feel to the game the experience for me was what I'm missing right now let's click the button that raises it rather than have any kind of strategic influence, some more buildings + events may help the game feel more alive, great job on the art tho

saintchristopher777 2022-10-06 19:06

Very cool! Love the voice work. And the music is nice and chill. With only 3 choices of builds and no "events" (or something like that) it doesn't play for more than 10 minutes or so without getting dull, but it's a _great_ prototype for something you could develop into a really fun game! Great work!

juanrod707 2022-10-06 21:10

Great job, I like the concept a lot, would encourage you to take it further, deeper complexity with the current mechanics

kr4ft3r 2022-10-06 21:42

Awesome. Sound is very good but of course it's the graphics that hit me the most. Now if those pixel lights were blinking as well, that would blew my mind even more. On the gameplay side, it is very inventive but wasn't challenging, as in I could probably go on forever. Great work!

aegisfate 2022-10-07 15:33

love this game I was surprised to find that we came up with almost the same idea in those 72 hours, the difference was that our game built buildings on the surface of the planet and the end goal was to "drive the planet away from an existential threat every 10 seconds" XD

unknownlocal 2022-10-07 18:02

Simple, easy to get into, yet somehow really addictive. It's insane. I love it. A great platform for further development too.

eronsh 2022-10-07 19:14

Incredible the atmosphere and aesthetics of the game! Well done! I missed being penalized for leaving the colony without food or houses haha Or even having something happen when completing a ring. But I enjoyed every minute building it!

stmatn 2022-10-07 20:24

Great idea! I liked how the game plays and especially how you included a tutorial on building types at the beginning. I wasn't really sure about the simulation, since food seemd to fluctuate no matter which buildings I installed. At one point I thought that energy surplus would generate food, but that turned out to be false. I think you could improve by teaching the player how the buildings and stats influence each other. Once the player understands the consequences of his actions it would be more fun to make decisions on buildings. The graphics look nice and the audio sounds great. I really likey the "Yummy" when you choose farm :D

locke8 2022-10-09 15:20

fun little game, its challenging to balance things out but fun to see your colony expand, the graphics are good looking and the music and sound effects are catchy.

ganny 2022-10-11 13:16

Neat game, felt a bit simple at first but some how I kept playing it trying to keep the "balance". Great graphics and music as well gj.

aidturith 2022-10-11 19:11

I very much like the atmosphere of the game! I pressed the Escape key to check for a menu but closed the game window's right away...

georgy16 2022-10-16 11:52

Cool and interesting game!

asheko 2022-10-19 18:14

A very interesting game, yet it felt kind of monotonous.

Loved the audio and graphics though.

Great submission !