BEEN ON DA WORLDSHAPA GRIND FOR 3 DAYS NOW LET ME TELL YOU DIS SHIT MAKES ME FEEL SO GLAD I'LL COME BACK TO IT AND ADD A COPLA FLOWARS DEN A COPLE WATER AND THEN I'LL AD ANOTHER DESERT (I LOVE DA DESERT EVEN IF IT BE NERFED) THEN SOME ROCKS AND I'LL COME BACK THE NEXT TIME LIKE YESSSSSS MY POWER GROWS AND I CAN NOW MAKE BIGGER WORLD. I HAVE NO CLUE HOW TO UNLOCK THE COOLER STUFF LIKE SHROOMS I'M STUCK ON WATER AN PORTS BUT THAT'S OK I'M NOT IN A RUSH I JUST LOVA THIS GAME. BY THE WAY WHEN I EXPAND THE MAP IS IT ONLY VERTICAL OR DOES IT ALSO GIVE A HORIZONTAL INCREASE I CAN'T SEEM TO MAKE WORK? LOVE HOWEVER MADE THIS
Hey, happy you like it! You unlock new tiles by increasing your production/minute. The first time you expand the map it's vertical, the second time will give you some extra horizontal space too.
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).
Hi, you expanded the map twice in total right? Then this is totally normal, you got a new square in the top right and the next expansion will unlock this undiscovered area too!
I seem to lose my progress constantly. Two days in a row now, I've shut down my computer and when I booted it back up the next day, I was back at square one.
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Looks like I had cookies from hwcdn.net blocked. That's rather strange since I don't recall having any similar issues in the past on games hosted on Itch. Good to know that hwcdn is used for hosting though.
It's really nice to see how many mechanics this game has; with the unlock of mushrooms it becomes extremely difficult to optimize (even if I'm still just doing oasis spam, now with some glass witches villages added).
I'd love to make use of the City but it produces way too little to ever be worth it; perhaps it should give a production% boost or something?
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 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 :)
It is not very clear when you will receive the next magic dust(?). I know it might not fit the game’s style but I have seen a lot of other idle games just interpolate the value instead of only giving it when it’s ready.
Also tiles should have descriptions. I can see how it could be confusing figuring out how much exactly a tile gives you, and what tiles it has interactions with. For example, I was really confused when putting down 2 deserts adjacent to a village didn’t convert it to a desert village, because actually you need to put 3 adjacent deserts.
Thanks! Later in the game you'll get enough power/minute that this should no longer be an issue, but maybe it could be a nice early game QOL feature. Discovering tile combinations is meant to be a part of the game, but adding a log of what you discovered and how to get those again may be a good idea. You can see how much a tile gives you (and why) by hovering over it.
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BEEN ON DA WORLDSHAPA GRIND FOR 3 DAYS NOW LET ME TELL YOU DIS SHIT MAKES ME FEEL SO GLAD I'LL COME BACK TO IT AND ADD A COPLA FLOWARS DEN A COPLE WATER AND THEN I'LL AD ANOTHER DESERT (I LOVE DA DESERT EVEN IF IT BE NERFED) THEN SOME ROCKS AND I'LL COME BACK THE NEXT TIME LIKE YESSSSSS MY POWER GROWS AND I CAN NOW MAKE BIGGER WORLD. I HAVE NO CLUE HOW TO UNLOCK THE COOLER STUFF LIKE SHROOMS I'M STUCK ON WATER AN PORTS BUT THAT'S OK I'M NOT IN A RUSH I JUST LOVA THIS GAME. BY THE WAY WHEN I EXPAND THE MAP IS IT ONLY VERTICAL OR DOES IT ALSO GIVE A HORIZONTAL INCREASE I CAN'T SEEM TO MAKE WORK? LOVE HOWEVER MADE THIS
Hey, happy you like it! You unlock new tiles by increasing your production/minute. The first time you expand the map it's vertical, the second time will give you some extra horizontal space too.
A zoom function would be really nice
HELL YEAAAAAA
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).
Hi, you expanded the map twice in total right? Then this is totally normal, you got a new square in the top right and the next expansion will unlock this undiscovered area too!
Now I have 3 upgrades and full square, at second upgrade I have map like this:
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got it, thanks. i didn't try scrolling left or right
I seem to lose my progress constantly. Two days in a row now, I've shut down my computer and when I booted it back up the next day, I was back at square one.
Hey, sorry to hear that! Please make sure your browser accepts third party cookies and doesn't delete cookies on close. Third party cookies are required as itch.io uses a separate website to host the games in for safety reasons. I don't use these for tracking you at all, just for saving your game (local storage to be precise, but this normally uses the same setting in your browser). You may also be able to just add an exception for itch.io and hwcdn.net (the site itch.io uses for hosting).
Here are the right settings in Firefox and Chrome:
Looks like I had cookies from hwcdn.net blocked. That's rather strange since I don't recall having any similar issues in the past on games hosted on Itch. Good to know that hwcdn is used for hosting though.
the app keeps going completely black when I take the curser outside the "field area". :'(
Can't play it.
Thanks very much for reporting this! This has now been resolved.
It's really nice to see how many mechanics this game has; with the unlock of mushrooms it becomes extremely difficult to optimize (even if I'm still just doing oasis spam, now with some glass witches villages added).
I'd love to make use of the City but it produces way too little to ever be worth it; perhaps it should give a production% boost or something?
try putting rocks around your city
bread
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!
unlocking new stuff is just based on achieving a higher score/minute?
correct
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 :)
I like it already. As someone else already said, your art style is great. I especially like your trees!
Thanks, I'm happy you like the art!
Wow! That's awesome! I'm so glad to see that Stop the Darkness getting some evolution :D
Thank you, yeah it does have a lot of elements people loved from Stop the Darkness!
This looks great so far!
Thanks!
JUST UNLOCKED WATER
were you able to get the last one?
i had to go to sleep after i unlocked the first map expansion
oh there is a map expansion nice
This is great, but a few things bother me:
Other than that, it is a very good concept!
discovering the tile combinations is part of the "game fun"
If you don’t get any hints at all then it becomes frustrating
Thanks! Later in the game you'll get enough power/minute that this should no longer be an issue, but maybe it could be a nice early game QOL feature. Discovering tile combinations is meant to be a part of the game, but adding a log of what you discovered and how to get those again may be a good idea. You can see how much a tile gives you (and why) by hovering over it.
just started, the concept is interesting
i love your artstyle
Thank you for your nice comment!