Christmas Tycoon by GreenyUk
It's December 1st and it's time to start preparing for Christmas 2014.
You have $50,000 and 24 days to create as many presents as possible.
Hire from a selection of elves with different traits, buy blueprints for different presents and manage your workforce to get the best from them with the time you have.
Make sure you delegate jobs to the right people and don't run out of money!
When you reach Christmas Eve (or run out of money) you will be scored on the number of presents you have made. Leave your scores below!
**Instructions**
-> Hire people through the laptop. You can only hire 4, and they're with you 'till the end so choose wisely.
-> Buy present blueprint from the laptop. Again, you can only have 4 and they have different properties.
-> Each present has a happiness score associated with it. The more expensive the item, in regards to time and money, the more score it will give.
-> Elves have different energy levels and will get tired, requiring a rest.
**Bugs I'm aware of**
-> The green bar is energy. When that reaches 0 the character should stop working to recover. This works on Windows, but not HTML5.
-> The energy bars go down way too slow
Anyway, hope you enjoy Christmas Tycoon and had as much fun this LD as I did. :) 35 hours roughly this weekend!! See you all next time around. :)
PS. I tried to embed onto this page, but the cap of 900*600 is too small!
You have $50,000 and 24 days to create as many presents as possible.
Hire from a selection of elves with different traits, buy blueprints for different presents and manage your workforce to get the best from them with the time you have.
Make sure you delegate jobs to the right people and don't run out of money!
When you reach Christmas Eve (or run out of money) you will be scored on the number of presents you have made. Leave your scores below!
**Instructions**
-> Hire people through the laptop. You can only hire 4, and they're with you 'till the end so choose wisely.
-> Buy present blueprint from the laptop. Again, you can only have 4 and they have different properties.
-> Each present has a happiness score associated with it. The more expensive the item, in regards to time and money, the more score it will give.
-> Elves have different energy levels and will get tired, requiring a rest.
**Bugs I'm aware of**
-> The green bar is energy. When that reaches 0 the character should stop working to recover. This works on Windows, but not HTML5.
-> The energy bars go down way too slow
Anyway, hope you enjoy Christmas Tycoon and had as much fun this LD as I did. :) 35 hours roughly this weekend!! See you all next time around. :)
PS. I tried to embed onto this page, but the cap of 900*600 is too small!
Ratings
| Coolness | 82% | 2 |
| Overall | 3.30 | 436 |
| Audio | 2.59 | 618 |
| Fun | 2.92 | 717 |
| Graphics | 3.95 | 108 |
| Humor | 3.14 | 199 |
| Innovation | 2.97 | 670 |
| Mood | 3.18 | 341 |
| Theme | 3.62 | 528 |
But unfortunately it's a long time 'til christmas and not much to do.
Note: At the start, in the logo, it says "Chrsitmas" instead of "Christmas"!
Seems bugfree and I'm into this kind of pixel-art :)
Some suggestions:
Intro should be skippable
You should be able to replace elfs
Pausing the game while reading item/elfdescriptions would be nice
-> The fireplace and window were supposed to effect efficiency, but i didn't have to implement :/
-> You can skip the intro by pressing space
Thanks for playing and rating :)
Great job!
However, when you have hired the elves there is not much to do? I think it would be nice if you (e.g. playing santa) had to somehow control the elves and keep them occupied and stop slacking off, etc. :)
It has potential.