robotsoulsgames 2017-04-25 04:13
It looks fun, but I didn't see any PC download, and the mall was empty. It didn't seem to work for me online.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD38 → AS Mall World
By sean-s-leblanc, rykeeboy and ianmart1n
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 636 | 2.91 | 37 | |
| Fun | 540 | 2.88 | 37 | |
| Innovation | 392 | 3.11 | 37 | |
| Theme | 593 | 2.94 | 38 | |
| Graphics | 565 | 2.91 | 38 | |
| Audio | 303 | 3.15 | 34 | |
| Humor | 88 | 3.65 | 37 | |
| Mood | 414 | 3.18 | 34 |
It looks fun, but I didn't see any PC download, and the mall was empty. It didn't seem to work for me online.
@RobotSoulsGames yeah, unfortunately we found some game-breaking bugs in the windows builds, so I've taken them down until they can be fixed. Not sure why the web version didn't work though!
edit: PC builds are back up now
Awesome idea! great graphic! lot of fun! shut up and take my money! :D
Wow, everything is expensive. The game looks nice (maybe the postprocessing is a bit exaggerated), but I couldn't figure out what to do.
I love the idea of running around a mall with a wallet that fires like a machine gun! I think there is some depth missing here, but it is a great start. Perhaps something else like chasing sales around could add some depth. The music is very good. There is a lot of great work here.
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Interesting and fun idea, great feeling to throw away the money like that: P I was going to say something about not seeing that much connexion with the theme and then I re-read your game's title : ) Nice one guys ! As for the negative spot, I'd just say that I wasn't sure to see the point of the game, apart for the fun context of it, maybe it lack achievements of some kind. Outside of that congratulations !
It's rated.
Man, if only I had a magic wallet spouting endless streams of money that I could just aim at things.
Yeah, the ghosting screen-effect is pretty obnoxious, I never solved the mystery and it's missing shopping carts. How can you make a mall game _without shopping carts_?! That's blasphemy.
In any case, it was a fun little thing, although it could use some more weird stuff to do. Well done!
The post processing was a bit over the top, but running around with a money gun was cool.
Interesting game, shooting money at stuff was fun. The ghosting effect makes the game look very blurry and the text can be quite hard to read when it pops in. I also wasn't really sure what I was supposed to be doing.
I had a lot of fun running around throwing money at people and seeing the different lines of dialogue from all the characters. Some more gameplay would have been nice.
That blurry filter was a bit hard to look at after a while. I like the colors used though. I bought everything I think? The end game screen said I spent $8240. I love the ....hmmm....dyslexic?..take on the theme. Pretty funny.
Lol, cute. Though, it felt as though I was watching an old 3D movie without red/blue glasses.
I never realized how much fun it would be to throw money at things....literally.
Nice to play something different. The whole style and mood is great ! I'm really digging it. Maybe there should be some obstacles to prevent you from just buying everything. It could be other comsumers trying to buy stuff before you on black friday. That would be epic, in a big rave you would need to just buy everything you can.
Great submission and gratz on creating this game.
Nice game, in the same sort of "genre" as Bernband and Morning Post, both of which are super cool, so this one is cool as well!! Definitely turn down the blur a notch, but everything else is stellar. Good entry!
Wow, I love the art style! Reminds me of WarioWare. Aesthetics aside, the wallet-gun mechanic is funny and cathartic. Using money to both buy things and talk to people is both an elegant design and a clever metaphor. The dialogue is witty and charming.
The obvious negative is the lack of an objective, though given this game's place in the "weird itch experience" genre, that isn't too unusual. It would be nice to be able to buy things for the NPCs when they talk about them.
Funny idea and I like the style with the billboard characters and items. Wish there were a bit less post-effects, and something to do. Could have been a little adventure maybe, you got the mechanics for it.
I couldn't quite figure out what there was to do aside from buying things--maybe that was all there was. I like how you twisted the theme on a title basis, but I couldn't see how it's reflected in-game.
The art style is bright and bold, which I liked, but also under polished. The music set the tone pretty well, very mall-like.
It's a shame that you can't rate the title, because it's pretty clever!
I really liked the mood and the weird colorful artstyle, and throwing money at stuff is always fun.
The only downside is that i didn't feel like there really was a 'point'? Or maybe that's just me.
Overall fun idea.
Wait, a shopping game for tentacle arm Cthulhu!? Initially thought I had to buy gifts to make the other shoppers happy, but couldn't find a mobile phone. The interaction mechanic is really original and would definitely make a good core feature for a game.
Nice idea. I like your relaxing music and aesthetics, although you could improve on the gameplay as there is no goal to the game (although thats how real life shopping works). Other than that I can't really complain about anything.
Enjoyed the quirkiness of this one.
Thought the visuals and music worked really well in setting the mood and liked how the music definitely reminded me of mall or elevator music, perfect fit. Was pretty satisfying spamming the money although I did think there might have been different endings of when you leave without buying anything to the times you buy everything before leaving.
This was quirky and weird and funny. Sure there's no real objective, but something about the way it felt to shoot those little dollars out of my tentacle-arm-wallet box was very satisfying. Talking to people by bouncing money off their head made me laugh too. Love the pun in the name.
As mentioned above, everything had a weird double-vision that made it disorienting and started to give me motion-sickness.
If you wanted to add objectives, even just adding some simple puzzle-solving (this guy wants a phone, buy a phone, take it to him) would probably scratch that itch for people who feel like there isn't a point.
Good game, I enjoyed it!
I actually quite liked the funky post processing effects but wish there was more of an objective to the game itself.
Good game and music. But you should add more challanges to the game...
Good job!
Quirky game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 38 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmUpejMpTcM
Its a interesting game. Its a good idea and looks good. I dont understand well what is the objetive of the game, and if the mall wash biger it was perfect ^^ I have fun playing this game ^^
Absolutely fantastic! The part about throwing cash on people so they start talking to you, splendid. That would be an interesting concept on its own right. The muzak feeling you nailed 100% and there's really not that much I'd want to see different except perhaps the mall get more stalls and that the peoples dialogues correlated with what I had bought. I really want to have more constructive things to say... but this really is one of my top favorites this far.
It's an awesome game. I loved the aesthetics and the visual style you've used here. I didn't kinda understand what is the objective. But anyways, it was fun throwing money onto people and buying stuff. overall a great looking, fun entry.
The money gun is a great idea! It was a bit hard reading what people were saying, but that wasn't really a problem since it was mostly small talk and advertising, just like in the real world. For some reason the game didn't work when I tried it on itch (I just got a black screen) but the web version worked fine. I enjoyed it!
Hi! I love the idea of the game! But for me is was also hard to read the lines people were saying(
A neat Vaporwave-like game with experimental gameplay. The :dollar: money shooting mechanic :dollar: was very rewarding, I ended up spending a lot of money on fashionable wares before I decided to exit the mall. Loving the abscense of violence in this entry :ok_hand: