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GMTK Game Jam 2024

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A jam submission

Big data, Big problems!View game page

Submitted by Varii, louis.cook.music — 1 hour, 20 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Style#27963.1333.133
Creativity#36572.9332.933
Overall#39172.7562.756
Enjoyment#50922.2002.200

Ranked from 15 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?
The game is about building a data center, scaling up your earnings to meet your endlessly growing rent. the enemies also scale infinitely.

Development Time

96 hours

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capedhorseSubmitted191 days ago

An intuitive guide on what to do could help understand the game more. But overall, pretty fun and nice controls.

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Break Ouch!
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kopatrichSubmitted192 days ago

Could do with some more communication to the player i.e. blood splatters or sfx when shooting enemies, etc... but well done and enjoyable!

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Stretch Cat!
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Dave_ChedmenSubmitted193 days ago

Nicely done game! Great visuals and such, maybe a little lack of sound effects but that's not a huge problem. Good job!

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Scale//Away
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Jenkret194 days ago

I think the person who made this is smelly, but good game if not a little confusing

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Pavel SimaSubmitted194 days ago

Good idea with the data centers :D I played for few days and it was fun, but I was little confused from beginning what to do :) Maybe I would add some more sounds for enemies and shooting. Also some effects for shooting/getting hit would be nice, to make combat more enjoyable :)

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Giant Growers
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VariiDeveloper194 days ago

yay! im glad you had fun!!

thats feedback we'll definitely take. thank you :)

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Mount West195 days ago

I love the take on the theme by starting a data center to handle exponential costs of living. Just scale lol.

I'm sorry but it was not easy to understand what I was meant to do. I managed to stick around for 5 days but it felt like I had a hard time keeping my interest alive.

Still I really enjoy the idea, and I think this works as a prototype to show off a game design idea. I suggest you add a bit more instructions and some more eventful gameplay. Right now there are large areas and time periods that just feel empty.

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VariiDeveloper195 days ago

I'm glad you got to night 5! that means you gave it a real chance 

you've got a point about the gameplay. lots of our systems actually scale infinitely based on maths functions. we didn't have enough time to properly tune them, which is probably what led to the game being too uneventful early on. In later builds I think we will make the early levels harder.

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👁️neiromancerSubmitted195 days ago

I kinda like the idea, given that I was thinking of going “data-center tower defense” myself.

The thing that takes away most from enjoyment is that I’m just not sure what I’m supposed to do. There’s just not enough feedback to player actions. The first night is just empty, and even after that I was just running circles waiting for the enemies to spawn.

Maybe it would be better if there were more enemies but they had less health. But nevertheless, good job!

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Combat-Ready
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