k imma keep this quick. my summary goes as follows: "one time its funny. two times its annoying".
you have rereleased the same game for the third time with some slight changes. there are some new buildings, yet this version is the most unplayable version of all. an issue that the previous versions had was scrolling to zoom in or out would also scroll on itch. this made the game unplayable without fullscreen to prevent this. this version is missing fullscreen. i can not subject myself to this torture so i cant fully review the game. what i can say from my few minutes with the game:
there is a new bug with roads as the model has been changed. their model now goes into the background showing the skybox behind the map when scrolling.
losing is both easy and hard. the first time i instantly lost while trying to close the grey popup as text is still unreadable with the low resolution you have chosen. in my second attempt i built a house and a farm and have still not lost. now this was on easy mode, but with how reputation works and has worked before i cant see difficulty changing much. i like difficulty as an option for replay ability, but you need to make the game playable first.
while a lose condition has been set, i cant find a win condition. land can no longer be bought and reputation with the empire also doesnt seem to have made a return. while a game like this doesnt need a win condition, if all you need to do is keep people happy and all you need to do for that is to put down a road house and farm, then you pretty much win from the start and anything else you do isnt working towards a goal other than making a bigger city.
one thing i must applaud is the redesign of the farm. it will no longer give you a seizure when moving around. but that doesnt fix the core issue of flickering when moving around while zoomed out. forrest plots, while not as horrible as the old farms, step up to give you that seizure instead of the farms.
and yeah thats it. finally i can leave erdodak behind me. wait a minute. its spelled erdadok. have i been misspelling it the whole time? well either way i can stop thinking about how i still need to play the third version. it has made me happy at how unplayable this version is, as i have not had to suffer for long. please for the love of all that is holy. do not make erdadok 4. or at least fix your bugs, make the game playable and increase the resolution, even if just by a tiny bit.
i have played all your itch games and all your newgrounds games. maybe you have more on another website, but im done. you have a lot of potential. you have great ideas for games. yet most games are unpolished, full of bugs or have massive design flaws. this most likely comes from the fact that most of your games are game jam submissions. if you ever decide to make more games, you need to spend more time with them than a game jam worth of time. fix bugs, dont leave them as they are. good luck.
I have been reading all your reviews and oh boy, what a journey! But for real, ty for playing all my games :)
You are correct in many things including that many of my games are bugged, but not because they are jam games and actually because I'm a terrible programmer! (lol) I'm been working on more refined projects for a while now, probably going to launch at least 1 game until the end of this year. About erdadok, lol yeah the resolution was a huge pain to deal with for the jam theme but at least it worked, there was plans for a high resolution one but I never move it forward duo to a mix of college and other personal issues.
Anyway, thank you for putting the time to leave all the reviews :) it means a lot!
thanks for the reply. wasnt expecting the reviews to get seen, as some of these games are pretty old. i found you through the le chat fonce games and decided to check out all your other stuff and boy am i glad that i did. almost all of your games have all been fun to play, even with their issues. you have great game ideas and have released some masterpieces like path of atlon, magi: venandi, a shard of mine and all (except for the halloween one) le chat fonce games. while all have their flaws with bugs, being unpolished, ending abruptly and having a confusing/ unresolved/ flawed story they were all a blast to play and made me happy to have checked you out. while i did say that i was done, i might just be back if you have more up your sleeve. you just have so much potential with such great ideas, that even your worst games were fun to play.
ps: sorry the erdadok reviews took so long and arent as in depth, but i just lost all motivation after erdadok 1 and didnt really want to play through the game multiple times.
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k imma keep this quick. my summary goes as follows: "one time its funny. two times its annoying".
you have rereleased the same game for the third time with some slight changes. there are some new buildings, yet this version is the most unplayable version of all. an issue that the previous versions had was scrolling to zoom in or out would also scroll on itch. this made the game unplayable without fullscreen to prevent this. this version is missing fullscreen. i can not subject myself to this torture so i cant fully review the game. what i can say from my few minutes with the game:
there is a new bug with roads as the model has been changed. their model now goes into the background showing the skybox behind the map when scrolling.
losing is both easy and hard. the first time i instantly lost while trying to close the grey popup as text is still unreadable with the low resolution you have chosen. in my second attempt i built a house and a farm and have still not lost. now this was on easy mode, but with how reputation works and has worked before i cant see difficulty changing much. i like difficulty as an option for replay ability, but you need to make the game playable first.
while a lose condition has been set, i cant find a win condition. land can no longer be bought and reputation with the empire also doesnt seem to have made a return. while a game like this doesnt need a win condition, if all you need to do is keep people happy and all you need to do for that is to put down a road house and farm, then you pretty much win from the start and anything else you do isnt working towards a goal other than making a bigger city.
one thing i must applaud is the redesign of the farm. it will no longer give you a seizure when moving around. but that doesnt fix the core issue of flickering when moving around while zoomed out. forrest plots, while not as horrible as the old farms, step up to give you that seizure instead of the farms.
and yeah thats it. finally i can leave erdodak behind me. wait a minute. its spelled erdadok. have i been misspelling it the whole time? well either way i can stop thinking about how i still need to play the third version. it has made me happy at how unplayable this version is, as i have not had to suffer for long. please for the love of all that is holy. do not make erdadok 4. or at least fix your bugs, make the game playable and increase the resolution, even if just by a tiny bit.
i have played all your itch games and all your newgrounds games. maybe you have more on another website, but im done. you have a lot of potential. you have great ideas for games. yet most games are unpolished, full of bugs or have massive design flaws. this most likely comes from the fact that most of your games are game jam submissions. if you ever decide to make more games, you need to spend more time with them than a game jam worth of time. fix bugs, dont leave them as they are. good luck.
Hey!
I have been reading all your reviews and oh boy, what a journey! But for real, ty for playing all my games :)
You are correct in many things including that many of my games are bugged, but not because they are jam games and actually because I'm a terrible programmer! (lol) I'm been working on more refined projects for a while now, probably going to launch at least 1 game until the end of this year. About erdadok, lol yeah the resolution was a huge pain to deal with for the jam theme but at least it worked, there was plans for a high resolution one but I never move it forward duo to a mix of college and other personal issues.
Anyway, thank you for putting the time to leave all the reviews :) it means a lot!
thanks for the reply. wasnt expecting the reviews to get seen, as some of these games are pretty old. i found you through the le chat fonce games and decided to check out all your other stuff and boy am i glad that i did. almost all of your games have all been fun to play, even with their issues. you have great game ideas and have released some masterpieces like path of atlon, magi: venandi, a shard of mine and all (except for the halloween one) le chat fonce games. while all have their flaws with bugs, being unpolished, ending abruptly and having a confusing/ unresolved/ flawed story they were all a blast to play and made me happy to have checked you out. while i did say that i was done, i might just be back if you have more up your sleeve. you just have so much potential with such great ideas, that even your worst games were fun to play.
ps: sorry the erdadok reviews took so long and arent as in depth, but i just lost all motivation after erdadok 1 and didnt really want to play through the game multiple times.