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HG-GJ: The HealthyGamer Game Jam

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A jam submission

PlanetaryDaycareView game page

While the stars are out there flirting, you're left here to take care of their baby planets!
Submitted by Artyomska, SunnySally — 10 hours, 16 minutes before the deadline
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CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Innovation and Creativity#10n/an/a
Technical Execution and Completion#12n/an/a
Impact and Engagement#13n/an/a
Playability and Fun Factor#14n/an/a
Theme Integration#17n/an/a
Community Favorite#672.4272.692

Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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kalikillerbSubmitted359 days ago

A good tutorial, made it easy to understand the game. The game is truly felt like a job. A very addictive and fun game could play for hours. The orbit mechanics and the little animation for like/dislike food is top-notch.

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Morgan and the Dungeons
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writstitchSubmitted364 days ago

This is fun, I love management sims!  The biggest difficulty for me was the time. 

Constructive feedback:  I didn't have capacity to click all of the things the planets dropped and also figure out all of the ui and planetary sorting.  Having a button where I could auto pick up all of the waste, open up a menu where time was paused for food crafting, and open up a menu where time was paused for looking at the planet's personalities would be helpful. 

I loves: I love all of the thought you put into this.  That the planets have different personalities is so fun!  I'm curious how the food works and I like how the personalities interplay with the other components.  Like how Speedy likes being in a fast solar system so you could probably pair them with Bully and gahhh my brain is EXCITE.  I love this.

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Raising Morgan
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SydialGamesSubmitted1 year ago

The music fits well and the idea is good

Here are some ideas of improvment :

- Make the camera fix and show all the planets by dezooming the game zone, I don't think it's useful to be able to move around with right click

- Reduce the hungry planet SFX pitch or volume or frequence, it was spammed while I was reading the planets type description and it was a bit annoying

- Make it clearer what kind of food you need to give to each planet, (maybe each planets could have a distinct color and food?) 

Good job for the game!

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NPC No More
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DoomShroomzSubmitted1 year ago (2 edits)

Unique Idea, curious to see how you could develop it, for some reason I couldn't interact with the second lot of planets after the second star dropped them off

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A Nameless Place
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sliphtrexIncSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

I like the fact that the game has a tutorial and a real sense of progression to it at the start. I think this is a really, really strong entry even if it isn't too intertwined with the theme. The art and sound design feel really cohesive and overall this feels really fleshed out. I think this is my first 5 start rating.

That being said, I would have liked more info on figuring out  what to feed the planets. I eventually realized that hovering over the side bar gives a description of likes and dislikes, but I spent a good 10mins just trying to figure out what was what. I think if you were to start with like the minimum info on screen and build up to the full list of food and what not it might be a bit more user friendly. Also if you maybe have some like shortcut of food preferences when you hover over a planet.

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Morgan's Path To Self Improvement
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ArtyomskaDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

Thank you for playing, and tank you for the kind words!

Indeed, the theme has been lost a bit over the development time, heh. As for some extra gameplay help, while in-game it's too late to add any, I've added a trailer/tutorial video to the game's page!

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MonoGlyphSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Very cool vibe and a creative premise, art and music are great! The window size seems really small and elements are hard to read. This makes the game more confusing. I got the planets to orbit each other and got a good rating though! After a while I ran into a repeating error in the text box, seems to be a softlock. Regardless, really impressive work!

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Morgan's Mortuary
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ArtyomskaDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

Ey there, thank you for playing, and thank you for the good words!

Sorry for the window size - I wanted to make the default window a tad bigger than default but it turned out it also removed the fullscreen button.. Should be fixed now!

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dhusksoundSubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Game looks and sounds cool, great music too. Couldn't work out what to do though (might be me being stupid..!)

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Lost In Transit
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TheHandsOnGuySubmitted1 year ago(+1)

Could you please provide more instructions or make a video explaining the basics?

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OVERTIME
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ArtyomskaDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

'ello - sorry for the delay, but I did eventually add a video to the game that should help!

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TheHandsOnGuySubmitted1 year ago

Hi, it is one of the coolest games I’ve seen and now thanks to the video I get it better but I keep getting an error while playing:

Maybe you can fix it in a post-jam version.

Also, it would help if I could figure out what happens to planets if they are shy/friendly and such (like numbers). Am I supposed to know which is which? I see a general stats window.

That instructional video is top-notch.

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