Money Management Simulator by Ascension

made by Ascension for Ludum Dare 45 (COMPO)

Some people are born rich, some are born wise, but many are born ordinary.Their lives Start with nothing. This game you will play an ordinary person, no inheritance, no high salary, you can only manage your money to make life better.

Game Features: - Four different ways to invest and manage money. - Over 20 random events. - Every time you play a different stock move. - With complete statistics, you will know your financial ability when you finish the game.

How to Play: - "NEXT" Butoon to pass time. - Spend money on deposits, funds, stocks or insurance. - You can adjust your monthly consumption or agree to requests to increase your happiness. - When you're 50 years old , you'll retire and take stock of your financial results.

Change your life by managing your money.

ps: happiness system is unfinished.

Youtube	https://ascension.itch.io/mms
Youtube	https://drive.google.com/open?id=1j1auyIf3VqoAQsCjMAsra6YgEuXpAWpx
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/money-management-simulator

Ratings

Overall	373^th	3.135⭐	39🧑‍⚖️
Fun	357^th	2.946⭐	39🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	363^th	2.905⭐	39🧑‍⚖️
Theme	244^th	3.431⭐	38🧑‍⚖️
Audio	216^th	3.139⭐	38🧑‍⚖️
Humor	254^th	2.455⭐	35🧑‍⚖️
Mood	417^th	2.686⭐	37🧑‍⚖️
Given		51🗳️	4🗨️

Feedback

N0ught234

07. Oct 2019 · 09:03 UTC

One of the best LD games i've played so far. Audio worked well together with the music. I like the art style and the overall layout (Would have preferred it if the menus had x buttons to close them as well as clicking away but nbd). I think this game is trying to tell me something... Put all your money in the bank and you will be a millionaire by the time you're 40!

jk5000

07. Oct 2019 · 09:05 UTC

This is a very simpler and fun little clicker game. I like both music and visual style. The game could use a small tutorial. Overall a good combo game. Well done.

🎤 Ascension

07. Oct 2019 · 09:07 UTC

@n0ught234 Thanks very much. In fact, different ages should have different ways of managing money, which may not be well reflected in the game.

Baturinsky

07. Oct 2019 · 10:27 UTC

Cute, but not much actual strategy involved. Need more meaningful choice. Would work better if there were several companies to invest, and you had to read a newspaper to get a hint of how they could raise or drop. Or you there were several different marriage candidates. Like, one would make you more happy, but other would help you getting promoted. Same for jobs.

Lumos

07. Oct 2019 · 10:37 UTC

Ah, I love realistic games: buy high, sell low both in real life as well as in the game. The lesson I seem to have learned from this was to make sure my salary goes up; and to never date and marry a literal gold-digger. I mean c'mon, spending 2 grand on a date and 10 grand on a wedding?! Holy shit!

Anyhow, this is a fun little game. It'd've been nice if the investment options displayed value gained/lost since the time of purchase, as -- not really paying attention -- I quickly lost track of whether my investments had grown or shrunk as time went on.

Adrien Dittrick

07. Oct 2019 · 10:42 UTC

Money is hard to manage

TasakaSama

07. Oct 2019 · 11:21 UTC

The idea is super good by cons lot of things doesn't work, no management of happiness, the consumption we do not see too much and especially 2 times I played and 2 times I had a bug or all month he told me that "I found a new job" but my salary remained at 0 ...
Another thing no button quit at the end ...

By cons non bug events are super fun

But it's a very good idea, congratulations to you

PurpledArtFrog

08. Oct 2019 · 10:53 UTC

Good job :thumbsup_tone1:

:purple_heart: :dart: :frog:

Mad Brokli

08. Oct 2019 · 11:03 UTC

Awsome game :) Managed to take a girl on a date... altough it was kinda expensive.

Bip

09. Oct 2019 · 06:33 UTC

Very cool concept, but it was a little bit slow. Overall though, super fun. Bitlife was always one of my favorite quick games so this was a very cool nostalgia trip.

Danilo Freire

09. Oct 2019 · 13:09 UTC

If you can generate a mac or web build it would be great! : D

🎤 Ascension

10. Oct 2019 · 01:56 UTC

@danilo-freire Thank you. I uploaded a web version at first, but it didn't work very well, so I cancelled it.

celsyum

10. Oct 2019 · 11:14 UTC

super fun :)

Sol Roo

11. Oct 2019 · 16:23 UTC

Very neat submission, clean and good sound design. good work!

small comment: I found a bug that after losing my job i got a new job notification every month.

Enzo_B

11. Oct 2019 · 17:18 UTC

was funny nice job ! :D

Franciszek Pyrć

11. Oct 2019 · 19:26 UTC

Nice management you have going there.

dqmhose

14. Oct 2019 · 10:07 UTC

Super cool! Is there a way to end the game besides Alt+F4? I couldn't find one.. Its super clean and everything fits well together. It's just a little easy, even without investing anything you can make it to retirement pretty easily. (wish my job was that well paid :D)

goudagames

15. Oct 2019 · 19:28 UTC

This is great! Love this kind of simulator, and the random events make a lot of sense and really add to the game.

sillyman987

16. Oct 2019 · 11:33 UTC

Really fun! Love the great graphics!

hiroboto

23. Oct 2019 · 15:11 UTC

interesting game!

Dongle

23. Oct 2019 · 19:19 UTC

This was a pretty interesting game to play. Loved the music. It was pretty fun, and I liked the random events thrown in there too. Good job!

dcrdro

24. Oct 2019 · 12:00 UTC

Pretty fun little money simulator ;)
Cool features with events
But always time I had 3/5 hearts , hm. Does money affect on it ? ;P
But there are too many costs - marriage, women hehe :/

solleys

02. Feb 2021 · 15:36 UTC

Hah, what an interesting game! Probably it could help with accounting skills etc. I would like to improve them, by the way. But every month I take a payday loan here https://maybeloan.com/payday-loans/mt this is a good and reliable company. And you know, guys I believe that it’s important to note the thing about the other sources of income.