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Nuclear Routine by maxds98

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made by maxds98 for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

Nuclear Routine

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Description 📖

You will operate unstable nuclear station. Control water, heat, steam and power level to successfully pass first day on job.

HOW TO PLAY 🎮

  • Rotate valve to fill water tank. Water will cool reactor and generate steam.
  • Move cooling rods down to decrease and up to increase reactor temperature.
  • Keep temperature and water level high to generate steam. Steam used to produce power.
  • Try to keep power level more than zero

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If Temperature or Steam level will be maximum for 10 seconds reactor will explode. Also if power level will be 0 for 10 seconds you will lose too.

Screenshot2.png ezgif.com-gif-maker.gif Tutor 4.gif Tutor 11.gif

Credits

Vasilev Alexey - Graphics - Amolker

Maksim Dolnik - Code & Sounds - Maxds

Yury Kakareka - Code Bugord

Link https://bugord.itch.io/nuclear-routine
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/nuclear-routine

Ratings

Overall 47th 4.241⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Fun 187th 3.944⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 133th 3.963⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Theme 46th 4.426⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 29th 4.63⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Audio 51th 4.204⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Humor 501th 3.333⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Mood 83th 4.185⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Given 69🗳️ 14🗨️

Feedback

ache games
05. Oct 2021 · 06:07 UTC
Very creative. That red light gets me into panic mode and my mind goes blank. :) I enjoyed this game. Well done!!
Amikatag
05. Oct 2021 · 07:57 UTC
Such a lovely made game. The valve was irritating)
Kitcate
05. Oct 2021 · 09:26 UTC
It was really stressful, but I enjoyed it. Well done! That's a great stress test game haha
xsangyhix
05. Oct 2021 · 09:26 UTC
I love the game, best one I played. The art, sound and mechanic really fit in together and make me feel a rush to keep everything together. The games with nuclear reactors were bound to happen with this theme : D. I was missing the possibility to fix things that broke though.
FedeOlive
05. Oct 2021 · 09:32 UTC
Very good game. It is a bit complicated to understand at first but you can understand it after dying 4/5 times.
very well.
🎤 maxds98
05. Oct 2021 · 09:34 UTC
@fedeolive As in Souls-like games ;)
Dumrum
05. Oct 2021 · 09:39 UTC
Very well done! :)
It feels very polished
I like how you have to operate in the dark when there is no power and how the alarm really pressures one. Also the events that happen in the reactor are a cool feature

The buzzing sound in the tutorial felt a little annoying, but that's really the only thing I didn't like :)
Martta
05. Oct 2021 · 09:46 UTC
Good game, at first it was very difficult to understand what is going on, but after 10 retries I managed to get the hang of it and I was able to finish the game. Once I understood that you can fix the water valve, the game became much easier. :) Very nice audio and graphics.
Bugord
05. Oct 2021 · 10:44 UTC
@martta Thanks for feedback! Added some gifs in description, hopefully it will help new players 😋
Martta
05. Oct 2021 · 10:56 UTC
@Bugord those .gifs are actually very helpful! I think also major confusion for the first few playthrougs was for me why the water was not flowing even after I had opened the water valve multiple times already. Now the water valve is actually working like a manually operated water pump. Maybe indicate more clearly that you actually need to manually pump the water, or maybe the valve would rotate immidiately back to closed state after you have opened it. (of course the jam already ended, but if you are making some updates after the jam)

Btw. check out our game Morning After also. :)
zimny11
05. Oct 2021 · 15:26 UTC
Well that was fun to play!

I like everything about the game: whole concept, art style, light and sound effects, the in-game mechanics...

Great job!
necauqua
05. Oct 2021 · 19:07 UTC
Jesus it's hard to play :) Or maybe it's my monkey brain shutting off when I hear the alarm sound.

The art is just gorgeous, holy hell I loved the art. And theme interpretation is really cool and on point
LDJam user 246128
05. Oct 2021 · 20:00 UTC
Extremely well done and fun to play.

Loved how it was progressively harder, with various events unfolding.
Anatoly Dyatlov
05. Oct 2021 · 20:16 UTC
Really nice game, I think it would be great idea to make cooling rods control panel more bigger because it's not very convenient to play using the touch screen. Also, I think it could be successful on mobile platforms.
🎤 maxds98
05. Oct 2021 · 20:47 UTC
@anatoly-dyatlov Thanks for your feedback. It could be successful on mobile platforms in some parallel reality where hyper-casual games are not invented XD
popertots
06. Oct 2021 · 20:55 UTC
This need to be higher rated. Attention to detail is spectacular. 10/10
JUSTCAMH
07. Oct 2021 · 00:10 UTC
Awesome game! Like everyone else, it took a few tries, but with enough re-reads of the tutorial, got it eventually. I came here by recommendation, and I was not let down, very fun!
vizitas
07. Oct 2021 · 21:57 UTC
Really nice game, so much fun. Really felt like a nuclear reactor operator in soviet union :D
ThatANoNoWord
08. Oct 2021 · 11:42 UTC
The presentation of the game is very nice. Absolutely beautiful artwork, with the pieces being satisfying to use. The game is hard to understand, though. The heating rods felt oddly useless. I also wasn't sure why I didn;t make electricity at times. Great game, a bit complicated though.
potkirland
08. Oct 2021 · 19:00 UTC
i loved the visuals but it was overwhelming too fast and too many controls maybe if they were mapped to keyboard / sorry if it already is but i couldnt figure that out.. it might have been controllable but it was way too fast to lose for me good job anyway it was well put toghether
Yohsk13
09. Oct 2021 · 11:56 UTC
Nicely done. I had to lose 1 or two time before understanding that you can drag and drop the valve to repair it (^^") )
A bit stressfull needy game :p
Well done.
Purrseus
09. Oct 2021 · 12:43 UTC
Oh man, I actually beat it, but sooo close! My heart is still pounding! Amazing job!

This game is lovely, the presentation is top notch and everything just falls into place. The insctructions are really clear, yet you still need several tries until you even have a chance of surviving for longer than a few minutes. And if you do you feel infinitely mighty! You have distilled the essence of every skill based game into just a few minutes! Love :heart:
Johnsensei
09. Oct 2021 · 15:25 UTC
Thanks for having such a detailed tutorial.
Dogez
09. Oct 2021 · 19:52 UTC
The gameplay of your game is insanely fun. And a valve that falls out all the time and needs to be caught is such a brilliant find! Very cool work with lighting, which is combined with pixel art. 😊

But, unfortunately, I still do not understand how the squares in the center work. Although, maybe I'm a little dumb 😐
Lychee
09. Oct 2021 · 21:15 UTC
I really liked the mood of the game, the combination of graphics and audio really made it feel tense when things are going wrong. Game felt very polished overall too. My only suggestion would be a slower ramp-up of mechanics, like where you only start with 2 controls and slowly work up to the final number since it was a lot to figure out all at once. Great job overall!
arron-fowler
17. Oct 2021 · 18:58 UTC
I will start my stream about 9pm Uk time. Hope to see you there. https://www.twitch.tv/thesoulselector