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A jam submission

Power Is NeededView game page

Build power station and serve cities. Don't let them down!
Submitted by worranhin — 2 days, 1 hour before the deadline
Rated by 11 people so far
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Submitted

lovely idea, the game might be a bit unbalanced, but i guess that's quite hard to do.

Do you plan to add more stuff to the game? Like different powerplants or nature disasters?

Submitted

Good Job

Submitted (2 edits)

one of my favourites so far. I think you could display the population, grid capacity (in number of people) and current month at all times to let the player see how it's going

Submitted

Really neat game, will have to come back and try this one again. Great work!

Submitted

Cool game play at the beginning! And very neat idea for a game.

I got really confused as time went on as to what exactly I should do to avoid losing. I kept building power plants and hooking them up to larger and new cities; maybe I didn't build enough quickly enough but power consumption seems to ramp up great from level 1 to level 2 city and beyond.

Developer

Thanks for your feedback. Actually, I find the problem when I'm testing, but I find it hard to balance. It just gets either too boring or too difficult after minutes. Maybe I should add some bonus after one game is over like some roguelike games do to make it worth replaying, and dig into some theories about the difficulty curve as now it only depends on my inaccurate feeling.

And about avoiding losing, there is no way at the present, because it doesn't even have a "win" ending and is designed to end at a point to represent the contradiction between people's increasing demand and limited resources.

Anyway, thanks for your playing, and sorry for your confusion.

Submitted

Balance and tuning is one of the hardest things to get right in a game, so no apologies needed. I'm just glad I wasn't missing anything while playing!

Submitted

Really nice game 👍👍👍

Developer

Thank you❤️

Submitted(+1)

Neat idea, would love to have access to a bank or something for emergency funds to save myself when things got tough

Developer

Thanks for playing! That is a good idea, I should implement in the future.