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A jam submission

Factory 3310View game page

My entry for the 3rd Nokia 3310 Jam
Submitted by 55 HP Games — 23 minutes, 53 seconds before the deadline
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Factory 3310's itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Adherence to restrictions#1324.2494.750
Design#2062.9073.250
Overall#2122.9353.281
Polish#2192.5712.875
Enjoyment#2752.0122.250

Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

This is a cool idea and I found it satisfying to play

Developer

Thank you man :D!

Submitted(+1)

This game looks pretty good, but the core mechanic is not very fun. If the items moved faster and there were less switches, it would feel better.

Developer

Thank you for your feedback! I agree about the gameplay, but I tried to be the most conforming to a gameplay based on the devices like the 3310! As you can remember, Snake had a slowly gameplay too !

Submitted (3 edits) (+1)

OK, I'm going to have to complain here, because I don't understand what's going on and I feel like I should understand, because I like the idea of this game. Factory-style games are fun, and I thought I understood the concept here; the switches enable "converters" that turn one type of shape into another, and the goal is that we only collect the desired shape(s) at the end. But I don't understand two things: how do you know what the desired shape is, and what do you do with shapes that can't be converted?

Below is a screenshot from the game I've just played. My understanding of this is that machine number 1, the leftmost machine, converts a hollow "teardrop" into a hollow oval; machine 2 converts a hollow rectangle into a hollow oval; machine 6 converts a filled rectangle into a hollow rectangle; etc. This all makes sense. It is possible that the shape in the bottom left, a filled "triangle", is meant to be the shape that we create. But... none of the machines create this shape! And the first shape that's come from the conveyor belt is a filled oval, and none of the machines convert from this shape! I figured that, for example, machine 2 might convert filled oval to hollow teardrop, and machine 4 might convert hollow teardrop to filled triangle, and so I'd need to turn on switches 2 and 4 to "handle" the filled oval... but that's not the case. And if the filled oval gets to the end of the conveyor, one of the 3 dots on the right disappears because I've got one strike. So... I don't understand what to do.

This feels like me being stupid and missing something obvious, so I'll be happy to hold off rating this game until I understand it better, and perhaps the instructions on the page are tweaked so that other people also understand it better. (It's possible that everyone else gets it and I don't, of course!)

Developer

Hi Stuart, and thank you for your feedback! You are totally right, I need to improve the UX of my game, expectially providing a better explanation of the rules. 

All the mechanics are well implemented , letting the player to modify every single shape in all others. To solve your dilemma, the last 2 machines ( 5 and 6 ) just fill or drain a shape, not only for the rectangles! About the desired shape, I should move the slot from left-down to another position where the player better figure out!

So thank you again, when is possibile for me, I will surely improve my game! :D