Writers Block by Copper_Aardvark_Games



Writers block is a simple clicker game where you play as an uncreative individual who steals peoples ideas from the internet. Selling these ideas will earn you money. With this money you can upgrade your primary research website to find better ideas to steal. You can also purchase upgrades to increase profits from selling ideas, increase speed of finding ideas, and more.
KNOWN BUGS
- On occasion you may get an idea with the same name as one you already have.
- The layering of the pop up screens is not perfect, sometimes when you already have a window open a new pop up will appear behind it.
- You can earn enough money to cause an integer overflow and the amount of money you have will loop back to the lowest digit an int can hold.
BUGS FIXED AFTER COMPO
- Fixed title screen not loading when you return to the main menu during the start tutorial
- Fixed UI Scaling Issues
- Fixed some typos
- Changed title screen to suit more aspect ratios
| Youtube | https://copper-aardvark-games.itch.io/writers-block |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/writers-block-1 |
Ratings
| Overall | 117th | 3.705⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 63th | 3.795⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 224th | 3.341⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 92th | 3.886⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 254th | 3.295⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 61th | 3.705⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 25th | 3.864⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 80th | 3.738⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 25🗳️ | 14🗨️ |
And Very Clean Design to, it's pleasant.
Great Job



Except on frame rate that the gif has no chance of replicating. And neither clicking or pressing A/Q does nothing.
I also think the idea of stealing other ideas is a really good concept in its own right that just doesn't get explored as much as it could.
Still, it was a nice little experience and I liked it!
* The sound indicating an idea is being searched for! Especially helpful later, when it gets faster.
* Upgrading the website made it playable for longer as you had something to achieve.
* It was quite relaxing (music, design) but also funny.
* The simple mechanic made it really easy to get into and play.
* Cute little detail with the top website being LDjam!
Some improvement ideas:
* Since it's heavily text-based, I thought you might want to know of typos, to possibly fix? Please don't take this the wrong way; I also did not have time to proofread my game and already had to fix some typos so I'm just hoping to help! Anyways, they are: "you're **and** unoriginal", "although they're not really yours**.** per se", "Quit to **TItle**"
* Being able to press "enter" to confirm ("continue" button, for example) would be a great quality-of-life detail!
* I ran into a bug with these two buttons not becoming disabled when you reach maximum. I play it on Windows, if that helps.

* Additional upgrades to unlock would be fun, but I imagine that'd take more time to make!!