I think this game was just way too buggy? and it wasn't easy to understand the UI. I liked the design of all the characters, i thought they were pretty cute, especially with the wide range of guys you could get. But the camera controls didn't work at all for me, and I didn't understand the resource management. You could set characters to either Workstation or Resource, but even when all of them were set to Resource it didn't seem like any of my resources were going up? I also couldn't access the last 3 or 4 characters I unlocked as it seemed the UI didn't like having that many characters on screen. It also seemed like some of the characters just didn't do anything - no matter how many times i clicked on their portrait, no option to give them a job to do popped up. I did manage to unlock all of the characters, I'm just unsure How.
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Thanks for the feedback! The character portraits should scroll if you drag them up or down. Some of the characters don't have jobs and only attend the table which gives you more xp for cooking for them.
When a character is set to get resources they should move to the castle entrance and then back to their station which then adds the resource. If they are not it's likely they are waiting at the table to be served.
I think the issue with the camera is that it might be locked when following a character and unlocked not following, it becomes unlocked when you pan the camera with space and left mouse button like in a paint app.
Apologies for the bugs you've encountered. I worked on the game solo and have already fixed 4 or 5 of them including ones you've mentioned, pending next update once the jam is over :]
I appreciate the feedback