This looks so cute! I had fun playing around in it for a bit. Took me a while to figure out all the combinations. For some reason I made algae, and I think I took them out of the water, and then I didn't find anything to do with them. So I just made a moat and surrounded it with bricks, to live in a barren castle... in hindsight I guess I should have my moat outside the castle walls 🤔
Thankfully I took another shot at going through combinations and finally found soil. Interesting that someone else didn't find bricks instead. 😃
I found it hard to tell when 😠 would destroy something. I was always anxious about using it because I was never sure if it'd maybe just destroy my hard work. Maybe entirely removing something should be a different button of its own? Or at least it should be hard to undo something that took 3 steps in one accident.
Same goes for accidentally aiming at the wrong tile, or using the wrong action. Maybe have a little wind-up where a little loading bar / pie chart fills up on the emoji and then it does the action? It could already start the animation during that, but if I realize I'm doing the wrong thing I can still let go and cancel the action.
On the algae thing, maybe let me mix algae clumps with dirt clumps or mud clumps to make soil clumps too? Or to maybe make dry soil that way and then I need another step to water it or something. 🤔 It just takes a bit of luck to find that specific path to soil.
Last thing I thought about was having a reminder on what does what. Maybe a cute little recipe book that I can pull up which shows the order of steps to get a specific thing that I already learned to make/discovered. o:
But I realize this is an LD game and time was quite limited. Kudos to the cute game you made in it! 👏 👏 👏
PS: emoji.png Here's my fort with all my flowery glory, until I figured that flowers don't get any fancier than that :) Oh yeah, as you can see the bricks overlap the flowers, but that's a minor detail.
LD45 — Start with nothing (2)
Emoji by Ava Skoog 2019-10-10T18:19:29Z ♥ 2
This looks so cute! I had fun playing around in it for a bit. Took me a while to figure out all the combinations. For some reason I made algae, and I think I took them out of the water, and then I didn't find anything to do with them. So I just made a moat and surrounded it with bricks, to live in a barren castle... in hindsight I guess I should have my moat outside the castle walls 🤔
Thankfully I took another shot at going through combinations and finally found soil. Interesting that someone else didn't find bricks instead. 😃
I found it hard to tell when 😠 would destroy something. I was always anxious about using it because I was never sure if it'd maybe just destroy my hard work. Maybe entirely removing something should be a different button of its own? Or at least it should be hard to undo something that took 3 steps in one accident.
Same goes for accidentally aiming at the wrong tile, or using the wrong action. Maybe have a little wind-up where a little loading bar / pie chart fills up on the emoji and then it does the action? It could already start the animation during that, but if I realize I'm doing the wrong thing I can still let go and cancel the action.
On the algae thing, maybe let me mix algae clumps with dirt clumps or mud clumps to make soil clumps too? Or to maybe make dry soil that way and then I need another step to water it or something. 🤔 It just takes a bit of luck to find that specific path to soil.
Last thing I thought about was having a reminder on what does what. Maybe a cute little recipe book that I can pull up which shows the order of steps to get a specific thing that I already learned to make/discovered. o:
But I realize this is an LD game and time was quite limited. Kudos to the cute game you made in it! 👏 👏 👏
PS: emoji.png Here's my fort with all my flowery glory, until I figured that flowers don't get any fancier than that :) Oh yeah, as you can see the bricks overlap the flowers, but that's a minor detail.
Waiting for Hot Wings: A Dungeon Dialogue [Unfinished] by HacksawUnit 2019-10-06T21:41:55Z ♥ 1
Aw. I hope you might finish this anyways! I'd want to play it. 😸