Second game I've played based on "Squirrel Plan". Let's see you take on that comic. :)
I hope you eventually update the game to include the information that's in the description--there's a lot of important stuff in there. . .
Does the eraser work? I tried using it, but it wouldn't, well, erase anything. I see this is an issue for other commenters as well. Another issue I had that other commenters also had: it's not clear that the squirrel needs to be placed on the ground. I thought the squirrel-placing-button was broken until I skimmed the comments.
I have no idea why, but when I did the tutorial ship (squirrel, balloon, tie string to squirrel), the game basically exploded with squirrels on balloons, which is where this screenshot comes from:
Sooooo . . . yeah. No idea what the issue is there. I still got a lot of research from it though, and was able to invest in more materials.
I invested in wood (why can you only put down 3 planks of wood at a time?), and then this happened.
The game keeps exploding. It is my browser (Chrome)? Is it a glitch?
Read the comments again, and it turns out I have to put the balloon more than 1 tile above the squirrel. Ok?
Luckily, this worked. Phew.
However, upon finally getting a balloon squirrel in the sky without exploding the screen, I noticed that the RP goes up very slowly. ~1 RP for every 5 miles (which drains away when the balloon breaks and the squirrel falls to the ground)--but I got 122 RP for glitching the game (twice) for a short amount of time.
The intentional optimal way to play may be (at least in the early stages) to break the game for high RP. I'm sure that's not what you intended, but. Well, here we are.
I'm sure the way to play this game is to create interesting ships and experiment with them. But when the ship tools are locked behind a slow unlock method, and building those ships is somewhat too challenging in and of itself (how do you put the wood together to make a structure?), then I can't exactly do that.
From what I've played, this is an interesting game with slow progression as squirrels are sent into the sky for the sake of nuts. But getting that progression is pretty slow (if played the normal way, I have to send a balloon squirrel in the air 5-7 times in order to unlock wood), and there's a glitch to get it a better way that needs to be fixed. Also there's no music or sound effects, which really would've enhanced this game.
I'd like to see an updated version of this. As it stands, this game is ok.