Warmer by S1l3Jamal
Try to prevent the world burning from global warming
| Link | https://zeljkosi.itch.io/warmer |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/warmer |
Ratings
| Overall | 1205th | 3.053⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1231th | 2.789⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 784th | 3.211⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 71th | 4.289⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 983th | 3.263⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 448th | 3.526⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 1061th | 2.188⭐ | 18🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1134th | 3.026⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 13🗳️ | 4🗨️ |
The research cost was super high though! I'm not sure I could ever get it in time.
One small feedback:
At first I always clicked on the costs / modifier text right to the image of the building I wanna build. Maybe the whole black box should be clickable? But its just a small UX-thingy.
Congratulations for your first entry! Hope to see you in future jams too!
It's kind of sad to know that this kind of situation is inevitable.
But the game really matched the theme, the firefighting mechanic was fun and the music was cool.
I think some sounds for feedback on actions would be nice, and increase the amount of events a little, because I was playing at speed 15 (very nice to be able to increase the game speed, great idea) and even then there were almost no fires.
Research was also very expensive.
Congratulations!
Some feedback:
- For the buildings, make the whole button clickable to place instead of just the smaller image container, I didn't realize at first and thought it was bugged.
- A fire spawned on the bottom right and I couldn't click it, and I know why that is because I also use Godot and can tell you the fix. Your Label node there or whatever it is has a mouse_filter property and it needs to be set to `ignore` instead of `stop` or `pass`
The core gameplay was a bit too simple and repetative for me, there could be more thing to do than putting out fires. But I really liked the idea of a tycoon/management part of this, for sure could be further developed into a full fledged game.
ps: I could not put out the fire which spawned in new zealand below the "Building: 7/7" text
The game may be incomplete, but it's very playable and (at least for some fires) actually fun. Besides the soundtrack and graphics, already mentioned, we can also see little touches here and there, like increasing the game speed, for instance, or having a instructions page -- few games in the jam have it, and I usually struggle with anything more complicated than pressing enter or direction keys.
Congrats on your entry, see you in the next Ludum Dare! :blush: