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Re: Show HN: Skyline Co-op is like SimTower, but built around democratic socialism

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Post by energy123 »

numbers_guy wrote: post #26
energy123 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those would be social democracies.

No, social democracies are subservient to capital. The whole modern democratic socialist movement as I understand it is primarily to fix exactly that issue.

I don't have much to discuss about the movement (although I am sceptical due to the repeated historical pattern of Mensheviks making way for Bolsheviks), but the subject we are discussing are democratic socialist countries, not movements, which as far as I am aware, don't exist. There are social democracies like Finland, which is what I assume the poster was referring to.

Re: Show HN: Skyline Co-op is like SimTower, but built around democratic socialism

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Post by alamsterdam »

I played it earlier. Quite enjoyed it (GitHub issues)... Reminded me of my childhood.

Gameplay was a bit wonky, some issues. I saw the OP was posting here looking for comments, I wanted to give some feedback.

Not sure why it was flagged?

Re: Show HN: Skyline Co-op is like SimTower, but built around democratic socialism

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Post by [deleted] »

geekamongus wrote: post #27
bildung wrote: post #23

Nice, this has a cute feel to it. I smiled about some of the gossip at the bottom. Tiny suggestions: make the space bar pause/unpause, and for my ears the background music could be way quieter compared to the sound effects - with the default settings I thought the game had no sound yet. Will definitely play more in the evening!

Thanks for the feedback! If you hold the volume button it opens up sliders to adjust the music/ambient noise levels. I should make this more obvious, probably.

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Re: Show HN: Skyline Co-op is like SimTower, but built around democratic socialism

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Post by alamsterdam »

geekamongus wrote: post #27
bildung wrote: post #23

Nice, this has a cute feel to it. I smiled about some of the gossip at the bottom. Tiny suggestions: make the space bar pause/unpause, and for my ears the background music could be way quieter compared to the sound effects - with the default settings I thought the game had no sound yet. Will definitely play more in the evening!

Thanks for the feedback! If you hold the volume button it opens up sliders to adjust the music/ambient noise levels. I should make this more obvious, probably.

A few friendly suggestions:

- Building a floor and then the room/office is a bit annoying…. Should auto build the floor (like Sim Tower)

- Stairs are difficult to build, it should be possible to build a vertical column, seems you always have to build horizontally?

- It should be possible to have multiple elevator cars in 1 shaft. Of course this is not possible in real life, but we are looking at a 2D shape of a 3D building. Either that or reduce the demand on the elevators

- In real life, Stairs and Elevators generally share a fire space away from residential, that should be encouraged

Re: Show HN: Skyline Co-op is like SimTower, but built around democratic socialism

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Post by ceejayoz »

alamsterdam wrote: post #44
geekamongus wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback! If you hold the volume button it opens up sliders to adjust the music/ambient noise levels. I should make this more obvious, probably.

A few friendly suggestions: - Building a floor and then the room/office is a bit annoying…. Should auto build the floor (like Sim Tower) - Stairs are difficult to build, it should be possible to build a vertical column, seems you always have to build horizontally? - It should be possible to have multiple elevator cars in 1 shaft. Of course this is not possible in real life, but we are looking at a 2D shape of a 3D bu…

Putting several elevators right next to each other seems to work nicely.

Re: Show HN: Skyline Co-op is like SimTower, but built around democratic socialism

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Post by danielspace23 »

Just a couple of suggestions:

- As I use more than one computer, it would be nice to have a Save (or Export?) feature, that just gives you the game state as a file that I can transfer between devices. It would also be useful for backups.

- This could really be a Progressive Web App!

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