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GMTK Game Jam 2024

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A jam submission

Space FactoryView game page

Build the biggest factory in the galaxy.

Submitted by svdragster — 18 hours, 17 minutes before the deadline

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Results

Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Enjoyment	#1183	3.467	3.467
Style	#1600	3.600	3.600
Overall	#1663	3.433	3.433
Creativity	#2671	3.233	3.233

Ranked from 30 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 start with a planet, then colonize other star systems and build around a black hole.

Development Time

96 hours

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Comments

PenguinArmySubmitted18 days ago(+1)

Really cool game, enjoyed it.

I liked the space idea with different planets and the sense of progression with space stations, ore, more cities etc and that you actually have to manage your population a little bit with cities vs. factories. Watching your numbers going up and colonizing new planets for building is very satisfying.

Cool to see that you actually have procedural generation and water shaders etc. working on a sphere haha.

Maybe I have just not played long enough for that(!) but I would have loved some visual feedback about what you're building like actually seeing the space stations and cities etc. The planets felt pretty small, maybe some more sense of scale would be nice + seeing what the planets look like in the solar system view. I think the "space building to make numbers go up" idea isn't the most creative ever, but well made and cool to play. Nice job!

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Dino Shareholding Inc. Corp.

svdragsterDeveloper18 days ago(+1)

Thanks! Yes, I wanted to add some actual buildings and space stations that appear when building, but I didn't want to sacrifice sleep and work for that :)

Stephen346Submitted20 days ago(+1)

This was a lot of fun, the procedurally generated planets are really cool! The only bits of feedback I would have is that it would be useful to see what kind of planet it is from a zoomed out view, and it would be useful to see how much each building produces/consumes to plan things out a bit better

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dkomnenSubmitted21 days ago(+1)

I like the game, it's a simple numbers go up style and I enjoy playing those things. The UI needs work though, the current way to select planets is not very useful. The gameplay loop almost immediately boils down to "click around every planet in your system and 10/100/1000x build random stuff which has a '-' right now. You can go for a 'slower' scale of increase but make the decisions be more strategic.

Anyway, it's a jam game so often we have to make a lot of compromises to finish something quickly. It's a good entry, and I think going for a 3D universe was ambitious and well executed. Good job.

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Kardashev Scale

svdragsterDeveloper21 days ago

Thanks for your comment! I fully agree that a real strategy (other than randomly clicking on planets) is missing.

giorgio-teamrtoSubmitted21 days ago(+1)

Really cool little game, the presentation is almost flawless, the fact that this was done for a game jam has me really impressed, there are games with months of development that don't achieve a similar level of polish.

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Team HalfBeardSubmitted21 days ago(+1)

Beaten in 56 minutes of idle play. Nice!

Had to switch from "I'm managing this little solar system" mindset to "Build and forget" after some time, but got it in the end. Good job!

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Flaming_VoidSubmitted21 days ago(+1)

This game is really good.

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You are what you beat

HuidaSubmitted22 days ago(+1)

I didnt know the cosmos can be drawn like this!

Now it's in my collection!

Thanks for making this!

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Shrink_Your_Border

SurfdawebSubmitted22 days ago(+1)

I literally spent an hour playing to beat this and had a great time doing it! I just wish there was a way to see the stats of planets/stars without having to zoom in so I can check if I've upgraded everything!

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NinjuitSubmitted23 days ago(+1)

Hell yeah this is awesome!

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Population Per Second

Smalls The KoboldSubmitted23 days ago(+1)

Played this for a chunk of time and tapped out after the dark matter request to win. the scope of a game jam I'm sure limited the ability to manage the universe from 1 location, rather than click-guessing to find the thing you need, but it was a fun premise!

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Call of the Cosmic Whale

svdragsterDeveloper23 days ago

I agree, the end game could use some more spice. Thanks for playing!

Falcon89Submitted23 days ago(+1)

This is so cool, also I won

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Stellar Assembly

DefenderWSubmitted23 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

This game is really damn cool, it's the kind of thing I can see myself sinking a ton of hours into, just optimizing and perfecting things, definitely a game you could build on a lot if you wanted too. I honestly just have praise. Also a fellow space game yay

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Navem Volat Solem

kopatrichSubmitted23 days ago(+1)

Very cool! If you're planning to polish this further, some way to differentiate which type of planet is which, and the relative number of cities/mines/etc (like how you've done with indicating the rate of change for resources) without needing to zoom in would make optimizing everything feel a bit smoother I think. But very engaging and well executed all around!

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caspar1500Submitted23 days ago(+1)

Building games are not entirely my cup of tea but it was deffinitly better then cofffee! jokes aside, great concept and game with a waaaay bigger scale then I at first expected

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My room from outer space

MogiSubmitted23 days ago(+1)

Awesome concept, really engaging!

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StarSheep Rescue

dsamsonSubmitted24 days ago(+1)

interesting concept. I wish there was some more sort of antagonistic force, beyond just managing to balance everything make the numbers go up

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Single Fold Simulator

svdragsterDeveloper24 days ago

Indeed, I wanted to add pirate/alien spaceships attacking or blocking some resources. But unfortunately not enough time

dsamsonSubmitted24 days ago

interesting concept. I wish there was some more sort of antagonistic force, beyond just managing to balance everything make the numbers go up

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Single Fold Simulator

BatmenzDWSubmitted24 days ago(+1)

Kinda crazy how different this is from my team's, give how similar the premises are.

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IsathecatgirlSubmitted24 days ago(+1)

Quite the cool atmosphere

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The Photographer