jacic 2011-08-22 16:34
Interesting idea.
I keep getting "uneducated" floating down no matter how many times I go to college :)
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD21 → Unrest
By lattyware
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Innovation | 24 | 4.00 | ||
| Theme | 23 | 3.92 | ||
| Overall | 114 | 3.31 | ||
| Community | 122 | 3.00 | ||
| Humor | 177 | 2.13 | ||
| Coolness | 183 | 3 | ||
| Fun | 217 | 2.77 | ||
| Graphics | 305 | 2.50 | ||
| Audio | 371 | 1.00 |
Interesting idea.
I keep getting "uneducated" floating down no matter how many times I go to college :)
They will reduce in size as you do things (allthough some will also increase) - this isn't instant, so it's best to be careful about doing lots of things quickly in case you are causing a big issue elsewhere. The aim is to simulate the hardship of juggling all of the issues that make up your life - and focusing on one mere element will lead to disaster.
As I mentioned in IRC, crashes on startup! :(
Spent a long time playing this.. I could not figure out how to get rid of addiction.. I never took drugs in the first place? Great concept and execution though.
@Hempuli:
What operating system, what build, and how does it crash? If it's 32-bit linux, try running from source rather than the prebuilt version, as that was built on my 64bit machine, and from what I gather it won't run on 32bit installs. Unfortunately, I don't have a 32bit install to create another version.
@AndyBrown:
You begin with a small ammount of addiction, and you also gain it (in much lesser amounts) from alcohol. The answer to that one is sleep, sleep in your bed and addiction will go down.
Good idea, fairly well implemented. Might have been good to see what actions have what effects (is holding down a relationship purely to stop loneliness, or does it also reduce stress? etc.) - also, the idea of essentially 'acquiring' a girlfriend for your house who then becomes a stationary action-fulfiller (ahem) doesn't chime well with me, but maybe that's just a victim of the very static art style.
Yeah, I wish I could have done more with regards to that kind of thing, but it was simply a time and art issue - I'm no artist and so animation was virtually non-existent, and hence I was really limited on what I could show well. I initially wanted to do a lot more properly (you'll notice there are some sprites that are unused for stuff like watching TV) which I had to replace with just a fadeout.
I was torn as to whether to show the effects. I felt that showing them made the game a) really easy and b) less interesting. It made it a pure maths game, which while technically what it is, it made it less about experimenting and juggling everything, and more about 'got to do this stuff in this order'.
If you are really interested, if you grab the source code you can take a look at what each event does.
@Lattyware oh whoops.. totally missed sleeping on my bed. My poor guy never slept his whole life. I'm surprised he didn't die from exhaustion.
Interesting entry, but if not for comments, I'd probably never thought you could get rid of addiction by sleeping it over :) Way too easy as a game, but as a sim and attempt to do anything else but another platformer it gets my thumbs up.
The graphics are just right, I especially liked the way your issues rain down on you constantly. It's a bit worrying that the main character tends to solve all his issues with suicide, but I suppose it's the player's role to stop him.
Absolutely loved the idea, max on innovation! With audio and maybe some interesting gameplay ideas this'd be a top entry for me.
@AndyBrown:
Unfortunately the mechanics do sort of rely on your following my train of thought, but that is the way with this kind of thing. As to exhastion, I had planned to have it separate, but ended up rolling it into stress - again, a time thing.
@Andrew:
Cheers, when I implemented the effect I really liked it. I was weighing it against a normal kind of 'bar' interface, and it is less clear, but I think that helps in a way to make the game less of a cheap version of the sims XD.
I'd like to make it quite clear that I personally think suicide is an insane thing - I could never even contemplate suicide as I feel no matter how bad things are - being dead is worse. If I'd have had the time, I would have made a death animation where your issues dissapeared, but were replaced with a massive 'DEATH' issue, which may have got my point across - alas, a lack of time stopped me. And yes, the player's role is to be rational and try and juggle the issues.
@jonnopon3000:
Cheers. I wish I'd had the time to do some audio and stuff, and I did have plans, but as always, time stopped me.
Brilliant idea