godsboss 2023-10-03 12:43
The game seems to be too easy. Just place a few factories and houses and you're golden. Or did I miss something?
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD54 → Tiny Town
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 2.00 | 10 | ||
| Fun | 2.18 | 10 | ||
| Innovation | 2.18 | 10 | ||
| Theme | 3.37 | 10 | ||
| Graphics | 1.75 | 10 | ||
| Humor | 1.10 | 7 | ||
| Mood | 1.83 | 8 |
The game seems to be too easy. Just place a few factories and houses and you're golden. Or did I miss something?
I don't think there's a victory condition, but I feel like I won - behold my factory area and park-neighbourhood. It is indeed quite tiny but there is certain charm in the icons and the idea. For example, I added all the parks close to houses because it felt nice.
2023-10-03 19_11_13-Tiny Town _ ldjam.com _ Ludum Dare game jam — Mozilla Firefox.png
Edit: I noticed the 45 happiness goal, and that seems very hard! I managed to get to 38. It takes a lot of trial and error. Edit: I have the happiest town <3 In the end I played more than 10 rounds to get there. More depth to this than I thought at first. It was satisfying to reach the successful town. Maybe adding "give it another go?" style button if the player doesn't win, that way more people would notice it. In the end, finding this goal and trying to reach it gave the gameplay a lot more meaning. The balance was good and not too obvious. It is actually pretty well balanced but I was just approaching it hastily. I hope other raters also take the time to appreciate it.
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It looks too easy :-) Screenshot was made in one step from win.
It's a very easy game. I ran out of time to playtest and balance the game.
I was very confused at first, because there's no indication of the progression of time - I thought this was turned based at first. Would be nice to have some sort of progress bar to indicate the next tick!
What a lovely little game, enjoyed quite a bit.
Congratulations on your first compo submission.