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A jam submission

Mana BreakView game page

Indirect colony simulator
Submitted by Andrew — 1 hour, 33 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity - how original is the idea?#53.4183.625
Overall#63.1033.292
Presentation - how does it look/feel?#73.0643.250
Entertainment - how enjoyable is it?#92.8283.000

Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Jam HostSubmitted(+1)

I love idle games, so I enjoyed this! Gameplay is a little shallow as there isn't much to do, but I like the premise of the player being a wizard manipulating the actions of a village. Seems like a nice test of your ECS library, too!

Developer

Thanks a lot! Glad you liked it 🤗

HostSubmitted

I really liked the write-up of the lore; that was cool.

When I reached the win condition, the game crashed for me:

(mana-break:102426): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.
fatal error encountered in SBCL pid 102426 tid 102565:
Can't handle sig11 in non-lisp thread 0x7fcd58a176c0 at @ 0x7fcd7ba06366
Developer

Thanks, glad you liked it!

Sorry about the crash, I’ll try do dig into that. It was going to just display a message box, you’ve missed nothing fancy :)

Submitted

I don't know what an appimage is but it worked great. (I had to figure out how to resize my virtual machine because the screen wasn't large enough.) The graphics really are great, and make you wonder about the world. I particularly like the white tree top right, and the colonists. There is a lot of nice detail in this game.

I didn't finish the game because it takes a while. If you had some engaging mini-game in it, it could be a lot more captivating. I also wish I could select colonists via the rectangle method, i.e. dragging the mouse and generating a selection rectangle. 

Developer

Thank you very much for your feedback! Happy that you liked it :)

I’ll definitely think about minigames and drag-select.

Submitted

Impressive game! AppImage worked like a charm

Developer

Thank you! 🤗

Submitted

It is a nice game!

The feedback to the input is kind of slow in terms of gameplay, and sometimes it was hard to click on NPCs.

It was fun reading their names while waiting for mana to regenerate :)

Developer(+1)

Thanks! 🤗

The balancing is indeed not perfect. Character picking also takes some time getting used to.

I knew adding the names was right move :)

Submitted(+1)

I like the game graphics. Game was a bit slow, and not always clear to me what was going on and what my progress was. Could not build a workshop, it did substract the mana but not the wood. Being bundled as an Appimage made it very easy to run.

Developer

Thanks for the input! 🤗

I was kinda aiming at meditative pace. Nothing is more relaxing that watching other people work 😅