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Show Me The Money

By faust

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Theme2373.49
Humor2552.87
Mood2982.91
Audio3512.46
Innovation3672.85
Overall3682.98
Fun4042.77
Graphics6462.15

Comments

caasi 2012-12-17 03:16

Goats can't swim! :smile:

lekochen 2012-12-17 04:01

Sorry, goats - I thought it's a tower defense game.

dansludumdare 2012-12-17 06:03

I really wish I knew what was giving me money and what was costing me money. Maybe just write a floaty number over the building every time a transaction happens?

uuav 2012-12-17 06:34

ate the fishes, cutted the trees and killed the goats!

arch-jslin 2012-12-17 06:35

My only comment: We must protect & preserve our planet!!!

faust 2012-12-17 09:13

@dansludumdare I did think about it, but didn't figure our a good way to show the gain/lost in time.

@uuav Sure, that's the mechanism in this game, just remember to be the villain and pay for it...lol

sigrath 2012-12-17 10:35

Beware the goat uprising, they are quite vicious!

gemberkoekje 2012-12-17 10:39

Nice game.

- Could use a bit more feedback: Let the player know what's happening.
- Graphics could use some work. Consider downloading GIMP and practice your pixel art ;)

Other than that, pretty original, pretty fun, so I can't think of anything else to whine about.

faust 2012-12-17 10:40

@Sigrath Ya, they do. I kind of make them like the avenger for the nature.

faust 2012-12-17 10:41

@Gemberkoekje Thx for the advice, I really don't have the talent at drawing, all the art you see in this game is made by GM build in editor.

xgeovanni 2012-12-17 10:41

The interesting thing about this game is that you have to spend money to make money. On my second go I found a winning strategy: spam fishing boats in the beginning and wait until they become unprofitable, then make up the rest by placing 1 sawmill and replacing it if a goat comes you'll wan t 1 defence system to kill the goat).

faust 2012-12-17 10:58

@xgeovanni Well, not really sure if there is any "winning" strategies in this game IMO, but that's definitely one way to finish the game. :)

And there are several endings if you still have some spare time to try.

gemberkoekje 2012-12-17 11:15

@Faust I don't have much talent either, but it's good to practice :)

pl0xz0rz 2012-12-17 12:25

There was an annoying bug. Sometimes, placing a building would fail, and steal my money

faust 2012-12-17 12:33

@pl0xz0rz Sorry for the bug, I'll check it later. But I'm not really sure if it's okay to release a new bug fixed version during the voting period?

dst 2012-12-17 12:43

I like it! Destroy the planet! ;)

geoege 2012-12-17 12:52

Pretty fun concept, got some fun with your game ! :)

zazibar 2012-12-17 13:10

Fun and simple. Mini objectives would have been interesting though.

faust 2012-12-17 13:19

@DST @Geoege Thx for your time. :)

@Zazibar Hopefully you've found all endings. :)

kgs0142 2012-12-17 14:23

Go go goats! save our world!!

blockbrains 2012-12-17 14:36

I guess i just destroyed the whole planet (and goats) with greed! :D

littlegreenflame 2012-12-17 16:10

Pretty cool! And more challenging then I first thought too.

faust 2012-12-17 17:02

@Husky: Are you sure the goats are not something blocking your ways? :P

@BlockBrains: Ya, you did. Now it's time to pay for it. :)

@LittleGreenFlame: Thx for the feedback, I'll check your entry later.

alexfili 2012-12-17 18:35

Seems okay, but this kind of game has been done a bit too much in the past. I like the concept and the goats, although I seem to get a 2 second delay where the game freezes while it loads the goat sound effect. Good attempt though!

h-attila 2012-12-17 18:42

It's interesting to see a game with an environmental message here. The greedy, exploiting man definitely fits the theme.
I actually liked your graphics, too. The game has a certain charm to it.
My problem with the game (as already mentioned by others) is that it doesn't give me enough information. I don't know how much money my boats, sawmills and mines make and how often, so it's not easy to plan ahead.

strong99 2012-12-17 22:09

Fun game, placed the entire sea full of ships and waited while goats roamed the lands :D Smiling,
Nice game though the difficulty could have been a bit higher ;) Love the red sea :D

kwl_tw 2012-12-18 03:32

Such a serious game...XD

faust 2012-12-18 05:33

@AlexFili: Thx for the feedback, and sorry for the delay, I'll see if I can fix that later.

@h.attila: I'm glad my crappy graphic give you some good time, and the feedback is really something I need to improve, maybe a post-LD version will be release when I have some free time.

@strong99: I did reduced the difficulty somehow from the 1st version, but it's hard to find the proper line in such a short time.

@KWL_TW: Why so serious, hehe.

schnerble 2012-12-18 19:14

Quite cool - though it did seem a little easy to win :) I just filled the ocean with boats, mostly - and presumed the way it turned red meant I was stripping it of resources, which would make sense.

faust 2012-12-19 01:44

@schnerble Hmm...maybe I should take that idea out from 1st version, I think I'll put it back and adjust the ending condition in post-LD edition. Thx for the feedback.

faust 2012-12-19 01:45

oops, shouldn't

caranha 2012-12-19 06:41

Interesting idea for your game, but it needs a bit more balancing.

For instance, If I simply spam boats in the lake, I can get to 10.000 quite easily. On the other hand, if I try a more balanced approach using all the options, I can barely go past 4.000 coins.

I like the way that the lake changes color, and the clouds start to gather.

The first time a goat appeared, it almost scared me to that! The goats in your world are quite vicious creatures :-)

Thanks for the game.

faust 2012-12-19 07:13

@caranha I really should keep the ocean setting as I first implemented. :S

Thx for the feedback.

somethingbeautiful 2012-12-19 09:38

I feel so bad about these goats man :(
I also thought that it was a tower defence game!
Good entry, I liked your graphics!

poor poor goat D:

killmonday 2012-12-19 12:35

It was like fast forwarding the entire human history in a few mins! Nice! Goddam goats killed all my workers the first raid :(

faust 2012-12-19 13:05

@somethingbeautiful: Wow, I didn't expect that, but I think you probably paid for that at the ending screen. :)

@killmonday Thx for your feedback, and take care of goats, they're vicious. :)

the-jack 2012-12-20 00:07

Reminded me of how I play Minecraft. Nice job.

faust 2012-12-20 03:35

@Dark Acre Jack: Maybe I should make those goats more vicious in the night, hehe.

zenmumbler 2012-12-20 14:22

"... There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A villain."

faust 2012-12-20 17:05

@zenmumbler: Did you kill enough goats to be the villain? :P

zenmumbler 2012-12-20 20:57

Yep, everything went to shit essentially. Empty the seas, ravage the trees, the planet on its knees, blame goatees.

jomomomo 2012-12-21 14:24

Sadly I can't play windows games. :-(

lonestranger 2012-12-21 20:19

My biggest complaint was that it was difficult to place things like guard towers because the collision boxes for the items extended past their graphic. Otherwise, I get the idea behind it and I think it's neat.

faust 2012-12-22 07:46

@Rex Peppers: Sorry, I didn't buy the HTML5 license. :S

@LoneStranger: Thx for the feedback, I'll check that later.

pacifistgames 2012-12-22 11:44

Nice little game!
I liked the layer of smog that was added as you made more money!

christinaneofotistou 2012-12-22 11:59

A game about wrong enviromentalism :) Awesome!!!!

faust 2012-12-22 13:05

@Pacifist Games: Well, it actually determined by an inner variable called pollution. :)

@Christina Antoinette Neofotistou: Cough, it's definitely a game about vicious goats. :P