Cozy and nice. I would like to see the UI refined. The text isn’t very inviting, over the background directly. But I love the way we can see easily how many points we’re adding or retracting from placing the tiles in certain places.

I believe some things that would help would be:

• The tiles we want to place in water should be somewhat greyed out, maybe in black and white or with an overlay of some color (not green), to show we can’t place them there.
• The input controls are a bit finnicky. I think I’ve accidentally placed two tiles at once in the exact same place on accident because I left the mouse button down for half a second. I think the action should be mouse-up and not mouse-down.

It’s pleasing and cute, overwhelming at the very first moment and still a bit intimidating after, but it’s pretty cute and nice overall.

The art is really beautiful!

I think a few things could be improved, like the UI or showing how many points each tile is currently generating.

I also noticed that I could place tiles on top of each other indefinitely until I ran out of them. I'm not sure if that's intentional, but you might want to add a limit.

It might also be nice to separate the camera controls from the tile placement controls, so players have more freedom to look around the map and then swap to place tiles.

Other than that, great job! :D

This is so cool! I could see myself getting addicted to this!

The music fits so well that it doesn't need anything else to be honest. It's so cool

Some improvements I would suggest could be:

• Maybe make the sprites of the houses, mills and all that noticeably different since they all kinda looked the same to me so it was kinda hard to get into at the start
• You could also add a little icon on the "Miller likes to be next to This ,That" replacing the names for the same reason as above, it's a bit confusing, at least for me.
• There are a lot of things to place, so maybe a progression system could be good? Like after you place 10 things, you unlock something or something like that, though I didn't feel this strictly necessary.
• The text was a bit hard to read, maybe because it doesn't have shadow or the font is weird, idk

That said, I think this is really cozy game, and honestly really cool stuff! Thanks for submitting this :D

Really fun puzzler! I haven't understood the height system until quite late, and I wish there was a way to tell exactly how high a tile is, since the game mentions some tiles like height 5 or whatever, but I can't know for sure at what height any one is.

I'd also have liked to be able to see upcoming tiles, so I can plan my next move better, and to have the tiles that allow you to expand the isle as separate chunks, as in lets say every 10-20 points you get 3 tiles which are purely expansion, instead of having them mixed with other normal tiles.

It would also be nice to rotate the camera so I can get a nice picture of my city, along with maybe weather effects :). Also, an in game wiki or something to show me all possible tile types would be nice, as well as letting me be able to learn them at my own pace.
Some limits for the camera and animations for tiles as well as the sea would also look amazing!

And lastly, I think this game could be further developed to be level based, like each one asking you to reach a certain amount of score, with different starting island sizes and different pools of tiles that you can get. There's lots of possibilities with this game, and I hope you will expand it further post-jam as it clearly holds a lot of potential!

This is such a great and cozy game! Very reminiscent of Dorfromantik, but having three tiles and being able to place tiles on top of others adds a lot of different variety and strategy

Sometimes when I placed tiles on top they would merge together (eg I’ve got a windmill inside of a mountain in the middle of my island) and sometimes they would get replaced or do nothing - this wasn’t entirely clear to me as to why or if it was even intended? If merged tiles are indeed intended, then it would be nice for those to have a special animation, and some way of inspecting the tile to see what the new rules are for it (if this isn’t actually a game mechanic, then perhaps that could be an interesting thing to add in)

Other than that I really enjoyed my time with this one! The music and art really work together well to make such a chill vibe - awesome work!!

Very cool little puzzle game!  All of the synergies are cool, but there are a lot of them, so I don't think I'm smart enough to think too strategically about this one beyond trying to grow my island when i can to open up more possibilities.  My first time through I mostly ended up just randomly hovering and spinning until I found something that didn't lose too many points.  I think if you wanted to discourage that behavior, you could consider showing only +/- for each tile (this tile's score will go up, or this tile's score will go down) without the magnitude.  But I liked it as-is (and my second pass through I did a little bit better).  I'm by no means an expert city-builder, but I got 159 on my second run (the other comments confirm that I am a bad city builder) and it was cool to be able to stop and screenshot my city afterward.

Love the graphical style.  The music is very nice, too, though it gets a little repetitive given the length of the game.

I had three thoughts about UI / QoL things:

1. I wish there was more visible feedback before placing a tile when you can't actually place a tile somewhere.  The early feedback about scoring is great, but it was a little frustrating when, having thought I was about to make a great move, I then discover I was accidentally trying to build on water.
2. Being able to rotate the camera would also be helpful.
3. I might also have liked in in-game indicator about the zoom-in/zoom-out keys so I could reference that without jumping back out to the game page.
4. Maybe this ruins the balance you're going for, but it might be cool to be able to "hold" a tile like you can hold a piece in modern versions of Tetris, to give a bit more control.
5. Maybe also a "quick restart" button after the game ends to start a fresh game (though I wouldn't want to lose the wide-openness of the current game where you can just sit there and look at your city after the game ends.

Despite those nitpicks, I really enjoyed this game!  Very cozy puzzler.  Great work all-around!

I LOVE THIS!!

I really like city builders in general and this is a very simple and this whole game is cozy and cute, very fun to play!

I did encounter a few minor bugs, The 2nd run I did I was able to build a castle offshore, which I dont think is supposed to be possible.

And my first run was cut short by a tiiiny bug where literally my whole screen turned grey hahaha :P

But that doesn't take away anything from this game! I had great fun and honestly wouldn't mind a slightly more complex version even! Well done!

Pics below of the bugs

This game is really chill and fun! I've had to try starting it a few different times, though, because it feels a bit overwhelming at the beginning. The tiles can have tips with many different variables, so there's a pretty big mental load right off the bat (which put me off the game the first time around). I think the game would really benefit from a tutorial with simpler tiles and fewer variables, so the player can understand the different mechanics before being thrown into the wild. That said, I understand there were only seven days to make the game, so you did an absolutely great job, because once I understood how the tiles worked and internalized some of the placement rules, I started to have a blast. The balance between randomness and strategy is just right for me, and I think you've built the strongest foundation for a truly engaging cozy game.

That was a nice calm experience for a change. Really liked the atmosphere and that you have made an improvement to dorfromantik, giving it a whole new dimension(up xD). Liitle things that could be improved would be a longer song loop, graying out the tiles on wrong move (tiles with stuff on water) aswell as some ending scene when all tiles are placed. but those are just small things, the game is solid and was very pleasing. great work!

This was a really fun and cute game and I thoroughly enjoyed playing it. I probably spent around 20 minutes but could have gone even further because I was only halfway there! The text explanations felt a little confusing/overwhelming in the early game but I quickly got the hang of it and had fun making my island. My only real complaint is that the music got kinda grating after a while, since it's just one track on a very short loop.