I had difficulty really understanding what I was meant to do this in this game. I think the concept of building a gear box is cool but besides that and connecting it to the bell gears, I didn’t really understand what was meant to be done here. I do think your usage of gears and how they couldn’t form a locking pair was well implemented. I also didn’t really understand what the 4, 5, and 6 sprocket gears were supposed to do, I assume it had something with increasing or decreasing the speed and torque?
Suggestions/criticism:
- this game really could use a tutorial or some kind of information to let the player know how to play and what the end objective is.
- The game also does not run well on hardware and needs some improvements there to have it run more smoothly. As others have said it’s likely an issue with the physics simulations.
- Without really knowing the goal of the game I would say that it would be nice to have different levels to complete. I do think you put in a good bit of work with randomizing the levels.
- I feel that it is tedious to pick and choose each gear. Maybe there could be a level editing mode that allows the player to select what gears they want with the crank and the options could be highlighted using the bottom existing row. Once leaving editor mode the player could then turn all the gears.
Overall I would be happy to play this game in the future if the game could get some overhauls to what is currently there. I think the game you currently have shows great promise and I hope to see more from you :)