Cool game you made! Nice background music and nice graphics. But it seems to me that due to the lack of variety in the game and the time limit, all players will occupy the same position in the leaderboard. You've made a great game!
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #25 | 3.657 | 4.222 |
| Gameplay | #46 | 2.887 | 3.333 |
| Overall | #47 | 2.983 | 3.444 |
| Sound | #50 | 2.598 | 3.000 |
| Aesthetics | #57 | 2.791 | 3.222 |
Ranked from 9 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Thanks, also don't worry about score limits I designed it so it is pretty much impossible to get a perfect score when you are a human being as people can't merge and craft at the same time, people have to make choice for sacrificing and manage too much in general so play will never be fully optimized.
Man thanks for the amazing comment, also since you are interested in the design I used iterative approach. I first started with basic linear progression but that didn't really fit the game I wanted something that become more chaotic as you progress. So I added insane upgrades at the end like madness that require a lot of money, I made sure you didn't get the upgrade too fast to ensure the player didn't get exhausted or overrun by everything that is going on. I tweaked it till on average I had 1 minute of madness which felt the most balanced, though there is probably some people out there that are better at my own game. Play testing was the largest part of my development since the majority of mechanics were easy to implement and my art skills are limited so I also didn't have to use a lot of my time there.
If there is anything I can improve also let me know I feel like the first few minutes are slow, though I'm not sure how I would improve that without breaking my current design.
Awesome I appreciate you sharing your process; I really enjoy these types of games but also do not believe I am particularly skilled with them.
Last night after rating a bunch more I came back to your game and played two more sessions and still haven't hit that madness powerup yet! Haha no worries here though I enjoy the puzzle of discovering a nice strategy.
It struck me that these time management games would make probably some fun plotting and data analysis; since everything in it could be modeled fairly directly.
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