Quite amusing, although the star rating system could use a little work. Some sort of score tracking would be nice!

@astronautguy Its weird, how the first scoring system, that came to my mind, isnt that great :') Score tracking would be indeed nice, but we didnt have enough for time. Maybe as a post-jam update. Thanks for playing :D

Very fun game!! The star system was kinda broken but who cares? Made silly beards 10/10

Visually, very nice! The graphics are really nice. The actual rating system was a little weird, sometimes giving me 3 stars for not doing it correctly at all, sometimes 3 stars for doing it correct, sometimes 4 stars. There's not really any tutorial or ui or anything, but I think it's really easy to learn so I'll give it a pass on that. Good job!

Love to see a fellow SDL2 dev in Ludum Dare! Nice concept, sometimes it felt really random whether or not I was going to get a good score, but this was fun. Reminded me a lot of the Mario Party minigame where you trace a picture!

Very funny when I fail miserably, leaving patches of mustache everywhere, and I still get 3 stars. Great work though - it is pretty fun, although as @astronautguy said, the star rating system could definitely use some work. Great game though, and nice job!

Silly fun, I like how I can shave his whole face and still do a good job

Love the art style!! Easy to pick up, short and sweet game. Some requests made me laugh!! Congrats

Very cool game. Small improvement: add the ability to shave all hair (head and eyebrows) and various facial reactions.

@resacagames @greenpixel @appleplectic @mistagiggles @chevalbancal Thank you all for playing. Maybe we should per default subtract 2 from the score >:)

@tylerstraub Haha, i just recently got into c++ but we got along well. That Mario Party minigame always gave good results :D

It an interesting game, I would love to see more variety!
check out my game jam!

Oddly addicting but very satisfying game, turns out I'm a natural barber. Who would've thought? Good job! :)

Interesting concept, well done! Although I wish I could've shaved the eyebrows and hair too lmao, just to mess with them

NOTE: 1 minute before the submission deadline we added some background music, and fixed the scoring a bit(i hope)

So cooool ! I reallly wanted to shave the eyebrows but really cool game

Amayzing game,very good art-style,i like it,5/5

Same like some people here but i tried to shave the eyebrow !! The concept is very fun !

Very cool game! I find the idea of a barber in a subway station very funny

Very addictive, good job!

If you port this game to mobile phone it could be one of best game to kill time

Ms Planlos... lustiger Name. Seid ihr Deutsche?

@chillertyp Danke danke. xD Ja, sind deutsch! :D

As others have said the scoring system is kinda random, but otherwise it's a cool idea for a game! Maybe it could've used smaller hair "particles" so you can be more precise with the trimming.

very fun :D best interpretation of the 10 second game loop i've seen so far!

Great use of the theme, and also pretty fun!

Also great graphics and nice sound effects, it did feel a lot like a metro station.

I'll join @astronautguy in saying a score tracking system or a leaderboard would be a very nice addition.

Also I can't help but think the "collision" between the razor and the beard could be improved, sometimes it felt like the machine didn't trim the hair that it should have; although I guess that behavior is fairly realistic :smile:

@mvasko2 First, thank you for playing :D Today I implemented a score tracker, but i am not sure if the change is small enough to upload it here (since "You can’t add new features"). I guess we still could upload the new version to github.

I feel sorry for some of my customers. Jokes aside really cool idea, felt really nice to trim those beards. Nice graphics and nice sound design.

This is a fun concept! I really enjoyed it.

Simple but fun! Adding some kind of ending and high-score screen after something like 10 customers would really benefit the game. And yeah, as other have said, sometimes we make quite a good score even if the result are far from what was requested.

Had a lot of fun playing this game! It was really amusing making different beards. Keep up the good work!

That was so funny, such a nice idea with a lot of humor, I actually laughed out loud while playing and butchering people's beards. Great job !

Pretty fun game for a 10 hours sprint)
Sounds can easy convey a feeling of the metro.

I think that calculation accuracy is not so accurate, but stars system is working.
It would be really nice to see avaluation with money count system. For example each star gives 10$ to the Player. It would add some immersiveness and a goal for the Player.

Art in the game is really stylish.

Overall it looks interesting.

Simple but great! Very cool idea, definitely spent too much time on shaving :)

I am totally in love with the art style

Simply fun! I played longer that I thought I would :D I know this is just a jam entry, but would be nice to have some progression in the game - I am sure you know that. Also, I found a bug: when I used the razor on the guys head, the hair stayed :P Well done!

I don't really like the art style, but the idea is brilliant. Best theme implementation so far.
I had tons of fun shaving peoples beards.

Oh my gosh !! The laugh we had with my girlfriend, it's awsome. I always wanted to be a shady barber in a subway, "Quick & cheap". You just made my dream come true
Actually great job on the game :)
PS : I'd have loved to have hair with technique and be able to do both !

I love how simple but fun it is. I like the art style.

Great way to make it work in 2D. Simple and fun! It looked great too. I wish I could tilt the razor!

Very cool! How did you detect how close we matched the goal? I'm very curious to know your tech! I also really liked the touch on shaking the background when the buzzer is on, nice job!

Great game, funny, simple but it work ! loved it


@mhorth For each style i placed some (more or less accurate) hitboxes. Then, when everything is loaded, i count how many hairs are inside and outside of those hitboxes. Lets call them beforeInside, beforeOutside.
Then when the time is up and i count them again: afterInside, afterOutside. With those numbers we can write some sort of formula that calculates the score:
- when afterInside= 0, everything that is important to the style was cut off, which results in score 0
- the same when nothing was cut off
- otherwise i calculate the accuracies for the insides and outsides:
- insideAccuracy = afterInside / beforeInside
- outsideAccuracy = 1 - (afterOutside / beforeOutside) // 1-x because we want to reward cutting of unimportant hair

For the score a calculate the mean(= (insideAccuracy + outsideAccuracy) / 2) and multiply it with 4 and add 1.
This results in a 0 when you do nothing, or cut off the wanted style. And should - in theory - give you nice scores from 1-4 depending how good you were. In praxis it is ok-ish - as you can read in the comments^^.

I hoped that helped.

That’s really clever, I never would have thought of that. And thanks for taking the time to explain it!

@mhorth Absolutely no problem. After all we participate to expand our skills and knowledge(or to make silly games), right :)

Very very cool game! Found myself doing more than 30 cuts, loved it

fun little game stars are not the most accurate (not to say it was bad I could never get it to the level it is at now) but fun game all together

Fun, unique game with nice visuals. I would love option to cut eyebrows but nonetheless great submission for only 10 hours of work!

Oddly satisfying. Very amusing use of theme. I find it so funny hearing the sounds of a train station in the background. Would be great to see this expanded and polished. Good job!

Kinda relaxing game even with clock ticking. I like the art and sound work, feels like I'm in real barbershop.

Very nice game! Enjoyed the atmosphere very much. The background sounds were great.

Fun game ! I loved to cut people's beards.

Thank you all for playing, glad you had fun :)

( Note: There is now a post jam update with particles and score counting. )

Really interesting game with a cool concept !
What I liked:
- The way you used the theme (very original).
- The art.
- the sound design.

Improvements:
- Sometimes it's hard to be precise.
- Also non symetric cut could be fun !

Good job :)

never thought shaving will be such fun！

Simple but fun. I like the look of this randomly generated customers.

Damn this game is GOOD! Super love the sound. I'd love to also see a cut-throat razor version :grin:

Very simple concept but executed really well! After a few attempts at being a good barber, I got a little silly. Somehow I got 4*s from giving a guy that wanted a moustache some rad mutton chops. Great change of pace from many of the other games!

This is excellent! I wish shaving would be that easy :D Maybe you could make a deal with Wilkinson? :D Good Job <3

I love beards. Thank you for making me achive my dreams of shaping them.
Simple, to the point. Works perfectly with the theme. Very nice art and beard hair physics, I might add.

Fun game!

barber game never went out

the biggest problem is it really not have enough challenge, 10s seen just too much more than enough for most of the level, and by that I mean it can be a real fun and satisfying game easily! I mean you got nice graphic, nice sounds effect and a decent idea, good job!

Really cool concept. Loved the overall simplicity of the game and how well it scales. Good Job

Simple but enjoyable and a fun original concept, I really liked this one!

Hahaha funny game nicely done.
Like that “somtimes” you get high stars for a crappy cut. ( you could do discoverd new look …. )

Very funny and unique idea, and it is quite satisfying too! Well done!

really simple but fun game that managed to feel engaging, I love the art and gameplay. also realized that you guys went with SDL, I always appreciate the effort when people go low level instead of using a high level framework or game engine and you deserve credit for that my fellow nerds lol. also been cheking the source code and let me tell you that despit the time limit you managed to keep your code clean and understandable, great work!

I like the effort that the beard hairs keep a nice shape whatever the clipper's hits. But it makes sometimes the score a little incomprehensible.

It's maybe because of that you didn't make a final score (Or something like that) but I think it would be interesting. Fail a beard cut didn't has enough consequence. But it's a detail.

I'm not really convinced by the use of the theme. But the theme is not easy to play with.

Good job anyway !

The main mechanic was cool, dunno if I've seen this particular type of thing before. I felt the razor was a bit large to make some of the more detailed cuts. I also really wanted a "done" button for when the cut was really simple. Very smooth playing overall though, the ratings felt pretty accurate to what I'd done, which was very nice!

Good job! but not really event 10s I guess? It is an interesting game btw!

@coolgunxdd @kalendhos Every 10s comes a new customer. For me it totally fits the theme. Anyways thank you and all the other for playing :)

I liked the game and the theme but when I played three times the game and I find satisfying being a barber. the score is weird I think is something you need to fix but its a good game with so mutch potencial. <3

Lol, simple and funny, it gets adictive, I like the atmosphere of the subway, and the art is pretty, also I have a lot of 5 stars, have proofs of that, great work!

Pretty satisfying!!

Nice illustrations, fit the theme and fun to play!

The use of the theme and sound design are nice. The lack of any actual progression made it kinda boring after the 3rd customer, but a cute idea and definitely impressive for a game made in 10 hours(^:

It's fun!

My girlfriend played this on ketamine, she thought it was incredible. I'm going to go hide the clippers now.

Fun game! Original idea for the theme and was pretty satisfying :smile:

Just like shaving irl... nice take on the theme, very fun game. My personal favorite beard cuts would probably have to be the mutton chops or hulihee :D

Quite an original idea for the theme. Easily understandable and really fun, well done! Can't really even think of any specific critiques :)

Okay this was really really fun and such a creative idea! It was executed so perfectly. I think the artwork is really well done, the ambient sounds just set the mood so well and the effects for shaving were done perfectly. I don't have any real criticisms other than I wish there was more to it and some levels and upgrades etc. I hope you release something like that in the future, I would be the first to play it!

This game is fun and can be addicting, however, once you start to realise the repetitive beard drawings, you begin to get bored.

It's cool that you update the game, I liked the implementation of the theme

What a fun game! Thé take on the theme is amusing and créative, and the execution is quite well done. Good job team!

Alright, you got my stars ⭐️

I hope you enjoy ours too:

Cool game! Very nice!

( Note: There is now a post jam update with a resizeable window with fullscreen. )

An interesting way to go about the theme! I like the style and I actually found it quite satisfying to shave people.

Nice one! very cool!