Very cool what you've managed to create within such limitations! It's a little repetitive but I had fun just placing tiles and making it look nice. My total score would sometimes flip to a negative number, so maybe a bug? It was -28000 and then when I got to 30000 it flipped back to positive. Had a lot of fun with it, great job!

Really like the retro style with PICO-8, and the music was nice too! I found it very confusing at first but it was pretty fun once I got the hang of it. Nice work :)

Interesting take, and I love the pico-8 look-and-feel :D

I’m not great at these types of games, but it was hard to see if there were ever good choices to make; disasters just kept on befalling me - but that was fun, in it’s own way…

The concept is nice, it certainly does seem like most of the events are disasters haha. I would say that it felt as though my actions didn't have a significant enough impact on what was happening for it to feel like it mattered where I placed the tiles? But I think with a larger variety of tiles, and perhaps tiles that can also interact with one another in equally varied ways, there could be more strategy you could explore out of it. I like the art though, the tiles do a good job communicating what they represent!

I've no idea what is going on  :'D And I'm not sure how it fits the theme. Also the controls work in reverse: Up Arrow is going down, Left Arrow is goind right etc. But I really like the visuals and sfx.

Great presentation, nice gameplay. Not sure where dice fit in but a cool game nevertheless

Liked it good job.

Wow! Finally, someone who doesn't interpret the dice in a literal sense :D 

I really, really like the concept. Although I think the pixel artstyle adds an unnecessary level of complexity to the game (plus the text can be quite hard to read), it's made up for by the interesting gameplay. My only other critique would be to add some more randomness, to align with the theme better. 

Overall though, good job! 

Before I go into what I thought of the game I just have to say I don't think it fits the theme at all. There are many random events in the game, but that's just rng and really has nothing to do with dice. That being said I completely forgot about the theme of the jam while playing the game as I liked it so much. I meant to just check out the game, play it for a couple of minutes and leave a review but ended up playing it for at least 40 minutes. The visuals and the soundscape are both wonderful and the gameplay was just the right mix of simplicity and complexity with the interactions of the different tiles. It's definitely a bit too easy though, as the negative events hardly ever take away enough population to offset the natural population growth of the better tiles. I couldn't quite figure out how the game worked at the start, but I liked finding out which tiles work well together and which don't. Many people probably wouldn't though, so a bit better of a tutorial would for sure make the game more approachable. Also thought I was doing something very wrong at the start as my score went into the negatives by quite a few thousands, but realized later that pico 8 has a 15-bit integer limit and I was just going over lol. Either way, if you plan on working on the game after the jam, I'll absolutely check it out! Cheers!

Cute relaxing game :)

I liked the look of this game a lot, a very cute design. I wasn't sure what I was doing as I played it but still enjoyed it!

The idea of slowly building an island is very cool and I really like games like this a lot. Though, to be honest, I didn't really get a grasp on what exactly I was doing, so most of the time my actions were as random as the tile generator ;)

Don't get me wrong though I still liked it and the minimalistic PICO-8 aesthetics as well.

Very creative idea to combine a building game with a certain random factor. Unfortunately, I had a hard time figuring out what's happening in this game. Maybe some sort of visual indicator would be nice. But I love the PICO-8 style though. Reminds me of the legendary Gameboy era. Overall i think you did a good job on this submission. I enjoyed it a lot!

nice little game! was a bit hard to understand what was going on at first, but with time it was more fun since i understood what was going on now. 

I'm always a big fan of Pico-8 games, the chunky visuals build such a nostalgic vibe *-*
I liked the way you implemented luck in this game, it's a very fun mix between strategy and randomness. I just think that maybe there are too many turns? I've stopped in turn 40 with 21700 population.
Cool game tho, and nice job!

Cool game, though I wish there is a way to see the total population.

A really solid concept, and a great entry. I liked that you picked between two randomised tiles to alleviate some of the bad luck while still maintaining a sense of randomness. 

Like mentioned below, the total population could probably be indicated at all times. Another thing to note is that 100 turns feels like it's too many (at least for the current gameplay loop). I stopped after 38, because it felt like nothing new had been happening for quite a while.

Anyway, overall a really nice game. Well done!

The music and game itself is relaxing and I really like the idea! Really respect the PICO-8, great job!

After 60 turns I had a population -30000. Call me hades.

Very well realized game, I like that You can skip everything. Game probably has all the features it should have, and non intrusive moody music. The only thing it could be explained better in-game, perhaps it would be good to show population in the corner of the screen if it has to be goal of the game.