Very well said! At first I just wanted to add funny/sarcastic descriptions to the upgrades and I didn't mean to make the game so political but it just fit too well into the whole theme and in the end creating art (games, music, pictures whatever) is all about expressing your feeling so I went with it. The things mentioned in the game are exaggerated sure, but they are very real problems in the world. Just look at inflation or how the split between the rich and the poor gets bigger and bigger every year and most of us have faced or will have to face those issues at one point of their live.
Hey glad to see someone so young be interested in game developing! Keep at it, you got a solid base already and if you keep working on it you will definitely become a lot better. You made a fully playable game in 2 days, that is something you can and definitely should be proud of! It is not easy to come up with an idea, code it, create the graphics for it and then put everything together in that short time span. Good job on it and I hope to see more coming from you in the future! :D
Also if you do need help with anything programming wise, feel free to text me. This was my first game jam as well but I have made lots of hobby games for myself in the past and I do work as a programmer so I got lot's of experience with that lol
Cute and short platformer. The only issue I have is the enemies hitbox is WAY bigger than their graphics. It feels a bit frustrating to stand like a full person away from them and still die/lose. But that is a minor thing that is fixable at least. Other than that the game is good and you can be proud of what you made! Keep going at it and make more level to finish the story :D
Thanks for the feedback! Yeah to be fair the worker are quite slow. A bit slower than intended but I wanted the clicking to be the main source of income and not idling since it's a short game anyway so putting a focus on idling felt wrong.
If you want help here is a list of all 8 obviously spoiler ahead and don't read further if you want to find it yourself
first screen on the left
second screen left on top of water
third screen under water on the right
fourth screen on the very left after the water part and after you jump down to the last platform on the left again
fifth screen after you go down on the very left
sixth screen at the end under water on the left (careful you can glitch and get stuck on the ground or walk too far left and fall to the void) and the last is above the water jump if you go to the left on the platform instead of right to the end
Wait you can PAN? I just assumed you finished the game once you filled every starting square. That's good to know lol and yes it does get laggy after a bit. I think each number and plus sign spawning takes a lot of power and since a crop spawns 4 pluses they are "super power hungry". If I am right about that (obviously I am taking a blind shot) object pooling would be a great idea. Basically instead of spawning a new text with the + sign every time you just deactivate them and then re-activate them once the next text appears and only change the number/sign on it if needed.
Very valid and good feedback. Just wanted to say coding agents are 100% generative AI. generative AI is anything that "creates something from nothing" be it art, code, texts, music etc. Non-generative AI would be something that for example analyzes things, looks for connections in things, predicting things based on past trends etc.
This is a very... Interesting? Game XD I love it. It is definitely unique and will stay in my memory for a while and the art is actually really cool. Good job on making that!
Cool concept but some kind of tutorial would be appreciated. Even just some text in the games description explaining the game would be enough, no need for an in-game tutorial. It took me so long to understand what is happening or that I can "dig out" spaces by clicking on them. I was using the TNT to clear up space and was confused how I am supposed to get this much money to buy more lol
Cool concept and very unique. The art is also very nice. It was fun for the little time it took to finish but the combat did get a bit repetitive/annoying especially since almost every attack misses and the rate of the enemies appearing seems a bit high to me. But overall a fun game that I am happy I played!
Really cool and interesting experience. Would love to see this in a full game. Maybe an adventure with story on why the world is so weird or a shooter game with floaty movement abilities where you can jump and dash around on those world fragments that are constantly moving/changing. It's definitely a unique experience.
Thanks for giving it a try even though you aren't fond of these games and don't worry about sounding too formal or harsh or something. I am all here for the feedback! I did plan to make it so that the player can build the first bridge quickly and then add more story and new upgrades or interactions whenever the player connects a new shard to make the game more interactive but yeah 2 days weren't enough for that. Thanks again for playing and giving your opinion!
Yeah I 100% agree and I would love to do that but i am really bad at doing anything graphical lol most of my projects are just text based games or simple shapes because of that.
Hey I used your assets for a game I made in a game jam and you said you would be happy to get a link to it so here it is: https://lino161296.itch.io/broken-planet
I credited you in the game with a link to this site. Thanks so much for the free assets, they are really awesome!
That sounds simple enough. you could set it up so that you have 3 buttons (they can be images too, dont have to be the square colored things) and when you click on it, you get X of the specific resource. you could add a few upgrades that cost the resources like a "+20% more wood" or "each click gives 1 more of all resources" or maybe some idle upgrades that let you get the resource slowly without clicking and then the end screen pops up either when you reach a specific amount of resources (checking that on each frame is bad performance wise. it wont matter for small projects like this but it is worth it to check that for example every time you gain some resource because it will be like once every second instead of 60 times a second) or if you buy the last upgrade (check inside the upgrades logic).
Yeah if you have been only coding for about a month definitely start with something very simple like an idle clicker. I am actually doing something very similar for this game jam lol if you want to tell me more about the game you want to originally make on your own maybe we can simplify it to make it possible for the game jam or even if not, maybe I can give you pointers for the future so you can do it better later. Otherwise the clicker is of course a good entry since you basically just need buttons, a few graphics and the game logic (like what the upgrades do and how much money the player gets etc.) is very straight forward.
Hey! I'm in the same boat, this is my first game jam. I have done some hobby projects before but I tend to give up on them after a few weeks lol I myself use unity with C# and don't have too much experience with python itself but I am a professional coder so I do know a thing or two.
For coding, at what level of coding are you? Like are you a complete beginner and this is your first interaction with coding or do you have some experience already? If you are a complete beginner I would say try to learn the basics of coding and OOP (object oriented programming) first because python is an OOP language. For example some pointers, what is a variable and what variable types do exist, what is an object, what is a class, what is a function, what does OOP mean, how can you use classes and functions and stuff like that. If you already have some coding experience what other help with code do you need?
For ideas I am happy to talk/brainstorm and help you get ideas or solve creative blockades if you have any. It is still YOUR project though and therefore I don't just want to say "Do X and Y" but rather help you come up with your own ideas and make the game that you want to make you know? According to the discord votes it seems the theme will be "broken world" so what comes to mind? What type of game do you think of when you hear that? Maybe a platformer with a broken world where you have to jump around broken platforms, an RPG where the world is destroyed after some catastrophe, or a racing game where you have to outrun the destruction of world? Think about what the general idea and direction should be first and then you can think about the details later. Do try to think simple though as this is your first game jam you will probably need longer to do basic things since it is your first time plus 2-3 days is not that much time so if you can try as simple as possible, do a base game first and then if you have time you can still implement expansions (like new features, more level, nicer graphics/design etc.)
Do you have anything specific you need help with? If it's not obvious yet I am happy to help! :3
German here. Could you send me a steam key please?