A Life At Stake by JustMars

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made by JustMars for LD 44 (JAM)

ld44picture.png You must live a life, avoid prison and death, gamble, date, workout and drink yourself to victory (a royal one). Controls are explained in a quick tutorial inside the game. ezgif-2-51311e4169a1.gif

The game includes a character creation with 250 different combinations. You can choose your clothes by yourself or randomize them.

The game also includes some hilarious voice acting and even more hilarious events as you might do something illegal without always knowing it by yourself.

Please play with audio on or don't vote on the category. The music is just so good so please appreciate the trouble @happytomato went through to make different kind of music that his talented mind usually makes.

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This game was made by @justmars (Coding), @raffe Twitter (Art and Voices), @happytomato SoundCloud (Music) and @jokku (Sound Effects and Coding).

Ratings

Given 52🗳️ 34🗨️

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Pyoid
30. Apr 2019 · 10:02 UTC
This is a really good game, I enjoyed the gameplay!
Pyoid
30. Apr 2019 · 10:02 UTC
This is a really good game, I enjoyed the gameplay!
Becher
30. Apr 2019 · 10:07 UTC
OMG you can customize your character... best ld ever!!!!
nice concept ;) good work
Gao Ming
30. Apr 2019 · 10:08 UTC
Interesting idea, like this game, great:)
AlexFSmirnov
30. Apr 2019 · 10:23 UTC
Customizable characters are cool! I like the gameplay. Took me 3 attempts to beat the life. Nice job!
Conroy
30. Apr 2019 · 13:51 UTC
Awesome job guys, can tell you put quite a bit of effort into this, and it shows great job!
iagorigel
30. Apr 2019 · 14:20 UTC
That's a good game, loved the idea
OddSocks
30. Apr 2019 · 16:05 UTC
Fab game. I got rejected and couldn't cope with it! Great with the character customisation, and the art style was interesting. Theme was top notch as you could gamble your health. Great concept.
RAFFE
30. Apr 2019 · 17:03 UTC
<3 @oddsocks
JofersGames
30. Apr 2019 · 19:40 UTC
Fun game, love the idea :)
XMPTEd
30. Apr 2019 · 19:52 UTC
Good interpretation of the theme, and a polished presentation. The gameplay itself (a series of minigames, often based purely on chance) didn't really grab me - don't think there was much to "figure out", more just doing things repeatedly? Great job creating something that feels very complete though!
schrunkin
30. Apr 2019 · 19:53 UTC
I had to spend a couple of tries before i figured what i had to do to optimize my life: Such a fun idea! I loved the character creation and the voice acting was a wonderful touch! The graphics were well made and the game was intuitive for the most part. Well done!
Lansselot
30. Apr 2019 · 19:54 UTC
An interesting idea, I really liked the game, only I never finished it)
Khamekaze
30. Apr 2019 · 20:03 UTC
Got sentenced to life for lifting like a beast, glad I dont live in such an anti gains world lul.
With some more variety (especially in the dating department) I could see this becoming an interesting experience, but at the moment it feels too repetitive for what it is aiming to be.
Very well executed none the less, well done!
agurcan
30. Apr 2019 · 20:10 UTC
Amazing game! How did you get tsois much done in such a short period of time? The amount of activities, customizations and outcomes are mind-boggling!
refraction
30. Apr 2019 · 20:33 UTC
Brilliant little game! Nice use of a bunch of minigames and nice to see a character creator in there! I think the rejection penalties are a bit harsh in some situations, I mean losing 150HP for getting rejected sucks, especially if you have to go through the character creator again (I just didn't bother after a couple of times). Great graphics and use of the theme, good job!
cozmic
30. Apr 2019 · 20:47 UTC
I have to say this is a really funny game for me!
I think the art style needs a little more polisihing, but it could just not really be my taste.
I really like the ease of control and the quick explanation at the beginning, that's a plus for me!
RAFFE
30. Apr 2019 · 20:49 UTC
@refraction yeah, the ultimate sadness had a 25% chance xD thanks for the review though :D
refraction
30. Apr 2019 · 20:54 UTC
@raffe 25%?? damn I was unlucky! xD RNG must hate me lol
johnnydalvi
30. Apr 2019 · 21:37 UTC
Lovely Idea, I just think that there should be some sort of indicator that the player will break a machine on the
gym, for example, otherwise it's too random (the player won't feel that it was their fault)
RAFFE
30. Apr 2019 · 21:42 UTC
@johnnydalvi yeah I get you, the point with this game was to just make it so flippin random and funny that the player doesn't even have to do anything by themselves. And it's just rng, it has a 10% chance to break if it goes to 100 score 10 times.
fatPenguin
30. Apr 2019 · 21:45 UTC
Haha that was a fun little ride - thanks for that :D :D
I love how youre able to bail out of jail for free if you're a guy but not as a woman :up:
I feel like textbox choices would've also fit to the game without being too much work :)
(like in Faster Than Light for example)
Well done! ;)
dasPanjo
30. Apr 2019 · 21:49 UTC
Just a normal day: I woke up, pumped up my muscles at the gym, broke something, met a cool judge who also hates gyms. After that I won at the casino, drank some alcohol and went back to the gym to flirt a little... As I said, a normal day :grin:
I really like the concept behind the game. It feels polished and the artstyle was great. I love that you managed to put in a character creation. really well done!
RAFFE
30. Apr 2019 · 21:52 UTC
@daspanjo Ahh feels so good to hear that you enjoyed it.. **JUST A NORMAL DAY**
RAFFE
30. Apr 2019 · 21:53 UTC
@fatpenguin Sorry to say this, but the bail out for free are just complete RNG XD I think it’s like 1/4 chance to bail out for free, but I guess you got lucky lol. And thanks for the improvement proposal. Everything is really important to us!
RAFFE
30. Apr 2019 · 21:55 UTC
@khamekaze and @xmpted <3<3 And yeah, it can easily feel **A BIT** too repetitive, but sadly there was a danger zone called time limit.. ;_;
RAFFE
30. Apr 2019 · 21:55 UTC
@agurcan <3
J_C - One Bit Studio
30. Apr 2019 · 21:59 UTC
Very cool game. Although I didn't know it is illegal to date a 16 year old, haha. :D Dating is just dating. But it's all good fun.
RAFFE
30. Apr 2019 · 22:03 UTC
@j-c-one-bit-studio Yup, it is illegal to date a 16 year old as an adult in most countries. (Except for something like China where it is goddamn **12**..) <-- We do our research. Thanks for the review doe!
qlqrcoisa
30. Apr 2019 · 22:32 UTC
Pretty nice!
Fadex
30. Apr 2019 · 23:27 UTC
Hahahaha, this is so funny :D. And everything works good. Such a nice game.
Darylsteak
01. May 2019 · 05:55 UTC
This game was really really fun. A little too luck based for my taste (got arrested the first time I touched a piece of gym equipment. Nonetheless, it was funny, and the voice acting was icing on the cake.

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B33Thr33
01. May 2019 · 16:34 UTC
Very cool. Character Customization, music, voice over, humor, theme implementation and graphics all on point. Good job!
Nico Fallosch
01. May 2019 · 17:39 UTC
I hate gyms...
hahaha nice xD

nice game overall very good experience!
413x
01. May 2019 · 22:18 UTC
So beeing good at live is random, sounds right. But it was a little too random for my taste. But other than that good job.
ludwici
02. May 2019 · 09:36 UTC
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These aren’t the droids you’re looking for ©
Very funny game
Patricia Klauck
02. May 2019 · 10:20 UTC
Great idea, well executed and polished for such a little amount of time :D
Pusheeneiro
02. May 2019 · 10:42 UTC
An interesting game with character creation. I like the scenes when the police catch you.
RAFFE
02. May 2019 · 12:20 UTC
@ludwici :DD
Mathstr0fficial
02. May 2019 · 23:54 UTC
A very fun game, super well polished and enjoyable for only 3 days. I would believe (though I am in no way saying that you did) that you made this beforehand and turned it in, it's that good. My favorite game from this LD so far! Hats off to you guys!
Z_Doctor
03. May 2019 · 05:20 UTC
So apparently I got really lucky when playing this game according to the dev. I won on my first try using the gym equipment to get all the way to 150. As I understand it, each click (or each time you gain life) it had a 10% chance of breaking the equipment. I manged to avoid that until I beat the game. I had some other dumb luck as well.
RAFFE
03. May 2019 · 05:43 UTC
@mathstr0fficial Hey, I can gladly tell you we did everything from the start :) No ready asset used, no ready music used, no lines of code ready, everything was done during these 72 hours! Thanks for the review though XD (best compliment we could get :3)
pcoridan
04. May 2019 · 21:05 UTC
Well, at first i got rejected by Cindy Stone, so I dated an older chick and that went well, then Cindy Stone couldn't keep her hands off me. 10/10 would win at life again. Great job guys!