The art style is really neat, I know you didn't create the art but you chose it and put it together and in the context of the game it fits really well.
The main mechanic is intuitive, I'd suggest not using the zoom though. It feels a bit odd having to zoom out to see the level. I think the camera could just pan around as you move the aggregator.
Cool game, congrats on submitting!
Thank you for the compliments. About the art, I wrote the shaders to basically create the look you see. My colleague designed the level, and selected the models from some basic Kenney town packs that looked good just outlined. I generally try and create something new as a visualization each jam I participate in.
The zoom and camera positions is something we iterated a bunch and couldn’t solve all issues we had with other approaches, so we defaulted to something which would give us less problems overall. Some resolutions were behaving oddly with farther zoom levels (mostly my fault on the shader writing). And the camera panning, we thought about following the aggregator, but it was awkward when you wanted to click around too fast, since you want to focus on your main crowd. We were planning on following the midpoint of the aggregator and the crowd center of mass, maybe that works, but didn’t get to test it.
Houses are this set: https://www.kenney.nl/assets/city-kit-suburban
and people are this one: https://www.kenney.nl/assets/blocky-characters
