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How does the game fit the theme?
Trade war starts in the mid-game. You cannot trust any city to be a reliable trading partner. They will tariff you. It's just a matter of time.
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
Music: Cozy Casual Game Music by Cheryl Mcc Music
Portraits: 1BIT Character Portraits - Urban by 5yvalia
Bevy 2D Template
How many people worked on the game?1
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There's a lot to unpack here. I love the planet, quite a stunning display. I really wanted to get into figuring out how things work, but there was a bit too much.
I think pairing things down a bit and focusing on some core experiences and streamlining those would have helped. There's just a lot of complexity and facets here which make it hard to understand what's going on, and I would perpetually get tripped up with dialogs sticking around or not or clicking on the planet when trying to navigate to the next step, especially as I saw the targets in the tutorial on the planet appearing over whatever window I had opened. Or trying to deselect what I had selected. Having hotkeys is great, but they should be indicated in the UI as well, especially for the buildings.
The whole UX really needs an audit for the level of depth the game provides at the moment, it really reads like I see so many UIs these days with just a lot of extra complexity, dense amounts of information, and layers of information. It was just hard to understand what a city was taking in and what it needed as every resource had a listing even if it wasn't relevant. Outside that in just the world view a clear toggle switch for resource view would have been good, as well as making selection its own toggle mode aside all the buildings to make it easier to get back to a 'safe' way to select cities and other buildings.
Very impressive!
Incredible, SO in depth for a week. Great work!
hey!! congratulations on submitting your game to the jam!
I love when people use Bevy, it's a great modular engine and to see this project stand with procedural generation and market dynamics is a great achievement! Phenomenal work!
I noticed a small issue with the road UI, as the buttons don't conform correctly to the canvas space.
Other than that, I also wished you would've incorporated more of the theme into your game. Trade wars between cities is an innovative twist on the theme, but I think you could've taken it much further, introducing natural disasters so as to not trust even the Earth, or other failures of infrastructure!
Great work however, and I hope to see more! Perhaps you'd be interested in playing our game aswell?
Hi Pedro, thanks for the feedback! And yeah I messed up the button and didn't have time to fix it during the jam.
R.e. the theme, yeah there was more we wanted to do with it but didn't really have time. Happy to play your game when I have time
It is incredible that you managed this much in seven days!
Unbelievably in-depth! Very impressive. Don't even think I scratched the surface of all of the mechanics. Loved just messing with the settings and spinning the globe around.
Very great and complex game for a 7 day jam! The visuals are striking, bit confusing but I managed, congrats!
I keep trying to play the web version but it stops almost immediately as the title plays. is there a recommended browser? i would love to give this a try so i can rate it!
Hey sorry on Windows on the Web build there's a bug that makes it crash immediately. I'll have the fix out soon, but you can also play the Windows binary if you want to try it out in the interim
Fixed now (confirmed working on Chrome / Firefox / Edge)! Give it a shot :)