oh yeah, also forgot one point, WHY DO YOU USE EXPANTANUM WHEN YOU DON'T NEED A NUMBER ENGINE THIS LARGE FOR A GAME WHICH CAN'T EVEN REACH 1e-/+20???
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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Theme (How well the game fits the jam's theme) | #8 | 3.829 | 3.862 |
Overall | #17 | 2.641 | 2.664 |
Balance (Speed of the game) | #20 | 2.051 | 2.069 |
Uniqueness (Originality of the game) | #20 | 2.427 | 2.448 |
Fun (Overall enjoyment) | #20 | 2.256 | 2.276 |
Ranked from 29 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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As a friend and someone who helped a little BTS, this is entirely objective.
- Basic Linear Formula - It's pretty much like a typical incremetal game, you gain stuff to prestige, then use that to gain even more stuff. It's sadly lacking content-wise, and while I know you've had many constraints, it still doesn't deny the fact that the game is just on the edge of completeness.
- Unrewarding Gameplay - For the first "half" of the game, you click a button to increase the density of an object, then you unlock Prestige and exchange your pressure for Prestige Cube, which buy helpful upgrades to reach Prestige more quickly. You also unlock Energy, a passively gained stat that boosts previous stat gains. However, all you do in the game is press two buttons and wait, and with no new content beyond Energy, the gameplay loop easily gets boring.
Overall, it's an interesting idea that just sadly wasn't expanded much on. It clearly shows pressure within the game, but I suppose external pressure (school and time constraints) really nailed this one in the coffin. You did great though for your first time with pure JS and time limits. As a friend, this would be 11/10, but objectively it's more like a 7/10. The idea is there - you just need to expand on it.
A classic style incremental game, albeit more so a copy of one. It has all the components of an incremental game, button that you can keep pressing, a prestige system, achievements (which I understand weren't able to be finished due to time constraints,) but overall the actual game is kinda lacking. Spamming on a button until you reach the maximum compression, waiting for the pressure to build, glossing over the prestige upgrades, and then realizing that's the bulk of the game. It's also unfortunately very small and hard to read, which impacted my ability to actually figure out what was going on. Otherwise, surprisingly well polished more so than some other games, I didn't come across any major bugs which is pretty big so I'd say not bad for some early work.
Thanks, I really appreciate the feedback! I agree that my game was lacking content or bit repetitive but that was due to me making a game with pure JS for first time ( aka no frameworks like TMT or Profectus ) and that my free time was lacking due to high school.
However as I understand from your review you did appreciate that game was polished, which makes me happy that you enjoyed game playability =)
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