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A jam submission

Gold to ScaleView game page

A small game where you upgrade a gold weighing facility. Made in 4 days for GMTK JAM 2024.
Submitted by Alex Wilman — 11 hours, 38 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Enjoyment#39892.5513.375
Overall#48272.4573.250
Creativity#48312.5513.375
Style#52922.2683.000

Ranked from 8 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?
Well, you are building the facility to weigh packages of gold. Get it? Literally "built to scale"? :3 Oh, also, the facility is huge. You can see a bunch of tiny human-sized doorways all around it, and the packages, boxes, palettes, and shipping containers have all been built with the scale of those doorways in mind. The main gameplay loop is also increasing the "scale" of the operation by upgrading the facility with more belts and employee houses.

Development Time

48 hours

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Victor Mono font - https://rubjo.github.io/victor-mono/
That's all, everything else was made by me during the jam! :D

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Very nice factory game with great visuals.

Maybe some sounds would have been nice, but great game otherwise. Congrats!

Submitted(+1)

I also didn't really know what the scalehouses did going into this but still quite the enjoyable little game
Good Job ^^

Developer

Thank you c:

Submitted(+1)

Its satisfaying to see your factory growing up. Nice game

Developer(+1)

Why thank you!

Submitted(+1)

Simple idle game, nice optimisations, ran well on my computer! Liked how u placed all the items in the environment too, its like a real factory.

Some feedback would be:

  • not sure what the scalehouse does? I’m guessing multiplying the gold but not sure
  • add some rate/hr gained? to see more numbers go up
  • have some win/complete screen? maybe some congrats screen from the manager. (not sure though, since most idle games are infinite)
Developer(+1)

Those are all great ideas! Yeah the scalehouses double the value of the packages that go through them, I guess I really didn't make that clear at all though, sorry lmao. Will probably implement a "full release" update later that adds better onboarding and a win screen once all upgrades have been unlocked.

Thanks for the comment!

Submitted(+1)

Bit of a slow start as any good idle game ought to be, fun to see the numbers go up but bit of a shame there's no win condition! still, pretty creative!

Developer

Yeah add the win condition to things I wish I had time for. Nonetheless, thank you for the kind words ^-^

Submitted(+1)

had fun playing the game! Unique take! 

Developer (1 edit)

Thank you!! and I am glad to hear!

Submitted(+1)

Good relaxing game! Quite creative interpretation of the theme. A bit short, but it's a game jam.

Developer

Thank you! Considering it was more or less an idle game I didn't want to keep the player there for too long lest they get bored, but I suppose I made the inverse mistake of the game being too quick to get through. I appreciate the kind words regardless!

Submitted(+1)

Really solid! Tycoons are always fun, but i feel it could have definitely have used some more visual or audio feedback. Great job dude :D 

Developer

Lord I know that the game needed audio, but I didnt have time to add any T~T

Thing to keep in mind for the next jam, I suppose! Thank you, and glad you liked it!! C: