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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #22 | 3.623 | 3.623 |
| Design | #26 | 3.885 | 3.885 |
| Gameplay | #26 | 3.654 | 3.654 |
| Innovation | #29 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Theme | #36 | 3.769 | 3.769 |
| Sfx / Music | #53 | 3.308 | 3.308 |
Ranked from 26 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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The things that stood out for me when playing this was the overall design.
I like that you used a globe for the map, and that units are always visible no matter what the globe's rotation is. The in-game descriptions were also nice, and let me figure stuff out along the way instead of reading an info dump or going through a long tutorial. And of course, I feel that there was nice feedback for the actions I made.
Took me a while to understand but it's really cool, enjoyed the ride and finished it :D really cool game ^^
Art style is great and game mechanics easy to learn. This game has a lot of potential. Visuals of the dark areas were a little glitchy at times and the planet rotation could have been more responsive. But nothing game breaking, so really good job.
i found that having the planet move faster gave it a sort of motion sickness element, so i limited the speed to something reasonable for navigating a local area. What glitches were you seeing in the fog?
Okey, that sounds logical. After some more testing I found that the fog flickers only on Mozilla Firefox browsers. This didn't affect the raiting as it's just a visual bug and related to the platform.
Interesting, I didnt expect Z fighting, its supposed to be a bit above the mesh of the planet. Ill need to increase it a bit more and test on firefox, thanks for the bug report!
I managed to get an A after a good start :) good game and it was really well balanced
I managed to get an A after a good start :) good game and it was really well balanced
This is an ambitious game! I enjoyed the feeling of exploration and discovery with each playthrough and use of the globe as an interface was clear and effective.
I didn't quite feel like I had a solid grasp on how the economy worked (I made it all the way through on the third attempt, where I mainly focused on food production), though once I went back and read the tips in the description, things made a bit more sense! Really cool concept with a great design choice in the globe!
I LOVE games like this! Growing your kingdom I that way and managing your resources is always something that will be fun to me and I loved your take on it! Being able to see the 3d globe was a fun way to visualize things. My first go I underestimated the use of a good tower! By my second go around I felt like I really knew how things worked. My score was a D, but It was fun enough for me to want t o continue to play and get a better score!
This is really really great work and a lot of fun and always made more impressive when you consider that you did all of this in a week!
I love how calming and contemplative the music is. Against the more serene black backdrop it really gave a sense of space and scale as you were looking at your kingdom expand on earth! Great job and congrats on the wonderful game! I really enjoyed myself (:
Really good game overall. Good job.
I really liked the calming aspect of the game. The music you chose is perfect for the game and I think the game is a great way to relax. You have the foundation for a cool and relaxing game!
The lose condition helps to add challenge and stops you from just placing structures at random, which is always a great way to keep players coming back. Great job!
I love civ games! nice work.
Great game, took me a sec to realize that towers could be built on water *facepalm*. Got a 'B' after figuring that out. Solid idea though, would feel right at home on mobile.
Very meditative. Loved the strategy involved, planning my next move for the incoming year, and watching my little kingdom grow. That was a lot of fun! Thanks for your hard work on this game!
This is a really cool game. I finally beat it on my third try. It felt like the world is gen-proc. It seemed like I rolled a really easy world that third time.
Played your game here! 31:08
That was sick! Thanks for the footage, learned a lot from how you played it
Great game! You Should port it to mobile!
super fun! I think it has some potential as a full game, if you developed the idea a bit more and tried to maybe expand the world, the building options, maybe moving to another world after a while, etc
Originally the world was going to be 3 times larger tiles-wise, but I didnt have the time to fill it with features haha. Thanks for the comment!
Really cool. Liked the simple controls. Fun programming challenge to have a game on a sphere like that. I was confused why 2 or more panels sometimes appeared when I moused-over over some items. E.g., I moused-over gold and saw descriptions for "gold" and "gold ore". Why? Which was it? Would like to see a version in the future with animations happening on the sphere! Great work!
Gold is the resource, Gold ore is the tile. You're right, I should have differentiated the two.
I got to 14 years before i ran out of money, i didn't put much gold mines, I put tons of food lol i went in blindly i didn't read your tips lol, but hey! i had fun playing this!
Thanks for playing! Yeah its very easy to run out of money if you arent careful in the early game. More than once I've had to survive the remaining years by spamming towers since they have no additional cost outside of the 2 gold, which is pretty easy to get 2 gold a turn
great game! honestly I'm going back tomorrow to play some more! I've been getting into strategy games lately, I'm going to beat my year
Let me know how it goes!
I like the look of the low poly 3D world! admittedly i didn't get far (four years), but I think the concept is really neat! :D
I think you need to focus a little more on food and gold production if you're running out of resources that early. You usually want to get them to be about neutral at all times to get a grade of A