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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #3548 | 2.700 | 2.917 |
| Creativity | #3673 | 2.932 | 3.167 |
| Overall | #3845 | 2.777 | 3.000 |
| Style | #4078 | 2.700 | 2.917 |
Ranked from 12 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 scale a data center by building Balancers and Servers. The Traffic increases over time, so you need to scale fast!
Development Time
96 hours
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Great job! Challenging but fun and quite addictive.
I will admit I found this a little tricky at first to get my head around and things seemed to go wrong very quickly.
But as a result I found myself experimenting with my approach and had fun.
It is a little heavy on the information to read at first and I think some status indicators would help with the failure thing.
Nice work with this one.
Pretty funny concept for a game. Sort of assaults you at once with all the menus but it wasn't too difficult or overbearing to figure out. Not my type of thing but I was pretty chuffed as a guy who's looked into work for data centers before.
Glad you enjoyed it despite it not being your cup of tea, we're super grateful for your comment! Gotta love "work games" as I call them haha.
The difficulty ramps up quickly and my servers werent ready for all the traffic. Fun game. Its also oddly addictive, worth a try!
Thanks for the kind words! Glad you liked it :)
Nice concept, I would improve the ui with sprites to indicate actions and related buttons.
Hope we have the time and spirit to implement the features we had to cut and several enhancements like the ones you mention. A tutorial and UI revamp are almost done so we can't wait to publish those next week! Thanks for playing our game and for your feedback!
At first, I thought the failure rate for the level 1 servers was way too high. Then I realized I wasn't scaling efficiently, changed up my strategy, and made it to the end. Nice game! Reminds me of BitBurner.
Good to hear that you found a strategy and were able to finish it! That's what we were going for so I'm super happy. And great comparison, thanks!
Caught my eye for the art style and retro theme. I got some traffic going!
As already mentioned a bit more visuals to show failing hardware (e.g. blinking) would be nice. Also had a bit of trouble to find where to stand to get that laptop out and fix stuff.
It's true, the failure status isn't very clear. Thank you for your feedback! I'll be working on it for the next update.
Those damn servers, always failing! =)
Nice idea and loop, a bit heavy on the information side, and the difficult scales fast. Making easier to see the info about the hardware themselves (failure rate, failing, etc) would make a better experience.
Good luck!
Thanks for commenting! We couldn't make it in time but I'd love to implement a tutorial later to gamify the learning curve a bit and lessen the need for information all over the place. Thanks for your feedback!