Nice game! I played it twice and won easily both times. I was initially confused with the difference between population and "workers", but figured it out. Figuring out that clicking is necessary to harvest resources wasn't hard thanks to the blue glow. On the first run I didn't buy the "Storehouse" because I wasn't sure what it did, but I got it on the second run, and it made the game way too easy. I think it would be better without that.

The winning strategy I used both times was to ignore farming completely, and instead just prioritize planting apple trees next to every water tile. Since they harvest pretty quickly and only cost food to build, and don't need any workers, you can easily support a whole bunch of workers as soon as the trees are developed.

Then you just wait for mining and forest tiles to appear, and create mining stations when they do, since population isn't limited by food. When a pirate ship comes, you just build a tower and an adjacent shoot-fast building, and then pirate ships won't knock out any tiles, so they're no problem.

I really liked the game! I had more fun the first time I played it, though, without the storehouse.

Today's update made the game more difficult, so that's good news!  :D  I had my first loss right after switching to the updated game, because I underestimated it.  Game #2 was a victory now that I knew what to expect, and I look forward to playing again with the difficulty set to high.  Keep up the good work!

Great Game, keep at it

i no have words for this game...                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

incredible!!!

 PLEASE CONTINUE PLEASE UNTIL THAT GAME GET TO STEAM ... of course go through steamgreenlight

So I had thought that the shipyard was to get resources( like loans and stuff ), so about 3 hours after I could have beaten it, I look at this forum and see that you have to build the ship. So all in all I won with an island that was about 40x40 with a 2 archer tower thick wall around the perimeter, 5000 wood and stone each, 70,000 food, and 850 people. Would suggest a higher percentage of resource tiles, lower percentage of water tiles, upgradable structures, the ability to make useless land fall, or more types of structures

I got 1704 people before I decided to stop and finally get around to playing Skyward Collapse.

Some way to destroy water tiles besides just letting them get attacked would be nice.  To not make it too easy maybe if you unconnect 1-3 tiles from rest of the land(by building and then deconstructing around them) they'd collapse by themselves.

Overtime I noticed that amount of wood spawned was always too little but I suppose you are meant to use apple trees for that but in a large settlement they seem like too much trouble, auto harvester getting the wood from depleted apple trees might help with that.

Definitely grabbed my sight due to the design. Enjoyed it for the time I played it.

I enjoyed the satisfaction of getting to such production that I was making more than I needed and could finally grow freely (finished with 84 people on the first game, pretty much could've gone up to ~200 easily). That said, on a second playthrough I got screwed over by the random elements (didn't get enough trees) but I got through it just by knowing how to play it already. 

the biggest problem I see so far is the lack of options to customize the land beyond destroying your buildings (for examples as mentioned above, you cant destroy water tiles at all, which gets annoying if many of them connect[maybe even more usage of water?]), but as far as small game goes, it's pretty good! :)

I love this cute game :) I created an Itch.io account just to comment here (as others have). Looks like you have big plans for it, good luck developing!

I wanted to point out a potential problem with the game: your "workers" count does not go into negative. This means that if you assign all of your workers to jobs (such as lumber or mining), you can now destroy their homes and they'll still do their jobs (which is beneficial because it lowers your population, so you don't have to pay food for those people anymore, and you can now use that land for something else).

If you have a very high food cost for the night and no food to pay for it, your happiness will go down until you get game over. But then on the game over screen, the happiness will start to go back up as you're still being charged for the food in the background, and it can even go way over 100% (does this suggest that the afterlife will make us happier than we can imagine? just kidding hahaha).

I think it's fun to surround a windmill with farms and then destroy the windmill. It's like setting off a bomb hahaha.

I would suggest a way to get rid of water tiles. Perhaps a fishing dock. And I would suggest that when you're hovered over the square behind a tall structure (such as an archery tower), that it would make that building invisible (or an outline) so you can see what is behind it.

Love trail and error and finding things out with no handicaps.

Took me awhile to figure out I had to manualy harvest food.

This is a really great game was sad to find there was no real end in terms of accomplishment. Maybe after making the boat the game switches to building up the boat and making it better and defending against pirates and meteors then you go to another plannet and you start out with ALOT more land but fewer resources and more pirates. Maybe then storms could start with fire. have some plagues or rats ruin food stocks or have to repair buildings or something. Maybe a lighthouse building that searches for land faster causing it to apear faster.

Finished my first run with 97 people. That was fun - the resources collection thing nearly cost me the game early on. The indicator should be a bit more noticeable.

Thank you for this nice game! I ended on the second run with around 64 people. (~1h)

On the first run I didn't realized that you needed to harvest manually the farm (maybe because the other building are harvested automatically and that the apple tree doesn't need workers).

The possible improvements I could see would be: a button to restart (or go to main menu), information on farms and shipyard (and maybe on town hall, just to say the current food consumption), tower radius (to see the range).  

It was fun game but not hard at all. My only wish there was a way to destroy water blocks too because when I was about complete my walls it spawn water blocks and it drive me crazy :)

Congratulations to you both for making this amazing game!

I tried it out and thought it was some kind of idle game

Then pirates invaded and I gave up -- PLEASE make an ESC-Menu to go to the main menu so we don't have to hard-quit out

Then I was intrigued and kept trying until on my third attempt I managed to complete the ship (I ended up with 2% happiness once and only pushed through by building panic-walls! )

I'd also like to see the B and K hotkey cancelling each other out (as for now you have to close the open menu first instead of just pressing another key and switching automatically

You could also add some slight boost for tile creation that requires lots of wood (at the end I was only waiting for food and had like 300 wood ) just to use it for something and give players more possibilities

I didn't use the Barracks at all because it doesn't seem remotely efficient and the collecting building is a liiiittle bit broken

You could think of another building and replace the one-time buildable (unless destroyed) collecting house with another building like an ammunition building you can place somewhere and slightly increase the damage of ALL towers and after that's built you replace it with another, worth thinking about

I'm very proud of you for making this hard game!

I'm looking forward to updates!

Best regards and keep going!

Love this game, so much fun. Ive beaten it a bunch of times, best was around 700 or 800 I think. I find that at a certain point you can pretty much fully build the boat and just incrementaly increase your population. alot of fun