Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD34 → Ball Street Journal
By modenv
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theme | 225 | 4.00 | ||
| Audio | 240 | 3.50 | ||
| Humor | 563 | 2.57 | ||
| Graphics | 607 | 3.27 | ||
| Overall | 651 | 3.18 | ||
| Mood | 679 | 3.00 | ||
| Fun | 685 | 2.95 | ||
| Innovation | 1011 | 2.14 | ||
| Coolness | 1611 | 44 |
I got an error the folder "Ball Street Journal_data" wasn't found (windows) but after renaming, everything worked ok.
The game is a nice take on the fish in the sea game, graphics are great but appear to be kinda half-done? (lots of white)
Music & Audio were great!
Movement felt fun but collision detection was a bit weird.
I liked the audio especially the background noises added to the mood, liked that the credits were scattered around the city. Gameplay was a bit too simple for me.
Not bad, but it seems like if you don't get ahead early there's no way to recover. You also need to fix the web client.
Nice single player agar.io clone :)
Definitely works in this context!
Fun twist on the big fish eating small fish trope! Needing to"engulf" a company makes the reward rise with the challenge. I also liked the movement and chase mechanics, which leads to some cool dynamic situations such as whipping around your pursuer or doing a fly-by past an even larger company to distract them both.
Kept trying but couldn't break half a million. On my last attempt, I got eaten by a company with the diameter of more than half the screen that just appeared on top of me. :)
Finally broke half a million. Around 700K I started to fill the whole screen and a chain reaction of mergers began that ended at 3.6 million. :)
Nice job on the audio and the buildings, and i really liked the metaphor!
Gameplay is hard to control though and knowing which is possible to acquire is difficult
There is a bug where another big "business" can spawn right on you when you eat smaller one that uses "stay still" behaviour. I was expecting game design of this type to show up but you had very good thematic design. Well done!
Now that's what I call a "hostile takeover"! Probably best free market portrayal I've ever seen. On technical side, game is well polished - city landscape looks great (thanks to unique stylistic choice) and AI enemies behave better than your average Agar.io Player.
Nicely polished!
+1 humor star for the name :)
Would love to see the gameplay a bit more developed, it felt very sparse, not at all the speedy dodge-em' style twitch game would would expect wall street to be! Not much to acquire, the larger companies drifting behind like slow balloons!
City was beautifully modelled.
Well, it's quite agar.io-ish (not that it's a bad thing, there is some big gameplay similarities).
That said, I love the idea of hovering over the city like that and the graphics are gorgeous, lacking a bit of color but that's it. The audio is very well done as well.
Good job
Well that was plain awesome! Loved the graphics, the music even more! It's a cloned idea but the execution is really original. My only concern was that it was a bit too hard to swallow other companies.
The game is funny, but you have to, lets call it, grind a lot.
Really neat game. I included it in my Ludum Dare 34 compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out :) https://youtu.be/S5oK4fsls3Q