Solar Colonies

Fun little game! I enjoyed the UI and graphics!

Very polished and cool game. Loved when the little critters popped up on the planets.
Sometimes it took really long time for population increase and I'm not sure what that was based on but overall a fun experience.
Well done!

Great idea for a game, could play this one all day! great job!

Nice game, nice music, enjoyed it :)

Had a lot of fun.☺️

Really cool game on the visual side of things. Its fun for a while but once you have a planet in good shape getting the other to work is just a matter of waiting for the other to produce some humans and the fun starts to disappear, but i feel like its fine for a little 10 min game. Great work! :)

edit: I played a little bit more and i found a bug where half the planets population wants to be and astronaut and starts to walk in the sky.

Looks really neat and plays well too! The effects for placing things down are cool. We loved seeing the little details like grass growing after a while. The only thing is that the music was really faint and the people can be a little hard to click. By the way, there is a typo on your LD page title :wink:

Great job guys!

This is an absolutely gorgeous game with interesting mechanics, but it's just not very intuitive. Might be a bit too complex for me this gamejam, where I'm trying to play so many games in quick succession. It doesn't quite have that fun factor for me.

I can't get over the UI, though - so good! Great work and I would love to see something like this further developed. Strikes me as a good idea for an idle mobile game or something.

Would love it if this was more fleshed out into a full game with multiple universes and tech trees etc. Could see this idea going really far. It was a little laggy at times though

Pretty interesting game. I really wish there was some way to automatically collect people since clicking around gets annoying and you sometimes misclick on something else which just makes you have to put it back down. With a little more polish (and maybe a more in-depth tutorial) I could see this as a pretty good game.

This is the best one I've played to far! I love the concept of terraforming planets as a gameplay mechanic, and having an entire planetary system to terraform with shared resources works really well. I can see this be fleshed out into a really great management / colony builder game. The planets visually changing depending on their condition makes you believe you really are turning lifeless rocks into livable worlds.

It's a nice game, I'm gonna play more after work

It's really good! I loved the aesthetic of it.

The gameplay is simple yet interactive and graphics are very neat! the one thing i would like to comment on is the repetitive clicking when collecting population XD i think a simple interface to mass-collect populations (for example insert the amount wanted to collect then the game collects it for you) would significantly improve the gameplay experience. Enjoyed this one, thank you!

This game was very nice but maybe a little bit too long and too easy.

Well done, but I couldn't understand the goal from in game. I had to read the description again :) Its a subject to work on :) But its a good game

Very nice game, really enjoyed it and would be nice if it had more levels. Music was very fitting. Love it

Great game! The music and pixelart took me back to Amiga age strategy games

I really love the art here, the simulation is pretty chill and relaxing.

Loved it! It's like a 2D Astroneer. I think it would work just fine without the time limit though.

Would be fun to see how this idea could be developed further!

Great work!

I liked it. And the implication that I'm turning my people into trees.

Fun little game ! Good graphics and audio, gameplay is easy enough !

I liked it, well done :smile:

Really polished work! Love the aesthetics and sound effects.

Really fun game! It took me a little bit to figure out what exactly I was meant to be doing but once I did it was a pretty fun and balanced mechanic. My only complaint would be that it was a little bit difficult to collect people. I kept misclicking and deleted my buildings/trees. It'd be nice if there was a way to quickly collect them all or if you didn't have to collect them and just having them spawned in was enough. In any case, really fun polished game, I'd love to see this concept fleshed out into a longer game.

Super cool game. I love the atmosphere and pixel art. Really well polished too. Great job!

The pixel art and the solar system concept are cool. The gameplay progress is a little bit easy, and the mouse click collect control has space to improve.

GG!!

Beautiful looking game with some really fun mechanics in it and a very polished feel. I loved the animations of the little people running around on the planet surface (but felt kind of bad for harvesting them as currency). The art style was really cohesive and the UI was intuitive. It would have been good if it was a little more difficult, but balance is hard to do in a game jam. Overall, excellent game!

What a beautiful little game! I also found it kind of simple, but it was still very worth playing. I wish there was something more to progression beyond colonization (and maybe a little consciousness around the colonization thing rather than glossing over, but it is a jam game). Anyway, well polished game, good job!

This was really fun to play and it was polished as well! If I can come up with any constructive critisism it would be that the game could be a little harder ( or at least you could choose difficulty) I loooved the graphics and the general vibe of the game! Great job!

The best one I’ve played to far. Love the amazing design of the solar system. Really hope this game could be further developed.

planet variety was nice to see. menu design simple and intuitive, graphic direction was awesome

I really like the graphics, audio and mechanics behind balancing the planets. The controls were pretty intuitive. One balancing point, it felt like once you got one planet habitable and some colonists spawning, you can afford to just spam machines onto the other planets to keep them in check.

Really enjoyed the game, probably one of my favourites so far, good job!

Good project, graphics and sfx are awesome. The only problem: I do not see there is theme in this game.

Wonderful game, great art, sounds, and gameplay. Good luck with your game!

Awesome entry. Liked the puzzle, it felt organic and the flow is perfect.

The art is amazing! Everything was running very smoothly, good job!

I realy like the gameplay mechanics and was a bit sad, that there are not more solar systems to discover and to colonice. Your game has a lot potential and I hope you keep on working on it and expanding it.

I really like this game! Good job done here! I especially liked the game art. I wish the music would change from time to time... also I think I found a bug: I had just one more planet to colonize left. I already fixed the O2 and the temperature - but I haven't build a settle there. But the game already said that I won xD But all in all it's a really cool and cute game :3

Very cool, loved the dropping effect. Took me a few minutes to figure out how to get people in, but was worth it to give it a chance.

Quite an ambitious game for a game jam! Lots going on here. Didn't realize I could grab my colonists for a while. Wish I had a bit more time to mess around with it, but here's a VOD of me playing: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1168514106?t=2h48m46s

Definitely one of the best! So satisfying to play. The cute little people running around and balancing the environments. You need to make more solar systems and challenges. I would pay money for a full version of this

I had a bit of trouble realzing what was happening with the unstable orbit the first time around (I tried to start with Zyrra, a fools errand). Even with that trial and error I almost made it in under the wire. I played again and was able to knock it out of the park. This was a lot of fun.

Had a blast with this one, enjoyed the space theme and how the different orbits of the planets affected the terraforming of them!

it took me a moment to realize fully what i was doing, but after i got the hang of what items did what i started stablizing the planets rather quickly! i managed to beat it JUST before the timer stopped (27.55 sec left lol), i am VERY partial to any game that involves space and planets, but you managed to make the atmosphere and mood of the game work so well! great job over all 10/10 game!

Liked the game. Managed to win with 1.30 left on the clock. It seemed very chaotic at first, but I quickly learned to focus on getting one planet stable at a time and then it was actually quite satisfying to fix the problems. Thanks for the game :)

Interesting game, but I can not wrap my head around about how this could be expanded into full game after LD. I guess that I have to wait and see :slight_smile:

Great entry. I played it to the end, which is saying something. Fairly easy overall, but kept me engaged till the end. Nice work!

Interesting interplay between the objects you place on the planet, the O2 level and temperature. Fun and engaging I wanted to see my planet thrive! It was fun trying to pick the humans up and avoid picking up the planet's resources you placed down. Good entry!

nice little loop you have there, love the different orbits of the planets. I didn't understand that I could buy more stuff by selling(?) my inhabitants, still achieved to get to every planet in time :>>
Maybe a bit too easy but still really cool :sunglasses:

Easy win, funny game :)

Ура, я колонизировал все планеты! Как хорошо, что люди - бесконечный ресурс!

Good game, an interesting twist would have been if the increase in human count on a planet increased the temperature though it might maybe be a bit too much of a micro management hell :).

Lovely polish and presentation :) And very relaxing. Could imagine it being a larger game where you gradually get introduced different solar systems with more and more complications to deal with, maybe with a little engineering and space travel thrown in? Would definitely play that. Great entry, congrats on finishing.

Took a while to figure it out. Would be glad to play a post-jam version.

Awesome game, got quite into it :D gets quite easy imo when you put 2 contraptions on every planet

I had so much fun playing this! Good graphics, good audio and good gameplay, although it took me a bit to figure out how it works.

A very enjoyable few minutes. Definitely something that could be expanded into something very exciting and an all around wholesome experience, which this already is. The music was great as well!

Interesting concept and nice pixel graphics. Could use some work on balancing though. At first my planet constantly drifted between too hot and too warm even though I placed everything needed. Then I snatched the few people that sometimes appeared and kept building those machines that stabilize it then there was not much to do except snatching more for houses but the population never got higher than 15 anyway and after the 10 minutes it says I failed. No idea why though, temperatures was centered and O2 max.
Its very easy to accidentally erase something when you just want to pick up people. Maybe putting the people more on the inside or letting the player zoom in would improve that. Reaching some goal, like its stabilized for some seconds while the population is high enough might be more fun than waiting for a timer.

Great graphic!
The timer look scary but after 1 or 2 minutes, I understood how to farm population and the game was much more faster :)
I want more, more planets, more levels more challenges! :)
GG!

Lovely game with great graphics! Had a bit of trouble realizing I needed to click 'above' the surface to place things.
During the first playthrough things were a bit slow, but the second playthrough I could blast trough everything by just continuously harvesting humans.
I also did not use any mountains I think - a bit of balancing of the 'human' resource could make it a bit more of a challenge. (putting a max nr humans you can take from one planet might force a sequence?)

Nevertheless, good lil game :)

Nice game, great graphics !
But sadly there is no challenge, the last building in the list is just over powered.
If you put a colony on the brown planet (the easiest one) and start harvesting then you just need to put multiples instance of this last building on every other planet and your done...
For me it's missing a building to warm up planet to replace the last building.

Really cool and super polished! Just enough challenge for 10 mins, I had 12 seconds to spare when I got every planet terraformed. Loved the graphics and art style in general, zooming between different perspectives felt great. Could've easily played more with different planets and more stuff to terraform with!

Omegacool theme realization. One of best games that I see on this jam. Good job!

Really nice game!

At first it was not perfectly clear how everything works. I mean like clicking above the planet or clicking on small people to collect them.

After some tries I was able to finish it successfully. It has potential to be developed more if you decide to do so.

Pretty fun to play! And challenging! Thanks for the experience! Great entry!

Wow, this took me a while to figure out! This is a really great concept, but some things are too obscure at first, which made me wonder if I'd ever get it. For a long time I didn't understand that the variations in temperature were due to orbiting (distance to the sun), and I just didn't know how I could keep it balanced. The tutorials also don't make it clear that the machines act as the opposite of mountains, I didn't know what it meant by stabilizing the climate. Other than that, the presentation and music are excellent, and it's a very innovative take. Good job!

The UI and graphics you put together look incredible. A true pleasure to play, I had a blast great job!

​I did like this, Im not the best at resource management games but this was fun

very relaxing

Fun to play! The game is so cool and very relaxing! I love the game mechanics, the difficulty is very nice tuned either.

Great game! Took me like 4 tries to figure out how to get it working right, but after that it was pretty fun. I just kept buying the climate control machines and spammed those and the big trees on a planet. Then I farmed the colonists until I had enough money to go to the next planet. Having a random galaxy every time would've been really cool, but I get that time constraints exist lol

(+) a lot of different items to place and use for terraforming

(+) mostly easy use & placing of items

(+) cute grafics, that are also informative

(+) reminds me of terraforming in spore

(+) extensive help & information

(-) I have to made up actual negative points