comments for Rain Collector

I think you shouldn't have to click or drag to collect and you should just be able to move your mouse and get the raindrops.

Game is overall fun but gets stale pretty quick. General gameplay of collecting rain is quite fun and relatively unique compared to other incremental games.
Upgrades don't have much variety and prestige gives such a small boost that it doesn't really speed up the gameplay. Adding upgrades to buy with raingold (while keeping the 1% permanent boost) would make prestiging feel much more involved.
Also, I don't need a notification every 5 seconds that the game has saved, it's quite distracting and annoying.

yeah... gotta agree with some of these other guys, it definitely feels pretty repetitive, and i don't really know when the next stuff is coming.... also the timed buffs kind bug me cuz i feel like i need to save my coins... but the change from having to click them to just having to hover over them is nice

@Schrottii
That's a big problem with user feedback. It's hard to properly analyze where the strengths and weakness of something lie, and what specifically about something a person likes and dislikes. That's not to say the feedback is bad, but you often need to play around and try to see if the problem is actually what's stated, or if the issue is something else that impacts the user experience.

If your curious, People Make Games did a video on how a gun in Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was "nerfed" by changing the sound effect tied to it. Another famous example is how World of Warcraft originally had the Rested XP system; it was a penalty for playing too long instead of a bonus for taking a break.

I can't speak for anyone else, but what I personally find unengaging about this game is the lack of any variation in the gameplay loop. At least as I experienced it, there's nothing to really hold a player's interest after the initial trial period, nothing to make them want to see the next unlock or mechanic. The upgrades also don't feel particularly substantive; there is a fair chance the player could be discouraged during early prestiges if the boosted rate feels underwhelming. Or to put it another way, your Skinner Box should have a stronger early positive feedback loop.

Raindrops fall. And then you click on them. For hours. If there's anything to be unlocked beyond that, news to me; this is far too boring.

As of even the short time I've played, it seems like a well made game, but the only issue is the collecting raindrops, sometimes they will just fall too fast to collect.

It looks like sometimes the rain drops just fall through your cursor without being collected. You need to move down to try and collect them.

Also why does the music reset when you got back from the upgrade menu. That makes the music not even useful to enable.

Just to clarify a bit about the eggs spawning on the UI: when the egg spawns on top of those buttons on the bottom, trying to click the egg transitions the screen which removes the egg before you can finish clicking it. Honestly, it's a minor hic and missing the occasional egg spawn isn't really a big deal, but it feels worth highlighting. And whatever was causing the saves to not load automatically seems to be cleared at this point, as well.

ok knowing you can just drag makes it a little better but the auto collect is still feels very weak unless you want to leave it running for what feels like hours in order to get to a point of regularity cz 1% per level isnt very effective

If you make your browser window really tall and thing it gets a lot easier.

This also feels like a take on Smashing Simulator.

i also feel the more of the graphics could benefit from outlines, its kinda muddy looking... maybe just clean up the graphics and make them look less, noisy, i suppose?

make it RAIN

I'm happy to see the expansions to the game; when I get an opportunity I'll have to give it a fresh play through and see how the gamefeel has changed.

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It's been a pretty busy past week, as I'm sure you can imagine. That said, I carved out some time this morning to at least play for a little while, and here are the thoughts so far. | WEATHER: Love the weather additions, although I'm not a fan of Thunder's effect as it is; it feel like a waste of a weather pull. Also I think I had one time where Rainy progressed to Rainy, which was just unfortunate. The 100 seconds between changes feels good, I think 5 minutes (300 seconds) might be too long for a default weather change, but I'd have to play it for a while to really have a fair assessment, and with the current event ongoing, I'm already predisposed towards a shorter weather change timer. There's definitely more potential to vary gameplay up with other weather patterns, too. | EVENT: The eggs are a great addition too, having something to click a few times before needing to do a window-wide vertical sweep makes the gameplay more engaging. My bigger concern is that when it's removed, it's absence will make the game feel a little more boring as a result. Furthermore, I noticed the egg can appear on the UI, which can make it impossible to click before it disappears due to a screen transition, or may dialog boxes to appear between clicks. I did notice that if the egg appears outside of the rain menu, the droplets appear when you go back, which is a good touch. | SAVES: It's a bit of a pain to have to import/export saves, and autosaves would be nice. Nothing you don't already know, I'm sure. Moving on. | GRAPHICS: The graphic touch ups are nice, but the game looks best when the window is as vertically small and horizontally large as possible, in my opinion. With my default monitor settings, the game fullscreen'd at 1760x990 is just incredibly unpleasant; not a pressing issue, but it might be something worth addressing at some point via resizing the play area instead of the game when the screen size goes past the intended bounds. | Hopefully I'll be able to put enough time soon to progress past the 1000 Glowbie barrier. Like I said up top, it's been a busy week, and it's not looking like this week is gonna be much slower.

i wish it would tell me when/ how to unlock other resources

AAAAA why is this game rated so bad? I really enjoy it, ofc its a little slower than most idle games, and theres some room for improvements. But seriously, people should rate the game better! dont be too harsh, this is created by a single person, it might not be perfect, but hell no a 2 star rating? Try to build it yourself maybe before rating other projects badly. I know how much work the developer put into this game and a 2 star rating imo is simply not justified. Give others some love!

@ Snekrot

Effort is not correlated to quality, unfortunately. Ask anyone who's poured their heart and soul into a failed project only to have something with minimal effort take off.

The game might get better. It might stay functionally the same. It's not necessarily bad. Personally I don't think it's particularly engaging, but rating this a 2/5 as it currently stands doesn't sound unfair to me.

When I click something by accident that I don't have enough raindrops to collect, it kicks me out of fullscreen to put a message saying that I don't have enough raindrops to collect. This seems very unnecessary. You don't need that message, simply having the button not do anything until you have the proper amount of raindrops is more than enough to let me know that I haven't unlocked it yet.

New Game, We likey :)