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Nice work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":637732,"author_name":"squirmonkey","author_uid":"squirmonkey","epoch":1619498515,"text":"Did I just... build a colony... inside a tooth? \n\nMy big critique would be that it feels like the threat mechanic was too harsh. Because digging increases threat, you cant dig or explore as much as I wanted. I spent a lot of time just waiting for the next brush or meal. \n\nI couldn't tell the difference between the buildings really. Once I had one each of the first two, I started winning, and then it didn't really matter what I did as long as I didn't dig too much.\n\nNeat idea, clever use of the theme!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":637761,"author_name":"FireSlash","author_uid":"fireslash","epoch":1619498650,"text":"Interesting fusion of the usual miner style and a builder\/idle game.\n\nFor some reason I spent a lot of time trying to build with m1 instead of m2, and thought the game was broken. Might just be post-LD brain drain, but once I realized m2 places everything worked as expected.\n\nThe threat mechanic isn't super well explained, I sorta felt it out but it's not super clear to me why it goes down.\n\nI would have liked to see the buildings expanded upon a bit more. For example, maybe making sugar more of a necessary resource, and buildings become more or less required to start scaling outward. In the current design I found by the time I built one of everything I just won.\n\nGraphics are cute. Overall pretty neat!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":657523,"author_name":"kel","author_uid":"kel","epoch":1619580884,"text":"art was quite nice on the eyes, and your idea is very original! nice work","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":657562,"author_name":"HCS_Hades","author_uid":"hcs-hades","epoch":1619581266,"text":"Not sure how I won but I did it haha, great art and cool idea!\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":657582,"author_name":"xxnolanxx","author_uid":"xxnolanxx","epoch":1619581404,"text":"I really liked the setting and the artwork, building a colony inside a person's mouth is just an awesome idea. The mechanics were a little fuzzy to me and it took trial and error to figure out what I was doing, and why I was dying haha, but hey, tutorials can't really be the first priority in a game made in 72 hours. Overall I thought this was a really fun idea. Good job!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":657612,"author_name":"LDJam user 238552","author_uid":"238552","epoch":1619581671,"text":"Really out of the box concept, I dig the creativity! The screen got super shaky for ~5 seconds once, is that an event that was triggered or ?? something going awry-- I wasn't sure. Fun game and neat take on the jam's theme. Well done.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":657726,"author_name":"Lifeforce","author_uid":"lifeforce","epoch":1619582684,"text":"This was great! The only problem really is having the game suddenly tell I won, the \"win\" rate grows up too fast while I wanted to keep playing (I actually played 4 or 5 times in a row trying to explore but got disappointed every time I won too fast).\nMake the game more long lasting, maybe tweaking how the victory condition works (change it to population?) and this is a winner. Also, you could implement a full view of the map once you win\/lose so you could see all the structures you built on some poor soul's cavity filled teeth.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":657836,"author_name":"nardandas","author_uid":"nardandas","epoch":1619583801,"text":"Cool game! I liked the digging bit moreso than the building, I wish there was more need to dig! The setting was really creative too!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":660626,"author_name":"Mizatorian","author_uid":"mizatorian","epoch":1619607577,"text":"Interesting concept. Felt a bit like simcity in a tooth. Good effects such as when brushing etc.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":660900,"author_name":"MatiF100","author_uid":"matif100","epoch":1619609592,"text":"Really nice game, although the end goal could be more pronounced, i had no idea what am i supposed to do, and why am i even losing if i get too much threat","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":662137,"author_name":"Eugenik","author_uid":"eugenik","epoch":1619617683,"text":"Gameplay could be faster, but I like it overall\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":665326,"author_name":"sdata","author_uid":"sdata","epoch":1619634561,"text":"I didn't get to see the Timmy's or the Office which is a little sad, but I thought the concept of creating a cavity population was fun! I think a different method to alleviate threat would be great in addition to having the win be a little harder, but overall really cool for a jam entry!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":676639,"author_name":"ssh.randy","author_uid":"ssh-randy","epoch":1619744225,"text":"Nifty game! Would be nice if we could hold down the mouse button to mine. It also felt like there was never any threats in the game? I think it could use some kind of mechanic that made the game harder, or at least something to build towards (other than just buildings to get win points), but i liked the overall concept!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld48\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/roberto-romao.itch.io\/cavity-tycoon","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"78165","g_author":"1004155","g_event":"LD48","g_eventkey":"109","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"375660","g_title":"Cavity Tycoon","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"1315","g_commentcount":"16","g_site2_node_id":"252057","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"252057","n_urlkey":"375660","n_parent":"233335","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/48\/cavity-tycoon","n_slug":"cavity-tycoon","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"4155","n_created":"1619478302","n_modified":"1778354360","n_version":"771325","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD48","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":8,"author":4155,"body":"Always wanted to venture into the Tooth industry? \n\nNow is the time! 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