Incredible game! One of the best in the jam! This feels really polished and relaxing and the short games makes me be able to play it multiple times without getting bored. I played 2 times and got 21 citizens on my second go! My only feedback is that maybe the farms should give a bit more food, because it felt like i had to focus only on food, and not on expanding the city, but maybe if i had a better strategy i would have done better. I dont know. Truly Incredible game!
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thank you for the awesome feedback! We actually had it give more food at first, but i tuned it down a slight amount to balance things out. Does not seem like it, but a single extra food point allowed me during playtesting to get about 1.5x time the amount of citizens! I wanted to force the player to actually focus on food a little bit more and need to pick up a strategy in order to both gain resources and have enough food, either by cheating the days with a bed, at the cost of having less time to build your island, or sacrifice food to get more resources. I designed the gains and number of humans per areas to let the player play the way they prefer rather than force them a particular path (: It needs some work, but I wanted to give a go at giving freedom to the player a bit more than my other previous games!
There is still a lot of work that could be done to make it more variable, like making different food structures to build like a fishing area or hunting grounds, to change up things a little or maybe give some professions to areas and make a little level up system that gives you more resources. Plenty of ideas (: Will take your criticism to heart if I decide to expand on it!