I like clicker games, so i liked this. I couldn't immediately understand which suggestions to approve, so I just approved everything at first. But it made sense after I finally questioned what was going on with the window in the background. Also, great use of the modifier!

Interesting entry. It’s definitely very ambitious, but it might be a bit too ambitious for the scope of the jam?

Core gameplay was a perfectly fine idle clicker game, though it was a little hard to understand in the beginning. There was this console window filling up the screen that I’m still not sure if it contained any valuable information because it was too small to comfortably read through and it took us a while to figure out how to close it. Then we mashed keyboard buttons in the main game and somehow opened up another console-type area that we again didn’t quite understand what to do with. I think a more streamlined UI would help for new players to get into the game.

I have to admit I didn’t really bother digging into the meta development part of the game. I did open up the config file and the documentation and it does seem like a neat idea (kinda reminded of TIS-100), but when trying to play over thirty games in a week, I just didn’t feel like I had the time to try to make sense of a deliberately bad documentation, especially since I have to do enough of that stuff at work 😅

Graphics were generally nicely SBIG, we especially enjoyed the manager sprite!

Overall, a fascinating and ambitious entry, but maybe the entry barrier is a little too high for the scope of this jam.

This was an interesting one, I played a lot of game dev tycoon so right off the bat I like the games premise, the graphics are all perfectly amateur or cursed courtesy of the AI, and of course the soundtrack!

The meta aspect of it is really cool from a technical perspective! Though admittedly the documentation started to give me a headache, not because it involved reading, but because it gave me flashbacks to some really annoying experiences from work and university.

It feels like a perfect in-joke for people involved in more technical aspects of development, but I think I see now why some people got spooked off by it.

Which is a shame, because the game itself is really neat! Being able to modify all the values and name your company and game was fun. I made sure those 40 developers getting paid $1/hour were putting their heart and soul into Shattered!

I think the only thing I would've preferred changed is if instead of just clicking on the keyboard you could just literally mash on the keyboard to increase productivity.

Overall though I liked it!

Felt like more of a developer playing this than when I actually develop games lmao. I had trouble reading the documentation, but since I have no idea if that's a real issue or just me being incompetent i'm just gonna assume it's the latter. 

Okay wow! This was quite an experience!

First off from my perspective, I love the development type game concept and all it has to offer. I'm pretty sure Game Dev Tycoon  is one of my most played games on steam (344.2 hours, and that doesn't even include the time I spent on the windows store version 😂) And you know I modded the hell out of that game to add as many game topics, consoles, and extra features as possible!

First I tried  playing the game "Vanilla" so to speak, and it was a very enjoyable experience.  I kinda found at first that just spamming the keyboard and accepting every single idea seems to be an effective money-making strategy for better or for worse 😅 even though you know I *should* have been looking at the upstream. I make the game it's my rules 😛

The music player was hilarious. Unfortunately for me the main thing in my  Music folder (Besides some trumpet backing tracks) is my "Crap Bin" folder full of audio recordings that were never meant to see the light of day. I was instantly greeted by old acapella audition tapes of me, some weird songs that I had made up but then scrapped as they were terrible, and (unfortunately) a lot of blank audio files that I have on my computer for *reasons*.   suffice to say drowning the  sound out with lots of employees clacking away was very welcome 😂

Anyway  I tried hooking my own music up. Was a bit of a problem as my actual music folders are a weird mashup of symbolic links and old windows installs. I eventually managed to get the only album I had (A collection of Beatles singles) onto the game by moving it to G:\\mp3.  That was beautiful and I loved to hear it. 

I tried messing around with some parameters. I think this concept would work really well for a game that has much more wackier parameters (for example  if it was a game that spawn janky physics objects  it would be so funny if you could just turn it up mega high and make your PC slow to  a crawl  😅 Though I wonder whether  it was the right fit for this sorta game, where the parameters are a lot more *boring*. I think even just having some *weird* parameters might have helped ("Add geese", or something idk 😅) as that would give the player some more of an instant gratification for taking the time to mess around with the json files, rather than the more nuanced aspect of adjusting the simulation parameters.

Eventually I landed on making the suggestion rate 0 (which caused some division errors but hey), and making sure my company would never gain or lose money, and hiring no employees. That way there was no additional noise or interruption, and I had the perfect music player to listen to my Beatles Album in peace.

In the end I got a score  of  1E+17 . Haters say  I just edited the persist.json file but that's just a skill issue on their part. Thanks so much for submitting and well done!

I am a little confused. How do I know what suggestions I should accept and how do I increase my money