There's no goal to build toward, no sound effects to spice up the gameplay, and no reason to do anything at all. This looks like a very good base for a game, but it's just not fun just like this. This looks like a tech demo for something that could be done, but even the rooms sometimes bug out when placed. If this has pretty clean code, you can probably get something out of it by adding some graphics, sound effects, and an objective to get to, as well as some limitations.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Innovation | #838 | 2.839 | 2.839 |
| Theme | #1028 | 2.742 | 2.742 |
| Game Design | #1086 | 2.613 | 2.613 |
| Fun | #1269 | 2.355 | 2.355 |
| Overall | #1295 | 2.339 | 2.339 |
| Graphics | #1510 | 2.097 | 2.097 |
| Audio | #1751 | 1.387 | 1.387 |
Ranked from 31 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
In what way does your game fit the theme?
This game is all about building a community and supporting its needs.
Did you write all the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
I made all the code and the assets (and what assets they are!) with the exception of the random name generator.
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Cool concept, but as others said it's missing some kind of objective, maybe limitations on how many things you can build and how many people you can add at once and I'd add some kind of overall indicator, other than the individual ones. I also found a bug, when you move the rooms that were already connected the door that it created don't disappear. But either way, this has potential. Good job!
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RP-246This has so much potential! I love this so much for what it could be. Right now it feels like there is not really a good goal and there are not really any tradeoffs to doing anything. You should keep expanding on this. I think it could be an interesting spaceship-building game with the different modules you have to add, similar to 'FTL' if you could build the spaceship. Good job!
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Propaganda and RebellionIt was a really cool concept. My major issue with it was that it would have been nicer if the instructions and what things you were placing down were all on a UI that you could see irrespective of where you are. Other than that it was really cool and it'd be nice to see it developed further.
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Urban PropensitySuch a cool concept, if you wanted to add to it, you could add an objective, and some kind of limitation like resources or manpower :) Well done! It has so much potential!
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NecrOlympicsVery interesting concept, I had no idea what I was doing or why, but I liked watching all of the dots move around xD the screenshot showed green bars, but I didn't see any when I played (loaded, played and reloaded 3 times just to be sure it wasn't a faulty load), but I totally get not having quite enough time lol we had the same issue. One other minor thing, which kind of ties into the green bars, this is a really cool start for a game which I think I'd play a lot - kind of like My Colony - but it definitely needs more UI. I kept forgetting which numbers corresponded to which buildings and had like 10 extra museums sitting off to the side lol. Great work, all in all!
I'm not sure if the game isn't fully loading for me or if it's just designed that way, but I don't see the green bars in the screenshot (food, sleep, inspiration, exercise, and social). Because of that, I'm mostly just filling up the map with rooms whose effects I don't really understand, and spawning people that afaict just wander aimlessly around. I think if you do come back to work on a full release, definitely put in a UI so players understand what they need to be doing and why.
I always like seeing multi agent sim games. Nice programming, man. Although there isn't much you can do with it, and there's no progression, but it has potential to be something greater.
Yeah, 7 days is not much time to implement a super complicated code infrastructure for such a sim game.
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Weird Dimension ShenanigansClearly there's some complicated interactions going on, but it's hard to see what. Would definitely look good with some graphics, but yeah game jam deadlines are rough, haha. 😛 Good job!
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Tetromino Barge CompanyI'm really amazed with what you did here :0
I'm not too into simulator games but I had fun seeing the little people moving inside the rooms and I'm wondering how did you do that
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Stronger TogetherThe base of a great idea is here but without any limitations or progression its hard to stay engaged - would be great to see challenges or limitations placed on what you can build or some sort of progression as you fulfil peoples needs, and I feel a more intuitive block placement system would be welcome, having all 5 available to pick rather than selecting through them with the number keys.
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GoobersLooks lie a simulation ^^ are there any goals aside of have fun?
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ANOROC - Yo mama got the fluThanks so much! I thought I had one more day for the assets 🤣. Once the people have filled up the need for the room they're in, they pick their most urgent needs, consider the distance required to fill those needs, then pick one probabilistically. I used A* to generate a list of positions, then the person's position is updated along that path in the Update function.
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