Network Effect

An homage to "Mini Metro", this is a game about building an intricate series of tubes and watching everything grow out of control.

How to Play:

Use the left side "circle" button to begin placing a Router and click again on the screen to place it. Next, click on another highlighted Router to connect it to the network. 

You may also click on any node to begin connecting it to an available Router, and vis versa. Make sure to connect new nodes as they pop up as soon as you can! However, keep in mind that connections cannot intersect.

Routers pick up messages from connected nodes and pass them to their intended destinations. Be careful though, Routers can only handle so much traffic, and messages that aren't delivered within 30 seconds will fail! How long can you scale the network?

About

My submission for the GMTK Game Jam 2024 - "Built to Scale".  I wanted to illustrate the challenge of keeping an interconnected system working as it grows and dealing with the consequences of early decisions.

This is my first time participating in a game jam, and admittedly I massively underestimated the challenge of coming up with an idea and executing on it on such a short timeline. There's a lot more I wish I could have added and polished, but that will have to wait for someday later!