Venture by eugsun
First LD entry!
Your ex-girlfriend's cousin's uncle happens to be able to get you a meeting at a venture capital firm. You possess nothing, no skill whatsoever, other than an expert command of tech buzzwords. How much investment could you coax out of the VC?
Controls: - Up/Down (or W/S): Choose who to talk to - Left/Right (or A/D): Choose what to talk about - Tap Space (or J, Left Mouse Click) at the right time to yell out some buzzword

If you have enjoyed this game, feel free to hit me up on Twitter. I'd love to connect!
Bugfixes
Added a way to restart the game.
| Youtube | https://github.com/eugsun/ld-45 |
| Youtube | https://eugsun.itch.io/ld-45-venture |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/venture |
Ratings
| Overall | 342th | 3.205⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 218th | 3.295⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 347th | 2.955⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 159th | 3.659⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 199th | 3.455⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 161th | 3.341⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 24th | 3.886⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 294th | 3.048⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 22🗳️ | 19🗨️ |
You probably considered this but maybe assign three different keys for different color bubbles would make the game easier?
And very interesting endings, I wonder how many different ending are there?
That was pretty fun. Despite being ordered RGB, I constantly ended up switching the wrong direction at the wrong time and failing to talk about the right thing, which kept me on my toes. It seemed like once there was a green and a blue arriving at the same time, and I talked green then blue (*maybe* the blue had just passed the green when I did that, but I think they were both close enough), but only the blue registered :(.
Great audio!
It's too bad the game is sometimes unforgiving when 2 bubbles were triggered at different speed on the same track, making it pretty much impossible to yell out the 2 words to not lose a heart.
Otherwise I loved the little graphics and simple gameplay. Great job!
Here was my best score:

Nice work!
@jordanvang Ah totally agree. I planned for upgrades and 3 different stages but ran out of time... Oh well there's still the next LD!
@burnedkirby You are good at this!! Just treated myself a beer so thank you! And stay disciplined and healthy :D
@keith-wang Yeah I started mapping 3 keys to 3 colored bubbles but that made the game too easy :) Figures you need to be flustered and hectic during a VC pitch meeting. There are 5 different endings to the game. Glad you liked them!
@jimbly Thank you for spending time with my game! I tend to just think that it's the VC's loss after those failed first (and only) attempst haha.
@karlipoppins Thank you thank you! Just wanna let you know again that your game is awesome, and that everyone should go check it out. Yeah whenever 2 bubbles of varying speeds arrive at the same time I just had to spam my keypresses to get through them. Could definitely make it more doable, but alas didn't have enough time to polish.
@yeomsley Thanks for playing! I found I had about 60% chance to get through that situation by quickly tapping my space key and changing color at the right time haha. Definitely don't recommend it.
@marchmain Great idea! Having large and colorful texts being generated and slammed onto the background could be very fun to look at. Ditto on a way to earn more lives, but I was having trouble figuring out a fun and logical way to do so.
@solah Haha thanks for playing!
@imphenzia Apologies to your space key! That's a great score! There's one more silly ending for finishing over $1mil but I definitely won't ask you to abuse your keyboard for me. And yes, what a crazy time it is now to live in San Francisco.
@kirbloid Thank you for the love!
Good job :slight_smile: