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The Matter at Hand by Chaseplays 2018-04-23T18:24:21Z

Couldn't play. I'm running Linux.

``` $ java -jar TheMatterAtHand.jar Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid format at org.classpath.icedtea.pulseaudio.PulseAudioDataLine.createStream(PulseAudioDataLine.java:142) at org.classpath.icedtea.pulseaudio.PulseAudioDataLine.open(PulseAudioDataLine.java:99) at org.classpath.icedtea.pulseaudio.PulseAudioDataLine.open(PulseAudioDataLine.java:283) at org.classpath.icedtea.pulseaudio.PulseAudioClip.open(PulseAudioClip.java:402) at org.classpath.icedtea.pulseaudio.PulseAudioClip.open(PulseAudioClip.java:453) at com.chaseplays.engine.sound.Sound.(Sound.java:21) at com.chaseplays.game.CardPuzzle.(CardPuzzle.java:32) at com.chaseplays.game.CardPuzzle.(CardPuzzle.java:12) ```

Harvest: The Farming - Red Owl Games by Rocktavious 2018-04-26T16:25:16Z

It's a cool game. Spent a good time with it. Congrats!

Fail Fast Co. by hunz 2018-04-25T17:11:40Z

@mahalis Thanks for the feedback! The research cards require Intelect, you need to build a Design facility first, collect some Intelect and then play the research cards. If you have a Marketing building it will also consume your Intelect.

The game definitively needs a better UI to give that type of feedback to the player. We are thinking on ways to improve it and we'll probably continue the project after LD. :)

Fail Fast Co. by hunz 2018-04-27T02:13:21Z

@Articulated9 Thanks for the feedback! Appreciate you liked the game and concept. We are already working on better UI and other stuff, but the LD entry shall remain the same. After the voting ends maybe we can post a new version. :)

@Sky Yes, the game requires a lot of UI improvements to help the player understand what's going on. Management and strategy games are usually "overwhelming" to make it have many possibilities and many possible outcomes, so there's no "perfect move", you are always choosing and comparing pros/cons from a wide variety of possible moves. The "Fail Fast" name is just a joke within the game's thematic entrepreneur-ish style. If you like reading entrepreneur type of material, there's plenty on the internet explaining what's "fail fast". In summary, it's just the concept that you need to try something and either succeed or let it fail fast so you can pivot to another idea, so you are constantly trying, pivoting, changing ideas, approaches, etc, it doesn't mean to literally "fail" at your entrepreneur journey, it's just to let bad ideas to fail fast (and don't consume a lot of resources if it's doomed to fail anyway). That's our first LD entry ever and we appreciate your feedback, we'll try to either cut features or work more on UI the next time. Thank you!

Fail Fast Co. by hunz 2018-04-27T02:22:16Z

@Rocktavious Thanks for the feedback. We really rushed the UI on the last part. Like, we laid down the idea, worked on the engine in total isolation from the UI and then adapted the UI as fast as we can to have at least basic information available to the player. We'll certainly put UI with a higher priority on next LD. Thanks!

Tanktris by Moontigr 2018-04-25T14:12:33Z

The idea is cool, but I find it to hard to play. Maybe you can add a aim or something so it's easier to see where the piece is going to land.

Survive the Date by Samurai Ducks 2018-04-30T22:50:08Z

Never thought of something like that. It's interesting concept, some of the questions I tried to answer with my own personality or of my own experience haha, but still it's hard to remember all the answers.

It took me a while to realize I had to close the message box to be able to move around, though.

Good entry!