Very ambitious game, sort of like 3 mini-games in one, but you adhered to the theme very well! I thought doing all the instructions through cell phones was a fun touch too. All of the illustrations were pretty cute and I think you did a great job on them. My main criticism is that the different scenarios to the game had wildly different difficulties to them. Putting out the fires was difficult and somewhat confusing but I got it eventually. Creating the vaccine I felt was actually far too simple (even more simple than in my game 😆) but then the scenario with the riot police I literally could not find a way past. I don't actually know if there's more to it, but I felt like I tried every combination of buttons during that scenario and it all ended the same. If you could find a way to make the difficulty more consistent between scenarios I think it would help the game tremendously as a whole. As a minor criticism I also think the music loop is too short, its nice and fun for a while but by the time you're at the riots it starts to become annoying.
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Woah! Thanks so much for the feedback, really helps a small developer like me :)
Ah yea the final stage was actually meant to always show a bad ending. I purposely put the next button even in the losing scenes ;)
So at the start I introduced that the ending will be rigid as the future is hard to change. The first two had a way to be beaten but thats because I felt bad hehe :P
I also realised I could have explained the minigames a little better as the wildfires level isn't supposed to be too confusing. I'm not very good at level design, I'll try to learn to balance the game a little more :D
I'll work on the music! My music theory and stuff is trash so I only managed to make the looping music.
Anyways, thanks for trying my game out!