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Emoji blobs or construction vehicles? Help me choose my game's visual identity | ๐Ÿ˜Š vs ๐Ÿšœ | in c/games@lemmy.world
[โ€“] purple_mimosa@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

What and absolutely gorgeous website and assets! I may indeed take inspiration from these.

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[โ€“] purple_mimosa@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

This is an awesome idea. And then the lightning symbol when it's charging. Thanks.

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[โ€“] purple_mimosa@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have some vague concepts of an idea, but they seem to change every once in a while. I'd like a modern vaporwave rusty industrial pastel fabric 80s lighting look.

Yeah. I know.

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In my nation-building game Country Architect, worker teams roam the map building infrastructure, transporting resources, and defending territory. Each team has different states (idle/working/drafted/charging) and can be equipped with multiple specialized vehicles. (Eg. One team could have several excavators, and a few drones to help defend itself).

I need to decide: Should teams be represented as emoji blobs or a construction vehicle?

  1. Emoji blobs show team state at a glance (happy/working/alert)
  2. Construction vehicle feels more professional but less expressive

Poll (no signup): https://linkto.run/p/Z5UY3MPQ

Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4136240/Country_Architect/

I'd love some input. Which would you prefer in a game like this?

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[โ€“] purple_mimosa@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have never had any experience with a non-cannabis substance sadly (except once with half a pill of mdma), but i'd definitely love something that would let me chill and get in touch with the higher forces of the universe again. I got my ideas for my future games/book series by being so stoned on edibles, I saw the universe as a mathematical web of colorful highways.

Thanks for all the information you've provided.

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[โ€“] purple_mimosa@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Damn. TIL. Well, I'd better be in a good headspace if i ever try that for sure.

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[โ€“] purple_mimosa@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

AI is baked into every creator software now. All your favorite artists, musicians, writers all use AI more or less. Not using it brings you a disadvantage, whether you like it or not.

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[โ€“] purple_mimosa@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (5 children)

damn, i hope that one day i'd be able to play my modded Skyrim like that. It was amazing on weed edibles, even if i just got lost in the same village over and over again.

Help me decide what I should name my game! Currently Country Architect, it turns out that "country" has a double meaning in English that I was not aware of ["Infrastruction" it is.] in c/games@lemmy.world
Help me decide what I should name my game! Currently Country Architect, it turns out that "country" has a double meaning in English that I was not aware of ["Infrastruction" it is.] in c/games@lemmy.world
Help me decide what I should name my game! Currently Country Architect, it turns out that "country" has a double meaning in English that I was not aware of ["Infrastruction" it is.] in c/games@lemmy.world
[โ€“] purple_mimosa@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

It turns out, Nation Builder is already taken as a board game name.

Help me decide what I should name my game! Currently Country Architect, it turns out that "country" has a double meaning in English that I was not aware of ["Infrastruction" it is.] in c/games@lemmy.world
[โ€“] purple_mimosa@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

This kinda convinced me to stay with Country Architect (for now). It seems like no matter what I pick, there will be some downside, people telling me about (very valid) concerns about legibility, clarity, accuracy and whatnot.

Also, someone said there are terms such as "the architect of this or that idea, concept, big thing", that is basically synonymous with "creator". That's what I was going for anyway.

Help me decide what I should name my game! Currently Country Architect, it turns out that "country" has a double meaning in English that I was not aware of ["Infrastruction" it is.] in c/games@lemmy.world
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EDIT6: Due to Steam needing an email from me so that I could get a new link, I decided it's not worth the hassle to change its name (Keeping the name polled high anyway).

EDIT5: yolo, Infrastruction it is.

Thank you @MurrayL@lemmy.world and everyone.

Thank you for all the ideas! Shoutout to "pussy eaters republic".

EDIT: added non-twitter poll link

Since my game is not (only) about villages, but building up an entire nation, I thought of changing the title to make it more appropriate.

"Nation Architect" and "Sovereign Architect" and "Sovereign Roads" are the other ideas.

Game concept: You play as a country leader, tasked with building up a country (either immortal president, or some form of AI). You will need to plan roads and factories, then launch bidding process to see your blueprints get built. You will manage "teams", which are generated by towns at certain milestones, specialize them and buy them vehicles. Eventually, relations with other countries will come into play as well.

A single badly-planned highway bridge is enough to bankrupt you, like irl for weaker economies.

Link to the name change poll:

https://linkto.run/p/XBW2J7Z5

The game (pre-demo prototype in the works):

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4136240/Country_Architect/

If you have other suggestions, I'd love to hear them as well.

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