After asking every commenter on the jam page for feedback, this is the summary! Along with how many times it was suggested.
Strongest feedback
27x Gameplay progression/movement is too slow.
9x Chickens are too OP
9x More developed version of this could make a really great game
8x Not enough stuff to do
6x Bigger window
5x Allow the swarm to get even bigger
4x Really hard to hit a specific point even when you have a big swarm
4x indicator of insect abundance
4x More sfx
3x More levels
3x Controls are unresponsive/confusing at first
Gameplay / Controls
2x Food sources should give more insects
2x Need a certain amount of bugs to destroy certain things (including metal)
2x Add abilities for bugs, they can acquire if they eat some special kind of food
- Increase Move Speed
- Increase Munching Speed
- Bigger Bug, that can eat larger area and stronger, maybe he can eat the ducks lol.
- Transport all bugs elsewhere
- Increase maximum swarm size (Longer time spent at maximum?
2x Not clear that locusts are starving (they just despawn)
1x lacking an overall goal (reaching a destination (like they're migrating) or you have to destroy (I'm using this loosely) something)
1x Ability to zoom
1x Have a max swarm size
Chickens
1x Player should be able to counter chickens
1x Chickens could fall asleep after eating a certain number of locusts
1x Not clear that the chickens are damaging your swarm
1x Chickens should be able to see you from further away
1x Chickens should breed! Lay eggs.
Mob Suggestions
2x Needs more variation in enemies
2x Cows
2x Pesticides (by tractor or plane)
1x Add a river, with a brige where you would lose bugs
1x Cities
1x roads where vehicles drive on which smash you
1x storm (thinking about Fortnite, where the the storm damages you and circles you and restricts the playingfield).
Issues:
2x Bugs are hidden in the environment while they are eating
1x Music a bit too epic (happy atmosphere would be more fitting, since the whole game has a fun setting nintendo-like or arcade-like)
1x The map has no boundary
Suggestions:
2x Larger fields
1x A slightly more populated area
1x More obstacles
1x the camera should zoom out when population grows
1x More things to eat
1x Larger buildings
1x Cars
1x Add some slight randomness (wind, fire, even humans). keep each element as simple/logical as possible
1x Grassy area
1x Ability to split the swarm - use part of the swarm to distract chickens
1x old egyptian town map
1x once your swarm is big enough, certain objects change
to yellow to be devourable.
1x Trees fall over when you devour them
1x look to other simulation games for inspiration.
1x Random events like SimCity
1x Previously destroyed farms / barren wasteland.
1x the player could choose where to start out from
1x Infinitely generated map
1x larger groups of chickens
