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This is judge discussion for RumbleCity, Slick Competition 2011 entry, remember to vote using this rules (vote from 1 to 5)

- Presentation: graphics and sound,
- Innovation: how much game is innovative in gameplay and mechanics,
- Fun: how much game is fun,
- Theme: how much your game is in theme,
- Overall: global vote

and please reply to this topic using this template (vote from 1 to 5)

- Presentation:
- Innovation:
- Fun:
- Theme:
- Overall:

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Here game entry:

Name: notokotekla
Email : ?
Theme: ?
Entry:RumbleCity
Tecnology: ?
Notes: RumbleCity is a city simulation game during the day, and catastrophe fighting during the night. The sky is falling, and you must save Rumble City before it is wiped out!


Game link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3245166/rumblecitySlick.jnlp

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I will complete the missing info:

Name: notokotekla
Email : notokotekla ( at ) gmail.com
Theme: Sky is falling
Entry:RumbleCity
Tecnology: Java + Slick
Notes: RumbleCity is a city simulation game during the day, and catastrophe fighting during the night. The sky is falling, and you must save Rumble City before it is wiped out!


Game link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3245166/rumblecitySlick.jnlp

- Presentation: 6/10
- Innovation: 8/10
- Fun: 8/10
- Theme: 9/10
- Overall: 8/10

- Presentation: 7/10
- Innovation: 7/10
- Fun: 4/10
- Theme: 8/10
- Overall: 6/10

Missed the sound and the game ran way too fast. Couldn't read the instruction screen, didn't know what to do when the meteors fell down or what to do at night.

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- Presentation: 5
- Innovation: 5
- Fun: 4
- Theme: 5
- Overall: 5

I give you 5 because I love so much this kind of concept and mixing together genres seems cool Maybe with a tutorial must be a super cool game!

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Presentation: 2.5/5 (Nice title screen, nice city, but you should show more information about what to do).
Innovation: 4/5
Fun: 2/5 (I really didn't know what to do. Everything went too fast without explanation and I couldn't read the keys).
Theme: 3/5
Overall: 2.5/5

- Presentation: 2/5
- Innovation: 4/5
- Fun: 2/5
- Theme: 3/5
- Overall: 3/5

Feedback:

- Still hard to play, need more time for during the day to build stuff.
- I'm still now sure how hospital e water thing work.
- Could destroy some meteors this time, but it's a bit impossible to destroy all of them.

- Presentation: 2/5
- Innovation: 4/5
- Fun: 1/5
- Theme: 3.5/5
- Overall: 2.5/5

Too bad about the speed issue; it really killed the buzz for me. I had a hard time figuring out what as going on, or really, how to go about playing the game. I like how you are mixing up some genres tho.

- Presentation: 2/5
- Innovation: 2/5
- Fun: 1/5
- Theme: 2/5
- Overall: 1.75/5

Menu looks good. Control screen was quite messy. Game looks good. Lack of sounds and music was disappointment. Gameplay is very frustating, you have like 15s time to do something and then you have like half minute to watch when your city burn and you scratch head and hope some miracle. And then it's happen. A miracle. Meteor shower come to extinguish the fires with fire. I didn't get why there was letters at meteors.
I was afraid that my graphic card is melting when game runs with whopping 450fps. I played it long time but still not sure what to do or how. I builded some houses. Demolished some. And there was some other buildings. I was little lost whole time and only thing I wanted to do was save my Nvidia card but not the city.
It's really good starting point to big scale sim city game but it's need quite a lot polishing. Keep up working.

Hi everyone!

First of all, thanks for all the votes and comments so far, I wasn't aware it was so hard to understand what to do, and I'll keep this in mind for future changes.

I apologize for the FPS problem... it's finally limited and you can download the new version now (and maybe re-vote !)

@notokotekla: revoting just wouldn't be fair - we all had issues with our games and we have to take the votes for our official entries at the deadline.

Otherwise there would be no reason for having a competition end date.

But I will definitely try your game again now

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Awww ok, I understand!
Well now I've learned for next time!

- Presentation: 2
- Innovation: 3
- Fun: 3
- Theme: 4
- Overall: 2

There isn't enough time to do the city planning bit of the game so I just waited for it to pass. It's too bad because I'm sure there was something interesting going on somwhere. Typing to shoot down the meteors brings back some fond memories of the Mavis Beacon games I enjoyed as a kid. Strange framerate slow down at times.

could you provide source code?

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