Motorhome Rabbit by JoshuaRabbit

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made by JoshuaRabbit for Ludum Dare 54 (COMPO)

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Theme:

A prototype about a rabbit who lives in a motorhome and earns money to finish his indie game.

Goal:

  1. Contribute to 50 game points to finish the indie game.

  2. Don't be arrested.

Rules:

  1. When you are sleeping or developing an indie game, you need to pay the bill. Thus, you need to make money from consumers.

  2. You can buy new furniture from the shop, and there may be some combos among some furniture.

  3. The service furniture only can be used when there is a consumer.

Control:

  1. Click the furniture to invoke action.

  2. 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:

  1. The consumer will show up initially.

What will be improved if there is more time:

  1. The visual effect when the furniture level up.

  2. The motorhome will expand when the player reaches the game point goal and continues the game.

  3. More furniture added.

  4. More consumers and different consumers will have different preferred services.

  5. Sacrificing the consumers will gain special furniture such as golden egg or milk.

  6. User interface to preview the item in the shop.

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🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 374126
02. Oct 2023 · 14:50 UTC
Loved the character design!!! and the color palette.
Henrik Ganard
02. Oct 2023 · 19:34 UTC
Nice sound FX =)
Zui
04. Oct 2023 · 14:36 UTC
Got arrested for being too horny XD. Very interesting experience!
Henk Fan
04. Oct 2023 · 14:37 UTC
Great art style with a solid connection to the jam's theme! However, there are some balancing issues such as I could spam the ice-cream machine with the sleeping bag. But overall, good game!
Plepletier
04. Oct 2023 · 14:47 UTC
Haha, I really enjoyed the voice sound effects; they added a hilarious mood to the game. Good job! I wasn't sure if there's a challenge or if you can lose the game in any way. I found myself casually clicking away, selling my ice cream calmly and without worrying about losing. Good job!
🎤 JoshuaRabbit
04. Oct 2023 · 15:24 UTC
@plepletier Thank you for playing. Yes you won't fail the game because of the low economy but you may be arrested if you commit an offence too many time for money.(such as using knife) Normally, don't need to worry about getting lose :>
Foursay
04. Oct 2023 · 17:40 UTC
![Screenshot 2023-10-04 103818.png](///raw/202/02/z/5f9cb.png)
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!
egggrass
05. Oct 2023 · 03:09 UTC
realistic rabbit-developer portrait haha Cute minigame:3
LDJam user 374261
05. Oct 2023 · 05:58 UTC
Very interesting game concept :smiley:
somewan
07. Oct 2023 · 15:02 UTC
The various branching scenarios are designed in an interesting way. It's a bit disappointing that you can't see the effects of items in the shop before buying them. I look forward to seeing more polished works from you in the future!
LDJam user 248799
10. Oct 2023 · 13:30 UTC
Good ending :sunglasses:
![Screenshot 2023-10-10 152547.png](///raw/fdb/c3/z/601e6.png)

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!
RobbzenOne
11. Oct 2023 · 19:23 UTC
Very fun idea... I finished my indie game :)
bentglasstube
11. Oct 2023 · 19:45 UTC
I really enjoyed the art and sound design. I also liked the secret item combinations (I think I only found one though). Overall a charming game that is fast enough to play a few times but gets pretty trivial to beat.
noya
11. Oct 2023 · 21:46 UTC
I really like the art style of the characters and items and I also found the voice acting quite funny. 😊 The idea to experiment with different furniture combinations is cool, however I feel like it's held back by the fact that you do not need to buy any furniture to reach the goal (laptop until you're out of money, ice cream until you're tired, sleep in bed, repeat). I think some incentive to upgrade your stuff (for example to cover regular costs for gas or food) would really help there. I appreciate that you added a bad ending. 😁
MoonDweller
12. Oct 2023 · 21:11 UTC
Hahah, I didn't expect this game to have multiple endings! The ending posters are fun :D
Teto
14. Oct 2023 · 15:28 UTC
I was somewhat confused at first but oh my gosh I loved this game! The cute graphics, the funny voice acting and the multiple endings were all amazing and made me chuckle.

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
🎤 JoshuaRabbit
16. Oct 2023 · 13:13 UTC
@teto Wow! Thank you for your long review. I am so happy that you love this game!
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!!!!
cagibi
16. Oct 2023 · 16:55 UTC
It took me a few dozens tatatata, but I finally finished it… only to discover there were different endings. :P
@ pov we need spoiler tags!

Now I wish I had that rabbit's (lack of) work schedule.
OadT
17. Oct 2023 · 18:33 UTC
Haalllooo! Very cute game and funny sound effects. I got confused why my bed suddenly turned red and made strange sounds :joy: At the beginning I was a bit confused because I recognised the bed as furniture and didn't realize that you can serve ice cream to the customers :sweat_smile: But once I figured it out I had fun exploring all the different furnitures
LDJam user 319166
17. Oct 2023 · 19:48 UTC
cute art style and sound effects! nice idea