i'm actually a big fan of the genre, but i feel like it's too early to give proper feedback. lots of dialogue options had missing icons (like the mercenary camp), the trooper unit is straight up ripped from advance wars, and everything is clearly too placeholder to judge.
the character selection screen is borderline unreadable, even if you zoom in with the scroll wheel it remains very low res.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2344829118

Hope the footage is useful, can’t comment much, especially as it’s a loong time I last played a CIV game. It definitely scratches the CIV itch, I can say.

The error from end of video in case it’s unreadable:

ERROR in action number 1

of Mouse Event for Left Released for object obj_menubtn:

Variable <unknown_object>.moves(100134, -2147483648) not set before reading it.

at gml_Script_scr_useability

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gml_Script_scr_useability (line -1)

gml_Object_obj_menubtn_Mouse_7

gml_Script_scr_startAI (line -1)

gml_Script_scr_endturn

gml_Object_obj_unit_Alarm_2

Really impressive, but it's definitely too early for me to play as someone who doesn't play this genre. I think there needs to be better information on what each resource does, and some refinement on what each unit's UI says, like making only the ones that can produce anything have the "idle" status. I'd also like to see more of the /pol/ humour come through, since it's mostly just in research topics and the initial starting settings for now, maybe like how events pop up in games like Frostpunk?(never played that or civ, just remember seeing a screenshot of it). It definitely stops feeling like a game about that after a few turns in when the novelty of seeing gems wears off, but I'd also understand if there's a lot of things there that might not be appropriate to put into a game.

Extremely impressive. Only thing to say is to make sure some quality of life stuff is added for what you feel is required for playing and what other people say should be good, since that makes or breaks a lot of these kinds of games. And to slowly edit the graphics over time to be more detailed. But I had fun and will look forward to more info about it.

Not a civ fan so I usually don't play these kind of games. I think the basics work, nothing is really flashy yet. I generally had no idea what I'm supposed to do but I build a city and a temple and explored a bit. I think you can maybe put some menus on a rightclick maybe instead of having it just the deselect button.

Impressive demo! Looking forward to seeing more.

• Mousewheel zoom scrolls in and out of a lot of UI elements.
• Felt weird using left-click to select a unit and left-click to move said unit.
• Strategy games live and die by the UI. It was unclear that buildings on tiles had to be manually selected to produce things, and when I was trying to see if WASD moved the map, I got a pop-up about different powers I think? But no way to close it.
• The gems icon is so stupid I love it. The humor of the game is great so far.

Looks interesting, hopefully the humor makes it to the final version! Just a couple pointers:

• Start working right now on separating what zooms in and out with mouse wheel, as it can cause problems later on, as they are now. Check out how the GUI layer works, or the GM equivalent.
• Maybe don't ever make units occupy the same cell? Looks too jarring and confusing. Or develop some smart system to deal with that.