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Managed to get to 100 population before a river decided to spawn directly next to the city centre (either that or the dam I enclosed it in failed) :smile: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":805820,"author_name":"Sn4pi","author_uid":"sn4pi","epoch":1649279429,"text":"Nice concept! At first I thought, easy game I just build a dam around my center and that's it. The soundtrack is goot and the communication of what's happening or what the user can do, is well done.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":820066,"author_name":"jell.0o","author_uid":"jell-0o","epoch":1649531804,"text":"Really interesting! it could do with a bit of balancing, but aside from that great game!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":820084,"author_name":"Rainsong","author_uid":"rainsong","epoch":1649532134,"text":"Great use of the theme, and nice smooth mechanics. The music is a hilarious contrasting with the theme. Nicely done.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":820097,"author_name":"BjornStahl","author_uid":"bjornstahl","epoch":1649532380,"text":"Well done, you manaaged a complete game with nice visuals and sound. Props for a settings menu and localisation. The gameplay was challenging, it didn't help playing the game on a laptop mousepad. One idea would be to have rivers stop growing if they enter an already existing river, perhaps making that river grow twice as fast as if the  water flow is added together.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":820098,"author_name":"mharring","author_uid":"mharring","epoch":1649532393,"text":"Great implementation of the theme. It was pretty challenging, but in a good way. I do wish you could hold the mouse button down to place dams. I lost a few times because I couldn't left-click fast enough and being able to hold down the button would have helped.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":828834,"author_name":"Team Choo Choo","author_uid":"team-choo-choo","epoch":1649889039,"text":"pretty neat gg\nworks well\nid argue it's a bit limited\nalso the option to delete stuff would have helped\nlike dams you misplaced lol\ni found out dams can break eventually\nthat's sad ^^#\nneat little game you got there tho\nwell done :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":835511,"author_name":"schwede","author_uid":"schwede","epoch":1650494802,"text":"This is a harmonic, sympathetic and clean game! With some more tweaks and features, then this game would receive a really nice depth.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":835856,"author_name":"Link270","author_uid":"link270","epoch":1650523469,"text":"Cool game! I liked the idea, I wasn't sure what the bridges were for exactly, but I survived for a while until a random river decided to go crazy and destroy me. haha well done!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":835857,"author_name":"Tanner Shelton","author_uid":"tanner-shelton","epoch":1650523487,"text":"I enjoyed the gamplay! It was fun, especially when I was able to get going. I do feel like there was a bit of RNG where it all depended on where I placed my building first. So some runs would end right away just because of bad placement. I also soft locked myself by buying dams first.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":835880,"author_name":"Mortiss","author_uid":"mortiss","epoch":1650525186,"text":"Would love to see this idea evolving into a water-managing city-builder, I really liked it!\nIt's not enough to stop the water with dams, right? You need to direct its flow somewhere or your dams will fall down. The water always finds a way, that's true. 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