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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Visuals | #7 | 2.449 | 3.000 |
| Overall | #9 | 2.245 | 2.750 |
| Enjoyment | #9 | 1.837 | 2.250 |
| Audio | #9 | 1.837 | 2.250 |
Ranked from 4 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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I ran into water stagnation issues and wasn't sure how to progress so I came to the comments here and saw people were progressing. Then I gave it another try and still wasn't sure how to keep the water pure. A little more transparency for the player would be good. It had me hooked for a little while!
yea there is a bug where if you collect water from a bottler that has no water left all your water purity turns into 0, the easy bypass is just to add a little bit of water into the bottler and pick it up, its literally a 1 line fix which i have done now and will probably update alongside a better tutorial page once the voting period is over. I sometimes forget the player doesn't exactly how I made the game
It is interesting, but too much grinding for my taste. Even with 15 litres jug it is just tedious to raise money for pretty much anything else. Also in the instructions "Placement mode" is just mentioned. Could use more info about water extractor, water tank, water purifier and bottler - explain the whole chain that could be when water is cleaner (also, placed the pipe when I was in the menu and expecting that the game ios paused - I was trying to leave placement mode without placing anything).
For how much grinding is needed, it is missing "save game" (or minimize to tray) option. And to properly play it I could not play it in browser because mouse was leaving the game so I was not able to turn 180 degrees - mouse just left the game (two monitor setup, firefox).
The bug with water purity 0 when picking up bottles is basically that last bottle you pick determines water purity for the whole stack. And bottler gives you water purity of not yet bottled water inside its tank. When all the water is bottled, the purity is 0. So you can bypass it by pouring some water to the bottler just before you are about to pick up all the bottles.
its a really annoying but I never faced the 0 purity bug and it literally takes 1 line to fix it so that the bottler work normally. Once the jam ends I'll probably update it. And I should've probably allowed players to exit build mode
Sold 500 bottles of Chocolate milk for $40, I am a business genius.
Really hard to understand, when I got the system figured out with how you put water in those 'purifying tanks', I was still left confused because it always came out with 0 purity - a tutorial or any kind of guidance would have been crucial here as I couldn't really figure out if I entered placing mode or how to enter it at all.
Some ambience would have been good aswell, but overall a solid game, just very confusing to be honest. Tutorial would have been a must have here.
you can press tab and you get all the instructions
im pretty sure everything is on there and the "water purifier" i think you are reffering to is just the bottler. to purify you need to build by buying equipment and placing it
Yeah but I couldn't get the equipment for some reason, as I did not have enough money
that's because you sell the low purity water for money to the other npcs around the map till you have enough to buy from the special npcs near the buildable empty plot. ive mentioned all of this in the tutorial that opens and covers the screen when you start the game. but ideally i shouldve added a step by step playable tutorial
Yeah, I did that - but I needed 5$ and only got 4.5$ out of it. And afterwards people didnt want to buy my water anymore and only gave me 0$ low - so it was kinda soft-locking itself. Some starting amount of money and the instructions saying something like "Hey! It's time to build your own water purification system! Buy some equipment from gramps over her!" and then everything would have turned out for the better.
Still interesting and good concept! :D
yes EACH npc can buy a limited number of bottles ive also mentioned that in the instructions. the trade limit resets every day so you have to travel and sell to different npcs. again i shouldve made that clearer rather than just a putting textbox
yea true i shouldve probably done that to get the player started
Think I bugged the purifiers literally never got any pure water to sell.
Did you build a structure to purify the water.
becuase if you want to purify the water you need to buy building components from the npc to build a structure using sieve plates and sedimentation tanks to purify the water
I couldn't buy anything cause I had no money and I couldn't sell water, all the prices were 0$
hmmm thats odd did you have any bottles to sell or just water?
becuase you have to bottle the water you get from the ocean using the 3 water bottling stations to sell it to the npcs
I did, I had 20 bottles, I went around to about 12 npc's and all of them had 0$ prices for the water.
thats odd genuinely couldn't tell you what happened because I've tested the game a couple times now and it works fine for me, but its likely there is an oversight in my code. try quitting to menu and restarting the game and see if that helps .
Ok I managed to replicate the bug, it happens if you still have water bottles and try to get more from the purifier it sets the purity to 0 on your water and it never goes up from there. I assume you're averaging the quality of the water but once you go below 1 it just multiplies by 0 forever.
I see I tested it and it happens if the purifier has 0 bottles to give and you click e again. This causes the purity to 0 becuase if there is no water in the purifier the default value is 0. Really easy to fix I just need an if statement. But it is what it is