Sounds like a really fun game idea! Immediately recognised Wall-E, just if he actually planted plants and helped the place he was in. I love the simple platformer mechanics for smth like this too, it would really highlight the impact!
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Really fun concept! I love the idea of presenting the player a problem that they actually have to solve with critical thinking! I think the aesthetic is really cool too! One thing you guys could consider is, in terms of plants types and biodiversity, try to pick a country/ place irl (or multiple) that you're basing your setting off of (even if the country itself has many different city environments) and try to see what would be considered an "invasive species" in those areas/ environment types. Could give an extra challenge to player!
Thamks you for your nice words! We decided that for the sake of the climate jam that we lean to more scripted events/ outcomes for simplicity and that the story is actually something continously happening in the background rather than something you stop your gameplay to focus on (aside from the in-between day cutscenes). We wanted to make it feel real in some way, make the player feel like theyre helpless in terms of how the story goes and the only thing they arw in control of is the core gameplay loop :)
It is based on real life examples but we chose to only take reference rather than completely base it on the place because of the sensitive themes of the endings and one of the mechanics that we ended up slightly changing for the sake of project scope. The time period is most likely in this time period, but because of the lack of resources, they only have older models. Thanks for your kind words!