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Hello Dear Friend

By ruthiepee

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Humor64.50
Audio713.68
Graphics764.10
Overall993.76
Mood1053.64
Theme1443.90
Fun1883.46
Innovation7042.62
Coolness126848

Comments

crare 2015-08-24 07:23

Great looking game. Fun to play, I would like to see more upgrade options. Works with theme.

lubos 2015-08-24 09:33

I can't help it, I always get hooked on clicker games!

bodsey 2015-08-24 19:28

I loved the premise and the take on the theme, but I just hate cookie clickers, sorry :/

charliecarlo 2015-08-24 19:32

$5 for a textbook. This game definitely gets a 5 for humor.

razavidn 2015-08-24 19:33

Mmmm clicker games. Love 'em to death. Unfortunately, these puppies rise and fall on the ability to keep unlocking new things, and once you start getting employees, the game kind of breaks. Awesome entry, just needs some super expensive things that aren't upgrades! (Maybe super-powered employees qua different color dinos?)

clurect 2015-08-24 19:35

Wow this was really fun and simple! :) I really like the graphics

demy 2015-08-24 19:35

hehe, fun clicker. Cool game!

jawesome 2015-08-24 19:37

I loved every bit of it!!!

zerkruemler 2015-08-24 19:37

Cool clicker game with funny story and nice graphics and sound. I didn't find any further upgrades or any hint for a goal to reach.

jackdegree 2015-08-24 19:37

Hilarious! ANd cool art/music!

Just a heads up: employees seem to be making 10 bucks a second, not 1 as indicated on the status screen?

uvwar 2015-08-24 19:41

Hm, yes, the Icthyosaur are very reminiscent of De la Beche's drawings, a nice touch.

mrsylar59 2015-08-24 19:43

Nice art, I like those kind of games, it's quite fun to play

buffalophil 2015-08-24 19:45

That was great

maesk 2015-08-24 19:51

Nice clicker game! Reeeally funny, the spam in general but specially the animation of the employees. Awesome :D

frokes 2015-08-24 20:29

Sorry this is not my kind of game. Nice music and the graphics are good but it gets boring pretty fast. Would be nice if you would know your goal...

garygreen 2015-08-24 21:33

That was fun and funny. Great graphics. :-)

boardtobits 2015-08-24 22:33

Great look and actually gave a purpose to inane clicking. Nice work... you monster.

omaha 2015-08-25 03:31

Nice! I loved the premise, and I particularly loved the animation of the employees.

Was there something I could click to go back and show my dad how wrong he was?

ruthiepee 2015-08-25 11:50

@JackDegree: oof, that's my mistake-- forgot a zero. Thanks for pointing it out.

@omaha: No, there's no ending.

@razavidn: Great suggestions. If I expand upon the game, I'd introduce floors of the office building, then buildings, then office parks, and so on for upgrading your $$$ exponentially.

Everyone else: BACK TO WORK!

mrcdk 2015-08-25 23:35

RIP my mouse :( Brb, need to spam more!

wolvesbaneteam 2015-08-26 12:36

Pretty sweet deal - some arbitrary goal would have been nice, just because I know you would've had a really funny scene where the hero one-ups his dad or something. I've been thinking about doing a clicker for some time, maybe you've finally convinced me to do so, Dear Friend! All I need is some start-up capital - please wire it to the following banc account number by expres cheque now!

01010111 2015-08-27 05:18

I clicked so much that employees were $0 so I got 2k, and then I noticed my money freaking out! I kept wishing there were commas in the numbers because I felt dumb looking at big numbers and not knowing which one was bigger :P Anyway, the art is really really good, and you managed to make another really funny game!

Awesome job!!

cultofmonkey 2015-08-27 10:03

Great fun, although after my second billion I started to get a little bored

voider 2015-08-27 20:44

Hello dear friend, this scamming-simulator is great! everything feels just right. The graphics are great, they remind me about the game "to build a better mousetrap". Every detail (email templates, employee curriculum, etc) is a big plus.
Thousand separators or other kind of number representation (such as 200K, 2M, etc) would make the game so much enjoyable towards the end. Other than that, congratz on this awesome entry.

rustybroomhandle 2015-08-29 20:29

Haha. At first, I thought "Spam-sending clicker game, funny" and was not planning to go very far... but then I thought "well ok, maybe just let me make enough to hire one employee" aaaand then the compulsion-loop snagged me. Good job! :)

onionblitz 2015-08-30 08:36

Lol, funny game! :D

dukope 2015-08-31 06:39

Nice! My only wish was for comma-separators in the numbers. And an ending.

valid4life 2015-09-01 04:46

Lots of fun! I actually had quite a few employees and had 4048 EPC!

oadt 2015-09-01 10:04

Very funny story. The gameplay needs some additional balancing, but it already makes quite fun :) Graphics and audio is great, I also love the different e-mail texts :D
Is it possible to have 3 bosses like in the screenshot? I had all employers but hadn't see an option to get a new boss. Maybe I simply overlooked it or its an older sceenshot. Anyway nice game!

triplevisiongames 2015-09-02 11:30

Addictive! And I felt evil the whole time I was doing it. Great entry!

drauthius 2015-09-02 19:16

You know what they say, the first $50 is the hardest. Nice game! Must have been either really enjoyable or really frustrating to write all that bad engrish. :D

6downstudios 2015-09-04 05:11

Great take on the theme, very funny! Art style and music really matches the hilarity of the premise, kudos!

jupiter_hadley 2015-09-13 12:18

Funny idea! I included it in part 28 of my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/UzsNzPlW29s