It is rainy by DeltaMain
"It is rainy" - is a small meditative game made for Ludum Dare 49.
You got your place at meteorology station. Predict weather and try not to lose your work.
In this game you can: - Measure some useless data - Click random boxes on your PC desktop - Sleep - Be departed
Your room

Measuring atmospheric pressure

Sending meteodata

Night atmosphere

| Link | https://evilgeniusalpha.itch.io/it-is-rainy |
| Link | https://github.com/SergeyFeduk/LD49 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/it-is-rainy |
Ratings
| Overall | 1133th | 3.22⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1436th | 2.6⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 572th | 3.48⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1337th | 2.76⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 611th | 3.75⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 955th | 2.48⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 1127th | 2.271⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 243th | 3.9⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 27🗳️ | 35🗨️ |
I feel like the minigames for collecting the data are just too hard to actually get right. I also thing an ambient rain sound would have gone a long way in terms of mood.
The atmosphere was great and like others have also pointed out, I did enjoy the little interactions you added, like the light switches.
Oh, and PS. Don't have screeching audio at the start. Some of us have headphones! :sweat_smile:
I also agree with the others that some rain sound would have fit perfectly. Rain always has this very soothing atmosphere, which would fit this game absolutely perfectly. The minigames were pretty tricky, but I think that was okay. The only thing is that I did not really see the connection to the theme, but that is alright as well.
Great little experience! I enjoyed it :D
When it comes to the ideas for improvement - I would welcome some random events happening to make the game even more interesting. And it would be cool to be able to switch between more input fields with Tab. But that's really nitpicking.
I read the manual and sort of understand the weather gathering tools. I entered the data on the computer and nothing seemed to happen (also no feedback on whether I am right or wrong).
I clicked on the bed and now everything is dark and my mouse is basically invisible, but the game seems to still be going. Am I just supposed to wait in the dark? Seems like a long wait.
In the morning I was able to see my mouse and see a light switch, so I guess I can have light at night. But there still didnt seem to be much to do.
For barotron I got around 4 CPS and I guess the two blue bars grew at similar speeds so I entered 750 every time.
After the second day I seemed to receive an email saying that I did as well as I normally do on average. And then it gave me some numbers for what look like either actual values or how close I was, since some of them are negative.
If I go afk for a bit while waiting for night to end, I suppose I might accidentally miss a day and not know whether or not I already reported the weather for the current day.
It's an interesting game idea, I would just like to wait much less time between days so that I can do more weather forecasting.