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Green Territory - this strategy game can live or die thanks to your feedback

A topic by The Game Is Simple created Jan 29, 2023 Views: 291 Replies: 5
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Hello everybody!

Green Territory is a small strategy game about expanding your green territory into irradiated world around and purifying it. And it desperately needs your feedback to live.

The link: https://thegameissimple.itch.io/green-territory

This time around instead of putting a bunch of time into an elaborated vertical slice of a game (and abandoning it halfway through as usual) I decided to go with a minimalistic prototype of the very core of gameplay, no bells and whistles, no goals, no obstacles. Practically it’s just a toy at this point.

The purpose of the prototype is to test if this “toy” is fun to play around with even with no defined goals or obstacles. If it is, then a game built on top of these core mechanics could also be fun.

For that reason I’m looking for a very specific feedback on this. Is this prototype fun to toy with? If not, what prevented you from having more fun? How can it be improved? Is this idea worth development time or is it a complete trash?

If this game idea collects enough feedback and interest from the community, it would be developed into a full, proper game. A full game would have the following:

  • Goals
  • Obstacles
  • Balancing feedback loops on resources
  • Isometric perspective camera
  • Proper graphics
  • Random encounters
  • Decorative buildings
  • Statistics
  • etc

C’mon folks, I really want this project to live, give me your worst!

Or your best ;)

I was lucky to get some good feedback from Reddit and two talented students from France, so I went ahead and continued with the project.

Here is a mockup screenshot of what this game would look like when properly developed:

Currently looking for a feedback on the visuals above. Any comment is appreciated!

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Don't we all want feedback? 

So your idea at this first stages of development seems good, I won't lie saying it's fun, because I don't find it fun in the current state, it lacks visual output on what to do, specially for people who wants immidiate action, no reading, no tutorial, just plain old input bashing until something cools happens.

It's too soon to give this kind of feedback but: In future you could add more visual output (not talking fancy graphics), for instance, it's about green energy? So why not some "local" global warming related natural disasters happening if player don't do it right.

I think you are having problems getting feedback simply because its too soon for people to find it attractive to play, which is normal in this stage of development.

Hey, thanks for your time!

It really was very early, and it was for a reason - not to waste time on a project that doesn’t have a good core to begin with. But nonetheless I got the feedback I needed, so the development continued.

Howdy everyone!

The very first early access build was just released to public, you can try it directly in the browser or download a standalone version for Windows or Linux at https://thegameissimple.itch.io/green-territory

The purpose of this early build is to collect feedback to improve the final full version of the game.

Any comments are appreciated! The Game Is Simple