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A jam submission

Hamster Energy CoView game page

Manage a hamster-powered phone charging station
Submitted by jetpackgone (@jetpackgone) — 16 hours, 53 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme#54.1964.196
Artistic#144.2164.216
Overall#243.6393.639
Technical#453.3923.392
Design#463.3533.353
Gameplay#643.0393.039

Ranked from 51 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted

Loads of charm on this one, great music and cute artwork. I wanted to play longer but the game hits a bit of a wall once you start generating more electricity than can be consumed. Lowering the cap to get another charging port, other side activities or more things to spend your seeds on would be nice.

Developer

Thank you for playing my game! Yeah, I ran out of time so had to cut out features, but I'll update post-jam!

Submitted

Funny game, the art is cool and cute, the management / clicker game isn't my favorite genre but it was addicting to see all those hamsters moving everywhere, well done!

Developer

Thank you for playing! :)

Submitted

Cool clicker game! Loved the colourful sprites and backgrounds. Once suggestion might be to get rid of the "shop" button, and just click on the icons in the top hud. Nice work!

Developer

Thank you and glad you enjoyed the game! Oh, that's an interesting idea, thanks for the suggestion!

Submitted

its a nice game really love these sort of management games, though I noticed some points that could be improved.

Once you are able to get 5 hamsters things just become a waiting game, as you are able to produce way more energy than necessary for one phone but has no means to increase how fast you gain sunflower seeds to buy another charger. And the wait can be a lot, i am actually writing this while i wait.

Path finding is a bit buggy but i learned that if you move the hamster wheel to the hamster that is stuck they get on the wheel so i was able to work around with that.

The things i think need the most improvement though are the ui controls,  the buttons dont vanish when you click anywhere else or right click, most games of this kind if you click outside the button disappears and right click usually cancel an action. Another thing is buttons being covered by other objects, very noticeable with the wheels. there is also no way to cancel buying something i bought a bowl by accident and when i tried to cancel i couldnt, even tried to click the shop again but it only placed the bowl behind the shop button so maybe moving the ui to where you cant place things might be a good thing for a next game. anyway good job with it! (and i still dont have a second charger lol)

Developer(+1)

Thank you for the detailed response! Those are some really good points you made, so I'll try to address them after the jam. Glad you enjoyed playing :)

Submitted

cute and beautiful art, nice color choices, the music is good but it gets repetitive very fast, the mouses pathfinding could be better, it's quite common to see some hamsters running endlessly through an object, good game.

Developer(+1)

Thank you for the feedback! :)

Submitted

Such a delightful game. A wonderfully fun and clever concept that's very well polished and presented. Honestly, one of my favorites for the jam. 

Sure, there's bugs and the pathfinding can be a be frustrating at times, but my biggest complaint is the capped charging interval. I did the math and it would take three hours to get an additional charging port! That's cruel... haha.

Developer(+1)

Thank you for the kind words! Yeah, I never got around to implement adding the charging ports, so sorry about that. I'll make improvements after the jam!

Submitted

This is so cute and addicting, i couldn't stop watching my hamsters and placing more of em. Congrats on the submission ^^

Developer(+1)

Glad you enjoyed playing, thank you!

Submitted(+1)

I love this. IT'S ADORABLE I LOVE THEM <3

Developer

Thank you for playing! :)

Submitted

Hehehe I had so much fun with this!
I especially liked how you could sweep up hamsters with the wheels, how the hamster AI was smart enough to move to a different place after a while of trying, and most importantly, how you could just spontaneously buy 20 hamsters, and BOOM there they are moving around. Hehe so much fun! I admire your choice for allowing structures to be moved around, helps a lot to repurpose and create different neighbourhoods as the station grows.

Fantastic use of the theme as well!

Developer

Thank you and glad you enjoyed playing :)

Submitted

I love it! the hamsters are so cute! I wish there was more to do and more features. this could make a fantastic full game if you kept going. maybe more things to do, expandable space, easier to get another charger. i have no real criticism at all, but i would agree with a below comment that hamster pathfinding is a smidge wonky at times. great overall! 

Developer(+1)

Glad you enjoyed the game! I'll definitely work on adding more features and fixing the pathfinding after the jam!

I was really looking forward to this game as I really liked the way the preview images looked. I was very quickly disappointed when the hamsters would not go onto the wheel despite being right next to it and I got bored very quickly. I also found the music to be a bit annoying and I had to mute it. :(

Developer(+1)

Sorry the game wasn't to your liking and thank you for the feedback. The hamsters should run on the wheel when they are not hungry, so maybe they needed to be fed. At least the mute button came in handy! I'll see if I can improve after the jam and thank you for playing!

Submitted

Everything about this game is so adorably satisfying! I love the art style and animations, and you made a great choice for background music.

I think the hamster pathfinding is actually an interesting mechanic. As your factory increases in size, you have to figure out how to arrange the hamster wheels and food bowls in a way that the hamsters can "understand." I got my hamsters stuck on more than one occasion... 😅

One problem is that once you reach a certain energy production threshold, you can't really do anything with the excess energy, so it just kinda sits there in your bank. As a result, there isn't very much to do besides watch the hamsters do their thing but I could watch these hamsters all day so it's not a problem. Maybe make the rate of energy generation slower? Putting a limit on how many seeds can fit in a dish would be good too, since there's really not much point in having multiple food dishes at the moment.

Developer

Thank you for the detailed feedback!

Originally, I was planning to have upgrade paths for everything in the store, but didn't have time to finish. The charging port is not supposed to be that expensive, but I didn't get around to that either. I also wanted to be able to expand the hamster's area in future "levels"  but alas.

Good idea about limiting the amount of seeds per bowl! Adding more bowls means hamsters may not have to travel as far to find food, but that might not make too much difference since the area is pretty small.

Submitted

Very cute graphics and good theme usage =). 

The gameplay is consistent and very intuitive. 


Good job! I really enjoyed your game S2. 

Developer

Thank you for playing! I'm happy you liked it!

Submitted

Adorable hamsters! Great art and writing styles, sfx and music too. The mechanic is nice, but I got to 12 wheels really fast, and than had not much to do anymore (the charging station was too expensive, so I couldn't make a lot of money... I passed a really good time with my hamster farm, thanks!

Developer(+1)

Thank you and glad you enjoyed playing! I didn't have time to implement more features but I'll see if I can after the jam!

Submitted(+1)

I would certainly appreciate to play it again with more features!

Submitted

The art is superb and the music and sound effects are very fitting. I would've liked some more complexity, maybe a way to advertise to get a rush of customers?

Really like the theme!

Developer(+1)

Thank you for playing! I ran out of time so I had to cut out a lot of features but that's a good idea!

Submitted

Really cool idea for theme ;D. Your hamsters are way cuter than ours.

Developer(+1)

Thank you! Your hamsters are plenty cute too :)

Submitted(+1)

Pretty cute and addictive. Good job!

Submitted

Love it, cute pixel art hamsters building my energy business! Nay, not business... EMPIRE! I can see the future now, everything powered by Hamsters, Hamster powered lights, cookware, CARS! The future is glorious! The future is bright! The future... IS HAMSTERS!!!

:P, In all honesty, loved it, very nicely done. One day I'll be able to afford that second charging port, just need to do more advertising to draw in more customers XD.

Developer(+1)

The sequel will be Hamster Energy Empire :)

Thank you for the feedback!

Submitted(+1)

Very cute an polished game!

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