WorldShaper Idle

Suggestion, add deep sea tiles, kelp sea tiles, coral reef tiles?

When combining with one another, it produces shoal fish tile, coral island tile, whale tile, mermaid tile, Deep Ones tile?

This is such a wonderful game - there's incredible depth in exploring all the possible interactions between adjacent tiles.

If I could suggest a feature request, would it be possible to add some kind of "heat map" overlay mode, showing which tiles have the highest/lowest production?

Is the King/Growth build the best there is right now for energy gain?  Or is there a better build I'm missing out on?

The creative reformulation you achieve with the shared conceptual framework between your several games is seriously amazing!

I put hour after hour (after hour) into The Final Earth and Stop the Darkness back on Kongregate; I was again thrilled with the second FE. I knew this latest game had to be yours before I even recognized your name - and once again, a playful and engrossing experience unfolds from that signature aesthetic of yours :)

Thanks for bringing yet another truly original game to the table.

Very fun game. Love it. I don't manage to earn more than 605K per minute on 4 by 4 squares map. Or only a few more everyday. Does someone has a clue on big earnings motifs ?

Thanks for the fun game.

I hope you will continue to develop it.

I wish you would stop deselecting selected items when you click on them again, and make it possible to select "blank" instead.

Awesome game! Thanks to those building the wiki as well. 

Feature requests/suggestions. I am betting many/most of these are too complicated to implement, and obv you have no obligation to do anything more with the game that is pretty simple and already fantastic, but just putting them out there as ideas. 
1. Manual zoom. I am zooming via the trackpad, and Ctrl+Scroll doesn't give very good control. I also have no horizontal scroll which is super annoying if I want be zoomed in. 
2. Related to the above: a minimap. For telling me how much of the map I am not currently showing, as I struggle with zoom. Being able to drag around on a minimap would also fix the problem of (trackpads not giving) horizontal zoom. 
3. Being able to save maps. Sometimes I want to experiment, and this would help. I like the previously made suggestion of a sandbox; but having saved maps might be easier to implement than would a sandbox, since the best map (and the null map) is already saved and available to restore and this would just be the same but with additional slots. But, restoring the best map, and clearing, are super useful to have, thank you for those!! 
4. Being able to store "motifs" and use them like stamps. E.g., save some 3x3 or 5x5 square set of tiles, and then being able to use that like a "stamp" to make repeated copies of it. This would probably be pretty hard, but super useful. 
5. Plots. I would love to have some visualizations over dimensions of {map cost, income, # of reduce tile cost upgrades, number of tiles used}. Having plots over time is a common thing I see in resource-management games, but I don't think that is super useful in a game where the map can be easily cleared. Or, maybe raw data downloads so we can do our own summaries and make our own plots :). 

the same adjacency rules but on a hex grid would be quite interesting

I've unlocked everything so far aside from the one next to port city, and loving the different combos on the wiki.  Gonna keep upping my production with more factory megalopolises, and see just what this last village type is.

Clear Map ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Finally!!!
And the tower addition is great. Love the game

This prototype is looking good so far, with some tiles that you can unlock by being creative (such as surrounding one village with four village right next to it). Unrelated, but I want you to add modding support to Stop The Darkness. If you can be more ambitious, maybe you can expand it into a Steam release like you have done with The Final Earth 2.

I wish there was a way to see all the upgraded buildings you've found so far. It would also be helpful if you could drag around and copy and paste large groups of tiles, and drag a tile to make lots of copies of it.

Really enjoying this! Been playing for a few days and it's pretty fun to try to figure out how to unlock new tiles and try different builds. So far the only downside is that navigation is a little clunky on Mac. Love it though and look forward to any other projects you work on!

I'd suggest little sandbox area: cannot gain income from it (although show it's value), but free tiles placement (at least within what's already unlocked).

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I love the design of the game and is looking forward for more contents! I do not know how people optimize using only desert, but for me the charm is the rock-mystical conbination (later with rock ports and island) and I find it so interesting that the game, unexpectedly, changes so much with every unlock and every minute after you get more points!

Great game, love the aspects and style of Stop the Darkness, while being unique from it. It has great intervals where you can take well timed breaks, tons of unique combinations of the different tiles and good pacing. Although even after the desert nerf deserts still seem significantly better than other tiles as you begin to end the late-game and end game. I especially love the variety that comes with the final unlocks of water and mushrooms. 

Absolutely love it.  Love how unique and thematic the mechanics are.  The pacing is great.  The discovery feels natural and rewarding, not just because you get better numbers, but because there are new mechanics to explore that all feel worthwhile.

A "clear map" button would be a huge quality of life improvement.  Right click to place field without having to go back to the menu would be nice.  Click and drag to place multiple tiles would be nice as well.  I want to experiment with more layouts, but it's getting very click intensive.

A compendium of your discovered tiles would be good, in case you forget how to lay something out, or are slightly unclear on what the rule is, and so you'd know if you've found everything.  Having to try every tile combination to be sure isn't ideal.

It might be nice to use a 3x3 kernel for adjacency bonuses.  It's kind of a feel bad to be able to make all these cities that give 50% adjacency bonus, but they mostly grant the bonus to the tiles that you need in order to make them in the first place, which often don't score much (or anything)

It seems like every tile is has a build-around that is somewhat viable in the mid/late game except for forests.  You throw a few of them into your other layouts, but it's marginal benefit.  Maybe forests (or one of the forest villages) could get a bonus for every other forest in the clump, instead of just the adjacent ones--similar to the way ports work.  Given how aggressively tile costs scale, this doesn't seem like it would get out of hand in the early game, and in the late game it would give you something to do with the only tile you can often afford.  Maybe that's too complicated to introduce so early in the game though.

I'm not sure I love the cost scaling in general.  It means that specializing in one type of tile will almost always be worse than building a few of everything (at least until you run out of land, which I'm not that close to being able to do yet).  Ideally you'd want the option to do either for a more creative experience.

I'm missing one tile still, and maybe I don't know about some combinations, so it could be the some of these (minor) complaints are dealt with anyway.

5/5 so far, and it still feels like there is a ton of design space to explore!

I love the stop the darkness art style! I got 500 points a minute :)

I was gonna say this reminded me of Stop the Darkness (especially in the art style) before I realized you're the one who made that! Loved that game, and enjoying this as well. You just keep putting out great work :)