Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD60 → Tech Tree the Game : Car edition
By sebbernery
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| Category | Rank | Score | Count | LD60 | Ever | |
| Overall | 10 | |||||
| Fun | 10 | |||||
| Innovation | 10 | |||||
| Theme | 10 | |||||
| Graphics | 10 | |||||
| Humor | 9 | |||||
Nice concept: prototyping a car from a tech tree, where each part pushes stats up and down and building a model reveals new technologies, is a fun little design puzzle. The +++/- notation is clear once the tutorial explains it. Visually it's very bare right now, and some feedback on the car itself (a drawing that changes with the parts, or a short review after each prototype) would make each build feel more rewarding. Good base to expand!
Good concept, but it lacks visualization. I would have liked to see the parts being chosen and to watch a car take shape.
I've read the texts 3 times, but unfortunately could not understand the game. I get the idea, and something changes, but I did not quite get the controls. Sound like could be fun game with great depth, just needs more visualization, even tho I uderstand this is meant to be abstract like game.
I had trouble remembering the specifications for the last car but fortunately it was written here in the description ^^ Once I had that, it made sense and was quite fun juggling the cards around
Not so sure the "only one change at a time" really adds value though
The last car was fun: unlock everything. Damn too expensive. Try to reduce cleverly :)
It's a solid foundation, but I don't feel like I had to think all that hard about which options I clicked. Maybe I just got really lucky or something, idk.
I thought it was funny that red paint increases speed, but was a bit confused when the catalytic converter also increased the speed. I don't know much about cars, but I'm pretty sure that's just a thing they put in the exhaust to clean up emissions?
Thanks all for your feedbacks :) @henk: I don't have car, so I don't have a lot of car-knowledge, but I think the exhaust help engine to quickly get rid of emissions and to create an air flow like a cheminey, which, I guess, is better for efficiency. But maybe not ^^ (But while writing that, I totally understood what you said, I mixed up "catalytic converter" and "exhaust pipe", sorry !)