Red Metal Gatherer by Yohsk13

made by Yohsk13 for Ludum Dare 45 (JAM)

Red has no money. But he is in a plain where people throw regularly scraps of metal and trash. Gather thoses thrown ressources to sell them and buy yourself more and more scraps and trash !

The game revolve around a simple loop of -> get metals -> sell metals -> buy things to be faster/have more metals -> sell metals again

There is actually no win condition, as I... well... lacked of time. But eh, this time I made sound and even (a) music !

So... as it it has actually no end but I hope you'll enjoy it anyway ;)

Don't hesitate to comment on the game, wether you liked it... or not :/ But it was an interessing one to do... Even if it's absolutely not the kind of game I was planning to do... For full disclosure, the project was called NeedToFight at first, and well... the figthing went away... and the looting part stayed in.

Anyways, Next days will probably revolve arount playing the other jam's games and continuing #devtober !

;) Have a nice day, reader

Youtube	https://yohsk13.itch.io/red-metal-gatherer
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/red-metal-gatherer

Ratings

Overall	1009^th	2.871⭐	37🧑‍⚖️
Fun	953^th	2.75⭐	38🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	912^th	2.694⭐	38🧑‍⚖️
Theme	671^th	3.181⭐	38🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	994^th	2.486⭐	38🧑‍⚖️
Audio	594^th	2.794⭐	36🧑‍⚖️
Humor	642^th	2.531⭐	34🧑‍⚖️
Mood	856^th	2.939⭐	35🧑‍⚖️
Given		29🗳️	44🗨️

Feedback

NachtWitch

07. Oct 2019 · 20:10 UTC

rate, play and comment on others games for recognition

🎤 Yohsk13

07. Oct 2019 · 20:20 UTC

@nachtwitch thank you for your time :) I'll defenitively do that in the next days ;)

NachtWitch

07. Oct 2019 · 20:23 UTC

no problem, the game looks cool though

buoygames

07. Oct 2019 · 21:19 UTC

good job!

simXple

07. Oct 2019 · 21:31 UTC

Nice game, i really like the apperance of the engines and the soundtrack is nice aswell.c:

🎤 Yohsk13

07. Oct 2019 · 21:44 UTC

@simxple thanks :) I'm glad you like the soundtrack as it's the first time I use one in a game ^^.

darkcmd

08. Oct 2019 · 15:46 UTC

Exposing to heavy metal garbages makes the charater hairless.

AlphaDen

08. Oct 2019 · 15:59 UTC

Great gameplay and here are minute details in this game that we could easily ignore. It requires a dedicated player to enjoy this game. But it starts really slow and right click would be nice.

🎤 Yohsk13

08. Oct 2019 · 18:37 UTC

@darkcmd :v: thanks for playing :p :metal:

@alphaden Thank you for your time, sorry if you find it to slow. Drops of metal are through a random dice role with each metal having about the same % of chance to appear so yeah, it probably means that I need to think a bit more about the game progression and pricing ^^.

Plepletier

08. Oct 2019 · 22:53 UTC

I really like this one. Im dont know if understand the build mechanics but i love run around and ghether garbagen and grow my skills and build more structures ehehhehehe

🎤 Yohsk13

09. Oct 2019 · 11:05 UTC

@plepletier thanks :)

thomas-olsson

10. Oct 2019 · 05:38 UTC

Oh, man... there's something I really liked about that game. Is it the weird graphics ? The purity of the concept ? These salad fingers vibes ?
Dunno, but nice job. It's better than most of games for sure.

chaosround

10. Oct 2019 · 13:00 UTC

Nice, good job... I need a tutorial to advance more heheheh.. but its good idea..

🎤 Yohsk13

10. Oct 2019 · 13:08 UTC

@thomas-olsson thank you (^^_) (I didn't know what Salad finger was. Thank you for the ref, that definitively special :p)

@chaosround I understand the need for tuto ^^. As I am pretty lazy, I tend to try to hide that lack of tutorial by triyng to be as intuitive as possible, but I know that's a weak excuse :p (especially that that 'intuition' really depends of what kind of game you played before)

Pedro Miranda

10. Oct 2019 · 13:22 UTC

Nice game. congratulations for your entry

🎤 Yohsk13

10. Oct 2019 · 13:24 UTC

@pedro-miranda Thank you :v: And Long live undead bacons :v:

GoupixM

10. Oct 2019 · 16:44 UTC

I spent so much time on your game ! Haha !
It's really fun and we don't stop playing.
The music is nice too, discreet but present! Good job :D![score.png](///raw/500/f1/z/29513.png)

jakemchugh1

10. Oct 2019 · 17:00 UTC

I feel productive now

🎤 Yohsk13

10. Oct 2019 · 17:27 UTC

@goupixm :D glad you like it and thank you for sharing that screenshot :)) (I don't think I went higher than 10k while testing myself o_o. Well, I kept spending too. But I can also see 0/46 in inventory space, wich is a lot ^^). I'm honestly very happy that there are people enjoying playing my game :)

@jakemchugh1 thanks for playing :)

Yomissmar

10. Oct 2019 · 17:50 UTC

It's so funny! It's one of those dangerous games you can expend too much time playing without noticing haha. I also kind of like the art style, just feel like the background is a bit too simple, I think that the aesthetic could improve a lot with some little details, maybe grass instead of the green color? Good job and nice entry! :)

LJFMX

10. Oct 2019 · 18:04 UTC

I think you did a good job with the progression of things. I would add less trash spawning as the screen can get covered quite quickly. Good job :)

🎤 Yohsk13

10. Oct 2019 · 19:19 UTC

@yomissmar hey :cat: ! Thank you :) I admit that the backgound is just a plain uniform green screen. Adding variation (like patch of grass or dirt) would help a lot indeed :thinking: .

@ljfmx Thanks :) I initially had some plans about adding events (as taxes for littering or trash tempest) but for some reasons (mostly time) I had to cut them out. Thanks again for playing ;)

coffeedrinkers

10. Oct 2019 · 21:47 UTC

Great entry! Got me thinking about all the environmental problems we have (here in my country and the world at whole). :sob:

TwinGhosts

13. Oct 2019 · 12:50 UTC

A fun time waster, which is good in my opinion :D
It'd be nice to have a bit less trash, but it's fun either way. Spent more time on it than I thought I would

🎤 Yohsk13

13. Oct 2019 · 16:40 UTC

@twinghosts Thanks :p. And yeah, it's more or less designed as a time waster \(^^|. (I think at some point I wanted it to be something like a clicker game but I think those are too passive :thinking: ).

@coffeedrinkers Thank you for playing :) (:cry: but yup, too much problems around.)

Xotsu

14. Oct 2019 · 06:45 UTC

Fun but graphics werent my type enjoyable nonetheless

🎤 Yohsk13

14. Oct 2019 · 11:07 UTC

@xotsu Sorry to hear that :( . Thank you for trying it despite not liking the art type.

Enzo_B

14. Oct 2019 · 20:17 UTC

funny game, great job ! :D

Avon

20. Oct 2019 · 14:15 UTC

A bit confused about what some of the buildings did, but had fun playing it, it was surprisingly addictive. The art is uneven, but some of it really good.

🎤 Yohsk13

20. Oct 2019 · 16:20 UTC

@enzo-b thanks :)

@avon thank you for playing