Just Junk!

Great little game! The only minor annoyance I have is when the buildings are deselected when you click to place but it's an invalid position - meaning you have to reselect the building. Since the camera rotates slowly it sometimes throws your placement off and then you have to click it again, whereas from other games I'm used to just being able to carry on placing. So yeah - only a minor annoyance. Apart from that, great job :)

Definitely something you should keep working on!

Really cool game. I like how you get to expand your planet over time with piles of junk. The resources seem fairly well paced in that you have to put some effort in acquiring things but you don't have to wait too long either. I think the idea of using the junk both to expand your base and to create buildings is pretty neat. The graphics look really nice, though I'm not too sure about the camera spinning effect. I also really enjoyed the music - it fits the mood of the game well.

I made a "giant gm48 teletubby"! 😊

Very unique game, almost like a cross between a tycoon and a tower defense, and this seems like a concept that could very easily be expanded into a full fledged larger game.

The pacing seems very well done too, just the right amount of floating space garbage and flaming meteors to keep progressing at a good rate.

There did seem to be an issue with centering the camera in fullscreen mode, it caused the background to become misaligned, which meant you could see meteors leaving large trails on the screen, and you could also see your base where it was before centering. Seems to be an issue with aligning some kind of surface with the camera, when you pan the camera after centering it corrects itself.

I love this game. I'm really surprised this doesn't have more ratings! It's great!

Here's my base right before beginning the end. And for spoilers sake, I won't show my base before finishing the game. But imagine the same thing but with shields and a lot more turrets.

I found a bug: build two false idols, break the second. You're back in normal mode now. My main feedback would be maybe streamlining the controls a bit, they definitely took a while to get used to.

Had a ton of fun playing this, really well done. Congratulations! :D

This was one of my favourites for this game jam. I love games with a dynamic world, and this was the most dynamic game world I've seen in the jam so far, other than mine. Even if it was just trash piling up on trash, it feels really good when the world is actually doing something on its own without me having to micromanage things. I actually didn't like the magnet turret because I just wanted the trash bags to hit my base. I really liked the laser turret, though, because it ended the asteroid clicking portion of the early game, which would have gotten really tiresome eventually.

I built a pretty epic trash empire, but I didn't get any screenshots before the end of the world. I found several bugs lurking in the far corner of space, though. If I had to criticize anything, I'd say having the left click being both the action button and the camera-panning button was quite annoying, and the title "Just Junk" is a bit bland. I overlooked this game for quite a while before trying it. Glad I eventually did.

I enjoyed my play. I played it pretty long before I realized there was a shop :'D Here is picture of my junk planet before buying anything https://imgur.com/JhiAcJB I found optimal stategy, collect enough junk until you can make pillars etc. make them thin and sparse, so junk asteroid hits them, then dig junk with mouse (which is faster than clicking asteroids). Just collect that junk faster than meteorite strikes them. Make these large and sparse, so you don't mind if meteorites destroyes bit of them.

I decided to record ending, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6oXt16t3XQ

I was bit disappointed at ending, I really hoped some giantic asteroid just squsihing all on its path ^^ It was fun game. Did the meteorites get a bit bigger with false idol? Atleast I thought so.

ps. I found question mark too, also found particle effects, shown in the video

This is one of my favourites so far. Loved it! I found a question mark box, built my way over to it, but it didn't seem to do anything. I built like 50 idols and 20 false idols.

Really fun game. The core loop feels good, and I thought the progression was pretty well balanced. My main issue is the speed of asteroids. It's really hard to click on them.

Also, I left a game running in the background while playing other stuff just to see, and ended up with this :D

Enjoyed it! It's a fun clicker-builder and it feels good to stack tons of production buildings and see the junk production rate go high. It was pretty easy, though, and I didn't really run into any issues with the meteors even on my first playthrough. Entering post-false-idol did put me on my toes for a second, when I realized I needed to stack up on my turrets, but even then I had so much junk that I could spam a ton of turrets and have no problem for the rest of that phase. In any case the whole playthrough was a fun click-fest with a constant sense of accomplishment. The easy difficulty doesn't really bring much replayability value, but I guess that's not a huge issue for a jam game anyway!

In addition to the level of difficulty, I think there would be some room for improvement on the controls and interaction. I would've liked to see an indicator that tells me when I'm trying to place a building where I can't put it or if I don't have the resources to do it. Currently, it just fails if the requirements don't meet and I have to go and click it again at the shop panel, which can get a little frustrating when I'm trying to mass build a big town of buildings at once. Another minor issue about the controls that I found was that the game was ALMOST playable with only the mouse but not quite! I needed shift every once in a while. I often started leaning on my left hand while clicking about on the mouse with my right, and then just occasionally had to reposition myself just to press shift for a second.

Oh and I want to mention that I really enjoyed the main music. Somehow, even though it was super repetitive, it didn't get boring at any point. It reminded me of traditional russian/slavic songs, while the instrumentation, simplicity and fast melody was in line with the tiny busy island in the void of space.

This is probably what future Earth will be like. Cool strategy/sim game, I like that there aren't limits on how big the junk-civilization can get.

I absolutely love this game! The worst issues I had were just to do the building being a little finnicky. I also ended up building four false idols just for fun, but when I accidentally destroyed one of them the music returned to the original song, even though my others were well along destroying the world. Anyway, great entry! This definitely seems like a great game to play while listening to a podcast or chilling in a voice call with friends, and I'll probably come back to it for those purposes in the future.

Of the other resource collecting/clicker games I've played so far in this jam, I think this one is my favourite because I like the addition of meteorites. Personally I like having a little bit of risk and conflict. Games like cookie clicker and other resource collection games don't really give that and I feel they just give a sense of gratification because you've moved on to the next level. For Just Junk! I liked that there was a risk of your junk planet being antagonised. Though I feel after building the laser the meteorites became a non-threat until the False Idol. That being said, I'm probably not the target player for a clicker game if I was looking for more action. In terms of a clicker game though, I think this did it really well and felt the meteorites are a nice twist!

I saw a comment that said they found it hard to click the meteorites. I think that might be because they were zoomed in on the planet as you can zoom out super far to see them.

Might have found some bugs. I was often looking elsewhere besides my planet to look for more junk and clicking c after that made a lot of white streaks across my screen. Also saw a random floating question mark like the help button in space.

Brilliant brilliant brilliant - this game is SO up my street, I love it! It kept me going for ages, very addictive. I got all the way to false idol and I was like oh I bet that means more meteors? So I made a ton of turrets and just kept spamming regular idols while I enjoyed the spooky music. I sank a bunch of time into this game, not sure if it had more content after what I played? The world didn't actually end with the false idol for me. Anyway - brilliant idea, loved slowly and organically building up the planet on a heap of junk and being an unstoppable fortress of junk turrets and magnets and farms - really fun and engaging.

In my opinion, the main gameplay is a tad too complex for a jam game, but I can see the fun in it. The meteorites were so fast and unpredictable that I never had the chance to destroy them before they hit my poor little town. Maybe you should also mention that you have to place buildings "inside" blocks, not "on top of" them.