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Gossip Market by LoicLeGrosFrere

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made by LoicLeGrosFrere for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

A game about market rumors...

Trade some stock market share and become the richest of the planet ! You think it's difficult ? Don't worry, you can manipulate stock prices with rumors and other fake news :wink:

About controls : - Balance angle control the price - You can see how many actions you have beside the price - Buying will use 10% of your capital - Selling will use 50% of your actions (or all, if < 10) - You can drag and drop rumors where you want (but I advise you to drop rumor on balance) - (Game can run in background but I think it depend of the browser when in another tab)

Good luck !

Fun facts : - First time I do a jam solo ! - I wanted to set global ranking with your place matching the real stat of richess per human on earth, but the plot is so much a nonsense that it just made my unity crash ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - It was supposed to be somewhat multiplayer, but I literally spent 2 days on making something that works with UItoolkit, so... Sorry :sob: - all the "sound design" was made by mouth without any modification

Link https://loiclegrosfrere.itch.io/gossip-market
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/gossip-market

Ratings

Overall 762th 3.52⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1251th 2.92⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 103th 4.02⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Theme 57th 4.38⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1156th 3.06⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Audio 900th 2.792⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Humor 824th 2.783⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1168th 2.979⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Given 60🗳️ 30🗨️

Feedback

elcoldtown
05. Oct 2021 · 11:01 UTC
I love it! Fits the theme really well and the mechanic is good. If you give it a little more polishing it could end up being a really solid mobile game.
Phlip45
05. Oct 2021 · 19:49 UTC
The mechanic is really interesting. Didn't realize what the gossip market actions did for a long while, was just clicking on them and then nothing happened. After I got that I was supposed to click and drag though it was a lot easier to manipulate the market. EDIT: Instructions weren't up at that time
LDJam user 235694
06. Oct 2021 · 15:45 UTC
Wow, very interisting mechanic. Its really cool concept. Good job.
RobbzenOne
06. Oct 2021 · 15:53 UTC
i like the mechanics :) nice idea.. (wasnt clear for me that you can move rumors etc)
Alexofp
06. Oct 2021 · 16:12 UTC
The game is -super- addictive and fun, wow. It's such a simple yet cool concept I can't believe it. It's not obvious that you gotta drag the 'whisper' buttons onto the platform but once you figure it out it all just clicks in your head, good job
Marc Jones
07. Oct 2021 · 23:46 UTC
I really liked this game, well done! Fits the theme well and I thought it was a surprisingly good representation of the stock market. When the balances were swinging, for example, it reminded me of day-trading. I enjoyed tanking the price of a stock, only to buy a load and manipulate the price back up. Having the rumours and fake news have different weights but also frictions (I think?) was very clever. You mentioned it in your description, but local multiplayer would make this game. Having everyone buying and selling at the same time, and putting whispers/rumours/fake news on simultaneously would lead to fun chaos, a little like the game Chu-chu rocket if you ever played that? All in all, a very clever entry, I enjoyed it!
JUSTCAMH
08. Oct 2021 · 15:01 UTC
Hey matey, thanks for submitting your game to the stream! It was a ton of fun, good job with your game! Here's a link to the vod if you'd like to rewatch; https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1170771627
moi93101
08. Oct 2021 · 15:42 UTC
@justcamh Thx for the link ! I will watch again ALL your clips ;)
fabioecco
08. Oct 2021 · 22:05 UTC
Whoah, that's surprisingly fun, so minimalistic graphics and it fits the theme so well. Great job!
RobinDBois
09. Oct 2021 · 18:04 UTC
Nice!
At first I didn't understand anything at all ! But after some test it came slowly ^^
So I think it's like the real market, at first nobody undestand anything then everybody pretend to have understood ;p
LDJam user 271014
10. Oct 2021 · 21:44 UTC
The minimalist style really suits this game well! Interesting concept with having the prices of the items literally tied to a swinging axis; really makes you think about "buy low, sell high" as a strategy haha. It's interesting trying to manipulate a physics system to maximize profits. I think a "reset balance" button to spend money on might be nice, since once all the blocks fall off one of the axes, it just sort of wobbles back and forth for a while. Having the option to spend money to restabilize it would be interesting. Not bad overall!
moi93101
11. Oct 2021 · 16:47 UTC
@mediflect You can do reset or stabilize with whispers/rumors/fake news !
Asimir
12. Oct 2021 · 14:39 UTC
A great, innovative implementation of the theme. I enjoyed it a lot. My only real criticism is that Fake News is a bit too powerful. It's easy to have complete control over the arrows with it.
wheybags
13. Oct 2021 · 20:06 UTC
Nice game :D It is a bit slow, maybe it would work well as an idle game? So it would "compute" the change over time even when I was offline.
rubenwardy
13. Oct 2021 · 20:45 UTC
I don't really understand how to play this - I can buy/sell to place blocks, or drag from gossip to place blocks. But I can't work out what I'm actually supposed to _do_
SirTobyB
13. Oct 2021 · 21:19 UTC
What a cool concept, i really enjoyed it! One of the best LD49 games that i've tried even though i didn't become the richest person. :D

![gossip_market.PNG](///raw/219/04/z/481fc.png)

Well done! And i agree, that the fake news are too strong.
moi93101
13. Oct 2021 · 21:22 UTC
@rubenwardy Just become rich ! You can literally be at the first place of the leaderboard that you can see at the bot of the screen. And you can do that with manipulate price with blocks (of buy/sell or gossip) on balance
zimny11
13. Oct 2021 · 22:07 UTC
Cool game concept. I feel that it is a little bit too easy to just set up some block at the ends of arrows after you buy stocks and just wait. I think it would be interesting if from time to time a random block would drop on arrows. That would force the player to actively counteract that random blocks and made the game more interactive. Anyway, good job!
moi93101
13. Oct 2021 · 22:24 UTC
@zimny11 I was thinking the game like this:
- at the bot left there will be a TV with a presenter that say about random news that create blocks on the concerned balance (that's why there a three of them originally)
- I wanted to do an online feature to "synchronize" (not necessarily real time, just to add some variations) the presenter events AND boxes spawned by players

(But instead to do some code, thing that I'm used with, I choosed to use my time to make something that no too much developer like to see...)
zimny11
13. Oct 2021 · 22:34 UTC
@loiclegrosfrere That is are really cool idea. What a shame it did not make it to the game, but I get it time limit is harsh :) I also planned more feature, but I scraped almost all of them, basing what I can do on previous Ludum Dares XD
TheEpsi
17. Oct 2021 · 16:28 UTC
It took me a while to understand what I was doing, also I was spending money clicking the whispers and rumors without doing drag and drop hahaha.
I think it suits really well the theme and the game can be very addictive once you understand what are you doing!
GullynGames
17. Oct 2021 · 21:36 UTC
I really like the concept of this game, definitely one of the most creative I've seen. It was hard to understand at first, but I eventually figured it out. Good job!