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Have You Considered the Benefits of Life Insurance

By crackerblocks

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Innovation14.3923
Humor43.9522
Overall183.7023
Coolness2421
Fun263.6523
Theme293.6123
Graphics1073.1323
Audio1032.7423
Community2242.007

Comments

pov 2011-05-02 05:19

Awesome! I love it!

sonnybone 2011-05-02 08:20

OH MAN. As usual, your game is friggin' hilarious and unique.

I LOVE THIS.

Right off the bat I got a POPULOUS feel. Even though there are no instructions, I was able to figure out what to do really quickly. It's very intuitive. The visual style is rad and consistent, the gameplay is fresh and challenging, and it's HILARIOUS!

GAH!

I WANT YOUR POWERS!

randomnine 2011-05-02 14:06

Nice little concept. I managed to buy all the gifts on my third run - if you get five or so people signed up in one corner early on, you can keep them safe, then once you have ten or so people in that corner you can start closing trapdoors faster than they open. You just need to get ahead of the curve :D

quickfingers 2011-05-02 17:10

This is brilliant! love the take on the theme :D

yrael 2011-05-02 17:24

Simply awesome ! Inventive, fun and smart. Good job.

misfitbyte 2011-05-03 20:19

I played without reading your blurb and in a minute knew what was going on that for -some- reason I wanted those things.. Snd hated myself just a little each time I bought them. Great game, intuitive and fun.

the-jack 2011-05-04 17:12

Fantastic.

Reminds me a bit of that game that the UK indies made recently about the life of an American stock broker. Very biting.

Great work!

shard123 2011-05-05 23:48

Great and amazing!

hamster_mk_4 2011-05-06 05:23

That was fantastic. The back story and the desperate struggle against the inevitable really makes the game interesting.

JosephKnight.com 2011-05-06 05:52

Original and out of the box. Until you fall into one. Good design. Now bank those high-heels! OMG Shoes!

johanp 2011-05-06 14:44

Awesome self balancing gameplay. Nice take on the theme. Good job!

erik 2011-05-08 04:35

Fun! Too bad about the lack of win screen.

alexlarioza 2011-05-10 23:03

Brilliant take on the theme!

mwest 2011-05-15 15:37

Great entry well done - it was quite enjoyable and very funny!

recursor 2011-05-16 20:29

Crazy but fun. This I think is one of the more creative uses of the theme.

telluse 2011-05-20 01:36

Insidious twist on the theme. I like it.

Nifty graphics, got a wonderful simplicity that fits perfectly with the scheme of things - a somewhat bland expression that speaks to the very life of the insurance salesman. Are we, perhaps, seeing the world through his eyes, filled with cattle ripe for the milking with simple pitfalls that to avoid?

And you're getting a third thumbs up for the ludicrous dev notes... "they were going to say funny things". Lol :P I guess that's what Valve had written up for Freeman in Half-Life, too X-)