Snail Facts! -- 15 Minute Incremental

April 18, 2024 5:03 AM

Snail Facts! -- 15 Minute Incremental
I was on my way to work a couple weeks ago and I got the weirdest idea for an incremental game. Here it is, Snail Facts! This is my first incremental, so I decided to make it pretty simple. Some details inside:

1. There are two short stages (hackers can bypass the first stage lol).
2. The game could be speedrun in about 10 mins, but if you take your time and do some basic interaction with the text it should take about 15 mins.
3. Because it is short, there is no saving and no offline progress.
4. Works on both desktop and mobile (although I haven't tested a huge variety of screen sizes), but in my opinion works best on desktop.
5. There is an ending - it says 'The End', so there is no ambiguity when you are finished.
6. I appreciate any feedback, but I don't intend to put much more work into this game. I will try fix any bugs or display issues, but won't really reconsider game mechanics or anything that requires serious work. However, I would like to make more games, so any feedback about balance or mechanics will be helpful for future projects.
6a. Tooltips for totals (like total increase /s) don't show up in Firefox or Edge and I have no idea why. Also, no tooltips show up on mobile, which is just how mobile is.

Thanks, and hope you enjoy it! :)

Role: Everything

posted by Literaryhero (6 comments total)

That was a lot of fun! Nice and casual. The snail fact opening was neat and went on just long enough that I thought it was going to be the whole game before it became a more traditional incremental. I enjoyed balancing the mushrooms with snail growth, and being able to reset when I got it wrong. The tooltips showed up for me, but only when the items were available for purchase - it would have been nice to see the value of the items before having to save up for them. But overall, this was a fun bite-sized game, thank you!
posted by Garm at 10:52 AM on April 18 [1 favorite]

That was great!
posted by waxpancake at 2:10 PM on April 18 [1 favorite]

Thank you both! :)
posted by Literaryhero at 4:43 PM on April 18

The snail fact opening was neat and went on just long enough that I thought it was going to be the whole game before it became a more traditional incremental.

My original intent was actually to not provide any information and just leave it as mystery meat, but then I realized that probably everyone would just nope out on it without making it past that part. :)
posted by Literaryhero at 4:44 PM on April 18

I'll have to try it again... I thought it was just going to be the facts, and gave up because I was finding the font the facts are in painful to read.
posted by stormyteal at 8:14 PM on April 18

I thought it was just going to be the facts, and gave up because I was finding the font the facts are in painful to read.

I deliberately made each stage on its own webpage so you can skip the first part if you don't like it. I totally get that part wouldn't be appealing to everyone. If you click here, you will start at the part that is more of a traditional incremental. That said, the font is the same, though.
posted by Literaryhero at 9:58 PM on April 18