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GMTK Game Jam 2023

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A jam submission

Escape from Sim SkylinesView game page

Reversed City Builder
Submitted by Gogodinosaur (@Gogodinosaur1) — 1 hour, 43 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Presentation#30372.8952.895
Enjoyment#34762.5262.526
Overall#36632.6672.667
Creativity#42942.5792.579

Ranked from 19 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
The player plays as a sim in a city builder game.

Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?

No

We used pre-existing art

Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?

Yes

We created the vast majority of the music during the game jam

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Comments

BirdWorksSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Cool concept! Haven't seen this reversal utilized in any other entries. I found the moment to moment gameplay wasn't particularly engaging.

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Dark King Gorbin
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SentrigalSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Hm. The city needs a police station because I'm pretty sure I broke a bunch of laws. For one, apparently I don't care about others lol. And secondly, I didn't even notice that the world is supposed to be changing? Welp, what do you expect from a sim?

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Do Not Climb The Mountain
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GogodinosaurDeveloper3 years ago

Thanks for trying out the game!

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Mudkip3 years ago(+1)

I don't know what idiot is building this city I'm walking through but the residents won't be happy. Maybe tweak the random generator a little bit. I was also stuck in a parasol for a bit. At that moment the music turned up to taunt me. Maybe you should be able to free yourself somehow.

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GogodinosaurDeveloper3 years ago

Thanks for playing! That's the most roads I've seen it generate haha.  Yeah, the procedural city generation needs more work than what the 48 hour jam allows for.  I should have put a button that resets the players position to help with problems like getting stuck. 

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NeffylonSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Extremely buggy game, but still fun

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I got Reincarnated as a Dialogue Box for Ducks
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GogodinosaurDeveloper3 years ago

Yeah, there are some things that I just ignored for the jam haha.  Buildings can spawn on the player and usually, but not always, let you out. 

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ZimizehSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

The building suddenly spawns in front of me, trippy. But this was fun nonetheless! Great work!

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EB-87
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GogodinosaurDeveloper3 years ago(+1)

Thanks for trying it out!

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PixelRift StudiosSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Pretty cool concept. Big Cities Skylines fan, so this was a good homage for me. Interesting twist on it, very good for a 48 hour build. Would love a little backstory for the NPCs to make me wanna help them more.

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Daunting Haunting
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GogodinosaurDeveloper3 years ago(+1)

Awesome! Thanks for playing.  Yeah, backstory for the NPCs would be good.  They are pretty barebones right now

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BarldonSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

All my hours in Cities Skylines, and I never once thought about how those poor sims feel

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BYSTANDERS
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GogodinosaurDeveloper3 years ago

Same! Thanks for trying the game!

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Sonder3 years ago(+1)

For me the game is lagging too much to be actually able to play it :/
I'd suggest you to scale it down a bit. Especially for webGL build 😬

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GogodinosaurDeveloper3 years ago(+1)

Hey, sorry to hear that it's lagging for you.  I am not experiencing any lag in the game.  What part is lagging for you?  I'll check it out after the voting window.

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Sonder3 years ago(+1)

I have an issue with multiple games like this one. Not really sure why, but webGL suck for me a lot, especially with huge maps. Even our own game is laggy for me when I open the webGL on fullscreen (small Windows works tho).
Don't know why, that must be something on my PC. I was just trying to give you feedback for the next game that some people might have less powerful machines so keep that in mind :)

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ProdigateSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Nice concept, but I don't really see how it fits the theme

(please rate my game)

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Regorius3 years ago(+1)

I get it - player recreate city, you are one of many sims (but I do not think I met any)

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GogodinosaurDeveloper3 years ago

Thanks for trying the game! Typically city builder games have a player building a city from above.  However, in this game, the roles are reversed and the player is a sim in the city that is being changed by the AI. 

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ProdigateSubmitted3 years ago(+1)

Oh now I get it 

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