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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Theme | #13 | 3.236 | 3.889 |
Originality | #15 | 2.774 | 3.333 |
Graphics | #18 | 2.311 | 2.778 |
Audio | #19 | 1.294 | 1.556 |
Controls | #20 | 1.294 | 1.556 |
Fun | #20 | 1.479 | 1.778 |
Overall | #20 | 2.065 | 2.481 |
Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
3.1
Source
Probably not
Game Description
Command and manage the economies of an ever growing fleet of massive floating cities
Discord Username
Artichoke#1670
Participation Level
2
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My first though was "wow, there's actually a manual in there!" However, what this game needs is a proper tutorial as the manual does not really tell you how to play. I can confirm the bugs reported by Houkime, also on Arch Linux. I gave up shortly after I noticed the building quirks.
(under windows): The main menu is a bit confusing. There is START and START NEW, not clear when first launching the game what the difference is. The View Manual button makes the game go stuck for me. It did work from the pause menu. However, the manual is not sufficient for me to understand how to play the game. A pity, because it seems like a very elaborate game.
on widnows-
keys are not working
(Tested on Arch Linux)
The game has a built-in manual and it is a great plus
It is roughly understandable how to it was meant to be played and what it is all about, however bugs really hinder the possibilty of learning the rest by trial and error.
First, manual button at the start is broken and freezes everything.
Second, and most annoying, is that building screen does not work in any conceivable manner.
When you click a building the FIRST time to select it for construction, it actually builds (although the icon is not changed accordingly when construction is finished. It is changed only when you exit and enter the city)
However THEN strange things start to happen, like when you want to build a second building.
For some reason you can no longer select a place, and once you click, you
1.) erase (at least visually) the first building that you built
2.) build not the second building, but actually the first one.
3.) And it seems like the cycle repeats on and on, building a poor fishery or anything repeatedly till a city dies with tons of food but no water.
The scope was probably a tad bit bigger than 9 days really allowed to produce reliably.
It's a shame I couldn't figure out how to play. This game looks pretty neat.
The controls of the game do not seem entirely clear to me, but it applies to the theme.