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Pretty solid entry. and my right hand is sore now :joy:","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":781946,"author_name":"LDJam user 288322","author_uid":"288322","epoch":1649120410,"text":"Thanks for the review @EggshellDog! Yup I know exactly what you mean, my left finger hurts from mashing against 32 agents lol","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":782191,"author_name":"Arihan10","author_uid":"arihan10","epoch":1649121569,"text":"I ended up playing this one for wayy longer than I originally anticipated :sweat_smile: I think, despite the generic shooter vibes, the mood created by the very humorous tone is really what sells it. Good job! 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I was pretty happy with how the NPC movement matched the music pretty well :D","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":799773,"author_name":"bentglasstube","author_uid":"bentglasstube","epoch":1649227604,"text":"Interesting game that was more fun than I expected.  One thing that was frustrating was I didn't really know when the customers would leave or how much if I had health left.  Some UI elements to show those things would be a nice addition.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":799788,"author_name":"Krg","author_uid":"krg","epoch":1649227860,"text":"my figers hurts\ni was so close to get that 3rd gun \nbut they literlly came to gangbang me,lol\nvery cool game","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":800600,"author_name":"LDJam user 288322","author_uid":"288322","epoch":1649237969,"text":"Agreed @bentglasstube, I was planning on adding some extra UI to show how long until the customers leave and the enemy HP, but I just ran out of time. And yup @krg, gangbang is the exact word others have described it as XDD","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":802269,"author_name":"muriel","author_uid":"muriel","epoch":1649253871,"text":"I love how you managed to create an entertaining game with minimal graphics I really loved the mechanics, good job!\n\nThanks for creating this game :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":805389,"author_name":"ambrits","author_uid":"ambrits","epoch":1649276930,"text":"I think the graphics and the music were fine and fitting. I liked the mood when everyone leaves the the scene gets dark. The controls sometimes felt unresponsive or stuck, I died two times because I just couldn't shoot.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":809396,"author_name":"ZevsEHG","author_uid":"zevsehg","epoch":1649327847,"text":"One of the few games that i'm really enjoyeed! It's missing shooting sounds, but overall good.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":809411,"author_name":"ZevsEHG","author_uid":"zevsehg","epoch":1649328136,"text":"The game does not fix the mouse cursor, so I often clicked on the second screen.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":812709,"author_name":"caeonosphere","author_uid":"caeonosphere","epoch":1649368204,"text":"Damn, those exponentially increasing hordes of auditors are terrifying! Love the look of the title screen, too. My fingers hurt!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":818092,"author_name":"SAGIII","author_uid":"sagiii","epoch":1649491372,"text":"Hello! Now I know that Onlyf**s isn't the only solution if I need money. The game is so fun. Just little suggestions: \nThe mouse lose focus because it can go on a second screen and that's deadly against the bank guys.\nWhen you kill a bank dude and you get tped to the market you should destroy the bank guy parts because I had a market with bank guys corpses.\n","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":820049,"author_name":"zantze","author_uid":"zantze","epoch":1649531480,"text":"Fun shooter game!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":823929,"author_name":"Diego Escalante","author_uid":"diego-escalante","epoch":1649637363,"text":"_There's always money in the banana stand._\n\nTwo bits of feedback:\n- It would be nice to have some kind of feedback for damaging the tax agents. A depleting health bar, making them flash red, or something to let me know that my shots are connecting.\n- This only applies to people with multiple monitors, but since the cursor is not locked, you can accidentally move the cursor to another monitor, try to click to shoot, but now the game is no longer the active window and you probably end up losing. This issue is understandable though; it is probably hard to catch if you only have one monitor.\n\nAside from that feedback, pretty fun game! I like how frantic it is. The music was sort of simple but honestly it was very fitting and quite a bop! Title screen with the camera around Grandma Betty was a nice touch too. Well done!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":826382,"author_name":"fueelin","author_uid":"fueelin","epoch":1649748755,"text":"I liked the graphics a lot, and it's a pretty funny\/clever idea.  Unfortunately I also had multi-monitor issues that made it hard to get very far (I did beat the first tax collector, though!).  Also agree with other commenters that an indicator that you're actually damaging the enemies would be a big addition.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":826390,"author_name":"LDJam user 288322","author_uid":"288322","epoch":1649749400,"text":"Thanks for all the feedback everyone, I really appreciate it <3","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":827476,"author_name":"Jchab","author_uid":"jchab","epoch":1649799858,"text":"something about these faceless characters i find creeepy and funny. good design choice!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":828550,"author_name":"jk5000","author_uid":"jk5000","epoch":1649876575,"text":"A little weird, but also super funny. Well done.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":831467,"author_name":"commanderstitch","author_uid":"commanderstitch","epoch":1650134087,"text":"I liked this. It fits the theme very well. The only issues i ran into playing the game was that when i switched to the tax collection sequences my mouse would often scroll out of the monitor and onto the other monitors, i'd click on those screens and it'd pull me out of the game. I didn't see any full screen options in order to fix it. It's neat! great take on the theme, i wanted the shotgun so badly, but was unable to because of the outside screen clicking on scroll. My guess is, if i only had one screen active, this wouldn't be an issue. :-)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld50\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/MarkSeufert\/LudumDare_Bananas","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/markseufert.itch.io\/death-taxes-and-bananas","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"83454","g_author":"1288322","g_event":"LD50","g_eventkey":"110","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"389596","g_title":"Death, Taxes, and Bananas","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"365","g_commentcount":"25","g_site2_node_id":"288324","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"288324","n_urlkey":"389596","n_parent":"276397","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/50\/death-taxes-and-bananas","n_slug":"death-taxes-and-bananas","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"288322","n_created":"1649062626","n_modified":"1761412635","n_version":"883336","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD50","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":2,"author":288322,"body":"Grandma Betty is a small banana stand owner. 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