Hot News, Good News by RiptideStudio | LudumData

Hot News, Good News by RiptideStudio

made by RiptideStudio for LD 42 (JAM)

Hello and welcome to Hot News, Good News! Your task is to create your own newspapers and send them into the edition. You will have to create a newspaper by combining advertising blocks and news blocks on the sheets of the newspaper. Drag and drop blocks on the newspaper sheet using left mouse button and glue it using right mouse button. But be careful! You have limited time to build a newspaper. And remember: readers don't like advertising blocks, but it will bring you profit for your newspaper edition. And lots of news blocks will bring you more readers. Combine blocks wisely! Earn money and followers.

Make the whole city read your newspaper. That's all, hope you like it.

Music: https://soundcloud.com/sshd0/its-always-good-news

Windows	http://riptide.studio/win/Hot%20News,%20Good%20News.zip
macOS	http://riptide.studio/mac/Hot%20News,%20Good%20News.app.zip
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/hot-news-good-news

Ratings

Overall	338^th	3.625⭐	34🧑‍⚖️
Fun	554^th	3.273⭐	35🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	48^th	4.015⭐	35🧑‍⚖️
Theme	149^th	4.031⭐	34🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	407^th	3.703⭐	34🧑‍⚖️
Audio	174^th	3.645⭐	33🧑‍⚖️
Humor	202^th	3.424⭐	35🧑‍⚖️
Mood	166^th	3.694⭐	33🧑‍⚖️
Given		35🗳️	18🗨️

Feedback

14. Aug 2018 · 11:55 UTC

Excellent game : relaxing and interesting. Very good "mood" :-)

16. Aug 2018 · 19:10 UTC

It's difficult to understand at first, but it's curious and different from other games.
Great work!

20. Aug 2018 · 09:16 UTC

This was a fun and relaxing game, though it did eventually get a bit repetitive. I liked the soothing music and the humor in the newspaper articles. I would have preferred some visual indication of whether or not an article had been glued to the paper, sometimes I thought I had glued them on and got confused as I could not pick up a new article.

Overall, great job!

20. Aug 2018 · 09:59 UTC

love the one about grandma

20. Aug 2018 · 16:17 UTC

great adhesion to the theme ! it's fun to make a newspaper in the beginning but it's sad that you can't put another article until you stick in the last one
loved the game overall

20. Aug 2018 · 16:21 UTC

Mood game strong

20. Aug 2018 · 16:25 UTC

Great game, different and relaxing. Nice job ;)

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20. Aug 2018 · 16:26 UTC

@hermeses thank you! Could you please tell what did you find difficult exactly?

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20. Aug 2018 · 16:29 UTC

@avon thanks, we tried to make our best in funny articles names. Btw that's all really existing news. We will try to make not glued blocks more noticible.

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20. Aug 2018 · 16:29 UTC

@bismark thank you, bro!

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20. Aug 2018 · 16:30 UTC

@even-games thank you! We did that thing with articles because of balance. If you could just collect articles it would be too easy to combine news on the sheets.

Stefan Jovanovic

20. Aug 2018 · 16:34 UTC

Definitely different and quite original idea! Gameplay is nice as well as audio and graphics! Keep up the good work! :smiley:

20. Aug 2018 · 16:53 UTC

Great game, I enjoyed it a lot! The ads are fun and the mood is set! The only thing you could change, is that, without any other features, it gets boring to play until 2500 followers, maybe you could set the goal to 1000 followers, to not make the people quit before the end.
But otherwise, great entry, you've matched the theme and made an enjoyable game, good job!

20. Aug 2018 · 16:55 UTC

Very nice game, I loved the mood and idea. I only didn't really understood if there is any strategy about balancing ads / articles or any strategy at all. I was just placing both randomly. But I beleive this could make a nice game with some clever algorithm rating your newspaper layout etc.

20. Aug 2018 · 16:56 UTC

Clever idea. Quite relaxing. Only issue I have is that every block is randomly shaped, would be nice if you had a select few to use, or you could better plan ahead. Keep at it.

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20. Aug 2018 · 17:56 UTC

@devemil we are glad you finished the game and saw that ugly win panel! We hoped nobody would see it... let it be our secret

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20. Aug 2018 · 18:56 UTC

@wolar yes, there is exist strategy to win. In future we want to improve gameplay and make our cool balance more cooler.

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20. Aug 2018 · 19:00 UTC

@robo-chiz thanks! I guess we will leave this thing randomized, because it would be too easy to combine blocks on the sheets, if there is would be only a few choosed blocks

20. Aug 2018 · 19:40 UTC

@riptidestudio Hahahaha, good one!!! You need to know, there is always that bored little nerd, that got the time to finish ANY game xD

20. Aug 2018 · 19:40 UTC

Very nice game !

The mood is definitely present and that music is really relaxing (although a bit repetitive :stuck_out_tongue: )

I couldn't get to 2500 followers as it is quite long to get there in my opinion and I apparently didn't get the best strat :slight_frown:

You should maybe add a "Joker" system where you can reroll a finite amount of time the ad or news you got to ease a little bit the difficulty.

Overall it is a very nice game, keep up the good work ! :smiley:

20. Aug 2018 · 21:11 UTC

love this one!! i feel this could be made as a full game with some kind of running narrative or something great and polished feeling overall!

20. Aug 2018 · 21:21 UTC

Very nice entry. I liked it a lot. I thing i should say is that sometimes i couldn't glue some news/ads and my paper go without them. Overall good game! :heart:

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20. Aug 2018 · 22:00 UTC

@maksime Thanks a lot! Yes, there is exist strategy which will let you get to 2500 followers pretty fast, but if you choose wrong strategy it could take a long time.

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20. Aug 2018 · 22:03 UTC

@runner-alien Thank you! I guess that we will continue developing this game, as I see people really like it

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20. Aug 2018 · 22:05 UTC

@edwingamedev thank you so much! Could you please explain in which case blocks didn't gluing to the papers?

20. Aug 2018 · 22:31 UTC

@riptidestudio sometimes when i have a full page and picked a new block the glue option didn't show up

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21. Aug 2018 · 07:24 UTC

(double post, sorry)

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21. Aug 2018 · 07:24 UTC

(triple post, SORRRY!!!)

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21. Aug 2018 · 07:24 UTC

@edwingamedev I guess that happens because you tried to glue block too close to the edge of the paper

21. Aug 2018 · 12:24 UTC

Love the casual game. Would be great if there is an objective and a end state to work towards. Good Job!

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21. Aug 2018 · 12:30 UTC

@tlcoc Thank you! Do you mean the main goal of the game? If so, than you need to get 2500 followers and make whole city read your newspaper

21. Aug 2018 · 12:38 UTC

@riptidestudio Think I missed it out. Now that would be interesting.

21. Aug 2018 · 12:43 UTC

Love the concept, though it get a bit repetitive. I don't really get what the glue mechanic is for: I have to place an item definitively in order to have the next, but the next item is random so I cannot plan my moves. I would have let the player choose as many item as he wants and then let him place them, or i would have show him the next item (like in tetris).
The graphics are nice and consistent (this is important) from the menu to the game itself.
Audio is nice and soft, the music i indeed relaxing an don't get repetitive.
Overall, this is a nice entry :)

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21. Aug 2018 · 12:55 UTC

@marcenat Thanks a lot! Yes, we have thought about showing next block to player, but we decided that it would be too easy to create good newspapers.

Estudios y Producciones GUSA

21. Aug 2018 · 13:41 UTC

Loved the music and the graphics. Gameplay feels really fresh. Great job!

21. Aug 2018 · 14:38 UTC

I really enjoyed this game !

You can figure out rather logically what works or doesn't for your journal, and create glueing strategies (brace for the coffee add X) )

It was quite hard sometimes to take an article or an add out of the stock, but I got used to it.

Nice work !

21. Aug 2018 · 14:43 UTC

Liked this game a lot! the audio felt accomplishing and the animation was smooth!

21. Aug 2018 · 14:44 UTC

Would you mind building a linux version? I would love to give the game a try as the idea sounds very interesting!

21. Aug 2018 · 14:56 UTC

This is a very original concept with unique graphics, this game really stands out ! Despite some issues with placing items on the newspaper, the gameplay it quite intuitive and challenging - I found the balancing very on point, I never felt the game was unfair to me. I like the graphics a lot, I'd like to see them expanded upon, maybe with more variety in the newspaper items, if you can come up with more funny headlines :)

The music, as well, is really fitting the whole, providing a soothing atmosphere that makes it all a relaxing experience. This is well done, congratulations !!

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21. Aug 2018 · 19:49 UTC

@thefunattic Thank you! Could you please explain what kind of issues you had with placing items on the newspaper?

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24. Aug 2018 · 09:56 UTC

@estudios-y-producciones-gusa @lekkel124 @merpader thank you guys a lot!

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24. Aug 2018 · 09:59 UTC

@testlab yeah, we are planning to finish game and release it on as many platforms as possible.

27. Aug 2018 · 01:08 UTC

Nice game, I hope to see more updates and improvments sooner.
If you don't bother take a look at our game when we focused on Graphics and visuals and see the results that we got:
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/spacelab-42

03. Sep 2018 · 23:05 UTC

Great concept, would be great if there's a way of knowing the form of the next piece of news/ad, also adding events each day to make the player prioritize money, fans or having a piece that must go on today's paper would be nice to make it less repetitive (I'm just throwing random ideas, they might not work)