huozhedexiaoc 2023-01-09 19:48
no game sad :(
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD52 → Gempire
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 797 | 2.57 | 21 | |
| Fun | 807 | 2.22 | 20 | |
| Innovation | 709 | 2.69 | 20 | |
| Theme | 423 | 3.68 | 21 | |
| Graphics | 660 | 2.84 | 21 | |
| Audio | 500 | 2.05 | 21 | |
| Humor | 640 | 2.12 | 18 | |
| Mood | 783 | 2.41 | 19 |
no game sad :(
There is something I did not quite understand... I can plant the 10 gems I could afford at the beginning of the game, the harvest them. But then, I can't find anything to do. Help !
Tried playing but couldn't figure out how to get started mining gems, controls seem to be not-obvious
Interesting core idea, nice submission! A few suggestions on how I'd improve the game: - Selection through keys isn't the most convenient way, maybe just buttons with all possible seed & building types would be simpler to use? - Sometimes the game has black text on dark background which is a bit hard to read. - Scrolling the map is a bit painful: the scrolling itself is too slow yet has large inertia, meaning it always takes the player too long to scroll and then one has to stop the movement manually due to inertia. Would be nice to have faster camera movement, which can be achieved with a mouse or maybe with arrows or WASD keys. - Speaking of scrolling the map again, there isn't much point in that other than to make the player angry :) There isn't anything on the map except a few soil spots & building spots, and they could all be in one place to prevent the player from needing to painfully drag the camera here and there all the time. - The game doesn't seem to have any specific objective, and after you've figured the mechanics the gameplay pretty much boils down to a whole lot of clicking, so I'd say this needs some work, too.
Nice game ^^
Honestly not so sure how the buildings really work or what they are for :( A bit of explanation on that could be really helpful, I really liked the pixel art and the camera dragging felt super nice
Simple game, graphics are nice. The control scheme was really confusing, and i wish the map movement was a bit faster.
I don't understand how I am suppose to play the game, but I like the music and visuals is fine.
Nice work! I dug those jazzy chords at the beginning. I went bankrupt fairly quickly, but it was fun going around planting. I liked the look of the animations as the seeds sprouted. I should take up gardening.
Took me a while to understand where the farm plots were, you need to scroll the map a little bit to see any and they look like normal grass. Once we understand that, the game is pretty straightforward!
However, I'm gonna agree with @lisyarus here, I don't understand why force the player to scroll the map when everything could fit in a single screen. Or at least, make it so we can move more more quickly.
Also, the keyboard shortcuts are useful but having a way to select the seeds with the mouse would have been nice too!
I'm also confused, after looking at the instructions a bit I managed to plant quartz in some locations and select matching buildings and place them on the same plot but they seemed to sprout as a flower rather than quartz or the building. And clicking on the flowery thing made it disappear without me earning any money back... so I'm mostly quite confused.