haokai-xu-1999 2025-04-07 14:17

Never seen anyone make game with JS, very surprised.

tolmera 2025-04-08 01:13

Couple of screen shots from playing and testing - I would love to see what y'all make.

I think there's some emergent gameplay, it's like decorating a snow-globe.

And I'm loving how if you try to keep a geometric pattern from the top or the bottom, it doesn't work - so you have to make bigger geometric patterns, while still keeping things balanced so the solar panels don't end up being rotated out of the light :)

Please share your screen shots! :)

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tolmera 2025-04-08 01:22

@haokai-xu-1999 - did you manage to run it? I updated the link to the live game if you wanted to try again :)

joel-davis 2025-04-08 03:33

Pretty neat, I couldn't really figure out what to do but I like the idea of a colony sim on a triangular grid. I think if you simplified and focused on giving the player more feedback it could be a pretty compelling sim-style game.

tolmera 2025-04-08 04:56

@joel-davis Did the tutorial help? Or the "story" button on the main page

jared-saizdelamora 2025-04-09 02:24

This is fantastic. Bold choice of engine, but it looks and works great. Awesome job!

tolmera 2025-04-09 07:09

Thank you @jared-saizdelamora. I regularly do HTML games because they are so accessible, Phone, Mac, Linux, Windows doesn't matter everyone can play, and I love that.

I tried it on my IPad, and wish I had of had time to add touch events, so you could rotate around the sphere with your fingers, would have made it feel so visceral.

Plenty could be better, but thank you for the praise :)