At the dawn of time, when suns/stars still revolved around planets to sustain living conditions, there was an an ape, whose job is to keep planets alive. You are that ape. Now, get to work.
Fun! Got up to like 15 before I started accidentally killing some of them flying past them to reach the ones on the other side.
I found it a little confusing that the colors went orange - green - red, since that made it a little hard to tell at a glance if the planet needed more sun (orange) or less (red). A different color for the orange might make this bit easier - perhaps a greenish yellow?
@sovogirl: Thanks ! :D Glad you enjoyed it! looking forward to trying your game too! the cats are adorable! @monika: Thank you for playing our game! And I agree, definitely taking in the suggestion ot change the basic dry planet to another color so that its an obvious cool to warm :D @goxua: Thanks for playing our game! and yes we're definitely lacking in that dept right now :D will beef it up with more time :D
It's a decent prototype, but lacks a lot of visual feedback, or clear visual feedback. It was kind of hard to understand the goal and how to achieve it. Pacing started out really slow and then complexity ramps up very quickly. I guessed the plusses meant a planet was doing good, because minuses clearly indicated a freezing planet, but then there was no symbol for a too hot planet, only a color and the lack of a symbol.
Also, do the planets heat and cool at different rates from eachother?
@mynameismow The point of the game is to warm the planet up, get the planet to be in the +++ state and when you do that long enough, it levels up. A new planet appears and you do the same for the new one. If you were playing the web version and nothing happens when the sun is near the planet, it's probably a bug.. :( You can try the win/macos build to see if that works for you.
@joramwolters thanks. Yep, planets at different level cool at different rates.
"The point of the game is to warm the planet up, get the planet to be in the +++ state and when you do that long enough, it levels up. A new planet appears and you do the same for the new one."
Needs to be posted somewhere prominently. I too was lost, and it was the web version, but there was nothing wrong with the web version, I just didn't know what to do, how to progress. Once I read your comment, I tried again, and it was smooth sailing. Once I figured that out, it was a nice game. Oh, and the lovely title is what brought me here. Cute graphics too. And it's an original take on the theme, which I appreciate.
This is a super innovative mechanic. Great artwork too. Even without reading your comments I was able to figure out how to play by trial and error. Nice job!
@cubeeo Yea, the intention was to let the players figure it out as they go along. I guess the hints/feedback wasn't enough to motivate them into the right direction. Thanks for taking the time to REALLY test out the game.
The art and gameplay are great, but I could never manage to keep them all at a good temperature so then one old planet after another cooled down (except for the first planet which never cooled down) and I lost.
I thought this was a really cool concept (plus the art was nice). I couldn't make the rope shorter or longer, might be related to my laptop layout, "weird keys" sometimes don't work on all computers.
Really interesting concept that ties in well with the theme, but some parts were a bit unclear (the numbers on the planets, do they show that the planets 'level up' as time goes on?) Graphics were really nice! Although some BG music and perhaps a stronger gameplay goal would be good.
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I found it a little confusing that the colors went orange - green - red, since that made it a little hard to tell at a glance if the planet needed more sun (orange) or less (red). A different color for the orange might make this bit easier - perhaps a greenish yellow?
Good work!
@monika: Thank you for playing our game! And I agree, definitely taking in the suggestion ot change the basic dry planet to another color so that its an obvious cool to warm :D
@goxua: Thanks for playing our game! and yes we're definitely lacking in that dept right now :D will beef it up with more time :D
Also, do the planets heat and cool at different rates from eachother?
@joramwolters thanks. Yep, planets at different level cool at different rates.
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"The point of the game is to warm the planet up, get the planet to be in the +++ state and when you do that long enough, it levels up. A new planet appears and you do the same for the new one."
Needs to be posted somewhere prominently. I too was lost, and it was the web version, but there was nothing wrong with the web version, I just didn't know what to do, how to progress. Once I read your comment, I tried again, and it was smooth sailing. Once I figured that out, it was a nice game. Oh, and the lovely title is what brought me here. Cute graphics too. And it's an original take on the theme, which I appreciate.
@mahalis Thank you!
@cubeeo
Yea, the intention was to let the players figure it out as they go along. I guess the hints/feedback wasn't enough to motivate them into the right direction. Thanks for taking the time to REALLY test out the game.