Re:post by Terrabalt
Spread the news. Pay the bills. Preferably both.
https://terrabalt.itch.io/repost
Controls: Mouse.
no music, so pls opt out on that.
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/repost |
Ratings
| Overall | 494th | 2.667⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 532th | 1.905⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 283th | 3.091⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 450th | 2.773⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 522th | 2.095⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 408th | 1.952⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 495th | 2.35⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 16🗳️ | 30🗨️ |
It would be nice if we could correct the selected blog posts, since sometimes we can missclick and use the wrong news. It would be also nice if we could "delete" news, as managing the bad news so that the TV is clean and good ones could appear is tedious and frustrating.
Anyway, good work! :)
The mechanic of sorting through the news articles, and applying them in an optimal order to earn money, without your ratings suffering too much, was intriguing. It was sometimes a bit hard to move the headlines, since they could only be picked up from the sidebar, when clicking on the part that was actually inside the sidebar. In games like this, where you have a lot of activity near the edge of the screen, it would be nice to have the mouse cursor locked to the window as wel.
There was a nice interplay between the various game elements. Balancing money with ratings was tough, especially when there were no usable news on the TV, so the news<->storage<->PC loop worked well.
>Only post the best news.
>Impending rent. Must earn money!
>Untrustworthy... FIRED!
I also kept getting the same news over and over again. It would be better with more stories.
I think a better explanation, possibly through graphics, would make it much more clear.
The art is very simple, and not really in a good way. The top down view of bed, TV and computer doesn't seem optimal for the purpose of the game.
An interesting entry, I'd definitely consider it a prototype for a bigger project because the idea behind it - spinning news items into profit (or, for example, election-affecting civil discourse) - is a pretty current event.