Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD52 → The Gold'n Apples
By kikiriki367
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 337 | 3.59 | 65 | |
| Fun | 306 | 3.53 | 65 | |
| Innovation | 156 | 3.70 | 64 | |
| Theme | 405 | 3.71 | 65 | |
| Humor | 515 | 2.61 | 60 | |
| Mood | 355 | 3.53 | 64 |
Nice and relaxing experience. I see that you opted Graphics out, but I will at least say that it was a great artistic choice for such a game to get this kind of asset pack.
The gameplay is simple, but fun and relaxing and it works well in your game :)
Mechanic is simple but it requires reflexion ^^ it seems easy to get stuck. The atmosphere is nice and chill. I like it!
I would love to have Windows binaries as HTML5 version is very laggy there. Played through the first few islands though. Nice entry.
@iluvatar First of all i have to say..........Great name! Yeah truth is i opened random assets i got from Humble Bundle years ago and decided which to use before even making a game. And i really loved it to be honest! :))
@mortith I'm really glad that you enjoyed it, i hope you didn't get stuck too early on though... :(
@szieberth-adam Your wish is my command, you can now download the game for windows if you want to!
Very nice relaxing game! I like the textures. While the mechanic it can become quite hard and you have to think in order to succeed. Would have loved a way to reset only the current island. But overall great game!
Nice game, with original gameplay, I managed to pass 3 islands
I was a little bit confused, I expected the order you place things nto to matter, but it seems so, so I can't get any apples from putting down a tree next to a house, only a house next to an existing tree, so if the shop starts with no trees, and just a bunch of markets I am kind of in a bad spot. The art pack and music choice is nice and I feel like its an interesting sort of city builder meets card game kind of a thing going on potentially, maybe I missed something?
@shay-kopf Yeah i realized it, but since it was a jam i didnt have much time to do so, also i was thinking of it ending up being a roguelike of sorts so thats why its from the beginning... Thanks! :heart:
@lagerbe Theres 4 islands in total so you were really close to finishing it! And if you do you get a cool view of all your islands! But still great job!!! :D
@automatonvx You got everything right. So the placement is important. The point is for you to think ahead, placing trees first so you get better houses. And you place houses to get apples, and to be able to put better markets. So they mis with each other... And yeah starting with a bad hand you should just restart, but in future islands you can just "Refresh" your shop by spending apples. Ultimately losing score a bit but still saving precious room! :D
Thanks for the Windows binary. The game is very relaxing, I enjoyed it.
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Score: 202, Gold: 21.
Note that in windows, I can skip the tutorial and play through the game, but the second island on the tutorial does not count the coins thus I was unaple to proceed. Also, quit game button does not work but that is a small thing really. Good luck with it on the jam!
@szieberth-adam Thanks a lot! And your islands look lovely! Especially the 3d one with that row of forests :heart: The bugs are fixed!(Leftover from the Html port) I love that you played it again and until the end!!!
Haha, thanks. The top left of the last island is the result of a little unlucky streak of markets. I do not wanted to sacrifise apples at that point.
I'm so dumb for taking so long to understand the simple rules. This game is AWESOME! It took me some time for it to finally click with me but when it did I had ton of fun. The simple pixel art is beautiful and the game has amazing mood. This is the most original game this jam I had play thus far. I have only grape with the game that really pissed me on few occasions. I wish that you could deselect picked tile by just simply choosing other tile.I screwed myself over few times but forgetting it doesn't work like that. Pressing the white square in my opinion is less intuitive option, or should be on of the options to change the tile. Regardless of that I enjoyed my time with this game tremendously. Also I believe this could be a really nice mobile game.
And as promised my Islands. The first island is half empty cause I'm slow and didn't thought about farming it till I max out space, and traversed to the other Island as soon as I had enough money :P
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Cool concept and very nice music. At first I didn't understand that house and forest should be placed in a certain order for it to work even with the tutorial. Great job.
Nice relaxing game, it was a little bit annoying that you could soft-lock yourself on tutorial island 2 and had to do the whole tutorial again. On the other hand, you could skip through the tutorial rather fast, so I guess that's fine. As soon as you grasp the rules there is no real difficulty in progressing the islands, but maybe, being a relaxing game, that was the plan. I liked that the rules are pretty simple and you could use various tactics to get the most out of placing the tiles.
My score was 264 apples and 38 gold:
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Pretty relaxing indeed. Barely made it after fumbling around at start and very very bad RNG.
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And my final "great" build...
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So the random deals were pretty brutal in the early game. You could even get so bad a luck that there is no way to pass the first island. And starting the whole thing again after a fail like that wasn't fun at all. Getting served a handful of only marketplaces at the start of an island was soul crushing.
The game should probably explain too that the apples and coin carry over so you shouldn't rush to the next island as soon as you can.
The visuals were pretty good. The white spot for the "picked up" building was a bit off putting and it was quite hard to remember where it was picked from when trying to return it. Could of really helped to have some sort of in place popup text/icon showing when you harvested apples or sold em for coin. Would have really made easing into the mechanic so much nicer.
Sometimes (or I think maybe even always) the hover effect didn't appear. Happened quite a few times at least on the one square off from left bottom corner on different islands too. And would have been cool to have the picked up building on the hover as kinda like a reminder preview of what you took. Messed up quite a few times because spent some time thinking and forgot what I had picked. And of course having undo functionality in a game like this would be a godsent.
The music was chill and fit the vibe of the game. Some sound effects would have been nice. They also would have helped giving feedback of gained apples or coin just like the visual effect I already mentioned.
Anyways, good job! 👍
Nice game. The game concepts were easy to learn and the tutorial explained them well. And the different islands provided a nice challenge. Would have been nice to be able to restart an island rather than restart from the beginning.
BEFORE YOU READ YOUR COMMENT! I want you all to know that i appreciate all of you playing the game a lot! And giving me constructive criticism! Also for everyone that posted a picture of their island i thank you even more and i love seeing the different ways you all built the same islands! Thank you for playing my game! :heart:
@szieberth-adam Yeah the game at the ending turns into avoiding markets at all costs :D.
@bigwhiteshogun Youre not dumb at all! Its a simple mechanic but i dont know a single person that didnt get confused by it in some way :)) Even after playtesting it a fair bit i realized i needed an extra tutorial level or two.. But i feared of boring the players to death with the text screens! Also i was thinking of further making the game and maybe porting it for mobile(PS you can blay it on the phone already in browser!) as well since its built for it also, sooo you read my mind! Yeah the UI is a bit tricky and all but making it this way saved an hour or two of my very limited time durring a busy weekend. But it is the first thing on the list to edit out! Also thank you so much for your comment, it means a lot to me and it made my day, or even a week for sure! :heart:
@dekajoo Yeah i realized i need an extra tutorial level for that rule since every single person that played the game was surprisedby it hahahha
@skosnowich Yeah the soft lock is there to make sure to explain the importance of placement and building your island to the fullest. Since without those two core mechanics a lot of people would find it impossible to finish the game. :)) But ill see if i can think of some other better way to do it! ALSO its not that easy of a game, it is not extra challenging so that most people can finish it, but getting the high number of apples is for the people who do good. And you sir, and im not being nice, did amazingly well! I play tested the game with a few people and they would be on edge of finishing it when first playing. Soooo you should feel great about yourself! I think you did as well as i did when i played and i was testing the game for days!!! (Your castle island is also super cool!)
@antti-haavikko I will segment this comment so its more readable! 1.Yeah the random deals at the start are meant to be restarted. I was thinking of giving extra refreshes at the start to balance it out, but no matter how you spin it by not restarting you would start with a handicap. And for later stages the refresh button at a cost of apples is there to balance out the randomness a bit. 2. The tutorial islands make a point of that, and force you to actually fully build the first island to be able to finish the tutorial even! But i guess i should do it more clearer in some way :)) 3. The other things you hit right on the nose with them! They are all there on my TO-DO list but sadly had to be cut because of the time constraints and a busy weekend! Thank you for all the input and if you have any more please write it here! Im thinking of working a bit more on this game and any input on how to improve it, or what you would like to see is greatly appreciated! And ill see to maybe add them to a non LD version of the game :))
@harmadillo Yeah i know what you mean, sadly its would take a bit of time. And also i was thinking of rather restarting an island to make a few kingdoms like this each having its own checkpoint, so that ultimately you have dozens of islands in the ending shot. Forming a beautiful kingdom all together!
@kikiriki367 Haha, thank you very much for the compliment. True, I understand the importance to make people fail there At first I was not sure if buildings only count orthogonal directions or also diagonal directions, so by failing you taught me exactly that. Maybe it would suffice to only restart that island. But as I already mentioned, the tutorial was fast to skip through, so the implemented way is absolutely fine. :thumbsup:
It appears to be a simple game with simple calculations, but I still don't know how to get more apples and gold coins. It would be preferable if I added more basic levels.
@harmofish When you place a house, the more forests that are around that house the more apples you will get. And for placing markets the more houses around that market when you place it the more apples you will sell and the more gold you will get... So like this:
Placing a house surrounded by number of forests gives you apples: 1 Forests: +1 Apples
2 Forests: +3 Apples
3 Forests: +6 Apples
4 Forests: +10 Apples
5 Forests: +15 Apples
6 Forests: +21 Apples
7 Forests: +28 Apples
8 Forests: +36 Apples
Placing a market surrounded by number of houses gives you money and sells your apples:
1 Houses:-1 Apples, +1 Gold
2 Houses:-2 Apples, +3 Gold 3 Houses:-3 Apples, +6 Gold
4 Houses:-4 Apples, +10 Gold
5 Houses:-5 Apples, +15 Gold
6 Houses:-6 Apples, +21 Gold
7 Houses:-7 Apples, +28 Gold
8 Houses:-8 Apples, +36 Gold
So that is how you get more of the resources with less buildings! i hope this helps!
I really enjoyed this entry, it was a lot of fun and has a lot of potential if you continue! I found it quite difficult and the tutorial didn't really help it click. I got stuck on the third islands a few times before giving up. I came to rate/comment and noticed your comment where you broke down the scoring/how to get more points and it finally made sense. I went back and got close for the castle, but oh well :sweat_smile:
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Keep on making games!
@frozenfire92 Thank you a lot! And im really glad you came back to it! Im planning on developing it further in my spare time so your message is a great boost to motivation! And because of your comment i added the breakdown in the game description, so thank you. Also if you ever are stuck somewhere bored, its also playable on the phone so maybe you can get that nice view of youre whole kingdom. And thats a really clean looking castle i must say!
I didn't quite understand how it worked despite the tutorial, but I thoroughly enjoyed making patterns over and over again while listening to the music- Loved it xD
Fun little city puzzle game. Art and music are both great and compliment the game nicely. Unfortunately a player can be affected a lot by rng to lose by no fault of their own which tends to not feel great especially in a puzzle game. The refreshing helped offset that a bit but as the currency is apples for it it tends to still mess you up by taking away your resources (maybe have 1 free refresh per island?). Managed to get to the end and the mechanic switch up with the castle acting as multiple tiles was a nice addition to change up strategies as a sort of final boss
Absolutely love the vibes, the art, music, style. Reminds me of old school tycoon games with a little bit of Loop Hero mixed in. I think the difficulty curve was a little too steep at first, I was stuck on the first island for a while until I felt like I got lucky with the shop.
@pazzi hahahah im glad you loved it either way! if you feel like giving it a try again, just ask whatever you need. I really love seeing people play this game so i would love to help you out to play it further! :))
@ategon that one refresh sounds like an interesting idea... I might give it a spin and see how it feels.. Thanks for a good solution.
@slush Yeah for me it was a mix of a fair few things, and Loop hero was one of them! I love that you mentioned it :heart: As for the first level it comes down to balancing around and as it is now i think i will need to lower the difficulty for the first 2 islands just a bit... Thank you for persevering and getting through it.
@kikiriki367 Ayyy thanks! I looked at the chart above and it all made sense! I absolute love this game ^~^ Ayy.PNG
Yeah the "bad hands" are no big deal really later on when you have probably some spare apples and more space to work with. But especially the first island(s) can get boned real hard by this. Having like a free refresh or always making sure that the starting hand has at least one hut would alleviate this.
Oh and of course not forcing a full restart would also fix the bad initial spawns as you could just quickly try again from the start of the island. Still wouldn't feel great by getting absolutely screwed by bad RNG.
@pazzi WHAT THE HELL!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!? HOOOWWW!!!!! So first of all i think you didnt realize that all castle tiles count as forests as well so you didnt utilize it as much as you could... But even with that you broke any record ive seen by a 50 extra apples!!! Like 290 was max that i saw till now!!! AMAZING!!! (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
PS Check the game description again, are you okay with it? :3
@antti-haavikko I think that the solution will be lowering the cost of moving on the first islands when you still dont have enough apples to reroll or like one player mentioned a free reroll per island.. Or like you said making sure there is 1 hut and forest at the beginning, which i already thought of but ultimately decided to skip on because of the last minute crunch time.. But Ill stay with the restart mechanic being in chunks of 4/5 islands having checkpoints in between. Again thank you a lot for your input ill try all these ideas out, and hopefully find a satisfying solution for when i post LD update the game. :heart:
@kikiriki367 Haha I'm flattered, that's awesome- no problem with that lol ^~^
Great game, beautiful graphics and meditative but not boring gameplay. Great job!
@kikiriki367 you can see vod here, they play your game around 01:25:00 mark ;)
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1705767413
Nice entry! I liked the graphics, really minimalist and really on point with the game. I got blocked on the 2nd island, I don't know why, but after a while I could go further and it was really cool. Nice one! Congrats!
Nice entry! Reminds me a bit of Islanders game. I enjoyed playing this game, good job!
Very cool game! This is was definitely one of the most unique games I've encountered in this game so far... Although the graphics and music were nothing special, they still provided the sense of calmingness and works together pretty well. The gameplay was also very intuitive, simple mechanics, easy to learn, but hard to master! This was actually the longest I've spent playing a game from this jam.
The tutorial was quite a mouthful to read, but delivered very well and was designed to have their values match perfectly. I also didn't encounter a single bug, so that's really nice.
Also, I beat Pazzi like I said I would... Ez W honestly (L Pazzi) 🤣🤣🤣 with 405 apples, I am the captain now.
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All in all, wonderful submission... Well done!
@pazzi Im glad you were... But i dont know how to tell you this.... Youre friend is a pro so, get out of here YOU NOOB! :D
@hell-homa Thank you for playing!
@bigwhiteshogun Thats soo cool, thank you a lot for that! And also guiding that streamer was a really nice move from you.. Its a shame my friend made the music a few months ago and not now seeing that a lot of people really like it.. It would be cool if it would also get rated :((
@bobo-oh If you mean the island with 3 houses already on it. It can be one of two things. You either rushed the first island and didnt place all 4 houses to get the apples you needed, or you didnt place the markets in an optimal position and sold the apples you had for a lower price than possible. If it was some other island, can you tell me which one so i can take a look if its a bug maybe?
@smeljey Yeah! After half way of making the game i realized its pretty similar... So i guess my mind pulled the inspiration from it. I hope i did it justice though since i Johnas is a pretty cool guy! :D.
@no-whone Okay okay... Are you sure you didnt encounter any bugs?!? Because how did you manage to get a score like that if not!!! Hahahah Well you can officially call your friend a noob now! And congratulations on a successful mutiny!
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So I saw, that there is a highscore list in the description now.
@no-whone You, look at me, **I** am the captain now 👨✈️
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@skosnowich At this point its not even funny... Im legit confused how... What?.... Congradulations i mean but ooom how?? LOL
@skosnowich , @no-whone , I was gonna let it slide, but you guys just had to talk smack. Sit down! @kikiriki367 , I think I've earned my rightful place once more ^~^ Ayy.PNG
@skosnowich @no-whone @pazzi Im starting to really love this comment section! :heart: thank you a lot!!!
And @pazzi yes you are getting that well deserved first spot!
i gotta say, i skimmed through the tutorial, and when i played the first two times, got totally stuck because i thought the gold/apple gains were continuous, overtime and it was a turn based or real time simulation. i was pretty confused and frustrated when i didn't even have enough points to continue, but i decided to go back and reread. turns out it's a one-time gain based on the current world state! well, that cleared everything up. i'm sure there's some way to more clearly communicate that fact within the actual game play, but it's a game jam.
based on your high score table, i didn't do that great, but i didn't do that bad either. maybe i should have been optimizing for apples and focused less on getting gold in the final round.
chill hop bgm is an interesting choice, it's definitely nice to listen to, but feels pretty disjoint with both the pixel art style, the medieval setting, and the harvest theme. but it all more or less blended into a nice little experience :)
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As I tried to chase that highscore once more, I noticed I had a problem with switching building-selection: I think when you have a building selected, and you try to choose another building it should swap the selections not leave it with the old building. I got way too many misplaced buildings through this. Also maybe instead of a grey highlighting where you want to place a building, you could show a ghost of selected building. I have the feeling that you could put your selected building only back to the slot where it came from, would also be nice to put it back to any empty slot.
@pazzi I tip my hat to you, I surrender.. at least for now! 🧐 I tried several rounds but never even reached my own score again.
@skosnowich
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Also its not, iit never was a feature :)) itll only swap with white squares if the square was the same builiding as the one youre holding... It was an easy and fast hack to implement :))
@sakura-magika yeah it really needs that extra tutorial island... You actually did really good! Truth is i cant get past 250 and i made the game and have been testing it constantly... These people are just, something else on a pro level! So there is the top 5 now... And you can see youre pretty close!
@skosnowich @sakura-magika @kikiriki367 I'll reveal my secret. I restart until I get 4 trees and a cottage xD
Also, I gotta say- this is my favorite game (had a few early faves, but after reviewing 80, this one is most enjoyable- partially 'cause of the community lol) ^~^
@pazzi Nah, I am not using the tutorial, I restart until I get a satisfying first hand and then go. You are just the better apple picker. (｡･∀･)ﾉﾞ
Maybe I'll try again to beat you in the next days.
@skosnowich Aye! I do think rng plays a decent role in the yields- good picking, and good luck! ^~^
You thought you beat me @pazzi & @skosnowich ... But I'm not called No whOne for no reason... No whOne can defeat me ... 😈
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Also, I love the fact that it's playable on mobile... Makes it much more accessible and fun! You should definitely develop this further, it could become a very fun mobile game!
Oh yeah @pazzi, it's true... i also restart till I get this screen. Screenshot_20230114-200510_Chrome.jpg
@no-whone ........how!? HOW!? Well played bro. I dunno if I can beat that honestly. What have I unleashed upon the world =___=
I would also love if this were a mobile game with a global leaderboard. Maybe a few more scenarios with seasons and regions too.
@pazzi @skosnowich @no-whone
Yeah i absolutely love the little competition you made... I never thought of really adding a leaderboard until i saw your comments. And its really great! For the restarting sadly theres no way around it.. I gave it a fair bit of thought and there is no balancing it... If i give any free refreshes at the start then it would also always be better to restart instead of using the free ones... And if i set the shop for the first hand to be set to a certain thing, then everyone would restart on the second hand to get that perfect one... So sadly this is it for now i think lol
There is no use in using the tutorial it is set that when you finish the tutorial you have 0 apples and gold, so there is no benefit in playing it apart from learning the game.
And for the RNG, while it is true that it plays a roll as much as in auto-battler games, skill is important as well. Like look at your islands, especially the castle one, they all have some sort of pattern at this point. You all made your strategies and ways of getting those scores. I mean just compare it to the picture i posted in the game description. Look how more organized your islands are! So dont undermine your skill guys and good job!!!
PS the playable on mobile part i discovered completely by accident xD I mean i meant to port it for mobile also but the HTML version surprised me! hahahaha
Pazzi ︵No-whone︵ Skosnowich (/ .□.)\ ︵╰(゜Д゜)╯︵ /(.□. \)
@pazzi yeah seasons and more scenarios i really planed on for sure! And then imagine the zoomed out camera showing all the islands a 100 of them, it would be so beautiful!!! :heart: For the global leaderboards ill see as well because you showed me that they actually do fit in the game... I made the score be in apples so casual players can still finish the game while the more involved ones can try to maximize their score... But the interaction between the 3 of you showed me another aspect of it so thank you a lot!
Also i was thinking of asking you to make an island of your own after all this is done :)) like it would be cool! But i need a bit of time for playing other peoples games and my exams, before i come back to the game :))
@kikiriki367 a good way to mitigate refresh play is to lessen it's impact somehow, maybe decrease the cost of refresh, or have the starting island begin with at least 1-2 trees, so people who rolled only houses will still have a chance
honestly though, I don't really care about the score too much- more like I wanna play more of this game! A new group of islands to experiment with and play perhaps? xD
PS: I think this game is very balanced- easy to play, relatively hard to score extrmemely high.
Noticed there was a bit of a leaderboard going on so figured I would submit a score. Almost cracked 500 apples but its still good enough for 4th
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this is a very clever game, I really like it! the length of the game is just right with a good ramp up in challenge on every island. shame I already clicked next before memorizing my score in the end :smile:
@ategon a new challenger approaches! Were glad to have you here! :))
@shp Nuuuu! Well i guess you will just have to play 1 more time and see if you can get a spot! :D.
@kikiriki367 Thanks for crowning the most rigtheous player 👑.
Since nobody's worthy enough to dethrone me yet... I'm just gonna spill the beans, here's a recording of how I do it. (I made quite some mistakes here but it should still get the point across)
Essentially the 1st round is basically for gathering 40+ apples, and 36+ gold. 2nd round should be focused on gathering apples only. 3rd round is for gathering a lot of gold, and optimally a lot of apples as well. Then the last round is where you create a strip forest, and a 2 parallel lines of houses, and leave some room for waste merchants. Because mathematically, the pattern that yields the most apples is the 6 trees one where both ends are connected to form more 6 tree houses.
https://youtu.be/5hH9QlwfUnc
Beautiful art style!
@no-whone First of all you have no clue for how long i was grinning because you recorded a video of my game! I watched it 5/6 times hahaaha. Also the refresh speed at the beginning reminds me of pro starcraft plays lol. I had a similar strategy like you when i played and i got to around 480, but 580 is wow... Truth is when i was making the game at first i thought the max would be around 400, so im glad you that youve shown me otherwise! Liked and subscribed he he... PS did you speed up the video, or are you just that fast?
@ginxel Yeah They are great, and if you like them you can check them out i left a link in the description to the person that made them! They made a lot of different assets at cheap prices too :))
@no-whone @pazzi @skosnowich @ategon @bigwhiteshogun @szieberth-adam Hey so i dont want to promise much, but theres a chance that ill work on the game a bit more. Fixing the UI, adding new regions, new mechanics etc... But it will take a bit of time. I wanted to create a discord channel in case i stick to it. Truth is the reason im thinking of continuing on making it is because of your comments and interest you shown! So apart from you being there i would enjoy picking your brains on thoughts that come to my mind or hearing what you might like to be added! In any case thank you a lot for your support! :heart:
So in case you are interested here is the link: https://discord.gg/3MSSzB24ZQ
@kikiriki367 Sounds great! And no, I did not speed up the video, I'm just super used to the game already and it's pretty much second nature at this point... Truth is, I wanted to see whether someone would be able to beat me, but I guess now that nobody is trying anymore, here's my real score.
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@no-whone you didnt use speedup for the video, but you used photoshop for the pictures!!! XD join the discord, and when im making new islands id love to have you help me make your own one!
Cool game and nice approach to the jam's theme. Game looks great, plays well, and sound nice. Very relaxing, nice work.
Yoo what are these house so scared of? :)) just playin'. For real though, ~~why do I hear raindrops if it's sun outside B)))~~ last one, promise. The game concept is fresh and neat! There's a lot of ways it could be expanded, I really like it. I'd love an undo button though, many times when I placed a tree and realized about a better tactic, or accidentaly placed something wrong. Other than that, it's so good to see unique ideas, congrats :)
@projectaroid thanks im really glad youve enjoyed it! And yeah it is not inyense as long as you dont look at the scoreboard hahahaha For some people it ended up being more intense than csgo! :D.
@big-cyckos ahahha yeah i saw the houses as scared smilies as well, and still cant unsee it! Im glad im not the only one... And for the rain, its becaus eits raining in my heart, knowing i made the game and that i cant even get 3rd place on my scoreboard! :cry: Thank you for youre input, ill experiment with the undo button. And if you really liked the game feel free to join the discord channel where ill try and make updates and talk to you about what you want to se get added! :))
This was a very awesome game! I like the tutorial and the mechanics were easy to understand but hard to master because of the input randomness. The only thing I wish I had was a way to "restart" my island instead of having to go back to the beginning of the game.
Other then that great work!!
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My friend, the game Dev, didn't want to post my 2nd place score until i made an acc so here you go. Waiting for the update game Dev :)
"Easy to learn, hard to master" is a great way to build a game. I was drawn to this game by the gorgeous sprite work. Great game art and UI design too!
Fun interesting game, and I LOVE apples! I love the civilization building theme too, always a great one for me! Soooo difficult to get the right amount of gold in the last map though. I WILL GET BETTER!
really nice and chill experience, made me think a lot because i was not super good haha
art and music are nice, concept too. great work!
@rocktavious The plan is to make more island clusters like this one, and for the restart function to get you back to the first island of a cluster. Like checkpoints of sorts :))
@shit-lord did you hear when Pantela tells a joke?
@tweekstudios You must be the first person to not only be able to stomach it, but also like the UI! Thanks, but seriously whats wrong with you?! :DDD.
@flyingkaida If you mean Civilization as in the game than im extra blushing right now! I was a fan of the game since the first release.. Just try to hit more trees/houses at the same time when you place your buildings. And if thats not enough No-Whone has posted a video+guide in the comments how to get his high score, so theres some extra help! PS hes better at the game than me also so he knows what hes doing. lol
@amarokczukay Thank you good sir!
Very cool game, nice and relaxing. Had to reset the first time i played because only got markets and 1 house on my hand
Not much to add that hasn't already been said. It was nice, has potential and was well made. Good work
It was a bit hard to understand for me but when I got the hang of it, it is really fun to play! Good job mate.
i enjoyed the game, its well made but the controls make me sad way to much mouse moving. also way to much rng. want a mode where i can pick my hand just maximize score.
@lenan yeah sadly it happens. But the is no way around it since no matter what bonus i give to counter it, it would always be better to restart than using that bonus. (for example fixing the first hand, would just make players restart on the second one...)
@arron-fowler thank you for playing!
@hayricakir yeah, i tried to explain the game through the tutorial, but it was done in a rush so it only did half the work it needed to :))
@lizelive you actually do, if you beat the game once you will unlock the "creative mode" in which you can place anything you wish! :)) It was a post jam addition thoe so i would ask you to not take it into account when youre grading the game, but if you want to have a bit of a relaxing building session go for it!
Nice and relaxing game that feels quite polished and chill> Took me a while to get the hang of it but in the end it was enjoyable. The only suggestion i have is to maybe make the font a bit more readable.
@schmalex thanks, that was actually one of my concerns and i was kid of waiting to see if someone will comment on it :)) I will look into it and im glad you had fun!
I enjoyed the semi puzzle aspect. I liked the relaxing music and it contributed to the mood. Overall I had fun.
It took me a while to understand that all the benefits were gained only once after you placed down any tile :sweat_smile: At first I thought the game was bugged when I wouldn't receive anything when placing a forest next to a house but after a couple of tries I got the hang of it. Like everyone above said, it's a really chill and relaxing game and I enjoyed it quite a bit :slight_smile: Sometimes the randomness really bit me in the arse though :sweat_smile:
Fun game! Like you said, it's easy to learn, but there's a lot of opportunity for depth in the gameplay. I really liked it!
Very nice puzzle game, the gameplay is pretty unique and innovative!
Very nice puzzle game, the gameplay is pretty unique and innovative!
Oops my browser freezes... Turns out I sent too many UwU
@dk5000p thank you for playing!
@eloraju oh my the number of times i heard that ahahahah... Well actually 6/6 of my friends who tried the game out also were confused and thought its a bug that you dont get the resources after! lol So youre deffinetly not the first and it gave me an insight that i need to make an extra tutorial island. Yeah the randomness can suck a bit, but passing it shouldn't be much trouble once you get use to the game. And if you just want to build, there is that "Creative mode" afterwards! :)))
@shimmerscale I hope you've beaten it, and if you did you deserve the Crown of Champions! wink wink tft wink, if that is where you got your name from...
@dgspitzer Well it turns out i sent you too many hearts also! :heart:
the game mech is cool..good work...and i loved the art!!!its sort of smooth and cute!!