{"author_link":"\/author\/larb\/","author_name":"larb","author_uid":"17860","comments":[{"author_name":"TheSnide","author_uid":"13443","time":"Dec 19, 2013 @ 11:47am","epoch":1387453320,"text":"Nice little game, a little history graph would have made it awesome :)"},{"author_name":"mcapraro","author_uid":"28472","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 11:34pm","epoch":1387582140,"text":"awesome idea for a game, i could totally see adding a character that guides you through this and having some fun events (like stockmarket crashes, etc)"},{"author_name":"Velro","author_uid":"25399","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 11:34pm","epoch":1387582140,"text":"Had a similiar idea, glad someone did it."},{"author_name":"dray","author_uid":"5284","time":"Dec 20, 2013 @ 11:51pm","epoch":1387583160,"text":"Nice game. The start is really difficult and the interface don't help much. I think that the game would be much easier to understand with only round numbers. i made something like 5k when i understand it. we should have a penalty when we pass a day."},{"author_name":"atombrot","author_uid":"7738","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 12:00am","epoch":1387583700,"text":"It's a start, but a bit too random to motivate me for a longer time. With some improvements this could become an addicting quest for more money ;)"},{"author_name":"TeamQuadratic","author_uid":"18547","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 12:31am","epoch":1387585560,"text":"I wasn't too fond of the rounding, but it was a nice fun game."},{"author_name":"Mlle Eole","author_uid":"8751","time":"Dec 21, 2013 @ 4:12pm","epoch":1387642020,"text":"I'm really bad with numbers. :) Something pushed me to try again and again, but i had difficulties with the rythm - often waiting for the prices to rise - As mcapraro said, i think it could be really really fun with some events."},{"author_name":"Benjamin","author_uid":"2952","time":"Dec 22, 2013 @ 8:33pm","epoch":1387744080,"text":"Interesting game but the round rules make the start too long and difficult. After that it almost not affect gameplay so why implement it ?"},{"author_name":"dqmhose","author_uid":"11488","time":"Dec 22, 2013 @ 8:43pm","epoch":1387744680,"text":"I love the idea! Keep it up, this good be one hell of an addicting game :D"},{"author_name":"Spelchan","author_uid":"15656","time":"Dec 22, 2013 @ 9:48pm","epoch":1387748580,"text":"The user interface needs a huge amount of work."},{"author_name":"Xanjos","author_uid":"21201","time":"Dec 22, 2013 @ 9:50pm","epoch":1387748700,"text":"Pretty good take on the theme. And I agree with what mcapraro said about adding some random events to make things even more interesting"},{"author_name":"Crabman","author_uid":"30736","time":"Dec 22, 2013 @ 10:22pm","epoch":1387750620,"text":"Well, that was weirdly addictive... Made my first 1,3 million in just under 10 years :D"},{"author_name":"multikorv","author_uid":"8028","time":"Dec 28, 2013 @ 6:07pm","epoch":1388253720,"text":"Had a hard time with the GUI, it needs some work. Otherwise I think it's quite a nice game."},{"author_name":"StMatn","author_uid":"18894","time":"Dec 28, 2013 @ 11:12pm","epoch":1388272020,"text":"Nice work!\rThis game has shown me, why I never event want to think about stock market :D After seeing my naked gred, I needed to stop :P\rA goal would have been nice. Maybe you could have only one year to make your only one dollar into enough money to buy that only one massive diamond ring for your only one girl;)"},{"author_name":"Gaspard_","author_uid":"25208","time":"Dec 28, 2013 @ 11:56pm","epoch":1388274660,"text":"As mentioned above, the GUI isn't really intuitive.\rHowever after I noticed the "Sell" tab it became clearer,\rmaybe you could have made the Tabs in colour.\rOnce I understood that, it got interesting.\rI think some feature helping are knowledge of the probability that something will rise would help.\rI can see a lot of potential game-play here, the main idea is good."},{"author_name":"psc1997","author_uid":"20890","time":"Dec 29, 2013 @ 12:36am","epoch":1388277060,"text":"Complicated user interface ( GUI ) :\/\rBut good idea. Nice work ! ;)"},{"author_name":"Atmospherium","author_uid":"24518","time":"Dec 29, 2013 @ 2:18am","epoch":1388283180,"text":"This was strangely addicting. It took a while to figure out how to maximize my profits, but I was soon riding Beiberbonds to the top of the stock trade. Good work on this."},{"author_name":"archaeometrician","author_uid":"27214","time":"Dec 29, 2013 @ 2:18am","epoch":1388283180,"text":"Hehe cool entry :) I bought a lot of bieberbonds and got ruined almost immediately :P"},{"author_name":"01rafael","author_uid":"11984","time":"Dec 29, 2013 @ 2:20am","epoch":1388283300,"text":"I'll be rich with this! )))\rjust a little workout, and I'll be ready to make a real money )"},{"author_name":"commanderstitch","author_uid":"14366","time":"Dec 29, 2013 @ 9:40pm","epoch":1388352900,"text":"This is an excellent thing for a market in a game. It's so good. You could have people trying to game the market for a long time. Took me a few tries before i started figuring out it's better to wait. :D More varaibles and risks are better in the stock market too. Graphs, news reports from the companies that have stock, and other kinds of options for invensting those precious dollars. gj."},{"author_name":"kirbytails7","author_uid":"4767","time":"Dec 29, 2013 @ 10:10pm","epoch":1388354700,"text":"It could maybe use some more mechanics (though nothing in particular comes to mind), but it's still pretty fun."},{"author_name":"joekinley","author_uid":"3012","time":"Dec 29, 2013 @ 10:16pm","epoch":1388355060,"text":"What an addictive little game. But everytime I bought stuff it kept falling and NEVER rising back in value.\rAll in all I hovered around 10-20 dollars, only once had around 300.\r\rI liked it alot. Could be kinda clearer in the interface, and more accessible, but all in all I liked it."},{"author_name":"plancien","author_uid":"25374","time":"Jan 3, 2014 @ 10:37pm","epoch":1388788320,"text":"Agree with a lot of others : you should work on UI. This game has an addictive potential."}],"images":["ld28\/17860-d59a6ce195337a5c4683b962264b7022.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/dl.dropboxusercontent.com\/u\/126914278\/LD\/LD28\/dollarmaster.html","text":"HTML"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"20939","g_author":"17860","g_event":"LD28","g_eventkey":"20","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"20968","g_title":"Dollar Master","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"724","g_commentcount":"23","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/17860-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"And now for something completely different, a market\/trading game.\r\n\r\nYou start with 1 dollar. Buy and sell goods to build a fortune.\r\n\r\nPrices change after a new day.\r\nPurchase prices are rounded up\r\nSale prices are rounded down\r\nDays advance every 5 seconds\r\n\r\nSuper cheat! Click on Day to force advance a day. (If you are impatient and don't like the prices.)\r\n\r\nThere's no win condition. Play until you get bored.\r\n\r\nWritten in HTML5\/Javascript. Source is all in the file.","title":"Dollar Master"}