Well done, really impressive for a game jam. Quite fun to play, it was easy to get into. Looking forward for more from the team!
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Accessibility | #8 | 3.444 | 3.444 |
| Audio | #8 | 3.722 | 3.722 |
| Overall | #9 | 3.675 | 3.675 |
| Originality | #12 | 3.944 | 3.944 |
| Graphics | #13 | 3.889 | 3.889 |
| Fun | #21 | 3.389 | 3.389 |
| Controls | #23 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
| Theme | #26 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
4.2
Wildcards Used
N/A
Game Description
Build economy and defeat your enemies.
How does your game tie into the theme?
You expand the light.
Source(s)
N/A
Discord Username(s)
Xandruher, Maaack, plexsoup, Ryokugin, Sevadusk, , L.A.MARCHETTI, Tony Brattoli, Substain
Participation Level (GWJ Only)
4 to 15+
Comments
355 days ago(+1)
Thanks for playing and thanks for you feedback. Glad you enjoyed the game!
Yeah the split between casual and challenging games in jams is really hard. The best approach I normally like is providing multiple levels or difficulty levels. Unfortunately we ran out of time to do any proper balancing or adding more levels. Glad it went well for you!
355 days ago(+1)
Thanks for playing and thanks for you feedback. Glad you enjoyed the game!
Yes, the camera movement could serve some more optimizations and smoothness. (Beside that for the speed of camera you have some camera settings as well)
355 days ago(+1)
Thanks for playing and thanks for you feedback. Glad you enjoyed the game!
Star Craft 2 Wings of Liberty I enjoyed pretty much! (and it certainly inspired the Art)
357 days ago(+1)
Thanks for your feedback, glad you liked it and I appreciate the constructive feedback!
I was Random Main in higher ranks that time back, but I always adored the Protoss for their style indeed!
This project was indeed super ambitious and some of us had spent the full 9 days to make it in addition to a already bigger team. There are many systems involved and lots of intersection between the systems which took some time to make.
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Difficulty, yes unfortunately we had more or less no time to balance anything from the game.
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The problem is we have no unit gap (didn’t made it) + the navigation could have been solved more efficiently
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Some global stats in the HUD would have been cool, we had this point on the list but unfortunately didn’t made it as well. I agree the HUD could have been smaller.
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Interesting it was hard on the eyes, for me it felt pretty empty. In many games like RTS you have options to hide eye pleasing stuff, but that would have been too much for a jam.
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The intention of terrain, free camera and PBR for the assets is making use of the 3D aspect in the game. There are different RTS, games like SC2 or AoE have flat terrain and less environmental stuff in comparison to other game like Northgard which have much more focus on a immersive environment and making use of 3D. Sad to hear, but thankful for the feedback it didn’t worked out for you. I was hoping to deliver a more immersive environment than a empty and simple one like in SC2 or AoE.
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Yes, highlighting actions with VFX was on the list as well, we had many ideas for juiciness but as always, they are on lower prio. Although we were able to add some for combat and for buildings and I think they went well.
Once again thanks for pointing these points out!
Just to clarify, I don't mind differences in elevation, just don't think it should it be as steep. I think "floors" and some ramps here and there similar to SC2 work great, yeah. Could be similar to Northgard too, but maybe mark the edges somehow so it'll be easier to see the height differences?
Another edit: btw, it would be really cool to see where this is heading!
357 days ago(+1)
Thanks for the additional feedback. I just wanted to share some thoughts we had behind. :)
Highlighting edges sounds very good and actually Northgard has that! So that is certainly a very valid point to make units and buildings more distinct.
Continuation on this project we haven’t considered yet. As many of the Jam results I liked, it is hard to keep the motivation up once the Jam is done. Maybe one day a game will make it off, we will see. How ever I can imagine another Jam as follow up and trying to focus on the points which were missed, caused issues or could be solved in a more performant way.
Totally understandable. Jams are great motivators and once they're over it's sometimes hard to go back, and I can imagine it'll not be an easy task to continue such a huge project. Still, it's very impressive and definitely something to be proud of! I'm sure you all learned a ton in the process as well. Congratulations!
Hey, thank you for playing and for the feedback!
As already stated, the hard limit on the units did not make it into the game, this is probably the issue for the fps drops.
I didn't work on the performance heavy stuff, but I guess its mostly the navigation (and possibly other unit ai) that takes up most of the time. Afaik one of the optimizations we did is to only update navigation every x frames instead of every frame. Some more options would be the grouping of AI logic (or herding,boids,..), and using more simplified navigation variants (coarse mesh/pathfinding grids), but we could only do so much within the jam time.
Hey, Thanks for the reply.
Totally understandable - making game is hard enough in a jam, with optimization on top of that...
You probably know about this, but maybe someone finds this useful:
Godot has very good profiling tools that take no time to set up. It will tell you exactly which part of code is taking the most time to compute.
It worked very well, for me at least, when I was making a 2d RTS prototype. But still, at some point, with about 400-500 units moving I was encountering a hard dropoff in FPS - still not sure why.
Also, for other project I had great success with using threading - no pain at all if you can somehow chunk what you need to process and avoid accessing stuff from other chunks. I ended up creating a 2 copies of data, so that I could read from one and update the other (based on first) every frame, swapping which data I read/write. Now that you can actually use debugging in threaded code it's even better :)
Thanks for playing and glad you enjoyed the game!
Also thanks for your extensive feedback and interest behind the game. It was surely a challenge and glad you gave us some other points to think of!
And you are right, optimizing is a hard task. Especially for optimizing 3D Godot Games the Resources there are rare resources available. For optimizing the 3D assets as example I had to look what other asset pipelines for other engines do and tried to mimic it for Godot.
I was actually surprised seeing so many 3D Models being able to move around at the same time. I had expected that we suffer much faster and harder performance issues. The unit gap Definity would have saved some issues. On the other hand you got a new 3D Benchmark tool with this. But after all this also shows that you can do such things with Godot although not perfect and more Performance Optimizations have to be done.
357 days ago(+1)
Thanks for playing and thanks for you feedback. Glad you enjoyed the game!
Yes, we unfortunately ran out of time to add an unit cap. Also beside we focused much time for optimizing the game there is certainly more possible to do, which is hard to pack into the 9 days of jam.
Cool RTS, interesting objective but the FRIQ my laptop boutta EXPLODE
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