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A jam submission

Desktopia: A Desktop Village SimulatorView game page

A desktop village idle game that lives at the top or bottom of your screen. Being Made for the #NoFreeGameJam
Submitted by mftinyturtle — 1 day, 4 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Overall#14.4334.433
Marketing#14.6674.667
Completion#15.0005.000
Aesthetics#14.8334.833
Pricing#44.0004.000
Gameplay#43.6673.667

Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted

I am seriously impressed with how much you were able to cram in 2 months. It's pretty clear you guys have been working together for awhile. I may find an excuse to keep playing this...

--On to the issues--

What tripped me up the most was figuring out how to get back to my avatar after clicking the fire button. Thought it was a game-breaking bug until I found the focus button. I did read about it in the instructions but apparently forgot. To idiotproof this: Perhaps make the move keys re-focus back to the player after clicking the fire button.

On Linux a couple files needed to be made executable. I guess zip files don't preserve Linux permissions unless a special parameter is set. I've always just tar'd them first. Also I was able to rename the nw file and it still worked, so I suppose that could be changed to something more obvious.

Commentary:

Developer

Thank you! And yeah, the focus button has tripped up a few people. I definitely need to do something with it. Thanks for making the video, it was fun to watch someone else play it :)

Host

Wowee featured in PCGamer! Congrats team, well deserved :]

Developer

Thanks! I had no idea we had been until I read this. Our Steam launch just blew up and I've been answering email and pushing patches like crazy and not had time to keep up with press stuff.