Awesome resource-survival game :) I've managed to survive within 14 days and got 64 points.

Neat game!

I did have a little trouble getting into the game. In particular, I started by looking at all the buildings, such as the bench, which I learned gave me extra actions. But I couldn't figure out what number actually represented my number of actions. I considered that it might be the hand symbol, but I figured that couldn't be right, because the repair button for the home base was available and there were 0 hands available, so if I really had 0 actions I shouldn't be able to repair the home base.

I ultimately thought maybe the tutorial had said how many actions there were, and so I immediately refreshed the game to do the tutorial again. But nope... no mention of the number of actions.

I finally figured out that every repair option except for the home base required 1 hand, and so clearly I would have to repair the home base before doing anything else. The game is adamant enough about this that I think players will be forced to eventually figure this out. But it did take me longer than I think is necessary.

One thing that I think would help is just adding a hover-over effect that showed the name of each resource. This would also make it slightly easier to understand what each building does, as then you could just look at which resource it claimed to produce -- although from reading other comments, it sounds like there is a way to see what the building does in the UI before buying it, which I did not figure out when I played.

The other thing I want to mention is I feel like there were not very many malfunctions in my playthrough. Maybe 2 or 3 buildings broke while I was still using them, but ultimately this was not really a problem and I just breezed through most of the game. (For what it's worth: my final score was 36).

That said, there was an interesting moment early on where I got pretty low on fish because the greenhouse immediately broke. It actually seemed like I would never be able to stockpile fish, because I only had 2 left, it would take 3 to upgrade the greenhouse, and my fish/day was 0 ... but eventually I was able to locate the fishing building as well.

This does mean that the screen-scrolling provides at least one meaningful gameplay element: some sort of exploration. I literally thought I might be fish-soft-locked (?) because the greenhouse broke, but there was a sense of discovery when I located the fishing hole.

One other thing I wanted to mention that I appreciated was the sense of story cohesion in all the buildings. My gameplay experience was broadly: Hmm, I need X resource. What building sounded like it might produce X resource? And then I would repair/upgrade that building, and I was almost always right about which resources it produced. The way that the buildings are drawn and named makes it very intuitive to figure out what resources they produce, and this is a super cool property. It makes it easy to get into the flow of generating the correct resources.

I also think that, due to the relatively small number of malfunctions I experienced, the game feels like it invites optimization. And this makes a lot of sense, because there is a high score. I think the game does a good job of driving the player to potentially trying to leave as quickly as possible, and that fits very well with the story.

Overall, this game made solid use of the theme and created a compelling and intuitive gameplay loop. Good job!

EDIT: One last note, I thought the open/close building sound, and maybe some of the other sounds, were a bit loud compared to the music. I ended up turning the game down just because of how loud the close building sound was, but that made the music pretty hard to hear.

I had an enjoyable time playing this. The music is nice but the loop is too short so it can get a bit tiring after a while though it definitely has potential. A more ambient approach would work to fix that and to match the tone more, though, if the game had a bit more of a comical/light-hearted touch, the music might have suited more as well, I don't want to say it couldn't work for this scenario.

I liked that there was a malfunction during the night at random intervals as it meant I had to strategize more and stay on my toes, but a bit more clarity on what you get for each upgrade could have made it even better. Either way, it didn't feel frustrating or unfair so that's great.

I wish there was a way to zoom out to not have to wait so much and so I can just glance around to get an idea of what to click for what I need in the moment rather than go around searching for it.

The end was a little easy. Once I had a decent amount of upgrades it became pointless to upgrade more as simply sleeping and saving on the resources would be a faster way to get to the goal, even with malfunctions. Maybe only having 1 thing for each resource would've been better? It's hard to say and I'm no expert on these types of games but it's just a suggestion I think could work.

Regardless of my criticisms, I had fun and the game had me working more to get the needed resources than I expected. Well done!

Nice game, very polished and intro was very helpful. Being a completist I wanted to level up everything instead of collecting just the resources I need to fix the snowmobile, so took 14 days... But I did not die and had fun so win-win!

Thanks for submitting keep them coming

Cool game. Like your last entry the graphics are really awesome and look very clean and polished. I failed a couple of times until I managed to win it. Had no issues in getting into the game and playing it, well done there. Small improvements could be, offer the settings also in game and WASD for camera control. Optional I wanted to zoom in and out the map. Good job!

Awesome game with clean presentation and UI! Props to your graphic designer, this is good stuff! Intuitive and easy to understand! The audio was a bit meh, but other than that it's one of my favorite so far!

Should disclose off-the-bat that I have a hedonistic love for builders, and this base-building game with impressive graphics and UI design work found its way straight into my heart.

Useful onboarding / tutorial right away, and what's more the end goal of fixing the snowmobile is clearly established. It's really a boon to UX when the player has something to work towards that justifies the grind.

Gameplay is primarily a management system: repairing machines / buildings around the environment to obtain more resources, and accrues with turn-based replenishment. I love it.

There could be a couple of small improvements here or there. Wish there was a better way to move around the screen in addition to edge-scrolling (WASD or arrow keys, or click & drag), which could improve accessibility. The drum-thumping thirty-second loop of the background music also became a little grating.

Aside, I think the resource-gathering and upgrade systems were well-balanced for the purposes of a quick playthrough befitting the application here.

All-in-all, I enjoyed Blackout: Antarctica, and it was a pleasure to see a turn-based builder in this game jam.

the game was fun but the screen was to big for my computer so i had to scroll to do anything.

I enjoyed this! I ended up with a score of 57 after escaping, which I don't know whether that's good or bad lol. This is a solid management game, I think there are a few little UI tweaks you can make to help with overall clarity (Like showing what resources a building will consume when you upgrade it, or letting the player know that they're going to die at the end of the day if they don't gather more of a certain resource). 

I think you could have also probably gotten away with showing all of the buildings on screen at once instead of having the player pan around if you resized/adjusted things a bit. It feels a little bad to have to slowly scroll from one corner to another to check on things. Although maybe just having a menu on the side that lets you quickly pick each building would accomplish the same thing.

Other than that I have very few complaints! The game was intuitive and complex enough to require strategizing. Great job!

Pretty good game! The graphics were good, sound was decent (although I didn't care too much for the music as I didn't think it fit the game). The biggest problem I had with the game, is that the tutorial leaves out key pieces of information, which is that: You will die if you end the day with zero of any resources.

Also, the buildings should show you what exactly they will produce and consume before you repair/upgrade them, otherwise it's just trial and error to figure out what you need to repair/upgrade.

Overall, fun game, but I docked some points on Accessibility because of those mentioned issues.

I lasted 3 days, I probably should have paid more attention to the instructions! I was a bit true to the male stereotype and skim-read them only.

Anyway, what to say, a very strong polished entry. This has all the elements of a game and the only minor complaint was the slow speed of scrolling around the map. Other than that everything is well put together.