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A jam submission

Garden Bots - Jam VersionView game page

Pick Cards To Build A Robot Summer Camp
Submitted by MangoWorks, Ethan Hall Dev, Aden H. — 3 days, 12 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Originality#443.0913.091
Audio (Does not apply for Physical Games)#782.0002.000
Overall#782.3642.364
Visuals#812.3642.364
Fun Factor#881.8181.818

Ranked from 11 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Is your game a video game or a physical game?
VideoGame

Was your game made solo or in a team?
Team (MangoWorks - Programming) (ThatPizzaGuy - Art) (DrWorrell - Sound)

Did you use any third party assets, if yes what assets did you use?
nope

Did you use choose from one of the optional secondary themes?
no

Does your game contain 18+ content (Nudity, Gore, Language)?
no

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Cute management sim with some happy little robot buddies.

PROS:

  • The music creates a nice ambiance of getting up and going to work and sets the tone for the game well.
  • The robots are super cute and makes you want to keep up with them since they're all your little buddies.
  • The gameplay seems pretty straight-forward and lets you get into doing the game loop right away.

CRITIQUE:

  • It feels like there were a lot of things that could be much improved with a UI overlay ...
    • Having a mini-map to know where your bots are relative to the current camera location so that you're not regularly panning to find a bot that's already completed its task.
    • Putting the cards into the UI rather than into the world so that they're always visible on screen and possibly give them tooltips when players mouse over them to give more feedback on what they do in the game.
    • Having some kind of "bot status" readout for each of your bots (possibly even with names for each of them to make them feel even more like your buddies). The status would give you a nice global view of the health of each bot (would also be nice if it was color-coded or something to make finding the right bot in the world easier.
  • There was some odd lag when attempting to move the camera, especially when I was at the edge of the world. Since panning the camera turned into a big piece of the game it "feels bad" when I get stuck on the edge and my controls feel unresponsive as a result.
  • I tried sending bots to specific resources that were closest to their current location, but they regularly didn't seem to path where I thought they would. It would be a super nice touch to have some kind of bread-crumbing visual that showed where the bots either intended to path or where they were currently pathing when they had a resource to go collect.
Developer(+1)

thanks for the feedback

Submitted(+1)

Cute little game! I feel like a bit more direction on what it is you're doing either in game or the description would be nice. I liked the art a lot

Developer

thanks

Host(+1)

I was a little confused but it was an interesting game. 

Developer

the game is a little confusing 

Submitted(+1)

Had fun looking after the bots, congrats on the team effort!

When you select the robots you can imagine they are in a little bubble 💙

Developer

thanks

Submitted(+1)

Good start!

Developer(+1)

thanks

Submitted

Interesting concept. I couldn't get any of the cards to do anything. Sometimes the scrolling got "stuck" or didn't work. But I never died, I think maybe it could be more challenging?

Cute idea, though, mixing bots with a garden.

Developer(+1)

thats because of multiple bugs i linked the fix version in the desc