I love this game a lot, its a ton of fun to play through and I am excited to get it when it fully releases on steam.
A bit of a quality of life thing I'd love to see is some sort of description of the differences between terms like adjacent and neighboring. Or if not a description maybe show the areas that a certain building will affect. As of right now I find it confusing as to what the differences exactly are
(if I missed a place where it was explained, then thats my bad ^^")
Hey, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I've got a bunch of improvements planned for the Steam release. I'll be consulting with a UI artist to improve the basic theme already present and to make the effects of buildings more legible. (I've been playing a ton of Cobalt Core lately, and I think I can take some lessons from their icon language on the cards. Also, go play Cobalt Core.)
I do want to show some indication of affected buildings when you place a new building. I have code in place to do this, but I couldn't figure out a way to make it look good (with the art style's lighting). That's another place where I plan to hire someone for guidance.
As for "adjacent" vs "neighboring", they are the same thing. I thought that the most recent update changed all the "adjacent" text to "neighboring", but I very well could have missed some. The one-screen tutorial page on the title page has a pictorial representation of the different effect patterns, but it's not necessarily an obvious thing to look at.
ah ok! well I can help with the ones you might have missed.
the ones I've encountered that still say adjacent are toxic waste dump, bar, and hydroponics so I think you got the majority of them.
Cobalt Core looks like a ton of fun and I've added it to my wishlist
also if you don't already have it planned for the full release, I highly recommend an endless mode.
That's a good idea - actually hadn't considered that. Maybe you could unlock another block of 4 layers after you beat the normal game. I'd have to consider the player's ability to add more income to lower layers in the stack, but I'm pretty sure I can add 0's onto the end of the tax bill faster than the player could keep up ^.^
