Loan Shark by skiddings
My first Ludum Dare submission!
It's incomplete, playable, but not winnable or losable.
Regardless I hope you enjoy it!
You play a shark.
This shark once ate a human loan shark who the mafia had given some concrete shoes and a dinner date with the fishies.
At the same time he was hit by a powerful beam of gamma radiation from Saturn, and that, combined with the toxic waste leaking from near by canisters mutated the shark so he could breath and move on land, and an insatiable lust for giving out high interest loans to suckers.
So how to play:
Go around town and talk to people who want loans. Agree the terms and give them the money.
Avoid letting the suckers repay their loans to early, to get more money out of them. But be careful! If you leave it to loan they won't have the money to repay, so they'll try to run! Hunt them down and kill them, but in your rage you'll ruin half the money in their pockets and you won't get a full repayment!
Controls:
Move shark:
W,A,S,D
Camera zoom: scroll wheel
Interface: Mouse and left click.
Fullscreen: F4
Change screen resolution: F3
Written in C# and XNA
Requires .Net 4.0 and XNA 4.0 redistributes
Work done:
All programming: Sam (Skiddings)
Custom art: housemate John
The rest of the area: OpenGameArt.net
-Sam
Written in C# with XNA. Requires XNA 4.0 redist (included) and .NET 4 installed. Windows only.
Wishlist:
Sound!
Particles and gore
Police
Map objects
Converting to monogame
I hope to continue working on it after the Jam, I think this could become a great little game :)
Thanks
- Sam
It's incomplete, playable, but not winnable or losable.
Regardless I hope you enjoy it!
You play a shark.
This shark once ate a human loan shark who the mafia had given some concrete shoes and a dinner date with the fishies.
At the same time he was hit by a powerful beam of gamma radiation from Saturn, and that, combined with the toxic waste leaking from near by canisters mutated the shark so he could breath and move on land, and an insatiable lust for giving out high interest loans to suckers.
So how to play:
Go around town and talk to people who want loans. Agree the terms and give them the money.
Avoid letting the suckers repay their loans to early, to get more money out of them. But be careful! If you leave it to loan they won't have the money to repay, so they'll try to run! Hunt them down and kill them, but in your rage you'll ruin half the money in their pockets and you won't get a full repayment!
Controls:
Move shark:
W,A,S,D
Camera zoom: scroll wheel
Interface: Mouse and left click.
Fullscreen: F4
Change screen resolution: F3
Written in C# and XNA
Requires .Net 4.0 and XNA 4.0 redistributes
Work done:
All programming: Sam (Skiddings)
Custom art: housemate John
The rest of the area: OpenGameArt.net
-Sam
Written in C# with XNA. Requires XNA 4.0 redist (included) and .NET 4 installed. Windows only.
Wishlist:
Sound!
Particles and gore
Police
Map objects
Converting to monogame
I hope to continue working on it after the Jam, I think this could become a great little game :)
Thanks
- Sam
Ratings
| Coolness | 35% | 912 |
| Overall(Jam) | 2.59 | 267 |
| Fun(Jam) | 2.53 | 227 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 2.47 | 263 |
| Humor(Jam) | 2.65 | 153 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 3.00 | 136 |
| Mood(Jam) | 2.20 | 283 |
| Theme(Jam) | 3.65 | 85 |
But I like the idea and the concept of load shark being an intimidating shark.
There seems to be a bug with the random number generator that determines how much people want and how much they earn to repay the loans, so if they keep refusing loans try restarting the game, it might fix it.
Both the controls and the input was a bit awkward. Graphically it was pretty nice tho. The shark look was really cool.
The first "sucker" was a bit hard to get to accept a loan, but the rest of them seemed to basically accept whatever I suggested.
Great work!