Motorhome Rabbit by JoshuaRabbit



Theme:
A prototype about a rabbit who lives in a motorhome and earns money to finish his indie game.
Goal:
Contribute to 50 game points to finish the indie game.
Don't be arrested.
Rules:
When you are sleeping or developing an indie game, you need to pay the bill. Thus, you need to make money from consumers.
You can buy new furniture from the shop, and there may be some combos among some furniture.
The service furniture only can be used when there is a consumer.
Control:
Click the furniture to invoke action.
When in shop, click to buy furniture and drag furniture to relocate them.
Inspiration:
Backpack Hero; Kairo Software Series
Bug fix 1.02 in H5:
- The consumer will show up initially.
What will be improved if there is more time:
The visual effect when the furniture level up.
The motorhome will expand when the player reaches the game point goal and continues the game.
More furniture added.
More consumers and different consumers will have different preferred services.
Sacrificing the consumers will gain special furniture such as golden egg or milk.
User interface to preview the item in the shop.
| Link | https://joshuarabbit.itch.io/motorhomerabbit |
| Link | https://joshuarabbit.itch.io/motorhomerabbit |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/motorhomerabbit |
Ratings
| Overall | 197th | 3.5⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 210th | 3.35⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 208th | 3.3⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 179th | 3.675⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 173th | 3.5⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 121th | 3.45⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 9th | 4.225⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 103th | 3.625⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 20🗳️ | 3🗨️ |
I am supposed to be happy since I finished my indie game. Somehow I am a little bit frustrated but the game is shipping lol
Nice sfx as always! Nice Job!

Yay, it was fun, love all the voice acting and the cute art!
As above comment said, I was frustated by not knowing was does the item before buying it, and I think it prevents experimentation. In the same spirit, a restart button may hints there are multiple endings.
But well done!
I agree that knowing what things do before purchasing them might be nice, but the mystery item buying was also almost a novelty in itself and the fact that you can quite easily and safely make money meant that buiying random stuff wasn't punishing anyway. I bought stuff for the curiosity!
I was not expecting this to have multiple endings but it made a simple game sooo replayable in the way that items interacted with each other and wanting to try different things. The way I was so surprised when this cute rabbit selling ice cream suddenly was running a sex service out of the cute pink van?! Kept me playing to try and find the different endings and test combinations.
A tiny thing that would add a bit more polish might be to give some visual feedback when hovering over items to indicate that they can be clicked to use their action. I was confused as to what I needed to do at first since nothing seemed to be happening when I clicked "Finish" which I thought would have some kind of end turn effect (also, just entirely my fault for not reading the instructions beforehand aha). A little darken or shrink on hovering would be a simple change to add a little more feedback in the gameplay.
The audio feedback with placing things and the variety of voice sounds was really great! Another tiny thing that I love which just adds some variation is a bit of random pitch variation. A really small thing but, when placing items or the "da da da da" when doing an action, the sound could have a bit of pitch randomness which makes it a little less samey and adds to the polish without having to record multiple sounds.
Overall, an amazingly polished game, especially for compo! Only had a couple of feedback things I could think of to improve it which are obviously so small and not necessary in a time constrained game jam! Love the vibe and the way everything fits together and stays interesting and replayable. Super well done for a very impressive entry! One of my fave so far!
Edit: Just looked at your other games and saw they're all rabbits and I'm obsessed lol
Yes. I don't have enough time to do more visual feedbacks and it may be better if I have time to implement the preview description of the shop items.
Thank you for your detail review!!!!
@ pov we need spoiler tags!
Now I wish I had that rabbit's (lack of) work schedule.