itch.io

when i unlocked the essence thing... the game froze... just completely froze.

i had to refresh the whole page.

omfg.

lol. forgot about you entirely. such a laugh to come back here and be reminded that some random weeb (likely fat with very pasty skin and a neckbeard who is definitely under 6' tall.. probably a lot under.. and definitely overweight is so unhappy with his life that he's raging at me.. over something that he started in the first place lolol

in fact i'm guessing from your low test demeanor that you prefer "they/them" ROFLROFLROFLROFL

feels pretty terrible. you move towards arrows.. but they jump around before you ever reach any enemy.. just feels janky and broken.

i'm starting to wonder if you're just a nice guy. you can see how much i enjoy how pissed off you are and how easy you are to bully and tweak into little outburst responses.

if that's the case then you are genuinely a cool person.

but we both know it's not. hahahaha

i wishlisted it. mainly cuz of the sound design. crisp and consistent. can't put my finger on why i like it. and i doubt you are aware of it either. probably just random luck on your part.

either way, it made the game enjoyable.

i'd say the biggest problem is the voice that is supposed to be tutorializing you talks in lore/story/setting terms when it should be explaining.. how to do something. like.. how you decode the glyph. do i want to make the whole noise thing brown or blue? or something else? how? why does "decode glyph" seem to just end the level or w/e and start a new one.

i generally dislike tutorials.. but if you're going to have one.. at least have it teach you stuff instead of just talking in story beats.

lmao i just came back to itch to play a few new prototypes and saw the little "1" in the corner and was like "oh ya that unhinged pissed off smoothbrain dev who is obsessed with me might still be raging" hahahahahaha

thank you for being entertaining af (in the saddest way possible)

lmao i ticked a nerve in you and now you're sputtering.

we laughed our asses off at the little weeb.

Ooh lol. I know you. I'm going to expose you on /r/incremental_games and on our Discord as an angry little ragebro

Lol. So you have an inferiority complex about really smart people like me. I got you to *jerk* out that rage response so easily haha

that is my preferred way as well and I think it's the better way. the notion of "runs" is cute. but when it's tacked on to just *make* it that way.. then it feels arbitrary.

Yeah well my brain works fine and is very fast (IMO gold, memory olympiads, etc.)

And my point isn't that the timer makes anything difficult.

It's just stupid and unnecessary.

what exactly were you thinking making the tab opener so much more expensive than the tab closer...?

As I've said on many of the other 1000 games that have come out in the past year with this exact formula:

if you got rid of the timer, the game would be better.. and all that would change is that an annoying factor that does nothing whatsoever but annoy the player would be gone.

period.

i clicked reply to reply to a comment here. it reloaded the page. because itch.io is terrible. i lost all progress. nah. i was at 950 million with everything maxed and i was NOT getting any streaks for several minutes.

thumbs down.

there are a million games in this specific genre.

not a single one of them wouldn't be improved if the dumb timer/fuel/energy mechanic was kicked.

if your entire tutorial was just a message box saying what you just said, right here, your tutorial would be 1000% better, more useful, more worth reading.

uh.. the tutorial is very long and explains absolutely nothing about what is actually going on or what the game actually is...

i generally dislike tutorials very very much so i appreciate that you let us skip it. but in this case the only reason i skipped it is because i could see it was utterly missing the mark anyway.

to be 100% clear.. and i want this to be helpful for you: the tutorial absolutely launches assuming the player understands what the game is about, what is going on, and the *type* of game it is. and i don't mean "incremental" i mean things like that it's a turn-based game.

it assumes the player knows absolutely everything important and then teaches them some mundane low level nonsense things.

it's not a tweak you need to do to fix it. you need to toss the tutorial completely, which you won't do because of sunk-cost fallacy (i know scripting out a tutorial is a pain. i've done it. a dozen times.. on games much bigger than this.) and then redo it. completely. which you won't. and i don't blame you.

better luck on your next game, sir.

i tried this game again. hoping you'd fixed the design flaw where you reset all poxel upgrades when a new stage is unlocked.

nope :( :(

really kills the fun having the whole field start populated with a ton of stuff. that's not how you make an incremental game.

should be empty and you build your first thing and dick around with it until you save up enough to build another thing which increases your income, etc. etc.

my water producer wasn't broken... and i had power... and it was empty and not producing water. i died from that.

this is amazingly solid. great work

is there a way to deconstruct?

you said that 8 days ago. i just had it happen to me.

you won't get another play by me on any game you make in the future.

'r' is far too weak

rolling not stopping on its own may be "realistic" but feels wrong

the invisible walls around the play area are infuriating. lots of stuff you want to grab, constantly just out of reach.

you claimed every repair will add benefits. just increasing your max carrying capacity is not "benefits" when your o2 is still the limiting factor.

all in all, this game is impressive, technically, but you made design decisions, consciously, that should have been made very differently.

we? you are one person. it's very weird to refer to yourself as "we"

we'll see. i'll give it an actual shot now and then submit my feedback to the dev-judgment committee.. i warn you though you may be awarded a seat on the committee but not recognized as a dev-who-desperately-doesn't-want-everyone-to-pass-on-their-game-instantly.

why uh.. why does loading the game blast you with 100 tutorials on screen at once.

what in the dev-who-desperately-wants-everyone-to-pass-on-their-game-instantly is this?

lol you can just accidentally click an x... right by a ship and delete one of your cannons with no refund. awesome!

all in all, great aesthetic. decent idea. execution needs major work.

above all, i hate the way the cannons shoot. half the time you look at them and their firing animation isn't in sync with the projectile. or anywhere close. the other half time they're shaking like they're shooting and nothing is coming out.

also why do they shoot in such dumb directions? sometimes top or bottom ones shoot right out of the map completely.

funny. but why does retiring not stop the calls?

this was very good. i approve. and my approval means far more than the combined feedback of everyone else.

trust me on that, kid.

lol except it definitely doesn't.

You don't think you're being insanely toxic to me right now? We both know that you simply screwed up and weren't thinking about it correctly when you made the currency "watts"

How would one collect a "watt"? Given that a watt is just a measure of a joule per second?

You're too deep (in your mind) and can't just fix it, so instead of just saying something like, "oh I screwed up, just like the SPACEPLAN guy did and it's too late for me to change it but it'll just have to remain as a kind of gag/joke/whatever"

No one would think anything of that.

But that's not how you approached it. You went the toxic/gaslight/intellectually-dishonest route and doubled down.

So it's you who's being extremely toxic, not me.

Btw I'm an editor @ IGR (indie game reviewer) and I'm the one always trying to funnel incremental games onto our front page. Was planning on trying to do so here since the metroidvania/platformer formula applied to an incremental was innovative.

But just to be clear you're going to take a troll stance and push back on the watts thing that I pointed out?

That would be beyond embarrassing.

Wow you guys are actually uneducated af. A Watt us a unit of power and a Joule is a unit of energy.

Wow you guys are actually uneducated af. A Watt us a unit of power and a Joule is a unit of energy.

Wow you guys are actually uneducated af. A Watt us a unit of power and a Joule is a unit of energy.

oh my christ. i refreshed and made three train tracks and added trains to them until i have 6 trains and that didn't trip the "have 5 trains" requirement for hubs.

i'm sorry but this is impressively bad. nothing about it makes sense or is fun or playable whatsoever.

kids should not be allowed to vibe code with LLM's.

not being able to delete nodes makes this so unplayable and dumb.

and if the intersection needs to be a node... then how is that possible when a node that's already created.. can't be clicked again.

there is no way to place hubs.

this is terrible.