Absolutely amazing idea! Well done!
Really, my only complains are because I would like to see the concept expanded:
1. It requires far too many clicks to "Marry".
2. There's little visual feedback for aging
3. The game is far too hard. Losing just 1 old person brings you to the Main Menu. Perhaps if you lost more than 3 Family Members within a certain time? Like a cooldown Game Over?
Other than that, well done! This is my favourite of the jam so far.
(The mechanic also managed to be representative of the theme you're trying to put forward; that "Families are Pyramid Schemes". When looked through this mechanical lens, they are. This is wonderful design; as it gets you to think of a real life situation a little differently.)
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Thanks for the kind and detailed feedback, I really appreciate it!
The clicking definitely seems to be a feature that was not very well liked. In hindsight it seems pretty clear now :D
I hadn't thought about the end condition though. I didn't end up working it in, but the elderly do "ascend" once they are off the top of the screen, so you don't have to keep them up forever forever, but the screen does fill up pretty fast. There's certainly something to be played with in terms of balance and making the game have more of an 'arch' to the experience.