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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Graphics | #2 | 4.439 | 4.439 |
| Originality | #3 | 4.268 | 4.268 |
| Overall | #4 | 3.805 | 3.805 |
| Audio | #6 | 3.732 | 3.732 |
| Fun | #15 | 3.707 | 3.707 |
| Theme | #22 | 4.000 | 4.000 |
| Controls | #26 | 3.390 | 3.390 |
| Accessibilty | #34 | 3.098 | 3.098 |
Ranked from 41 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
4.2.1
Wildcards Used
N/A
Game Description
Humans are infesting a new world! Take control of the elements and unleash earthquakes, volcanoes, and storms to defend your planet. Stop the human plague before they leave to pollute another paradise! Are you the Planet's last hope?
How does your game tie into the theme?
The colonizing civilization is hurting the planet, like a parasite.
Source(s)
No
Discord Username(s)
cat.astro, Thoozee, Sugo98, Azeban
Participation Level (GWJ Only)
with this one: 3 (cat.astro, thoozee), 1 (Sugo98, Stray_Vince)
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This is a great jam submission. The game is well polished, and has a clear gameplay loop that is a humorous take on the theme. It took me a bit to recognize what I was supposed to do, I got distracted by the population counters and tried to target the highest city with whatever natural disaster I could find near them. I think because I was immediately pressured with the task of getting rid of the parasite I didn't connect that the light bulb is what I needed to target.
The only things I can even think to critique is I would have liked to have had some visual indication of the disasters being ready to be used. I was just flying around scribbling my mouse on the disasters near cities hoping to find one that was recharged. I also didn't really have time to pay attention to what the upgrades did. Not sure if there's anything that can be done about that, perhaps having a level up button that opens a popup to pause the game and let you pick what you wanted. But I'm just nitpicking at this point, these are minor complaints that didn't really harm my experience.
Excellent job.
Thanks a lot for your detailed feedback! You gave a lot of information about what you - as a player - experienced, and that's very useful for us. We'll try to improve the game in the direction that you and others suggested :)
Besides that, we're happy that you liked it! Thanks again for trying it :D
Really enjoyed this! Admittedly I did spam disasters on my first try until I read the description
AH! AH! Typical newbie error :P
Glad you like it :)
Great game concept. I like the clean look of the UI as well. Good job! :3
Thank you so much, we're happy that you enjoyed it :D
Interesting concept! I was a bit confused on how I interact with the world, but got the grips later on. It's a bit weird as we humans contribute to these disasters happening so...
Thank you! It's nice to read that you managed to play it properly in the end :D
To answer your second comment, we're aware that this game might touch some hot topics, and I agree it's a bit weird. When one of us came up with this idea of "being the Earth and fighting colonizing parasites", we immediately loved how it sounded, especially because it allowed us to subvert perspectives and show humans "from outside", which is always good :)
Very cool game, losing 3 times made me read the description more carefully and finally win:)
Though i'd add ability to skip intro, it's too long if you start over several times
Thanks for playing our game! We're happy that you were able to win in the end, even if it required multiple attempts... We'll try to add more in-game hints, so that players are walked through the learning process :)
The suggestion on the skippable intro is also spot-on, thanks a lot!
An interesting take on the theme! Very polished as well :)
Thanks! We're happy that you tried and liked it :)
around the world around the world
That's the sequel :)
Nicely polished. Very impressive UI elements.
Took me a couple of tries before I realized the round buttons weren't buttons.
I imagine it's easy for you, knowing the internals, but I found it a bit challenging.
As you imagined, every game is easier for the people who created it, and that's why playtesting and feedbacks like yours are so important to understand how the game is perceived by other players. So thank you, we appreciate it and we'll try to tune the difficulty! :)
Very fun concept! This is the kind of game I could find myself playing again and again, this would be great as a full length game.
Thank you, it's good to read this kind of comments *-*
Beautiful 3D art. The gameplay is also smooth, seems well engineered, and runs well in the web. Good sound and music, too.
As others have stated, figuring out the controls (rotating the planet, what I needed to click, what I didn't) took the first playthrough and was a bit demoralizing to lose so quickly. In my specific case, I thought I needed to click a disaster on the left before I used it, and that the bar had to charge up before I could use the higher up disasters. Just a misunderstanding of the UI. Once I understood, the gameplay was quite smooth, and I won my 2nd game.
Really great submission! Look forward to seeing more from the team :-)
Thanks for your detailed comment, you're really helping us by describing your gameplay and we couldn't appreciate it more!
Regarding the UI, we'd need to fix it in a way that doesn't make you throw away your first game ^^" We already wanted to add a proper in-game tutorial on controls, but - as you know - time in the game jams is never enough, and we needed to focus on something else...
Anyway, happy to know that the game worked well afterwards, and congratulations for your winning :D
Really awesome game! The concept is really good and I can see it being developed in a more fully fledged product, well done!
If I can point out something that I would improve is the visibility of where the technologies are being developed and the catastrophes that you can activate by changing the color of the elements on the map (something like a darker color, nothing too complicated).
Again, well done!
Thanks! You're right, the visibility of certain UI elements is not helping the gameplay... We planned to implement markers and colors for disasters, but we discovered there wasn't an easy solution for 3D, and so we focused on something else ^^" We'll try to fix it in the next release, since you're asking for complete product! :)
Thanks again for playing the game, we're very happy that you enjoyed it!
Oooo a 3D game!? I played it like three times before I figured out I could rotate the planet! xD and then I played it again a good 10 times! All in all it was a really fun game, graphics were so so good, you managed to get so much done in such a short amount of time! So awesome! I'll probably come back to play this every now and then ngl lol.
I'm sorry, we haven't had time to add some in-game tutorial so we have just put the controls in the description, we know that it isn't the optimal experience.
Thanks for the very positive feedback, we've tried our best to make the game fun to play, hoping people would like to play it again one or two times. Your play count exceed our most optimistic estimation, we're very happy to see that you enjoyed our game that much! :D
I like this game the most so far.
٩(◕‿◕)۶ Congrats on winning the game!
Thanks for playing and letting us know!
It is really rewarding to hear your feedback :)
Really well made in every aspect, had a fun time playing, well done!
Thank you, we're happy that you had fun with our game :D
Amazing entry! I was able to win, and I had a lot of fun doing it. It was really fun causing the natural disasters, and moving around the planet looking for which cities I should cause chaos for. I liked the upgrade mechanic. The art and sound were excellent too.
Thanks Delpire, happy to know that the chaotic atmosphere was appreciated! We wanted the endgame to become like a frantic micro-management experience, but without making it impossible to control. Your feedback would really help us, so thank you!
Really nice game and very well executed. I run into a bug where the game didn’t end properly. Not sure why. After restart I don’t had that issue anymore. It took me 4 tries to finally win the game. It became quite hectic to the end. Visuals and Audio were really great and fit to the game. Nothing to add. Great job and great team effort here!
Hi Xandruher! Thanks for playing our game, your feedbacks are always appreciated :D
I didn't know about the bug... I really hope it didn't ruin your play, but -hey- you just gave these poor debuggers a purpose! We'll try to recreate it and see what we can do about it :)
Also, it's nice to read that you persevered to play it four times. I hope that the little animation did pay off in the end... Otherwise, we'll add more explosions in the next release! Thanks again!
This is actually fire! Great ideas and great implementation!
Thanks! Glad to read that the game was appreciated, it repays our efforts ^^
Great game, cool graphics, would play again!
Thanks for your feedback! We're glad you liked our little game!
Great visuals and quite a unique idea. Calling humans the parasites is a great twist on the theme. Well done!
Thanks a lot for playing our game, it's nice to read that the idea was appreciated ^^
Nice job. Not a lot of 3d games in Godot Wild and this was a solid one. Congrats
Thank you for playing the game and taking time to post a feedback! We're glad you liked it!