GameJam Tychoon by davesoft

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made by davesoft for LD31 (COMPO)
Ever wanted to join Ludum Dare? Think Again!
Feature bloat, distractions and the dredded 48hour time limit.

In GameJam Tychoon you have 48hours to pick a genre and cram it with features and content to satisfy 3 randomly chosen topics. Don't forget to use the community and hype your creation, even if the judges hate it the fans might still go wild.

You generate ideas over time, which drift to the top of the screen. When you have enough ideas the features (cards) at the bottom of the screen will light up. MouseOver them to take a better look, and click on it to Focus on that feature.

Don't forget to set your priorities! Doing code in an arty mood makes little code

tldr; gamedev tychoon but with 1 person and card based features.

Ratings

Coolness 69% 3
Overall 3.03 733
Audio 2.36 744
Fun 3.06 581
Graphics 2.33 1025
Humor 3.16 194
Innovation 3.30 421
Mood 2.87 620
Theme 3.67 459

Feedback

scorer55555
07. Dec 2014 · 21:20 UTC
Nice game
goodbadokay
08. Dec 2014 · 18:55 UTC
Yeah, reminds me one of those old hacker-simulator game nobody knows)
ViliX64
08. Dec 2014 · 18:57 UTC
Would it be possible to create a Linux version? :/
Eponesh
08. Dec 2014 · 18:57 UTC
Greate game, but to hard to understand what's going on:)
AlSweigart
08. Dec 2014 · 18:59 UTC
Nice game, though the ui was hard to navigate. Maybe have a list of displaceable items to set the priorities instead. Also, it was hard to see the relationship between the tasks at the bottom and the priorities at the sides.
🎤 davesoft
08. Dec 2014 · 19:00 UTC
Hmm, you might be able to get it running on Linux using WINE, but I'm not sure vb.net translates well to Linux, I'll look into it though!
crazyrems
08. Dec 2014 · 19:11 UTC
It's... Ludum Dareception :0
Seriously it's a nice idea, but the interface is not so easy to understand.
Maybe I'll try it again later.
Timm638
08. Dec 2014 · 19:22 UTC
Good Game, but it doesn't follow somehow the theme...
tomdeal
08. Dec 2014 · 19:53 UTC
Cool game! One thing I found really distracting were the labels flying everywhere, where games like game dev tycoon used smaller balls.
Fanttum
08. Dec 2014 · 20:08 UTC
haha, looks nice, but I'm on mac :/
Spacemyname
08. Dec 2014 · 21:09 UTC
fun, thought he layout could be better
MatthewHolland
08. Dec 2014 · 21:15 UTC
Quite good fun, but there's a lot going on and I didn't really feel in touch with it (and it wasn't out of control in a fun jam way :-) ).
Andrea
08. Dec 2014 · 21:25 UTC
Pretty fun game :)
I wish I could have used a timewarp this week-end too!
Great job!
ijwu
08. Dec 2014 · 22:39 UTC
The music was a little difficult to listen to constantly. It took a few minutes before I understood what I was doing and by then I was in "UI Polish" phase with 30 hours left in the dare! The game fit the theme really well and I liked your take on it. It was funny to play, as well!

Good job!
BKGH
08. Dec 2014 · 22:40 UTC
Good game, but a little bit a confusing.
I did a game with the same premise for look what I made weekend. :P
nuiguy
08. Dec 2014 · 22:44 UTC
I couldn't really play it because the bottom row of ideas wouldn't show up, I think that they are there, but my monitor isn't high enough resolution? (1366 x 768
nuiguy
08. Dec 2014 · 22:45 UTC
I couldn't really play it because the bottom row of ideas wouldn't show up, I think that they are there, but my monitor isn't high enough resolution? (1366 x 768) UI was quite confusing. Nice idea, maybe you could improve it?
Meta-link
08. Dec 2014 · 23:28 UTC
Ok, that's definitly a good idea :D
The UI is a little bit rough but the game is cool to play and funny !
Gandalf1209
08. Dec 2014 · 23:48 UTC
I would play, but I have Linux, not Windows. Wine didn't work either. :(
Tommyno222
09. Dec 2014 · 12:20 UTC
Good idea! Very interesting game.
TeamQuadratic
11. Dec 2014 · 05:54 UTC
A lot of different things going on at once, but a cool game!
Gemberkoekje
11. Dec 2014 · 15:55 UTC
Hey man, could you please help me debug the problem you had with my game? I've added a DEBUG version which will add a bit of logging to the keys, so please play it for a bit, do whatever you did before, and please send me the log! Thanks in advance!

As for your game, while I'm here, and as soon as I've said to my virusscanner that this really ISN'T a virus.. ;)
Well, I won, first place, with a game which had 4 in fun, and minusses in most other things... I wish it were that easy in real life! It was a bit confusing, so a bit of a tutorial would've been nice, but not a bad effort overall! Also the audio made me a bit jumpy.
TheScragglyMan
12. Dec 2014 · 18:08 UTC
Loved the game studio live plug haha, Nice to see this game worked out man ^^
Great entry :D
Gins
12. Dec 2014 · 22:05 UTC
Interesting game, but it's also very confusing. I guess you need to play a couple times to get it right (just like the real Ludum Dare haha)
Paisley Games
16. Dec 2014 · 14:14 UTC
Looks cool! Wish there was a mac version though...
cxsquared
18. Dec 2014 · 22:44 UTC
Wish I understood the priorities a little better but overall a really fun game. Great work!