Isn't it a bit hotter than normal outside? by axelrinaldo
Say, isn't the weather a bit hotter than usual?
Place buildings around the globe in order to escape an expanding sun in this quickpaced game. Strengthen the power grid with solar panels that will only work better and better the more dire the situation is, produce resources with mines, slow down the suns expansion with freezing cannons (do not ask me how they work) and build a spaceship to escape your doomed world.
Controls: * Mouse only * Though you can quit using Esc
Tools: * Unity (though I will bloody well switch to Godot, waiting 30+ seconds every time I change a line of code is not for me) * Aseprite (Used poorly) * Krita * ChipTone * Bosca Ceoil
Soooo, how did my fifth LD in a row go? Well, I whipped up an idea and design in 20 minutes and managed to implement it so that's a success. I would say it's either an improvement or just as good on the technical side as my previous entries (especially the latest one) but... well... I don't think it's very fun? And of course it could have used more time and polish in basically every area but that's simply a product of LD being timed. ;D Feel free to help me find where I went wrong (or say what you liked about it) by leaving a comment. :D Now I will pass out, see ya when it's time to start rating games!
Ratings
| Overall | 186th | 3.659⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 110th | 3.795⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 103th | 3.795⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 92th | 4.091⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 307th | 3.455⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 298th | 3.205⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 152th | 3.4⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 202th | 3.477⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 25🗳️ | 6🗨️ |
Not sure if it's intended but with enough freezing cannons you can decrease the Sun to 0% and from this point it doesn't increase anymore.
Besides that I don't think you should be able to reverse the expansion, only slow it down. Even if you did that the game is still solvable. Something that would help is add random events to disrupt the players plans, that would also increase replayability.
Also I love the rocket animation with the stages, nice detail.
UI doesn't scale, you have to play fullscreen for icons not to overlay value. I would love some explanation of what is the purpose of each building. I was missing actual price of energy for each building.
@2demigods Well frick, that's a bit embarrasing... Thanks for telling me! :D
@gummibot Hm, yeah, I really don't like how Itch.io puts the game in that small a window. :/ Updating the building cards with info on energy cost was something I planned to do but completely forgot, oops. :) A thousand thanks for the feedback! :D
Regardless it was fun, I played it all the way through and that to me means it's a good game. PS. I like the music, gives me nostalgia - even how the sound 'distorts' as it loops. Nice.
Reached an equilibrium of sun expansion and cooling (after like 8 replays or so). But at that point I couldn't build anything to replace coolers for some reason. But waiting it off makes evacuation inevitable if I just let it sit for a while :)