Just finished it, turns out the first level was the hardest with less packages to chose from. Good game ! Keep it up, I hop you'll work some more ont this one :)
I played it again just to make sure I didn't miss something and I can't seem to align 7 white blocks because I never get 7 blocks in a row, even though I did black nearly instantly.
Maybe as a tutorial you could go for an incremental objective, starting with just 2 blocks. It's not as invisible but having the 3 or so first turns skipped manually by the player could also be a way to allow them to understand the mechanic by counting.
Adding combo multiplicators for streaks of packages could be another way to add a reward for the most skilled players but it can only majke sens once the randomness problem is fixed, because having your combo broken by an unlucky block placement that you can't do anything about would be very discouraging and frustrating.
Had a hard time understanding the game and an even harder time playing it correctly, I got punished quite often by the randomness stopping my streaks every few blocks.
The music is pretty sweet and the VFX is nice but the game might need more rythm, like a button, to accelerate the speed when you are already set up.
Great inspiration, and great Jam entry ! Improving the contrast between the characters and the background could really help with the clarity as it tookt me a minute to understand what was UI and what wasn't but other that that it has immense charm.
Love the title and the icon as well.Very well done
Thank you for the compliments, they are much appreciated ! Sorry to hear about your ants :( but you didn't shy away from the mantis so you at least have our respect ;)
Couldn't agree more, you should definetly give it a try !
We thought about a more complex combat system but even though it sounded a bit more exciting, we were worried that it would take away from the strategic and foreseeable aspect ... not so sure about it anymore ...
We hope you enjoyed your time playing, I'll drop a review on your game later :)
If one of your units is stationed on an orange node at the end of the day (before the night comes on the timeline at the top of your screen), you will get 4 points of food.
Thank you very much for your review. We really appreciate your positive energy and the confirmation that the strategic aspect of the game is not only a construct of our minds :)
We do not have any experience when it comes to music and as we were running out of time (who could have guessed ?) we sacrificed it to focus on the gameplay.
Don't worry about the slots being empty, it was a mistake on our side XD. The upgrade (like unlocking plants or something along those lines) is a great idea, can't wait to mess around with this concept ! Thanks for your time and attention.
I've been playing it a bit and showing the game to friends and relatives and it now seems SO OBVIOUS that there should be a health display. Can't belive we didn't think about it ! Thanks for pointing it out and for the lovely feedback.
The garlic mines grow if you water them with the right click and you have to scroll to the second item slot to use healing berries. Just realised that I should probably write the controlls down since we oculdn't make a tutorial X
As mentioned above it still lacks a few of the features we originally intended on implementing but I do think we can be proud of ourselves for submitting a product.
Thank you for your feedback, I had to upload an old build because of different shader related issues therefore the game lacked half of it's gameplay. I hope you will play the new version so you can have a more complete experience.
It's actually very unexpected that you were able to play this far into the game (and we can't explain why) XD
This is the first time we actually submitted the game we created for a Jam (although a bit late). The game is not playable right now because of an unknown issue in the build but we will hopefully get it working by Tuesday night.
I hope that we can expend on this project, we'll see what the future holds for us.
