I really liked the goofy little guys :) Like a few others, I wasn’t super sure exactly how to play, and it wasn’t clear whether the various buttons actually did anything (I wasn’t able to notice, if so), but it was charming nonetheless!
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #2592 | 3.214 | 3.214 |
| Creativity | #4368 | 2.714 | 2.714 |
| Overall | #4424 | 2.595 | 2.595 |
| Enjoyment | #6055 | 1.857 | 1.857 |
Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
In our idle game Trait Tycoon, units personalities and traits map to physical attributes that dynamically adjust scaling over time, visually conveying dynamic personality changes!
Development Time
96 hours
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
See description for credits, but all assets used had MIT License and were fully open source.
Comments
there’s not much to describe what’s happening! we had a bunch of particle fx paul did but i was too tired to implement them. they’re pretty great, the triangle-based ones look like this:
and obv we would have tied them to different emotional states based on their behaviors, or reactions to the world events. so an antisocial cat hates thunderstorms, etc!! i can’t find a gif of one but i think paul also did one of like a star. anyways, all the units do is kiss, bop around and scale up and down!
but anyways thank you for the feedback and thanks for playing!!
Very fair and thank you for the comment! The mouse currently moves from "captured" to "uncaptured" each click. The idea being, you can click, move and look around, then click again, and use the UI. However don't let me gaslight- this IS a crazy/insane/bonkers UX solution, the game wasn't originally even first person, and isn't really helped out much by the POV shift.
Two other small notes:
1. The average temperature this weekend of the 3 participants was greater than 100 degrees F (lol - we were all various degrees of sick, so this is "literally" a fever dream in some ways???)
2. The goal is just to see how the world events affects units and their scale. If you've looked around, clicked on some units and seen their stats change, you win! :)
Thanks for playing <3 - cm
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