I really loved the concept of this game. This feels like it could be developed into a really nice educational game for parents to play with their kids! The core gameplay is really solid and seems to be built in a way that you could expand out variety in a lot of different ways, such as movement buffs/debuffs, different types of trash, different microbes, etc.
Notes taken during gameplay:
the wiggly text is fun for a start link, but hard when it's directions for gameplay. decomposer and recycler are clipping into the link below it
i love that this is a 2 player game!!!
the swirl fade out is a nice animation
pretty music, very peaceful
ran out of energy, press spacebar. Pressing spacebar doesn't do anything
the background is simple but effective and I like the highlighting around the different things to compost. the main gameplay bacteria sprites are cute and reinforce teaching about compost. Love the wiggling cilia as movement.
i like the regenerate logo on the splash page, may use that as well for next build of my game!
the noise when first hitting spacebar to start game is nice
so hard to keep energy up with just me playing lol edit: got a lot easier, maxxed out the bar by winter!
nice sound effects on composting and gathering energy
i like how the screen zooms out if the players split up, however it makes the falling objects fall to either side of the compost heap and out of gameplay
need restart button, having to refresh whole page and start from intro to try again
upper right hand UI gets weird after winter ends, year doesn't update as well
I like the varied terrain, it adds navigation difficulty to getting different pieces of compost
sometimes objects get stuck floating in the air if the item they are on top of is composted
seasonal background changes weren't very noticeable until winter happened
music gets a bit too dramatic and distracting in some spots
gameplay is sold, but after a point there isn't much variety or challenge. Some story, different maps and different types of things to compost (or even avoid composting!) could help keep the gameplay engaging as the game goes on.