I thoroughly enjoyed playing Nub City. The only issue I had was that the game's performance would tank around 40 nubs and I couldn't interact with the game after that. I decided It's not going to affect how I rate the game.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun/Engagement | #2 | 4.364 | 4.364 |
| Overall | #3 | 4.114 | 4.114 |
| Theme | #6 | 4.091 | 4.091 |
| Audio/Music | #6 | 3.864 | 3.864 |
| Art/Graphics | #9 | 4.136 | 4.136 |
Ranked from 22 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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- Cool game ! I enjoyed it ! I'm wondering if there was a way to win ? I sttoped at one point because I would obliterate all enemy waves and it's been a couple times where the expansion pack was just blinking random or something. Would've been nice to have either an end or at least some kind of feedback of progression. It was hard to tell if I was getting far or if the gmae was getting harder, it felt like I could've gone forever. Appart from that I wish I had a better feedback when double clicking to train, at the end it was almost more about clicking clickly to train all those nubs than any real strategy and sometimes I would not properly double click. Also I wish I knew how many untrain nubs I had to know if I'm close to be done or not. Great game ! I enjoyed it, was fun.
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Alone
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Everything made by me except for fonts and a few sounds from Pixabay.
Comments
23 days ago(+1)
Yeah selling buildings is something I really should've done, I thought not having it would've added more of a space management aspect but it's really just an annoyance if anything once it starts to get more cramped
23 days ago(+1)
Yeah the flashing expansions thing is a bug I thought I fixed, it happens after you have 3 or more expansions because it tries to reroll ones you already have but since there is not other one you don't have it'll keep cycling through forever.
As for optimization there wasn't a whole lot I could think of to do without causing some weird collision issues, maybe I'll try again in the future
23 days ago(+1)
Thank you! Yeah I barely finished it, and I stayed up late pretty much every single night π
My nuuuubs! Nooooo! The enemy wizards were OP! Absolutely devastating cus my nubs liked to clump up into one big death ball lol
REALLY fun game and an impressive amount of variety for a jam game, and all executed super well! Every unit has a distinct style and the way they interact is really phenomenal. Even though the enemy wizards were really tough, it felt overall very balanced and fun to play. I had a blast trying the "Weird" build and it was really satisfying getting out of the raid with a ton of extra cash. Very fun play style.
Only thing that felt a bit unfair was the randomness of the nubs walking around. I had some cannoneers just wandering around the edge of the map, and got instantly destroyed during the raid. I wish there was a way to keep them just a bit more ready for battle formation.
But overall, I had a great time in my runs! Amazing work!
25 days ago(+1)
Thanks so much! Yeah anything that deals splash damage really needs to be nerfed, sometimes it can be ridiculously powerful, especially since the nub AI makes them clump up a lot.
As for the wandering thing, it does make sense to make them go not so close to the edge but I guess I overlooked that. Maybe I'll do that in the future
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