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Wasted Signals by Jordan The Human

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made by Jordan The Human for Ludum Dare 59 (COMPO)

Submitted as part of the Ludum Dare 59 Game Jam!

Theme : Signal

A small incremental game where you are in a wasteland and you're looking for the source of a signal. Try not to run out of supplies. Find other survivors and get on the road!

Playable on itch.io : https://jordan-the-human.itch.io/wasted-signals

If link can't be see, you can go on itch.io and go to "jordan-the-human.itch.io/wasted-signals".

This game was created solo.

Please, play this game in fullscreen.

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Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/59/wasted-signals

Ratings

Overall 264th 2.85⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Fun 179th 3.175⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 280th 2.474⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 240th 2.975⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 281th 1.5⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 204th 1.833⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 237th 2.868⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 52🗳️ 13🗨️

Feedback

tenthousandfireants
Apr 20th · 02:55 UTC
This was fun to play!
MountainGoose
Apr 20th · 04:06 UTC
Cool idea!
Jacat
Apr 20th · 13:43 UTC
nice try !
LDJam user 240476
Apr 20th · 14:10 UTC
Good game!
LDJam user 234567
Apr 20th · 17:27 UTC
A good incremental game :thumbsup:
TasakaSama
Apr 20th · 21:09 UTC
Perhaps a bit long for a game jam experience. Well done for your participation!
Sharky3188
Apr 21st · 12:47 UTC
Really simple, but told a fun story of survival and choice. I was a lot more engaged in this than i expected. Really great job. Would have loved to see a tiny bit more polish on the art side to increase the atmosphere, but otherwise really solid.
Acid Infinitely
Apr 21st · 21:08 UTC
Incremental games are always interesting, but this one lacks graphics and a story to understand what’s going on.
soundgnome
Apr 23rd · 05:25 UTC
I embraced the cult.
Floonace
Apr 23rd · 13:43 UTC
It's difficult to understand. A little more information or a tutorial would be helpful.
Phlip45
Apr 24th · 19:02 UTC
Balancing food and water was interesting. I think the thing that brings it down the most is I can't actually idle. Clicking outside the window stops the timer from what I can tell (Firefox) and the events that occur also seem to pause the timer. The ability to redistribute points and balance them going up and down is very Armory & Machine, a mobile idle game that is one of the best, so you are in good company there. Have fun out there!
mathemagics
Apr 25th · 10:58 UTC
A pretty good incremental game with a hint of story. Overall, it was interesting to play, but at the beginning nothing is clear, even though the mechanics aren't revealed all at once.
Thank you for the game!
baknik
Apr 26th · 06:53 UTC
Got a few survivors and was fun time
PanDuplan
Apr 26th · 09:27 UTC
Suprisingly varied game, solid amount of content! Could use some kind of simple map of places found to have at least some visualisation. Interesting to play though!
nexusasx10
Apr 27th · 22:44 UTC
Nice survival game!
BushFire
Apr 29th · 15:58 UTC
It's super annoying that the assignments reset when a survivor leaves. I had about 100 survivors, and unlocks an extra, leading me to going into minus, resulting in all my survivors being unassigned. I try to spamclick to reassign, but before I get them back on track, I'm so much in minus that another leave. Rinse and repeat while I try to spam assign people back in line, and survivors leaving one by one. When I finally get out of the death spiral, most of my survivors have left, and I only about 20 left.

I had no clue what the point of starting and stopping the car was?

The trading offers don't reflect the amount actually being traded.
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GanonsSpirit
May 02nd · 05:26 UTC
You managed to do a lot with a little. Good job!