Glad you liked the adverts I went with. I had a bit of a dilemma in that I didn’t want to use actual adverts and give anyone free advertising, so I went with some old and fictional ones.
Thanks for giving it a go. It is unfortunately pretty buggy. I’ve taken a bit of a break from it post-jam, but they’re very strange bugs with no error messages!
This was great! Very seductive numbers-go-up game. I wasn’t entirely sure why I lost in the end, but I was focussing too much on getting those greedy directors their dividends, so maybe it was the population and environmental health factors…
It took me a while to realise that the directors could actually be praised/bribed and that would have some effect on the game. But that was a nice realisation that the game had that extra bit more depth.
Thanks so much for giving it a go. I’m not really sure what would be causing those glitches - unfortunately the game was pretty rushed in the end, so I knew there would be some bugs, but didn’t think they’d be so drastic! Sorry that’s been happening for you!
But also thanks for letting me know about the problems. I’ll have to have a break from working on this game, but when I come back to it I’ll definitely have a look and try to get as much of that fixed.
I caught a typo in the Plaintext zine. It says ‘afternthough’, rather than ‘afterthought’.
Love plaintext and often find it a shame that the more progressive lefties in my life aren’t particularly technologically-minded (and so go for the convenient thing which isn’t always the best thing!).
You’re absolutely right. I started on a wiki and didn’t get much done before the deadline. It’s a part of projects I don’t have as much as experience of (or enjoy as much?) and didn’t realise how much time and effort it takes to write good docs!
Love the simplicity of this. Doesn’t get in your way, just lets you focus on the prototyping. But also provides the benefits of a digital tool. Great job!
I remember seeing the last jam just after it had finished, and being bummed out that I’d missed it. But I loved the idea so much that I started brainstorming and then developing a tool after it had ended, pretending to myself that the jam was still going.
Fast forward to now, and I had all but forgotten my old project, another soul lost to my graveyard of started and never finished games and tools. But the next Tool Jam is coming up, and I’m hoping to revive my old project that never saw the light of day.
Looking forward to seeing what all of you come up with as well.
A couple of questions. Firstly, is there a target screen resolution we could/should be working towards?
Secondly, are there shapes or colours or numbers associated with the arcade machine’s buttons that we can use in UI prompts? Or should we use Xbox controller icons?
This is great! I just had the idea of making a game like Machi Koro, and searched around to see if someone had done anything, and this is great inspiration.
It feels a bit easy? But I also imagine that, because there’s so much depending on the random die-roll, if it was harder it would feel really unfair.
What a really cool take on the theme. I love the idea that the walls only count when you can see them. The bouncing of the orbs was a bit unsettling, but I really liked the simple minimalist graphics, and the great puzzle mechanic.
This is great. I posted something on the game’s page (@HungryCatGames: That’s where yours is too - I was confused there as well for a second), but now I’ve had a second crack at it.
It took my far too long to get dashes working. I was trying to hold shift and then do the arrow, but it actually works much better the other way around (holding the arrow and pressing shift).
It’s probably the perfect level of challenging, which is just slightly too much for me! Great game. A really good level of polish and a really satsfying core mechanic.
Got a strange situation where I died straight away and then the second time I played it, it wouldn’t start up again. But when I closed and starting up the game again, I got it and I was ready for that first purple bullet.
Felt a bit like a bullet hell game, but could have had a few more bullets.
I also wasn’t sure what I was meant to be doing. I tried lighting up all the four corners, but I couldn’t get to them quick enough for them all to be lit up simultaneously.
But even saying that, I found it pretty satisfying just nipping around avoiding all the purple blobs. Nice job!
Great atmosphere. I think for your first ever gamedev project, and done in only a week, you should be proud of this.
The lighting is amazing, and is a great foundation for a very spooky/tense game. I think even just walking around, if there was some tense music or something, would probably be enough for a scary game.
I really enjoyed this. Short but sweet. The soundtrack and lighting really played well together, felt like a cool retro grungy vibe.
Gameplay was a bit confusing at first, but reading through the comments here I got it, and found it really fun.
My only recommendations would be minor stuff that obviously it’s hard to get to in a jam, like making it a bit more obvious when you’re taking damage. That, and well, I’d have liked to be a bit longer, which I think is a compliment, really.
You can focus by scrolling the mousewheel (or pageup/pagedown) while holding shift. I’ve added controls to the options menu (accessible with escape), but I couldn’t get changing keybindings in with the time left.
