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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Style | #14 | 4.733 | 4.733 |
| Enjoyment | #16 | 4.400 | 4.400 |
| Overall | #35 | 4.367 | 4.367 |
| Creativity | #575 | 3.967 | 3.967 |
Ranked from 30 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
You build up a town and scale it up into a city.
Development Time
96 hours
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Pacific Ocean.flac by tim.kahn -- https://freesound.org/s/174763/ -- License: Attribution 4.0
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I was pleasantly surprised by the dynamic music as you zoom in and out--that's such a nice touch!
It’s really cute. I always love the vibe of games that let me just sit down and build something nice looking, and this game is no exception.
The artstyle of this game is probably on my top 5 from this jam. The visuals match the gameplay pretty well...it's overall a pretty solid game :^)
A very fun clicker. Really solid atmosphere, very chill, very serene. Spammed farms everywhere. Enjoyed slowly building up and out. Well done! :D
pretty cool idea! building plattforms seems to be a bit inconvenient (it would be nice to extend the extisting ones somehow), but I guess that is intended. It would be helpful to see the current quests somewhere. The music and artstyle fits the game pretty well, and the rewind feature is cool as well. Good job!
Very cozy and relaxing. Spent a lot of time building monstrosities, my monstrosities. Great job.
This is a masterpiece. I liked it so much that I'm even stalking your team. On my god.
Thanks for the kind words! I put links to our respective portfolios on the game page for your
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Amazing art. Building the houses is very relaxing. A very good, cozy game—well done!
Installing this game on my pc is very worth it just from the visual aspect on it. The experience of creating is very calming and I love the music design. Man, this game would be interesting to be expanded more after the jam. Awesome on job on this monumental game! :D
the style is so lovely and cozy! Well done!
Well done! I don't know why, but I was expecting this to be a stressful kinda game from the screenshots where time was running out or something. But no, I really loved the cozy vibe. I am super excited to see what's in store for this project, you guys should definitely keep working on it!
I especially liked the way that the prices for different buildings incentivised building something a little more aesthetic. No matter how much I tried to optimize my stack, I always found myself needing to add gardens and decor to the mix. There's something really special there.
Also the music was super good too! And the art, the pacing and tutorial. 👏
Side note: I don't know if I did something wrong, but when I ran the game from itch it started me in a debug mode.
Oh! I think know why it puts you in debug mode. That's uhhhh... Not good. I'll fix that in the post jam.
I have a "run with debug mode.bat" file next to the game exe and I guess itch is choosing to run that in favor of the exe.
This is visually stunning and I love the concept of the game and gameplay itself. Very talented and well thought out take on the theme. You deserve more ratings! Congrats.
What a vibe. This game feels like a summer day in the shade with a glass of lemonade. Beautiful art and music, Relaxing yet engaging gameplay, good progression and balance. Would love to see what this looks like expanded into a full game. Also a delete button.
Here's my city btw (I'm bad at building so it's not very pretty):
Ahh, this was lovely. Wonderful music and sound design; I really loved that the soundtrack changes when you scroll in and out! I feel like I could lose myself in this for hours... :) It was cool how the buildings changed shape every now and then (such as gardens having a different-shaped 'tree' variant) so you have to think about how to fit it in. I'm bad at Tetris, so I wasn't the best at this, but being able to take it one step at a time helped a lot!
Gorgeous all around! As others have said, the UI is a little lacking and probably could have been made to fit the game's theming better, but for a game jam there's only so much you can do, so it's understandable :) Save files would be great, too!
- Kit
Thanks so much for the kind words! Quarkimo (our composer) will be so happy to hear that you noticed the changing soundtrack :)
I deliberately made the game very forgiving so even if you're "bad at Tetris" you're not "bad" at this game because there's no incorrect way to play.
Man it's just incredible that people can make something so clean in only 4 days. It all looked so good I honestly would love just a sandbox mode where I can (at least act like I) become a true artist.
Music, gameplay, teaching of mechanics all great. One of my favourites so far for sure, and this type of game isn't one I usually enjoy (I find management of resources can be tiring for me, but I never felt that here). I hope you continue development after the jam. A little more depth and variation is all that's really needed to fully release!
We sort of have a sandbox mode in the post-game after you build the Monument, because you get every resource for free in infinite abundance. For the post-jam I might add a proper "sandbox" mode where you have total free reign to build whatever you want from the very beginning.
EXCEPTIONNAL GAME ! My favorite so far ! I love that it's very chill, without any form of pressure. Amazing !
Here's my city !
Thanks so much!
You're the first person to post a screenshot! I like that you made room at the bottom for the monument.
Man, that's so good!
It's an awesome idea for the jam, plus all the little touches and variations in the buildings make it so interesting to play (and easy to develop a nice feeling of ownership over one's own city, even when I cursed at the buildings that didn't allow a full flower pot row hahaha). Really well done!
Stay funky,
Dez
Lovely aesthetics, only one music yet it's fits perfectly well and doesn't get boring, quite a lot of buildings to play with (although some could use a few more variants, like when I place two Commerces next to each other they both look the same)... Honestly with a bit more stuff (like save files and more buildings/buildings looks) I could actually buy this on Steam for a few bucks. Loved every second spent on this one 👏
Thanks! For what it's worth there are actually 3 music tracks (3 variants of the same track) that change as you zoom in and out.
I meant that besides this "main" song there isn't anything else, but it is true, that was actually a nice detail now that I think of it, especially for a 96h time limit
Very Good! Cool Idea and just awesome execution!