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A jam submission

Grow Inc.View game page

Start and expand your (not so) small business in this tycoon game!
Submitted by Kogiusz, J4acob, MarcelineBadBoy — 7 minutes, 3 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Style#10643.8463.846
Overall#15373.4743.474
Enjoyment#18233.2313.231
Creativity#22923.3463.346

Ranked from 26 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
You scale up a company.

Development Time

48 hours

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See description for full credits.

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Comments

Submitted(+2)

Spent way more time than I thought I would playing this game, it was super fun! I'd suggest having more feedback like sound effects, but given the time constraint it was a good idea to focus on squashing bugs and getting a good gameplay loop. 

Developer(+1)

Thanks for the comment :)

Submitted (1 edit) (+2)

Cool game. Liked the art and concept. However I think there could be more sound, for example typing or photocopy sounds or ghost sound effects. I wnted to see all features but I wasn't sure when I was going to see skeletons. Some interaction would be also good, some mechanic to keep yourself a bit busy when waiting for money. Something like hovering on ghosts but funner. Overall, it was a really nice game! Nice job.

Edit: Now I saw you did this in 48 hours, impressive!

Developer

Thanks for the comment! Skeletons appear if your safety drops below 45%

Submitted(+2)

:sparkles~1: Game Review Time :sparkles~1:

What I liked

The game has a charming concept, which matches the theme relatively decently. I enjoyed the small jokes in there such as the "Robin hood, taxes are stealing your income time to take it back" line. I also found the idea of the tower becoming haunted to be quite funny. The small animations of the players swaying side to side worked well. 

I also quite liked how the ghost mechanic and tax mechanic worked differently to the rest, it wasn't just hover and wait.

I also liked going to the vast skyward abyss.

What I didn't like and how to address it

After a certain point the music stops, leaving me in a haunted tower, with my tax evasion, and surveillance state company that mandates people's happiness, the music was the last thread of my humanity and in losing it, the weight of my actions pressed down upon me. 

truly the CEO experience.

Anyway!~ I would have probably liked to have seen more sounds being implemented, such as a sound for picking money, happiness, cleanliness etc. 

The game as it is right now, prior to the ghosts showing up feels quite static, which whilst partially part of the business tycoon genre, those have some kind of progression indicator. A bit of visual and/or audible stimulation would be good, such as the time of day passing, and the profits coming in each morning, or a cool down indicator until the next profit. You could tie it in to people clocking in and out. 

The current money scaling feels a little steep, I never felt like I was making enough profit to get over that hump and feel a sense of power and accomplishment which most other tycoon games are built to do. I would maybe recommend making things a tad bit cheaper in their progression.

Potential Improvements

Add a little bit more variation in downtime! A few more animations would be good, such as an animation for constructing the floor. The guy at the top could progressively get rich-er instead of changing to a random sprite.

Overall Thoughts

I have become capitalism, destroyer of worlds. Thus I have decided to charge you for this game review, £2 please! Joking aside, the game overall was fun, with a relatively nice sense of progression. A lot of the changes here are minor and do-able withing a post jam update or two!

Developer

You cooked, thats some nice comment, thank youuuuuu

Submitted(+2)

Built a skyscraper fueled by only one coffee machine. Happiness was dropping to drastic lows. As the last remaining hapiness of my employees trickled down to 0%, it instead reset to 89%. All my employees had a sudden spike of shared unified love for that one coffee machine

Developer (1 edit)

That's epic XD, I hope you liked it, it shouldn't happen tho XD (Edit: as said by my friend,  you lost PR point, I forgot how our game is supposed to work XD)

Developer

After it drops to zero, you lose one pr point, and happiness resets to 90%

Submitted(+2)

Great little game :) Just in like 5 min the music stop playing and i was sitting in silence :) also would be nice to have some sound/feedback when you collect money, otherwise good job! 

Developer(+1)

We don't know why, but looping of music worked in pc build, but got broken in web build. We had sounds, but didn't have time to implement them. Thx for your comment :)

Submitted(+1)

Very nice visual style! The best thing is to start the background and slowly build an office

Developer

Thanks :)

Submitted(+2)

This was adorable! I wanted to keep playing to see all the floors and little sprites. I liked that you could upgrade the side room in addition to the main floor. Very satisfying overall, only wished there was more chaos and some sound design to accompany the scaling. Awesome work!

Developer

It was main goal to make it chaotic, but we didn't have time, we only worked on it for two days. We had sounds made, but not enough time to implement it. Thx for your comment :) we plan on upgrading it and developing after the Jam ends

Submitted(+2)

Great style and feels like a cute mobile game!

Developer

Thank you :)

Submitted(+1)

Good little tycoon game :)

Developer

Happy to hear that!

Submitted(+2)

What a great little game.  I love the progression and the graphics are perfect.  Great great game

Developer

Thanks for the comment :)

Submitted(+2)

Really addicting gameplay. I got to the point where the paranormal activity started (and got into what looked like space); was there anything I haven't seen?

Anyway, this was fun to manage, though the up and down scrolling got a bit tedious (W and S was a lot better, as I later found out). Would have liked there to be some kind of goal I would want to work towards. At some point it just sort of becomes maintenance.

I also loved the graphics, and a good take on the theme!

Developer

Thanks for the comment, we are considering updating the project after the game jam

Developer

You've seen it all, thanks for the comment

(+2)

great fun, but takes a little while to get going - imo could be much better with more fires to put out, think bug attacks or literal fires in fallout shelter - for me thats all its missing to be my favourite game of the jam!

Developer

Thanks :)

Submitted(+2)

beautiful idle game. could be a little faster to start but overall love it. great pixelart

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted

i couldnt click to get my money, it wanted me to hire an employee instead when i couldnt afford it :(

Developer

You need to hover over the room when the cash symbol appears

Submitted(+1)

oh it works. thx