Sound design was insanely good. Also, overall design is great. Length makes sense for the jam. But I could keep going.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #15 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
| Theme | #20 | 3.464 | 3.464 |
| Overall | #28 | 2.848 | 2.848 |
| Audio | #36 | 2.393 | 2.393 |
| Visuals | #44 | 2.536 | 2.536 |
Ranked from 30 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Which theme(s) did your game incorporate, and how?
Everything has a cost with minor pig themes. Be a capitalist pig and build your AI mega corporation. Every thing you build and destroy has a cost. Make sure to stick around for the not so secret ending (it'll only take about 10 minutes of your time)!
Did you use any pre-made assets? If so, what were they and where were they from?
All of the audio is comprised of CC0 assets from freesound.org.
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207 days ago(+1)
That's very kind of you to say! The audio all came in last minute, and instead of figuring out how to do positional audio in love2d, I created each track to match the length it would take to pass on screen and cross fade from right ear to left ear in the waveform. It was a very quick and dirty solution, so I'm glad you liked it!
Thanks for playing!
You seem to understand 100% what we were going for. Those are all great suggestions and I love them. When brainstorming with my buddy who did the art we knew we needed different sized power sources that people would intuit as being different orders of magnitude, and were strictly not renewable. Nuclear was an obvious non-renewable for the last power source, but we know its actually a pretty good power source in terms of efficiency, so we just made the nuclear plant leak. That'll be on message. :) I also wanted to spawn piles of dead bodies as you destroyed all the farms and hospitals, but I didn't leave myself much time to build the game out to meet our vision.
Thank you so much for playing!
Very astute. I just ran out time and didn't try to adjust what each resource cost/produced until about 2 hours before the jam deadline, so its all sorts of wonky. I also felt that there wasn't enough content to ask a player to continue much longer than 10ish minutes, so I tuned the costs in those last two hours to hit that mark, and it really diminished the need for clicking, but it was too late to fix it. Honestly, I was tired of clicking after all that play testing, so it felt right to me at the time. :)
Thank you for playing!
210 days ago(+1)
Wow, that is very kind of you to say! I greatly appreciate it! There was no audio until a few hours before the submission deadline, so it was very much a last minute thought for me. I half convinced myself that people don't listen to clicker games because it would get monotonous, but since this was such a short experience, I think you're spot on with adding background music. I considered adding a feature that increased the volume on the data center sfx as you built more to annoy the player, and then offer a reprieve by allowing you to purchase earplugs for an exorbitant price that mutes all the noises. I thought that was a good parallel to what folks who live by these data centers have to deal with.
Thanks again, and I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Yeah... the lack of clicking was totally intentional, and not a result of me trying to tune the game to reasonable length for the amount of content it had a couple hours before the submission deadline. /s :) I was also probably tired of clicking from play testing, and didn't want anyone else to feel that fatigue. I'm glad you found meaning in it though, and I do agree with your interpretation! Thanks for playing and I appreciate your kind words!
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