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comments for Exponential Locomotion

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Pangbot August 7, 2025
+10comment score: 10

Great for a jam game especially, good luck with the ratings!
The good: Love the ASCII aesthetic, upgrades scale really nicely, UI has great clarity.
The less good: Audio is simple but nice, volume scales a bit high with trains, even when set to 1/16.
Future development: I'd like to see more active things to do with the research section (choosing between a number of projects, maybe the different scientists add progress faster for different projects?). Also spreading out to inter-country train lines and/or inter-continent train lines before immediately going galactic would be nice.
Definitely trying this again if I see an update for it. :D

developer response: Thank you! I really want some decision making involved post jam for sure and a longer "loop".

Shurry August 7, 2025
+6comment score: 6

5/5 stars bruh!
Why?
Trains, loops, trains, loops, and did I mention !!! Like what more could one ask for?

Oh? our wonderful DEVELOPER used futuresight and dealt a critical blow!
WOO HOO!!!!!

Now...
All excitement aside, I do have some ideas on the screen layout. Right now there are two places that: Current funds & Funds/s are displayed. Might be a good idea to pick one, to get rid of the redundancy. I'd pick keeping the graph display.
That's all from me.

Chackakaca August 7, 2025
+6comment score: 6

the ascii is great and the loop is simple but fun... im excited to see what the future holds for this game

adoplayzz today
+5comment score: 5

why do i need a particle accelerator when my trains are already particle accelerators

hybrid836 August 7, 2025
+4comment score: 4

10/10, will be hearing the train noise in my sleep forever now

jtoh August 7, 2025
+3comment score: 3

Shurry, I think you forgot to mention trains.

tristan countest August 7, 2025
+2comment score: 2

i feel like post-jam this has potential to be great. Although, it felt too easy. Maybe for a reset layer you can randomize buffs or debuffs, e.g. different planets have different effects?

developer response: I have some plans. Different planets is on the list!

popcat August 7, 2025
+2comment score: 2

very ready for space this was amazing

butzie today
+2comment score: 2

short and sweet, was fun for a while to make music and patterns that actually sounded nice, tad shame eventually it just messes up and requires the mute button

chortler today
+2comment score: 2

first minute impression: $/s statistic shouldn't be so variable when i haven't made purchases in a while, i'd prefer if rather than measuring how much money you made in the previous second it'd just make a calculation for how much you're going to get on average and display that. or, you could add an option for this in settings somewhere, which i'm fine with as well.

dovey August 7, 2025
+2comment score: 2

I love this, I just wish it was longer.
The ASCII art is incredible and i love how the trains create their own theme music.
I just wish it was a little longer (i finished in ca 20 mins) and more in-depth with space-travel-trains and such.
As this was created for a jam it's shortness is understandable but i hope the dev will flesh out this gem a little more.

katsuhito today
+2comment score: 2

very fun little game

Singlerarity August 7, 2025
+2comment score: 2

there's a grammar mistake, "passangers" should be passengers. other than that cool game

developer response: Yeah, whoops! I'll be allowed to update the game again on the weekend. That's probably what I'll fix first.

joshij August 7, 2025
+2comment score: 2

Very cool, I like the ASCII graphics a lot! Short, ~10 minutes. I would be thrilled if this was expanded after the Jam!

developer response: Glad you enjoyed it! I've plans to expand it soonish.

Tenebaris today
+1comment score: 1

Short, but very fun!

FRANK August 7, 2025
+1comment score: 1

really like the aesthetics 5/5

shawnchoi200 today
+1comment score: 1

I did it in 7 mins!

The_Bread5 today
+1comment score: 1

The game is pretty fun but also a bit short. I'd love to see what comes of it.

milo verifier today
+1comment score: 1

loved this a lot. tail wagged. 5/5!

john_brown today
+1comment score: 1

fantastic game, hope the full version comes out soon.