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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #1775 | 3.244 | 3.244 |
| Overall | #3514 | 2.878 | 2.878 |
| Creativity | #3756 | 2.902 | 2.902 |
| Style | #4730 | 2.488 | 2.488 |
Ranked from 41 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 your business and customer base by building and expanding your datacenter.
Development Time
96 hours
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
https://kenney.nl/assets
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This must be what maintaining AWS feels like. I really like this game, it ramps up really nicely!
If you continue to work on it though it needs two things for sure. The player needs to be taught how to play and how the systems interact. I can intuit that more computers help create fulfilment and keep wait times low, but I'm not sure exact how CPU and RAM factor into that for example. Eventually when things got too hectic to keep up I just kept buying server racks and slotting in servers and I ended up with more money than I could spend. It's good that the game is easy for a jam, but I'd love to understand how it works more!
The game also needs some sounds! Probably not for every request or customer that comes in because that would be too much, but at least for purchasing some space, plopping down some computers, or slotting servers into a rack! An error sound could be cool when computers die and need to be replaced.
Awesome job, I had a lot of fun!
Thanks so much for the kind words and feedback! I definitely agree the game would benefit from a tutorial and sounds and a lot more work in general! :D
Nice incremental game. Fun to play.
Really good game!
Good Concept!
I like the concept behind this, the interpretation of the theme was pretty creative in my opinion. Once I got the hang of things I really enjoyed the experience! The whole thing was just well done for a jam game and I believe it has a lot of potential to be polished and expanded post-jam! Good job.
Nice concept. Idle game + random upgrades. The game is a little confusing at first for my taste, but I liked it. With a little bit more polish (like numbers appearing on the users, or a little less static background) it could make a killer idle game. Nice one!
A nice little idle game with a great sense of progression and upgradeables! I would love for a little sound fx or music to give it some more game feel. But overall, this is a nice little entry. Great work!
I'll admit it had me hooked for a while! I enjoyed the immediate feedback with the faces but some extra visuals to see what's going on like graphs or meters would be nice. Also it took me a while to figure out how you're supposed to use the server racks, at one point I had no servers and had no idea why lol