dhim 2021-04-26 13:21
I have a trouble knowing when to buy or sell if I am the only one playing....
maybe use B and S instead of left and right. it's not evident which one is buy or sell. Or maybe up and down since the price increase of decrease..
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD48 → STOCKS
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 1805 | 2.72 | 22 | |
| Fun | 1674 | 2.70 | 22 | |
| Innovation | 530 | 3.55 | 22 | |
| Theme | 1804 | 2.57 | 22 | |
| Graphics | 1576 | 2.90 | 22 | |
| Audio | 1104 | 2.85 | 22 | |
| Mood | 1472 | 3.02 | 21 |
I have a trouble knowing when to buy or sell if I am the only one playing....
maybe use B and S instead of left and right. it's not evident which one is buy or sell. Or maybe up and down since the price increase of decrease..
There's elegance in the simplicity of this--the timer combined with pressing the right button. But there's no real feeling of progression. The numbers go up, but since there's no plot or milestones, I don't know what that means.
...which is a pretty apt metaphor for how divorced the stock market is from reality.
I had to read the instructions to figure out what to do at the start. Thought the game was very interesting and that the concept was pretty novel. The rhythm aspect reminds me of Rhythm Heaven, because they tend to have pretty wacky minigames. Would be cool to see how the game feels with polyrhythms and what not
Nice idea, fits the theme, good that you included a WebGL HTML5 build, it's really a must have IMO. But I did not really feel like I could understand my influence on the game and ended up clicking left and right more or less haphazardly, without any strategy and by the end of my first game I was missing something "extra".
Love the clean aesthetic and the idea of a rhythm-based stock trading game. Like others said there isnt a ton of feedback or drive to keep going and I wasnt 100% sure if I was just supposed to follow the on screen prompts or make my own decisions. Loved your studio intro though btw!
Fun mini game! I ended with $129k
200 turns is quite long though, would be good to have some sort of progress indicator or to make it change more over time
It feels very polished though
Really cool game, amazing and really good-looking, i loved the simple and minimalistic art style. However, at first I didn't understand much how to play.
Nice little game. There was no music, was it? Unless I was doing something wrong. Would've been fun combine some simple melody with ups and downs of a market.
I had a hard time knowing when to buy and sell, or what I was trying to do. When I started hitting the green zone, I kept losing money, but from others' comments I see that I might have been hitting the wrong keys. It has a good look and a great sense of style. There are some number formatting issues that crop up with commas. It would have helped me to have some more instructions to go from. Nice work, though, and a creative concept.
Nice stocks game. I wish real stocks were the same XD
Mini-stonks up and down wild swings. Nice idea.
I really liked the stock graph and how it visually showed when it was time to buy or sell. I think some kind of positive feedback would be helpful, like a happy noise when you sell at the right time and an angry noise when you do the wrong option. Also, allowing you to choose how much stock to buy/sell on any given round could be fun, so that can gamble it all on one purchase if you so desire. Nice work!
It is a fun gameplay mechanic and concept, I really like the idea, but I missed some sort of goal and progress indicator. The game ended all of sudden when I was questioning myself if there will be an end or something else to do.
I am having issues understanding when you are supposed to buy and sell in association with the left golf-swing meter. I've played it a few times and I still don't understand what I am supposed to do.
I like the idea of making a game about stocks and going deeper in debt.
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