HOBO DAYS by FinnThePirate
Have you ever wonder how it feels to be a hobo? Hobo Days is my first Ludum Dare entry, game is completed in 48 hours by just me.

CONTROLS
Use Arrow keys to move
To ask for money, when walking beside a person press “B” then press “SPACE” to stop the power bar
press “S” to start the game
when you are in front of the vending machine press”F” to buy food (if you have enough money)
| Youtube | https://rocinante.itch.io/hobo-days |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/hobo-days |
Ratings
| Overall | 526th | 3.489⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 842th | 2.926⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 416th | 3.391⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 130th | 3.989⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 83th | 4.319⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 379th | 3.337⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 567th | 2.703⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 198th | 3.826⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 38🗳️ | 55🗨️ |
By the way: It is also a good interpretation of the theme.
I choose not to vote for "humor" cause there is no humor but you did an amazing job.
Graphics have kinda lucasart feeling.
Gameplay is quite basic but it's hard to get a decent amout of money by those unsensitive yuppies!
Probably you can further develop the gameplay by adding options ("show children pictures", "wash cars for money") to vary the game.
Very nice entry ! The music and the art are good :)
I'm surprised you achieved all that work alone, congrats !
Anyway, great job with the art and the overall mood (music and visual effects)!
If you want to develop this further, it would be interesting if you could lose of other ways (being thrown out or being bullied by other peoples for example)
Also the fact that your hunger reset everyday is a bit contradictory x)
Bugs: A flipping text and no cropping in the amount of money, because of this sometimes we have 0.0499992
I am dying a lot because I am not sure I understood the controls in the red yellow green bar

really liked the idea btw, very original and heartfelt
Anyway I really enjoyed your take on the theme! Thank you for making this game.
Kudos for nice pixel art! ;)
The game definitely has potential. All there is to do at the moment is beg people, but I can see the game becoming quite addictive if more features were added. Overall, a great submission for the short space of time it was made.
It also seams way to random - on day two there were a lot of people in the street (earned a lot that day), on day three only one who gave me nothing (barely survived spending yesterdays revenues)...
Add more features and content (cops, eldery people, other hobos... options to rob, or steal mechanic also might be nice addition to the gameplay) you name it) and you are good to go!