Dark Fiber
Inside your ISP there is a Black Cube that is demanding to be fed. Can you keep its hunger under control and stop it from escaping the facility?
I made a game for two overlapping game jams. The Black Cube theme is for Trijam 373 and the Connected theme is for Tiny Jam Game Jam.
The Jams are over and I did ok for such a prototype game. I now present to you the version I was hoping to have for the game jam submissions. Let me know in the comments if you have any additional feedback as I think I might build something more off this idea.
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Development log
- CORRUPT TRANSLATION DETECTED: UPDATE OVERVIEW36 days ago
- V0.3 Notes42 days ago
Comments
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Needs some work on balancing residential nodes, tried only 1 node but scaling on the first few levels feels as it should be. After upgrading residential to 8 and more it gets bonkers.
Still i enjoyed this little game, keep up the good work.
Thanks for the feedback, had another user pointed out the speed run method with the residential nodes. Removing the upgrade cap when I fixed the residential nodes causing self congestion backfired because of the scaling.
upgrading the initial 4 nodes past 10 causes congestion even if they are the only thing connected
Yeah, looks like at L14 they exceed their max throughput, as it maxes out at (300GB/sec) level 10. Thanks for spotting that!
this is great! the color difference between business and industrial nodes was very subtle for me, but I'm colorblind
Thanks for pointing that out! I'll make sure and update it with more colorblind friendly colors. If I go further with it, I plan on having actual node icons to help make the differences clearer without relying purely on color and hover text.
is that an AI-slop cover? hahahahahaha
Yes it is, 100% ChatGPT generated slop.
I like the concept but some note
The game over screen had the text crop ( to the right of the screen )
Also I don't see the retry button
Also it is strange that you have to upgrade the industrial node for avoid congestion
Yeah, all that and more has been fixed. I switched the way I was doing congestion half way through and missed updating the industrial nodes to the new system before the jam deadline hit. As soon as the Jam voting is over on May 29th, I'll upload the new version.
Cant upgrade on mobile, but ill definitely be trying it on the pc
Yeah I didn’t test it on mobile till after I submitted to the jam. I will be fixing it once the Jam voting is over.
Try right hand tap ;-)
I did enjoy that! Nice game! Well done!
Thanks. After both jams voting is over, I'm going to push a more updated version of the game that addresses a lot of the things I wasn't able to get done before the submission deadlines.