SIMFLUENCER by erebus

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made by erebus for Ludum Dare 45 (COMPO)

You are a wanna be influencer, and the party of the century is happening just next door. But, there's just one problem. You have no followers! Take selfies with interesting things. Get enough followers and the bouncer will let you in!

Controls:

ASDW or Arrows - Move

Left Click - Enter selfie mode

Left Click in selfie mode - Take selfie

Right Click - Exit selfie mode

Esc - Quit

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Ratings

Overall 217th 3.482⭐ 59🧑‍⚖️
Fun 209th 3.325⭐ 59🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 169th 3.518⭐ 59🧑‍⚖️
Theme 288th 3.284⭐ 60🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 339th 3.009⭐ 60🧑‍⚖️
Audio 132th 3.439⭐ 59🧑‍⚖️
Humor 18th 3.974⭐ 59🧑‍⚖️
Mood 195th 3.295⭐ 58🧑‍⚖️
Given 66🗳️ 69🗨️

Feedback

DecadeDecaf
06. Oct 2019 · 23:22 UTC
You clearly had a lot of fun making this, haha! Nice job.
JCMonkey
06. Oct 2019 · 23:33 UTC
ok this played better then it looked from your stream when i watched you make it.
NachtWitch
07. Oct 2019 · 01:28 UTC
Neeto art
Adrien Dittrick
07. Oct 2019 · 12:41 UTC
This reminds me of "you become what you behold"
DrakeSpartan
07. Oct 2019 · 22:03 UTC
Neat game and knowing the work that went into it, doesn't diminish that. Also, that Voice Acting though!
ixuz
07. Oct 2019 · 22:14 UTC
I never managed to get into the party, maybe I failed to find all the required selfie spots. I had fun for some time. Short but sweet.
🎤 erebus
07. Oct 2019 · 22:37 UTC
@ixuz thanks for playing. The targets to photograph are, the duck, the yeti in the forest, waldo, and the invisible man (pair of floating sunglasses and hat).
Artyom Volkov
08. Oct 2019 · 00:34 UTC
I like this idea, it's simple and well made.
Bocodillo
08. Oct 2019 · 01:07 UTC
Super fun idea. Loved trying to find all the specific characters, just for more of that quality VA work.
Danny Wynne
08. Oct 2019 · 07:56 UTC
Simple and fun and funny, good job:) For the record, I made it into the party. I am very cool.
Hcursino
08. Oct 2019 · 08:22 UTC
Amazing voice acting and recording quality. Everything fits in the mood. The game was short and simple but I had fun searching for those people to raise my followers. Good job.
mimusangel
08. Oct 2019 · 08:22 UTC
I like the reference characters, very nice.
detectiveLosos
08. Oct 2019 · 13:25 UTC
This game proposes some very thought provoking questions: "What in a modern age can be considered interesting?" and "Does the second image of the same thing lose all of it interest value till the end of times regardless of any factors?"
I guess perfectly square trees and people are not interesting at all. And the fact that people nowadays are shepherded inside a strictly fenced area and everybody is fine with it is not interesting either.

I really expected a twist that after getting a bunch of subscribers, everything I'll post would be considered a new interesting thing worth talking about. Even if that something would be just a blank wall. I expected that I will become somewhat of an opinion maker. That would fit right in in the mindless sheepish walking-into-walls people society you have portrayed.

Voice acting is really funny, but I'm not really sure what they are doing in that party house with such suggestive sounds and not sure that interfering would be a very good idea.
KeithSwanger
08. Oct 2019 · 22:33 UTC
A modern-day Pokemon Snap. Great concept, I really enjoyed the experience! Clever... Funny... I want to play more!
diaonic
09. Oct 2019 · 00:27 UTC
Nice submission, just a few quality control things I saw. Rename your exe so its not LD45. A sound slider to lower the volume would be awesome. I love the idea and the sound effects are hilarious. Nice work!
karlipoppins
09. Oct 2019 · 03:02 UTC
Very cool concept! I quite enjoyed the camera animation / FX and sound when taking a selfie. It was fun to run around looking for stuff to photograph. The game felt a bit short, but overall it was quite enjoyable all around! Great job!
tmpxyz
09. Oct 2019 · 03:09 UTC
A clever idea, and this might be more interesting with some other extra elements
drprettypatty
09. Oct 2019 · 03:37 UTC
lol that was really fun. The guy who kept calling me boring is definitely super jealous that I got into the totally awesome party now.

If you wanted to keep working on this, the only suggestion I can make is to add more stuff to find -- this game is perfect the way it is, and polishing it would ruin it.
Bip
09. Oct 2019 · 06:45 UTC
What a fun Idea, and the voice overs were really funny.
jamioflan
09. Oct 2019 · 06:54 UTC
I couldn't see the follower count on ultrawide, but it was a very fun silly game
Rhymar
09. Oct 2019 · 06:55 UTC
this was a short but fun experience^^
just add a skip of the follower comments and you can speedrun the game^^
pokekarat
09. Oct 2019 · 07:05 UTC
Good idea
W0lfEnstein
09. Oct 2019 · 07:11 UTC
Professional voice acting and funny gameplay. Nice! ^^
BOOtak
09. Oct 2019 · 08:47 UTC
That is great idea nicely executed. I had a lot of fun while playing, thank you!
SharkWithLasers
09. Oct 2019 · 14:10 UTC
definitely the funniest game I've played so far this jam! Great voice acting!

Really like the pokemon snap/selfie mechanic. I feel like a "taking quality selfies" mechanic would work very well in VR!
shrapx
09. Oct 2019 · 16:24 UTC
I found about 3 guys by accident by taking my first selfie in front of a big area :p I didn't want to exploit that further so I found some other people my self. I liked finding wheres wally (waldo). Voices and sounds make it fun. So many silly lines in there. Really great job on a compo entry.
RilleP
09. Oct 2019 · 20:03 UTC
Voice acting was 10/10, made me laugh! :D
TheoG
10. Oct 2019 · 08:58 UTC
Your game is fun, thanks for making me smile, my day can start now! :D Good job!
Oneki
10. Oct 2019 · 10:09 UTC
Parody is always this huge pendulum swinging between hilarious and cringe worthy moments. Personally found it touching the comedy. Nice little thing, can't imagine playing another 5 minutes due to a perfect depiction of the sub-culture.
Karanveer
10. Oct 2019 · 10:10 UTC
I had some trouble getting some interesting things, as i was relentlessly taking with skies and moon and trees, then later i saw some oddness and took selfie ith them and voila.
Also, it hit me that if you got no followers you aint valuable? hmmm...WOW.![Screenshot (41).png](///raw/1a6/22/z/294a7.png)
GoldRanger
10. Oct 2019 · 14:58 UTC
A good way to fit the theme!
and Voice acting in game jam is always great
Shelvid
10. Oct 2019 · 22:05 UTC
Very hilarious entry, well done! Voice acting and comment reactions were definitely awesome. Finding some odd things was also very fun :) I don't really have anything bad to say about this honestly! Adding more interesting points would probably drag the game out (Although you could have several levels with bigger parties) but it shows that you had fun making the game :)
Rhoka
10. Oct 2019 · 22:51 UTC
Fun little experience! Loved the voice acting. Only a couple little things I'd say. I think if you had a little checklist of things to go find it would give a bit more incentive and at the same time allow you to open up the play area to a larger area. On the other hand you could just tell the player to find things and just give them a total number followers to get so you know when you're close to done. Overall good job!
Nocity
11. Oct 2019 · 08:56 UTC
Original and fun, great voice acting! The comments popping up when you take a photo were a nice touch. Two little issues: I accidentally closed the game by pressing ESC looking for an option to invert the mouse Y axis and I also didn't notice the bouncer was talking the first time I approached him because his voice got lost in the (hilarious) party noise. I had a lot of fun overall and this was the best social media simulator I played so far :D
ProdigalSon
11. Oct 2019 · 19:44 UTC
Definitely funny!
Call_me_Nutty
13. Oct 2019 · 18:57 UTC
Really cool and incredibly hilarious voice acting. Not much to criticise here, maybe more people to take pictures with but I had lots of laughs during this.

Great job!