Cruel World Of Business by horrorpen

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made by horrorpen for LD25 (JAM)
Those kids are stealing all of your customers... Show them who's really in charge of the lemonade business and how cruel life can be sometimes when you are dealing with a villain.

This is the first time we entered Ludum Dare. This is not a big game. We all managed to complete it in 2-3 tries.

You can control the character with keyboard arrows. You need to jump on a kid to get rid of him. To go to the next level, you need to get rid of all the kids and their lemonade stands.
Pressing down while jumping will get rid of more than one kid. You can dodge kid's attack by jumping on solid objects.

Have fun!

Ratings

Coolness 46% 742
Overall(Jam) 3.46 69
Audio(Jam) 2.86 154
Fun(Jam) 3.32 67
Graphics(Jam) 4.04 50
Humor(Jam) 3.67 25
Innovation(Jam) 2.48 249
Mood(Jam) 3.19 97
Theme(Jam) 3.50 120

Feedback

Mava
17. Dec 2012 · 22:56 UTC
Nice graphics and it feels fun too!
nolacoaster
17. Dec 2012 · 22:58 UTC
Love the graphics/drawings. Very artistic, and stylish.
Hazel
17. Dec 2012 · 22:58 UTC
Really nice touches, love the graphics.
joekinley
17. Dec 2012 · 23:00 UTC
Great game actually. Only it was really hard because the hitbox of the character was very big, and i kept being hit by the flying garbage pretty often although the character itself were not hit directly but just his hitbox.

Though overall you made a great game with awesome graphics and audio, awesome humor and a nice approach on the theme, with the big dude getting rid of little childrens lemonade stands.
I had fun playing it, just that it was pretty hard. Good work.
theRestlessTaxidermists
17. Dec 2012 · 23:02 UTC
Amazing graphics, really love them. But I wonder... what if you had turned the kids into more cute poor innocent things being crashed by an old senile guy ?

I mean... why the hell is this guy selling lemonade, isn't he too old for that ?

Anyway, that was really fun to play, I loved the bounce "effect". Well done !
cwilloughby
18. Dec 2012 · 00:16 UTC
This game is amazing.

I love the way he jumps. I love the sound. Bouncing from person to person is very fun. Nice work.
killmonday
18. Dec 2012 · 13:45 UTC
Lovely art direction! +stars for killing children!
Peping
18. Dec 2012 · 18:29 UTC
A funny game. I love the art.
Losing two lives at one time is a bit harsh, but the game was fun to play nevertheless.
Elisée
19. Dec 2012 · 11:45 UTC
Destroying the lemonade stands bit by bit was satisfying :D and I liked the light-hearted approach to the theme regarding the lemonade market.

Avoiding the thrown objects was kind of hard and I think it would have been more fun if there was some way to duck or shield yourself rather than having to jump from one object to another to stay out of the line of fire.

When dying on a level, you probably shouldn't make the player restart from scratch for Ludum Dare entries: most people won't go through the hurdle of replaying all the previous levels just to see what comes next (we made that mistake in our #24 entry ourselves)
ahmed.majd
19. Dec 2012 · 23:15 UTC
The graphics are nice, but i think it's just another platformer like many others.
Sorry for that question but what happen if i changed the seller spirte by mario's sprite and the kids by turtles?
the lonely strengh of the game is the graphics unfortunlatly
Christina Antoinette Neofotistou
19. Dec 2012 · 23:32 UTC
haha this is fun!! kudos horrorpen!
🎤 horrorpen
21. Dec 2012 · 15:26 UTC
@ahmed.majd

And what about the story line?
zkenshin
06. Jan 2013 · 02:17 UTC
Well done. :)