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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #2999 | 3.138 | 3.138 |
| Style | #3153 | 3.013 | 3.013 |
| Overall | #3854 | 2.775 | 2.775 |
| Enjoyment | #5177 | 2.175 | 2.175 |
Ranked from 80 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
You're building an exponentially growing (scaling!) network, with different strategies as you scale up.
Development Time
96 hours
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See in-game menu for credits (and dependency licenses)
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Love the visual style and the idea of scaling the network. Struggled to figure out the end goal of the game and what is the difference between growing one node versus another.
Very cool idea, I'd love to have some enemies expanding n their own, as this would make the game much more fun to play
Cool idea, but its hard to see what I am actually doing.
Very cool concept. Even though it's more like an interactable painting right now, I could definitely see this expanded into a full hacking game. It's really cool how you've left the colors as customizable settings, though I had a hard time visualizing the node capturing, as I don't think it's very easy to see (the color blending makes gauging progress difficult). Congrats on making a custom engine though, that's super cool!
The concept seemed nice, but I couldn't figure this one out. I'm not sure if I'm just too dumb or if its a bug.
Either way, a tutorial would be a nice edition
In all other aspects though, this seems solid, great work on the art design
Keep making games
I like the concept, but I don't really understand what exactly I'm supposed to do. I was turning lots of nodes blue and I guess that's how you win the game, but I'm not entirely sure. I think some sort of tutorial would've helped out a lot, also an opposing threat or imminent threat that you need to fight off would help make the gameplay a lot more engaging. Cool concept though, curious to see where it goes if you continue this after the jam! :3
Watching the network expand more and more is really fun. I love you can adjust the colors ^^
Couldn't really figure out how to play this one tbh. But it seemed like a lot of thought was put into it ^^;
I really like the concept. It was nice seeing the colony grow (very nice that it saves so I can come back to it). There weren't any enemies though so I'm guessing those aren't implemented yet. Game feel could need some polish though (is it a web-export?). Good job.
I didnt really seem to understand what I was supposed to do. A really creative idea though. Im really sorry I couldnt comprehend it but it sounds like a good idea.
The theme is great and I love the simple cohesive art style. It definitely could be expanded to something awesome. What was the graph math behind this?
Besides for the packet routing (which is just computing the shortest path along the graph using Dijkstra’s algorithm), most of the math that went into it is in the generation of the starting graph.
The general approach is that it generates a bunch of points in a circle-ish area and then connects some/most of the points together with edges. I had 4? different ways of generating the circles:
Then the points are connected together with edges:
Maintaining the minimum spanning tree edges means that there will never be disconnected segments in the graph, since the MST connects all vertices.
The top-level map is actually just another generated cluster of points, where each point was replaced with another generated cluster, and the edges are replaced with edges between the outermost points in the inner clusters.
If you have any questions or clarifications, feel free to ask! This was an interesting project to work on, and the graph generation and visuals were much more interesting to make than the actual gameplay.
The theme is great and I love the simple cohesive art style. It definitely could be expanded to something awesome. What was the graph math behind this?
I'm sincerely sorry, I didn’t understand the concept or the goal. I’m really sorry because it seemed like it could have been very interesting.
No problem! It's light on actual gameplay and goals at this point, so it ended up as closer to an ant-farm style game than I intended due to time limitations. I may expand on it when I have time, since I have ideas on how to improve it (and make it more goal-oriented, rather than a a just a (hopefully) interesting-looking idle game).
Sadly couldn't play it for long, it bugged after a blue node appeared
Cool Concept, I think it could become something really fun if it were expanded on. Not sure if it was an issue with my browser or not, but there seems to be no sound. That would really oomph up the experience.
Thank you! I didn't have chance to add them during the jam, but sounds and background music (as well as general ambiance) are on the top of my list for future additions.
This was really satisfying to play. It feels like a combination of Universal Paperclips and Eufloria. It would be really fun if there were enemies, maybe if the game started with a much smaller network to begin with and you play through different levels?
Looked really confusing at first but I got the hang of it. Gameplay is smooth and concept is interesting. Good job!
I’m not sure what the goal is. I couldn’t tell if I was competing with an AI or just trying to fill the grid.
It was satisfying to interact with the nodes, but I would like more feedback on when a node was being captured
Controls are very smooth ,game is little bit tricky at first glance, but its simple to play. Good thought on Theme.
simple but fun