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Make Me Rich

By jk5000

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall4613.0256
Fun4592.8056
Innovation3283.1856
Theme4842.7456
Graphics5012.5157
Audio3742.7056

Comments

theviraldragon 2021-10-04 07:56

Good concept. If the artwork was better would've made a great game.

solah 2021-10-04 08:27

Hey, pretty interesting game! I think it lacks of randomness to make the games more stressful. Events that make you loose a property for example would spice the games! Also, 50 years is a bit long, and we lack of ways of earning money.

But overall it's a good game about capitalism, I like the UI and the music! Well done ^^

bloham 2021-10-04 08:53

I like the idea, and played it with a college. We played kinda for ourselfs and sometimes decresed the house value of the city the other player was in to annoy him. The card system is good but it would be a better experience as a single player game. (Probaply you did not had time for an AI) The interface design is nice, but the cards do not really fit to the rest. Its a nice management game but I guess it would have helped to concentrate on one city and let the people battle about this.

mrbell270 2021-10-04 12:40

Great concept! I would totally choose this to spend evening over Monopoly :)

final-act 2021-10-04 14:17

Love the gameplay art needs some more work

chesschaser 2021-10-04 14:46

Cool gameplay! I know a lot of people who play this say this but the art could be improved. Great entry nonetheless!

jellybean 2021-10-04 16:26

I like the idea of playing around with percentages and investments but buying all the small properties and waiting for the larger percentages to pull in more cash with nobody able to stop you felt like too strong a move. Although, that's exactly what's happening in the real world so maybe the protest game just went over my head haha

khaotom 2021-10-04 20:51

Very nice. Just a few simple rules and actions but it creates a pretty complex system!

michael-faragher 2021-10-04 20:57

Huge file size and escape quits without confirmation. Couldn't get into it, so I don't think it's fair to rate it, but those two things were my first impressions of the game.

mmason 2021-10-05 02:09

I wasn't sure what to think when I started but what a game. I unfortunately was playing this myself but I could see how this would make quite a multi-player game. I think this is a fantastic game.

Some thoughts for improvements: - Less city cards, or add them only as needed (1 per player, or add one when all of one type of building are bought) - A special card draw either every round or ever 5 rounds that affects all cities or something - Short, medium and long game settings 50 was a lot to go through and I was mostly messing around - The ability to hold on to your cards and use them at strategic times

purpledartfrog 2021-10-05 09:47

@jk5000 Will there be a WebGL version? :smile: would actually like to rate it :wink:

jk5000 2021-10-05 09:56

@purpledartfrog No, there will not be a WebGl version. The game is made with the Unreal Engine, and it does not really support WebGL.

purpledartfrog 2021-10-05 10:45

@jk5000 I was completely unaware of that - looks like something I would give a spin though. Ah well good luck with your entry.

(I'm on a work laptop - so not really allowed to download and install)

:purple_heart: :dart: :frog:

thegamerasd 2021-10-05 11:38

Nice game, I like the idea of an investment simulator game.

wamien 2021-10-05 13:15

I liked the idea of the investments, well made! :smile:

The game could have used a little animation when you go to next player/turn. It took me some turn to understand that. Some feedback when clicking on buying and selling would have been cool for immersion.

Also, maybe change the color of the buildings when one player have it so we know which player is trying to buy stuff around us.

potkirland 2021-10-05 17:33

good concept its very interesting but a bit overwhelming at first..

ic-rainbow 2021-10-05 20:59

Internet version of this would be a blast. Perhaps with simultaneous turns.

zvyaga 2021-10-06 06:59

I love management games. A very cool font.

sceef 2021-10-06 08:12

Great job!

elektroney 2021-10-06 14:46

I will definitely dream of a red-eyed penguin tongiht wink

Great work!

lisek-gagatek 2021-10-06 17:32

I couldn't get it to run on manjaro Linux :/ Game crashed with

4.27.0-17155196+++UE4+Release-4.27 522 0

Disabling core dumps.

Failed to find symbol file, expected location:

"/home/user/Downloads/JK5000_MakeMeRich(Linux)/Engine/Binaries/Linux/UE4Game-Linux-Shipping.sym"

LowLevelFatalError [File:Unknown] [Line: 153]

ICU data directory was not discovered:

../../../Engine/Content/Internationalization

../../../Engine/Content/Internationalization

Signal 11 caught.

Malloc Size=65538 LargeMemoryPoolOffset=65554

CommonUnixCrashHandler: Signal=11

Malloc Size=131160 LargeMemoryPoolOffset=196744

Malloc Size=131160 LargeMemoryPoolOffset=327928

Engine crash handling finished; re-raising signal 11 for the default handler. Good bye.

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

jk5000 2021-10-06 18:06

@lisek-gagatek I have updated the UE4 Linux compiler, and I have compiled the game again. I don't know if it will work for you now, but maybe. I general have difficulty with running UE4 games in Linux, but I know it usually can be done, but I don't use Linux a lot.

zachary-barbanell 2021-10-06 21:09

_This game is terribly ugly, and even though it made my eyes feel some incredible pain, it’s still not as bad as the games incredibly annoying music. Sadly the gameplay is more boring then reading the manual to my last HP printer, and if it was not for that music, this would have been greater at making me sleep then a really strong sleeping pill. And by the way, why the hell do you make multiplayer games, when no one has any friends? So overall I can only say, that this game is a really bad experience, and this is definitely the worst game ever made. Have a great day, even though you ruined mine._

In all seriousness, looks pretty neat, though I don't have anyone to do local multiplayer with at the moment, might come back to it later

brooobin 2021-10-06 21:33

Man, recently i have been checking out houses to buy, and its stressing me out.. so now i was thinking to relax and play some ludum dare games and this is what i get..

The game in essence is great. With some better graphics and better sounds (and maybe a little more options) it would be a game I would play. What @potkirland said it can be a bit overwhelming in the beginning. Not sure what to do, but it became clear over time.

srynetix 2021-10-07 17:41

Good concept! Like a more complex take on Monopoly, but too complex for me :sweat_smile: Great job!

foxtrot-roger 2021-10-07 18:23

Very fun concept, I wish I had someone to play with now because it looks like tons of fun playing with someone else :-) (or maybe add an AI :-P)

plomeg 2021-10-07 18:42

I like the idea, and the realization is good. It took me a bit to understand all the things you can do.

hiroboto 2021-10-08 03:23

like this game, especially the clearness of it compared with similar submissions and ofc it is GREAT FUN!

falkon2246 2021-10-08 04:32

Nicely done! Barely could get it to run though.

quoc 2021-10-08 11:15

Really cool game.The idea is interesting and it was fun to play

pd-dev 2021-10-08 20:55

The game looked really nice, and I **had** to try it, but when I downloaded the linux version, my Desktop (Manjaro/plasma/Xorg) froze for a few seconds and then the program crashed. After booting up my Windows VM it worked fine though.

jk5000 2021-10-08 21:10

@pd-dev I don't know much about Linux, and maybe it's something with Manjaro. When I have tried to run my UE4 games on Linux it nearler never works, but I know other people had played them on Linux.

mhorth 2021-10-09 21:27

Unfortunately the game is crashing after about 2 minutes for me (windows) each time I open it. I think I would've liked it, as a math based game. Let me know if you upload any new versions and I'd like to try it out.

It looks like other people are having success with the Windows build, so maybe it's just my machine.

jk5000 2021-10-09 21:40

@mhorth do you get a crash report? Or do you maybe click on escape by mistake? The game just closes, when you click on escape.

d3kryption 2021-10-10 15:20

Took me a few tries to get my head around it but its pretty cool. Very interesting idea and I do see the theme! :D

malcolm 2021-10-10 15:29

Interesting game. Perhaps should have some fluctuations in the markets to add a bit of variety and go more with the unstable theme. Post Ludum Dare play testing will help you improve this game a lot, I think.

jk5000 2021-10-10 15:38

@malcolm I like the idea that it's the players that makes the economy unstable. The more players the more unstable it gets. But you absolutely right the game still needs some balancing, but for now I have no plans to make a big Post Jam version, but maybe later.

bentglasstube 2021-10-10 19:09

This is a pretty interesting concept but I agree with some others that there should be a random element to it. The "steal a building" card also seems incredibly overpowered, especially as one player got to use it twice and wound up with about 5x the wealth of the other player. I really like the concept overall and it was fun trying to decide if improving my own properties or sabotaging the other player was better.

jimbly 2021-10-13 10:30

That's the most stable housing market I've ever seen!

I played with another player, but we got bored around turn 5... some random events that affected the different cities would have been good, otherwise there were not any particularly interesting choices it seemed. Whoever got the better cards seemed to win ^_^.

I liked the simplicity of it for a multiplayer game, and no hand means no hidden information, it's a nice structure for a pass the mouse around game, although it would have been nice to be able to scroll the city list (or a quick city selector menu) with the mouse too.

niterich 2021-10-14 15:08

I think there is a neat concept here, but I don't think it's quite as fleshed out as it needs to be. As others have said, it's kind of a slow boil, and I couldn't bring myself to go past Year 20. I had to play by myself, so some of the impact was lost, but I never felt like there was enough interaction between players - I often found I was able to do better by focusing on my own properties and ignoring the second player. That is, until I drew a "Steal another player's property" card and completely crippled them, thereby ensuring my victory.

quanperfect 2021-10-21 13:37

The escape to quit the game is rough because I wanted to close card description and for some reason pressed escape (just automatically). It would be great to add some confirmation for leaving game. But the game is pretty fun, quite thinking involved :) Needs some balancing but really cool. Thanks! Good luck!

jk5000 2021-10-21 19:47

@theviraldragon @solah @bloham @mrbell270 @final-act @chesschaser @jellybean @khaotom @michael-faragher @mmason @purpledartfrog @purpledartfrog @thegamerasd @wamien @potkirland @ic-rainbow @zvyaga @sceef @elektroney @lisek-gagatek @brooobin @srynetix @foxtrot-roger @plomeg @hiroboto @falkon2246 @quoc @pd-dev @mhorth @d3kryption @malcolm @bentglasstube @jimbly @niterich @quanperfect

Thank you all for playing, rating and giving feedback to my game. I will upload a small update to the game when the jam ends, but the game will still need some more work.

Hope to see you all again in another Ludum Dare.

2021-11-15 19:52

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