phone home by ikado

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made by ikado for Ludum Dare 59 (JAM)

help a little astronaut send a signal home by mining and building an army of robots.

Ratings

Overall 557th 3.391⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Fun 479th 3.295⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 828th 2.283⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Theme 717th 2.955⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 289th 4⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Audio 255th 3.696⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Humor 419th 2.789⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 17🗳️ 17🗨️

Feedback

🎤 ikado
Apr 20th · 23:31 UTC
:)
dan-whiffing
Apr 21st · 00:48 UTC
Very cute graphics and nice music! Gameplay is simple, but since you kept it short, it doesn't wear out its welcome. nice job!
DecadeDecaf
Apr 21st · 01:17 UTC
Cute! The music and art made the game feel super comfy, and I loved the fake scanlines. Using the same bar for the ship's antenna progress and the mineral's health is fantastic UX design, and I like how the game lets you keep playing after you win.

I thought it was strange that you couldn't spam-buy the mining robos, but once the rate in which I was gaining minerals surpassed the rate in which I could pay for robos, it felt very satisfying. Great job!
LDJam user 342640
Apr 21st · 02:31 UTC
Nice little clicker game, reminds me a lot of Gnorp Analogue with all the dudes throwing themselves at the rock. Good job :)
oasiss
Apr 22nd · 01:15 UTC
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perfect simple fun clicker!
takhomasac
Apr 22nd · 02:37 UTC
fun take on the theme! cute graphics, nice job!
Derek Glennon
Apr 22nd · 02:43 UTC
Solid incremental/clicker game! Nice job!
Pentagrammal
Apr 22nd · 02:51 UTC
Simple, cute and understandable. That is all we need!
Pastry chef
Apr 23rd · 20:56 UTC
Hey! We made a game called "Robo phone home". Very different genre though :)
LDJam user 372231
Apr 23rd · 21:02 UTC
cute little clicker game! love the pink
Trexxak
Apr 24th · 19:48 UTC
Very comfy! Both sound-design and art-direction really click (lol)!
XeduR
Apr 25th · 10:23 UTC
I found the art style and the soundscape relaxing.

I may be too much of a min-maxer, but I found the robots to be a hindrance. The robots are fairly slow at mining and the time that it takes you to buy a robot and for it to get to mining, you could have mined significantly more if you had just kept on manually mining. For a game as short as this, I don't think the robots are actually worth buying, unless you (the player) plans on stepping away from the game.
LDJam user 423693
Apr 28th · 19:38 UTC
Awesome clicker. Very fan of the art style and it's very relaxing to look at !
automatonvx
Apr 29th · 23:12 UTC
Not the biggest fan of clickers as a gameplay mechanic, but it was a cute polished take on it. The music was nice and chill, kept me clicking till I completed my mission. If I was going to critscise I might say, maybe a bit of variation in where you have to click would help the gameplay a bit... like if the resource re-spawned in different locations or something :shrug:. Also the robots felt a bit underpowered, had to do most of the work mmyself :) . Nice
LDJam user 301295
Apr 30th · 07:04 UTC
jinx! You definitely have us beat with your moody artstyle. I have to agree that maybe the robots could be a little faster when max upgraded. Amazing how two minds with the same idea can come to such different implementations. Nice work!
GanonsSpirit
May 02nd · 05:32 UTC
It's a nice little clicker game. :)
UkuleleFury
May 02nd · 06:38 UTC
:) Love a good clicker. Cute bots, nice pixels! This was fun, thanks!
Artur Hawkwing
May 07th · 00:15 UTC
I love how you lose minerals for "mining" the astronaut -- that was a great touch! Very cool game, but got a little repetitive by the end. It felt very factorio-like in principle, and especially with a couple extra abilities it could become a super automation game.

EDIT: Wait I'm so silly that's how you build the antenna. Nice -- that explains why nothing happened when I hit 500!