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A jam submission

CULTivateView game page

A city builder, but your building a cult!
Submitted by SirNewtz — 2 hours, 7 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Mechanics#93.4353.435
Overall#113.3043.304
Art#123.3043.304
Music & Audio#123.2173.217
Theme#182.4352.435

Ranked from 23 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted(+1)

Fun! My girlfriend really enjoyed this (she loves city builder games) and it is great to hear you plan on making more. I wasn't sure about how it connected to the theme, but the mecahnics are amazing and the music and art are quite good for two days. Can't wait for the full version. 

Developer(+1)

Thanks so much for playing and enjoying! The theme thought process went something like this; The golden rule - what if you broke the golden rule - different people have different “golden rules” - what is a cults golden rule :)

(+1)

You'll want to CULTivate your friends to play! This was really fun to play and with some more time it can easily be a cult classic. I cannot wait to play some more of this game and your future games! Never give up, you have an amazing skill here! 10/10 would recommend :)

Developer

Thank you <3 

(+2)

LOVE it! Need a full release asap! So good for 48 hours, so much fun! :) 

Submitted(+1)

Wow, this is really cool!

You obviously have the ability to make a good City-Builder, and I think you need to keep making this! I hope you keep working on the project, or something similar. If you were able to add all the features and content you wanted, then this would be totally suitable as a mobile app. You could make a successful game with this no doubt.

The art and music are neat (the screenshots look like they're from a finished game). And the gameplay loop is definitely there, and this already has the addiction-factor of the simulator genre.

PLEASE keep working on this (or something similar)! This is totally sellable, and this genre is a strength of yours. Turn this into a commercial product!

Developer

oh wow thank you so much 😊 it means a lot hearing this and defo have plans to take this further as I believe you should with your game too! 

Submitted(+1)

Amazing progress for just 48 hours. Really liked how things slowly started to ramp up! Could see this building into something pretty diffi-cult to put down.

Developer

This comment wins!

Submitted(+1)

You made a fun little city builder prototype here! I saw your note that you were too ambitious and ran out of time (same here), but what you put together was a great start.  Look forward to see how you improve it in the future.

Submitted(+1)

This game has a super relaxing  feel to it, also the sounds fit so well! When I bought the last upgrade though there wasn't anything new in the Special section, I'm curious what it could have been since I almost made it to the world domination >:) Anyways, thank you for the opportunity to build a cult lol if you decide to continiue this project I will gladly play it :)

Developer(+1)

So glad you enjoyed it!  Yeah I planned on having all the cult buildings in there like alters and stuff :D but the time limit was fast approaching and unfortunately didn't have time to implement them! 

Submitted(+1)

I really, really liked this game! I usually don't play this type of game, and... I found it very addicting lol At first, I was really wishing the shopping cart symbols had the actual monetary amount listed there so I didn't have to do the math myself to see how much just got added to my total so I could figure out what was more advantageous to purchase ;p but then when there got to be so many that by the time I finished clicking to clear them all, they started re-popping up again already... I don't think it's necessary lol I would, however, have loved to be able to click and drag to clear them faster - that would be cool. Also, I kept "wasting" my money and getting very frustrated because I would go to click on it and accidentally place another building instead. Maybe having two different buttons - one to place, one to collect money - would be a good idea.
 I didn't immediately notice the "upgrade doctrine" button so I was frustrated/confused when I got enough money for the grayed out buildings and still couldn't buy them. Then I figured out the upgrades :) Also not sure if it is a bug or not finished but the powerful places upgrade didn't unlock any special buildings (my star button didn't have anything new in it :( ) I played this game for a very long time to get up to that much money lol the music was a great choice because it was running all that time and I enjoyed it! not actually sure how this fits the theme though... but fun. Good job making a game in such a short amount of time!

Developer

basically everything you mentioned was planned for the game but at the start of the second day I realised it was just far too complex so stripped A LOT of it back to be more basic so I could have more content for the jam hand in. The theme thought process went something like this; The golden rule - what if you broke the golden rule - different people have different “golden rules” - what is a cults golden rule :)

Submitted(+1)

Both my kids played this today for HOURS! lol and they loved it too. My daughter's goal was to fill her whole "square" with buildings. And she succeeded ;p They both got up to over $100,000 too or something crazy. And they figured out you can delete too, and get your money back.... I didn't know that 🙃 If you build this out further I am sure people will play the heck out of it 👍

so... what is a cult's golden rule...?

Submitted(+1)

This is what I meant when I said this has the addiction-factor and could be a successful product, especially on mobile!

Submitted(+1)

My son asked if he could play this game again when he woke up this morning :-D

Submitted(+1)

Hey, neat idea! Really liked the soft palette. The call center gave me a good chuckle. Would be great to see the concept expanded upon

Submitted(+1)

Took me a few minutes to realize what I was doing but once you set up the money makers it clicks. 

Overall cool interpretation of the theme. Thinking outside the box

Submitted(+1)

I always wanted to start my own cult! Thanks for helping me fulfill my dream! Really fun game, the currency system needs a little bit of balancing, but overall really great experience! Awesome work!

Submitted(+1)

yeah, this looks like it would have had a bit of backend work, great job, I like to soundtrack too :)

Submitted(+2)

Love the concept here - big fan of city-builders and RM games so I’m looking forward to seeing where this goes! Could definitely do with some more balancing and was possibly a little ambitious but that’s no discredit to you - heaps of potential here and I really wanna play more as it develops! Awesome start

Developer

Thanks so much!  Yeah defo got ahead of myself and run out of time to properly balance but I'm so glad you enjoyed it

Submitted(+1)

YESSS I can now start my own cult without legal repercussion. I wasted all my money on roads, now I'm the leader of a broke cult. Fun to play, nice job!

Developer(+1)

Defo needed some more time spent balancing the money side of things! Thank you so much :D