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Having an objective or automatic management upgrades or both would be rad.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":713071,"author_name":"LDJam user 259103","author_uid":"259103","epoch":1633346481,"text":"Was very confusing for me at first, but a creative use of the theme!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":725511,"author_name":"Ghost20000","author_uid":"ghost20000","epoch":1633431318,"text":"@chris-dirkis yeah, the balancing definitely could have used some work.\n\nAbout the automation part, that was something I considered early on but didn't implement, decided to try to go for pure chaos instead (which would have greatly benefited from balancing). Thanks for the review!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":725530,"author_name":"Ghost20000","author_uid":"ghost20000","epoch":1633431419,"text":"@python-b5 Yeah, having a proper tutorial instead of a wall of text would have probably helped. Thanks for the review!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":726418,"author_name":"Moritz14","author_uid":"moritz14","epoch":1633436220,"text":"Wow, nice work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":726445,"author_name":"PBG","author_uid":"pbg","epoch":1633436376,"text":"I second the need for a tutorial. I was pretty confused, and I'm a chemical engineer :p . That being said, it was really cool firing up the reactor, and performance was super slick in the browser. Great visual design, and all the effects really fit together well. It also sounds great. Really nice game overall!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":726474,"author_name":"FromTheChasm","author_uid":"fromthechasm","epoch":1633436548,"text":"Considering I was accidently destroying a nuclear reactor, this was strangley relaxing. The music perhaps was putting me into a trance. I'm not quite sure I'm built to look after a reactor. \u200bI was a bit unsure what the capture rod did, but I managed to keep it cool.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":726479,"author_name":"Ashley GB","author_uid":"ashley-gb","epoch":1633436582,"text":"A neat take on the theme! I think there's some potential here in the future- balancing things out and perhaps offering a mini tutorial stage\/video would likely help. Overall great job! :smile: ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":726480,"author_name":"jeremyfa","author_uid":"jeremyfa","epoch":1633436590,"text":"I like the simple graphics and the music\/sounds. To be honest I didn't really understand what I was doing but apparently I did produce some energy? The mood is good and probably the experience would be more enjoyable if things were a bit easier to understand, like with a step by step tutorial instead of the text one (but you probably didn't have enough time for that, which is OK for a compo entry). Good job \u2622\ufe0f !","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":726508,"author_name":"Grigri Games","author_uid":"grigri-games","epoch":1633436766,"text":"Really innovating game. A Bit confusion at first, but still, well played ! Loved the look of the game as well","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":726513,"author_name":"PSV Games Studio","author_uid":"psv-games-studio","epoch":1633436789,"text":"The game is really cool! An improvement would be to make the game money more useful, because over time the money ends up being useless because each reactor requires attention not to explode, and if you buy too many reactors, it becomes impossible to operate all of them.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":726527,"author_name":"Lovor","author_uid":"lovor","epoch":1633436855,"text":"Cool game. But I don't quite understand the purpose of the game, have not scores or levels. overall nice idea, i like management games like this","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":726551,"author_name":"LazySeal","author_uid":"lazyseal","epoch":1633436974,"text":"Nice concept. As mentioned above, better (mqybe with some pictures at least) tutorial would be great. It took me about 3 runs to get the idea. (maybe i'm just not nuclear enough >_<)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":726603,"author_name":"Recessive","author_uid":"recessive","epoch":1633437252,"text":"Nice game, it just lacked purpose. After a few reactors I was lost for cause, maybe adding a \"generate this amount of neutrons in this time\" objective would be good? Otherwise plays well","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":726605,"author_name":"greenphox","author_uid":"greenphox","epoch":1633437281,"text":"I really enjoyed it! Really nice game easy to understand but really hard to master. For improvements\u2026 I think that a better tutorial would be helpful and a way to show the player the costs of every action. \n\nEdit: I just found a way to generate infinite money.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":726640,"author_name":"Ty Rymer","author_uid":"ty-rymer","epoch":1633437475,"text":"After i got how the game worked it was a lot of fun!\n![Screenshot 2021-10-05 143741.png](\/\/\/raw\/c8f\/f3\/z\/46f57.png)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":726780,"author_name":"Ludokultur","author_uid":"ludokultur","epoch":1633438078,"text":"Super creative and really fun! I think you could either keep pushing this into the frantic management direction or even turn it into a more casual idle-like game with the cool reactor visualizations. Obviously a perfect fit for the theme too! :D ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":726856,"author_name":"NicMagnier","author_uid":"nicmagnier","epoch":1633438449,"text":"It was a bit difficult to undersatnd at first, especially figuring what what we should do at first and what are the various components. But it uses very well the theme unstable because things gets out of hand pretty fast :)\nWell done!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":727578,"author_name":"Hadik","author_uid":"hadik","epoch":1633441811,"text":"Original game mechanics, I like your inovations. Not too horiblle art but next time try invest time more into art. Ohh gosh, very addictive and fun game, this is our winner guys. Average audio, it not bad but not good, try harded next time. Hmmm, somebody have very good idea for this theme, awesome. Overall nice job, I love it. \n\nOne last note: I always write down honest review, because everybody need that, not just nice craps with some bullshit, but sometime I will aperceite very good games. So if this review insult you, but use it well :) Anyway every game is counting so :)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld49\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/ghost20000.itch.io\/meltdown","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/ghost20000.itch.io\/meltdown","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/ghost20000.itch.io\/meltdown","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"79435","g_author":"1032768","g_event":"LD49","g_eventkey":"119","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"379987","g_title":"Meltdown","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"246","g_commentcount":"20","g_site2_node_id":"263847","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"263847","n_urlkey":"379987","n_parent":"258323","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/49\/meltdown-1","n_slug":"meltdown-1","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"32768","n_created":"1632998233","n_modified":"1776572775","n_version":"814932","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD49","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":3,"author":32768,"body":"![LD49-cover.png](\/\/\/raw\/000\/8\/z\/43c24.png)\n\nWelcome to **MELTDOWN**!\n\nIn this game, your job is to manage a nuclear reactor facility.\n\nYou must buy, monitor, and manage **nuclear reactors**.\n\nTo activate a reactor, you add a **nucleus** to it. 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