The gameplay loop is very slow. I would suggest making movement speed a bit faster as too much time is spent wandering around before any important gameplay happens. I also agree that there needs to be some sort of feedback that something is harvested. Neat idea!
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Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it :)! You can actually hear unique sounds when harvesting successfully or unsuccessfully. You can also upgrade your movement speed or the duration/cooldown of the ability multiple times with the help of the computer (shop). You can become faster either permanently or temporarily this way. I will take this as an another bad communication to the player though, I would assume that was the main problem?
I missed the vats? changing the first time around. Some of them still do nothing (but I guess that's part of the point). I don't see a way to get points above 50 though. So after a few minutes of playing it feels like there's no way to advance since only two store items can be bought. If I needed to play longer to unlock things, or find a hidden item somewhere I simply missed it. I would say the main problem is getting bored due to slow gameplay, especially for a game jam.
Hahaha I really like to hear it from a players perspective. I think a fix for these problems would be just proper tutorial within the game?
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(explaining, ignore if boring)
-So the bottom 4 labs (2 on left, 2 on right, next to eachother) are meant for the first data crop (purple one), you can plant it and see it visually getting bigger with some glowing as feedback. On top of these are tier 4x vats meant for the second square crop as mentioned in it's description but now I can see how confusing it gets without proper explaining, same for the last crop but there are only 2 vats for this type of crop. (I wanted the player to explore the lab a bit by not telling where the vats are while avoiding the scientists)
-As for the points, they automatically go up to 50 since you can actually lose the crop after harvesting with a randomized chance so buying a crop with the last bit of your point and it giving you no point would logically lock the game since you have no points left/no way to get more points. It stops after point amount is 50. so you can not just stay afk and finish the game.
-So gameplay would be 1. crop > 2. crop > 3. crop > human face > use vent to win (with some upgrades along the gameplay optionally)
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Would you say knowing these infos would make the gameplay a bit more interesting? Thank you a lot for investing time to give me feedbacks by the way!!!