Hey, nice submission! An entire survival game is quite an undertaking for a game jam, but you managed to make quite a nice submission in such a limited time! It took me a little to understand what I ave to do, so if you are planning to expand on this game in the future, a bit of a step-by-step tutorial would be neat. For the rest though, nice work!
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Hope's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Story | #73 | 3.533 | 3.533 |
| Sound | #136 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
| Music | #136 | 3.600 | 3.600 |
| Aesthetics | #148 | 3.867 | 3.867 |
| Mechanics | #174 | 3.467 | 3.467 |
| Fun | #240 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
| Theme | #346 | 3.000 | 3.000 |
Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How many people worked on this game total?
1
Did you use any existing assets? If so, list them below.
No
Link to your source?
https://github.com/AlfaDave/Hope
Comments
2 years ago (+1)
Already made a tutorial for it just nailing out some bugs and refactoring my code to be a much easier mass of code to read and expand on.
hopefully, I will have nailed out the bugs and refactored the code to remove the 999+ errors made by refactoring, by the time the voting period ends for the game jam and then upload the next build.
is there any chance you could copy your comment in the game voting area and put it on the actual game main wall. digitalgamez.itch.io/hope
ty in advance.
2 years ago(+1)
There is a full tutorial in the version i'm working on now just nailing out some bugs in it then i will post it and name it post gamejam build and will be build v0.32.
Also have updated the ui after feedback from others.
2 years ago (+1)
Thank you for the feedback, the plan was to have indication of expedition but I was planning on having a little user interactive mini game to run that, end of game jam deadline so I had to dramatically down scope.
10 food per person is required but each person you have gives 3 task's per turn, so in theory you can gather one food and two other actions be that gathering resources or building/unlocking buildings.
There is a grace period of 20 days where you don't get attacked so the only way to lose people from day 0-20 is from starvation.
I have to admit the garden isn't active in the build I can't add the feature in the testing phase of the gamejam, but it will grant food per turn depending on upgrade level, it is a tiny bit of extra code I just forgot to add until too late and deadline.
It will be added in 0.4 build tho. Which should answer your question of me working on it in the future.
2 years ago(+1)
Thank you for playing.
Yeah I agree it needs a lot more done but time just ran out.
On the end of turn screen it does state the loss of a civilian which I should rename occupant. But people are just clicking past the end turn screen without reading it. I will have to look at ways to retain their attention on that screen but that was rushed, I might add a simple scrolling results in panel's on build 0.4 but I can't do that until gamejam is over.
I think I made the icons on screen suit the colour theme too much that they have blended into the game. I'm not an artist so my art skills are lacking but I'm learning, it's all made of Developer art which took half the gamejam time up.
2 years ago(+1)
i have took the feedback and implemented a tutorial and a ui update but within still keeping the ui to theme colouring but hopefully it pops more and is easier to understand. i will over the next few days post an update v0.32 with a name of post gamejam. 
2 years ago(+1)
Could you copy/add your initial comment into my games main page comments please, it would be very helpful. thank you
digitalgamez.itch.io/hope
i havnt released v0.32 as yet. still working on it as its a very big update in regards of getting the items i think were most desired into it :)
if you do post on the main game page comments then i can message you via the comments when i do push the update live as it will be outside the game dev.tv voting period
2 years ago (+1)
the expedition mechanic is automated at the end of turn with random ranges for seeds, research and spare parts, i ran out of game jam time so couldn't have it as a gameplay mechanic as originally wanted.
Had to seriously down scope the project to meet the deadline.
funny enough focusing on food until the food icon in the right goes green is a good tactic as you never lose a shelter member, after turn 20 you can start to gain survivours who want to join.
2 years ago(+1)
Could you copy/add your initial comment into my games main page comments please, it would be very helpful. thank you
digitalgamez.itch.io/hope
Some great points and there were supposed to be actual end turn mechanics for the game but the deadline got seriously near so i had to add an automatic chance-based system for the seeds, research, spare parts, new survivours, and the attackers.
there are 10 levels of upgrades for the walls.
as it's random-based logic sometimes you will have the luck other times you won't, i felt it made it play like it would be in a real situation, sometimes you get dealt a bad hand.
A playthrough i just today i managed to get so many spare parts and seeds but my research was low.
Focus on the food, there is a grace period until turn 20 where you don't get attacked and after turn 20 you might or might not get attacked, after the testing time for the GDTV game jam im going to add a small mechanic to allow you to beat an attacker if you are unlucky to have one attack.
Thank you for the constructive feedback.
up until turn 20 your people can only die of starvation, after the 20 days then they can be attacked. pretty unlucky if you lost them all very shortly after the 20 days.
Just end the game over scene then have another go at it you might have better luck on a second attempt. notch it as that small survival family lost the battle as many would in those circumstances.
2 years ago(+1)
Not time-based.
It's turn-based you don't need to rush, the reasoning for the time for each click is due to the fact that you get 3 tasks per person in your shelter, so as the population increases you gain more tasks so having a lower wait time gives you the ability to click more often on each and saves time, but you could take as long as you like per turn.
Hope this helps and you play it again without the rush... :)
Thank you for clearing this up! I actually did go back to the game and this time I gave it about an hour or so before I died. Maybe I was doing something wrong but I think the resources that can't be collected through the clickables are a bit stingy with how it's determined if your scouts find anything or not. I kept getting attacked an my people were killed with it telling me to build walls, but I upgraded my walls every chance I got when I had the spare parts available (I think they were level 3). The funny coincidence is that I started getting a ton of spare parts when I had 1 civilian but no resources to be able to upgrade the walls again. I still think it's a good foundation, but I think there might be a bit too much waiting for things to accumulate before noticing any progress. And, as stated earlier, a bit more tweaking to the numbers. Good job once again though! It's very clear that you put a lot of time and thought into the development!
2 years ago(+1)
yeah I need to do so much play testing and fine tuning of the variables, each wall upgrade reduces the chance of attacker getting through.
I think I need to increase the survivour intake rather than reduce the attack stats, I was planning on using the vault hatch as a detector and have enemy attack from each side taking damage on the walls to show the wall strength, but gamejam deadline lol
2 years ago(+1)
v0.3 was a buggy mess, but v0.31 I managed to nail out most known issues.
Yes a mega head ache so many hours lost by one item not working breaking another item.
2 years ago(+1)
Could you copy/add your initial comment into my games main page comments please, it would be very helpful. thank you
digitalgamez.itch.io/hope
2 years ago(+1)
Everyone has their own game taste's.
Thank you for atleast trying my game it's very appreciated especially as it's not your cup of tea.
So the resource icons on the UI looks really similar and they don't stand out much from the game scene. It would help to make them look more distinct from each other. A good example I could think of are the resource icons in Age of Empire games where you could clearly tell gold, wood, stone, and food without having to look at it closely. I hope this helps :)
2 years ago(+1)
i have implemented a ui update and also a tutorial for the game. but wont be released until v0.32 post game jam version
2 years ago(+1)
I asked about bug fix updates before doing it and it was signed off as ok to fix issues, I havn't added any new features just fixed the game.
In my side I tried exiting and hitting play again, and it started at the beginning. It may be an issue on my side, or may be I did something wrong. In any case, I'll keep an eye on the game for the future :D.
About the update, I didn't mean it as an attack, just as a heads up. I'm happy it's all good!
it shouldn't effect it but I will jot down to test the portable specific files, btw I would suggest the installer version anyway its just a nicer experience to be able to launch the game from the program files area, also at a much later time I hope, you can quiet easily uninstall the game via the uninstall programs system in Windows which means you don't have to remember which folder you put it in.
This feedback is very useful as I would like to get to the root of your issue.
can I suggest you play the installer version and then let me know if it still doesn't save, just delete the folder Hope in the folder Digital Gamez the path I posted earlier, then run the installer version up until turn 3 then exit via the exit button and quit the game from the main menu, then boot it back up and check. Please reply your findings 🙂👍
I have tested the portable build and it worked the same way as the installer. it worked correctly in terms of it saved I played until turn 11 then saved it and returned and it was still on turn 11, so save functioned as desired.
When the unity debug request comes up to pass the firewall do you accept it? or decline it? or just ignore it??
As that could potentially cause an issue as the game is built to debug mode(development) so I'm unsure if you decline the game might miss behave. As I can't think of any other reason why it's not working for you.
I do suggest deleting the Hope folder of the save game and installing the installer version of the game then try that hopefully you have the game as it is intended to work then.
I hope you resolve your save issue as I'm planning on expanding the game after the testing time for the game jam so it would be nice for you to still enjoy the game as it progresses.
Alright, after trying it again, I realized that my old save had actually saved my resources, but not the things I had built. I had built improvements for wood and metal, among others, but they weren't there. Gathering those would give me 10 materials and take 3 seconds, consistent with the room not being built.
After deleting the Hope folder as you told me, I played a few turns and the same thing happened again. I built stairs, then left, and on playing again the stairs were not there (but my resources were).
I will try again in the next update. And, if I'm the only one having the issue, don't worry too much, it may be something on my end.
Thank you, Pen. I'm soon to be pushing a new fixed build as there are a fair few quality-of-life improvements that were buggy in it, such as the 6-second wait time on clicks for resources.
I didn't get to playtest the game before the submitting deadline, so I'm taking the little grace period for bugs to level things out a bit.
Do you mind me asking if you installed it via the installer or the standalone/portable files? and I hope you continue to enjoy the game as the save system saves after every turn so you can return another day and continue your progress. have you been lucky enough to find a settlement and win the game?? its a very rare chance like I would assume it would be in the situation of a world order collapse.
2 years ago(+1)
when I nail out this evasive null reference which I think is down to script execution ordering, I will then push an update which adds room names and should update the building requirements in the little hover over popup boxes, also a fair few gameplay feel changes.
The best way not to die is to keep a good eye on the food 10 food per person per end turn.
You don't start getting new people until turn 20 if you have increased your capacity by unlocking bedrooms, Attacks/raids are also held back until turn 20. Upto turn 20 is an ease into the mechanic with a few end of turn quick tips in the text that's above the end turn button.
Glad the installer was a nice process, shame about the unknown software issues with windows tho regarding anything new as potential hazard.
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