{"author_link":"\/users\/neowedge","author_name":"Neowedge","author_uid":"1003662","comments":[{"author_name":"Lubaka","author_uid":"1143181","time":"2019-04-29T10:04:47Z","epoch":1556532287,"modified":1556532287,"text":"It took me a while to understand that i die faster when i am out of happiness but when i did, i started to get better and i got a decent life, only to die of spamming my mouse button too furiously and accidentally dying. A solid game, but i'd recommend you make the player have to a click a bit less. (or maybe its just me who just got the instinct to start spamming my mouse)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Neowedge","author_uid":"1003662","time":"2019-04-29T11:10:36Z","epoch":1556536236,"modified":1556536236,"text":"@lubaka Thanks for your feedback! I am developing idle games in my real life, so I got an occupational disease xD Also, it could be taken as a game metaphore of routine life :P","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Connell","author_uid":"1074640","time":"2019-04-29T13:01:49Z","epoch":1556542909,"modified":1556542909,"text":"The game was very easy to play which was nice so good job on that. I really liked the animations and colour scheme as well as the main idea of the game. You represented the theme really well.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Dvlv","author_uid":"1116662","time":"2019-04-29T19:06:56Z","epoch":1556564816,"modified":1556564816,"text":"Cool take on the concept, and loved the art style.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"hypp","author_uid":"1052698","time":"2019-04-29T19:25:28Z","epoch":1556565928,"modified":1556565928,"text":"This was fun! Reminded me of my own life!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"PabloTitan","author_uid":"1140335","time":"2019-04-30T06:14:33Z","epoch":1556604873,"modified":1556604873,"text":"I really like this idle game of life, suites the theme really nice :D ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"-banzi","author_uid":"1119840","time":"2019-05-01T09:11:02Z","epoch":1556701862,"modified":1556701862,"text":"Fun to play. I have tried to die old, still living with my parents doing nothing else that programming and taking journeys. Good job!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Neowedge","author_uid":"1003662","time":"2019-05-01T09:41:35Z","epoch":1556703695,"modified":1556703695,"text":"@connell @dvid @pablotitan @banzi Thanks you very much for play it and for your comments! ^^","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"DAVidus","author_uid":"1144188","time":"2019-05-01T13:00:43Z","epoch":1556715643,"modified":1556715643,"text":"Really good idea :smile:!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"johanhelsing","author_uid":"1140305","time":"2019-05-01T13:00:44Z","epoch":1556715644,"modified":1556715644,"text":"Cool game, I enjoyed figuring out how to live a good life. Died three times of depression, then became a happy artist who liked to cruise all the time. Nice job!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Wolf Flare","author_uid":"1140230","time":"2019-05-01T13:26:40Z","epoch":1556717200,"modified":1556717200,"text":"I enjoyed playing your game a lot. It has quite nice graphics and its fun. But the idea is not really original, so I gave you low on Innovation","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"chrisdugne","author_uid":"1138007","time":"2019-05-01T13:29:30Z","epoch":1556717370,"modified":1556717370,"text":"great idea! I died at 28 the 3rd time, didnt see my happiness down...it could be nice to save state not to start over from scratch.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"MrSchlag2","author_uid":"1053567","time":"2019-05-01T17:34:09Z","epoch":1556732049,"modified":1556732049,"text":"Haha, nice game ! It was a good idea, thanks !","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Tommyflower","author_uid":"1014558","time":"2019-05-01T17:46:18Z","epoch":1556732778,"modified":1556791038,"text":"I think I forgot to work at some point XD Nice simulator, would have loved more variety of feedbacks just because you are tempted to beat it just looking at the bars. It really teaches you life-work balance :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"sunnray","author_uid":"1015029","time":"2019-05-01T19:41:02Z","epoch":1556739662,"modified":1556739662,"text":"This game is fun, but too hard, just like real life D:","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Dimoon_LY","author_uid":"1115393","time":"2019-05-01T20:09:18Z","epoch":1556741358,"modified":1556741358,"text":"Great idea and makes me think of my own life, thanks! ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"sylvie","author_uid":"1113438","time":"2019-05-02T03:40:59Z","epoch":1556768459,"modified":1556768459,"text":"The graphics looked silly and cute, so I wasn't expecting it when I died from depression at a young age on my first playthrough. The second time I got a little older but still died from depression because I clicked the buttons too fast without paying attention to my meters. I might try again later, I like the variety of options and choices. ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Neowedge","author_uid":"1003662","time":"2019-05-02T09:37:44Z","epoch":1556789864,"modified":1556789887,"text":"@davidus @johanhelsing @wolf-flare @mrschlag2 Thanks for the comments!\n\n@chrisdugne Thanks for the feedback! I thought to implement persistance and audio, but I hadn't so much time (I started on saturday afternoon and I use to sleep as usual in the compo :P)\n\n@sunnray Reaching a dream is very hard and not always is worth it because we idealize it. In the game, if you get experience in a crap job, and then grow as professional, it's not difficult to be rich and happy and you could get older because you don't spend your life learning. But, in real life, you'll always wonder why you did'n try it.\n\n@tommyflower @dimoon-ly Thanks! I really like to hear that! :). I thought a lot too about that while I was developing it.\n\n@sylvie Thanks for the feedback! At the begining it would be a parody of game devs lifes, so decided that art style, but when I introduced happiness some texts remained so much raw. About clicking, it was an occuppational disease because I develop idle games, but while I was testing it, I thouhgt that it could be a metaphore of routine: a lot of times we continue living a life that makes us sad just because inertia, because we don't spend time to think about change. So, I decided to keep it that way.","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"JM Studio","author_uid":"1145837","time":"2019-05-02T13:16:46Z","epoch":1556803006,"modified":1556803006,"text":"The second try was the best. I died at 56 in my office, I was a great game dev and everyone will remember my everlasting smile :smile: I enjoyed playing it with the variety of choices. ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"JakobTheQuizGuy","author_uid":"1120803","time":"2019-05-02T18:04:21Z","epoch":1556820261,"modified":1556820261,"text":"![yay.PNG](\/\/\/raw\/3e7\/d1\/z\/245f7.png)\n\nI gotta say, I'm pretty happy with this ending! I liked this game, but it felt like it was a bit too easy to live a great life. At the start it was fun balancing my actions, but after I went on a journey my happiness seemed to last infinitely, so I just started the designer grind and was a lead designer for 41 years. The buttons feel responsive and the graphics are fine. Overall, a well made little experience!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Evgeniya Zapolnova","author_uid":"1127377","time":"2019-05-02T19:45:47Z","epoch":1556826347,"modified":1556826347,"text":"Nice game! I studied game design for 14 years and died near university :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Gideon","author_uid":"1141166","time":"2019-05-02T19:48:50Z","epoch":1556826530,"modified":1556826530,"text":"Hahaha. Cool game of life :D First time I only did crap jobs after I went independent. I always lost money, so I tried studying hard next time. I died at age 29, and was found dead at the university that way. (~_~)\\ Loved the humour, and the way the character evolves. Really fun game!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"very dark lord","author_uid":"1103086","time":"2019-05-02T20:08:19Z","epoch":1556827699,"modified":1556827700,"text":"I like this a lot! Got to age 85 and tried pretty much every job and learning opportunity I could find. Became a UX designer in my late 70s. Only sad part about the game is the 2 years of misery I had to endure as an infant. :D","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Gassi Games","author_uid":"1142258","time":"2019-05-02T22:02:56Z","epoch":1556834576,"modified":1556834576,"text":"Ohh, your game is really cool :)\nI somehow feel like idle games are just relaxing!\n\nFirst time playing I died on depression with an age of 28.\n\nI like the different endings :)\n\nIf the game would have some visual effects it would really be a game I could play for a while!\nI think some actions could spawn particles or somehow move the \"me\".\n\nBut keep it up man!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Neowedge","author_uid":"1003662","time":"2019-05-04T12:33:55Z","epoch":1556973235,"modified":1556973235,"text":"@jm-studio @jakobthequizguy @very-dark-lord \n\n@evgeniya-zapolnova You studied too much time!!! More than 1 or 2 masters don't use to be worth it (at least in Spain xD). Thanks for playing!\n\n@gideon Ah! If you would been studied too much time you could ascend from crap job to boss or even an executive :P. Thanks for playing!\n\n@gassi-games Thanks for yout feedback! I wanted to change clothes and style with differntens jobs, money or happyness, but it was too much. Maybe some effects could improve it ;).\n","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"gonutz","author_uid":"1004280","time":"2019-05-05T12:16:39Z","epoch":1557058599,"modified":1557058599,"text":"Hey, really nice idea. Died as a depressed but successful game programmer - yay!\n\nI love the graphics and the overall game play. A little sound would have been great but it is OK this way.","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Re-Markable","author_uid":"1050795","time":"2019-05-05T12:17:31Z","epoch":1557058651,"modified":1557058652,"text":"Overall a great game! It felt very polished and I really liked all the different possible outcomes!\nI didn't get that old :sweat_smile: \n\n![SC.png](\/\/\/raw\/b66\/c\/z\/24a13.png)","likes":0,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Neowedge","author_uid":"1003662","time":"2019-05-05T20:09:13Z","epoch":1557086953,"modified":1557086953,"text":"@gonutz Yes, the game needs audio :(. Thanks for your feedback!\n\n@re-markable Thanks for your comments! ^^","likes":0,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld44\/151643-92bd95e1c9be3423d8ff09e58a0ecb9f.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gitlab.com\/neowedge\/game-dev-life\/-\/archive\/ld-44\/game-dev-life-ld-44.zip","text":"Shockk"},{"url":"https:\/\/neowedge.itch.io\/game-dev-life","text":"HTML5 (web)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"54651","g_author":"1003662","g_event":"LD44","g_eventkey":"75","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"254794","g_title":"Game Dev Life","g_status":"USEAR3","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"28","g_site2_node_id":"151643","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0.926248"},"nds":{"n_key":"151643","n_urlkey":"254794","n_parent":"139254","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/game-dev-life","n_slug":"game-dev-life","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"3662","n_created":"1556457956","n_modified":"1556711654","n_version":"467097","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":151643,"parent":139254,"superparent":9,"author":3662,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"compo","published":"2019-04-29T00:29:18Z","created":"2019-04-28T13:25:56Z","modified":"2019-05-01T11:54:14Z","version":467097,"slug":"game-dev-life","name":"Game Dev Life","body":"\u200bBorn, learn, get fun and work in search of a dream: become a successfull game developer.\n\nEvery decision has a life cost. Manage your happiness, money and vitality and reach your dreams!\n\n# How to play?\n\n![GameDevLife.960x600.20190501134154440.png](\/\/\/raw\/e4e\/z\/2417e.png)\n\n## Goal\n\nYou are a boy that wanna be game developer. Your goal could be reach your dreams, become rich, being happy or get older (or maybe a mix of all of them, it is possible!!!). Also, you can play to discover several ways to die :P.\n\nGame ends when you spend all your life and die (it could take about 2-3 minutes if you get that far in the game). Then the game will show you a summary of your life.\n\n![GameDevLife.960x600.20190501134111868.png](\/\/\/raw\/e4e\/z\/2417d.png)\n\n## Game flow\n\nEvery month you can make an action. **All actions take a cost of life**, and will change your life state. You have 3 game indicators that will give you all the information that you need for knowing the progress in your life.\n\n### Life\n\nIt's the most basic parameter. **When life is over you die**.\n\n### Happiness\n\nMost of the actions you make affects to your happiness. If this bar is over your life cost of your actions will be increased dramatically. **Be sure you take a break every now and then ;)**.\n\n### Money\n\nGet fun costs money. Get independent cost soo much money. **Living is not free!** If your money is negative you will start to lose your Happiness.\n\n## Actions\n\nActions (or decisions) are divided in 3 sections that you can navigate clicking the gray buttons. If you put the cursor over an action, a panel in the right will show you the immediate consequencies of that action.\n\n### Fun\n\n![GameDevLife.960x600.20190501134315087.png](\/\/\/raw\/e4e\/z\/2417f.png)\n\nIt will improve your happiness. At the beginning your only action is \"Play\", but you will get more ways to get fun in the future!\n\n### Study\n\n![GameDevLife.960x600.20190501134214995.png](\/\/\/raw\/e4e\/z\/24181.png)\n\nLearning is essential to get a job. As in real life, the most of the early years you will have to learn the basic stuff (General learnings). After that you could start to study about your vocation: videogames.\n\n### Work\n\n![GameDevLife.960x600.20190501132818326.png](\/\/\/raw\/e4e\/z\/24182.png)\n\nWhen you have basic learnings you can have a crap job and earn some money. If you abandon your dreams, you can get experience and apply to better jobs. Maybe it could be easier being happy and rich! Else, **your first jobs in the videogames industry will be unpaid**. You must work as internship or make free jobs before you can become a game developer. Nobody said reaching your dreams was easy!\n\n**NOTE:** There are a lot of jobs that you could unlock studying and working. For example, if you get experience as programmer and artist, you could work as technical artist. Even, if you work hard, **you will be able to found your own big videogames company!!!**\n\n### Special action: become independent\n\n![GameDevLife.960x600.20190501135258668.png](\/\/\/raw\/e4e\/z\/24184.png)\n\nWhen you are 18 years old you feel that you need your space. **If you get independent, you will spend $1,000 per month, but if you stay at your parents home you will be less happy every month**. Become independent as soon as you have a paid job!","meta":{"author":[3662],"grade-06-out":"1","link-01-tag":"50","link-01":"https:\/\/gitlab.com\/neowedge\/game-dev-life\/-\/archive\/ld-44\/game-dev-life-ld-44.zip","link-02-tag":"42336","link-02":"https:\/\/neowedge.itch.io\/game-dev-life","cover":"\/\/\/content\/e4e\/z\/21655.png","allow-anonymous-comments":"1"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/44\/game-dev-life","parents":[1,5,9,139254],"love":0,"notes":28,"notes-timestamp":"2019-05-05T20:09:13Z","grade":{"grade-01":37,"grade-02":37,"grade-03":37,"grade-04":36,"grade-05":37,"grade-07":37,"grade-08":37},"magic":{"cool":103.73041983912,"feedback":34,"given":33.625,"grade":36.857142857143,"smart":17.198400655807}},"text":"\u200bBorn, learn, get fun and work in search of a dream: become a successfull game developer.\n\nEvery decision has a life cost. Manage your happiness, money and vitality and reach your dreams!\n\n# How to play?\n\n![GameDevLife.960x600.20190501134154440.png](\/\/\/raw\/e4e\/z\/2417e.png)\n\n## Goal\n\nYou are a boy that wanna be game developer. Your goal could be reach your dreams, become rich, being happy or get older (or maybe a mix of all of them, it is possible!!!). Also, you can play to discover several ways to die :P.\n\nGame ends when you spend all your life and die (it could take about 2-3 minutes if you get that far in the game). Then the game will show you a summary of your life.\n\n![GameDevLife.960x600.20190501134111868.png](\/\/\/raw\/e4e\/z\/2417d.png)\n\n## Game flow\n\nEvery month you can make an action. **All actions take a cost of life**, and will change your life state. You have 3 game indicators that will give you all the information that you need for knowing the progress in your life.\n\n### Life\n\nIt's the most basic parameter. **When life is over you die**.\n\n### Happiness\n\nMost of the actions you make affects to your happiness. If this bar is over your life cost of your actions will be increased dramatically. **Be sure you take a break every now and then ;)**.\n\n### Money\n\nGet fun costs money. Get independent cost soo much money. **Living is not free!** If your money is negative you will start to lose your Happiness.\n\n## Actions\n\nActions (or decisions) are divided in 3 sections that you can navigate clicking the gray buttons. If you put the cursor over an action, a panel in the right will show you the immediate consequencies of that action.\n\n### Fun\n\n![GameDevLife.960x600.20190501134315087.png](\/\/\/raw\/e4e\/z\/2417f.png)\n\nIt will improve your happiness. At the beginning your only action is \"Play\", but you will get more ways to get fun in the future!\n\n### Study\n\n![GameDevLife.960x600.20190501134214995.png](\/\/\/raw\/e4e\/z\/24181.png)\n\nLearning is essential to get a job. As in real life, the most of the early years you will have to learn the basic stuff (General learnings). After that you could start to study about your vocation: videogames.\n\n### Work\n\n![GameDevLife.960x600.20190501132818326.png](\/\/\/raw\/e4e\/z\/24182.png)\n\nWhen you have basic learnings you can have a crap job and earn some money. If you abandon your dreams, you can get experience and apply to better jobs. Maybe it could be easier being happy and rich! Else, **your first jobs in the videogames industry will be unpaid**. You must work as internship or make free jobs before you can become a game developer. Nobody said reaching your dreams was easy!\n\n**NOTE:** There are a lot of jobs that you could unlock studying and working. For example, if you get experience as programmer and artist, you could work as technical artist. Even, if you work hard, **you will be able to found your own big videogames company!!!**\n\n### Special action: become independent\n\n![GameDevLife.960x600.20190501135258668.png](\/\/\/raw\/e4e\/z\/24184.png)\n\nWhen you are 18 years old you feel that you need your space. **If you get independent, you will spend $1,000 per month, but if you stay at your parents home you will be less happy every month**. Become independent as soon as you have a paid job!","title":"Game Dev Life"}