Commission Hell by crow_seeds

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made by crow_seeds for Ludum Dare 54 (JAM)

Draw your way through chaos in Commission Hell!

Join Francine, a talented but overwhelmed artist, in a frantic effort to tackle her towering backlog of commissions. With limited canvas space and time, wield an arsenal of artistic tools to create as many mini masterpieces as you can before the night is over.

Controls: * Mouse to draw and select things * F in draw screen to fullscreen * Z to undo * Y to redo * C to clear

Notes: If it doesn't work in Ludum Dare site, try any of the alternative links below. (Anything that's not Chrome apparently)

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Credits: * Khoi (@crow-seeds) - Programming, Various Miscellaneous Art, Game Design, Coordination * Ollie (@ollygons) - Character artist and UI designer * Said (@popper) - Stamp Art * Blag (https://www.youtube.com/@yellohblag) - Music * Labib (@la-bread) - Creative lead, original pitch, stamp art * God - Voice acting, stamp art * Lauren - Voice acting * Ajay (@awl1119) - Voice acting * Darius - Voice acting * Misha (@Mooobster) - Voice acting

Ratings

Overall 70th 4.179⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Fun 94th 4.071⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 132th 3.988⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Theme 532th 3.69⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 111th 4.357⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Audio 67th 4.119⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Humor 18th 4.451⭐ 43🧑‍⚖️
Mood 122th 4.083⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Given 25🗳️ 46🗨️

Feedback

Shiiro 10psi
03. Oct 2023 · 00:10 UTC
This is super impressive. Very high production value and a good amount of content for a jam game. Showing off what I assume are other player's art is a very cool feature.
Natrist
03. Oct 2023 · 03:58 UTC
It's surprising how much you managed to get done in a small timelapse, even though you had a decently-sized team. Good job on the game.
Toasteto
03. Oct 2023 · 04:02 UTC
This game is an absolute masterpiece, all of the stickers made me laugh so hard and the style of the game was beautiful, especially the voice acting. All of you did an amazing job!
JunaGames
03. Oct 2023 · 06:34 UTC
Wow cant believe the game was networked, that's awesome!
XRy
03. Oct 2023 · 06:37 UTC
Overall very lovely game!! I love the idea of having to follow the restrictions of a commission and the canvas as the limiting parts to match the theme. And the feature to compare to other pieces of art is very satisfying too.
Milan8890
03. Oct 2023 · 06:38 UTC
First i thought i had to draw the aliens and the man with the cigartte :rofl:

I really enyojed the game! Very fun art style and amazing voice acting
HangoverGames
03. Oct 2023 · 06:40 UTC
awesome voice acting!
I literally laughed with you during every drawing order!!
Very nice
Congeesetador
03. Oct 2023 · 06:42 UTC
This is another case of uniqueness on this jam theme, I really loved the art style and the sound effects, the sticker drawings were absolutely hilarious and were my favorite, I can tell you all worked on this game really hard and it was all worth it, spectacular game!
Shgamerk
03. Oct 2023 · 06:50 UTC
In this game, my creativity went beyond limits and the variable stickers made my paintings even more attractive. For more voice acting is perfect.
Joymagine
03. Oct 2023 · 07:25 UTC
5 stars best game so far lol
the audio was tooooo funny i loved it so much
wish it was longer <3
crylica
03. Oct 2023 · 14:39 UTC
It took me awhile to realise that I was meant to use the stickers instead of drawing the objects, but this is a really interesting take on the theme. I love how you drew francine/the dog as well, when shes painting it looks super nice.
satacat
03. Oct 2023 · 19:50 UTC
this is so hilarious and totally unsettling, i love it! my praises to voice actors – i got dedicated to my art pieces so much thanks to them
![Screenshot 2023-10-04 at 00.47.40.png](///raw/33a/63/z/5f62d.png)
LDJam user 261037
04. Oct 2023 · 01:02 UTC
Fun and unique. It was a little hard to pick up at first, but that I think that was inevitable since it's such a different game. I like the voice acting of the clients and especially had a laugh as I was rushing to achieve the requirements of the (6th?) drawing and distinctly heard the client say "I want the canvas to be between 20-40% black and add in a dog. I feel this represents my relationship with my cat" XD
DoomMustard
04. Oct 2023 · 01:42 UTC
I don't know why but this gives me real jackbox party pack vibes
Violet Dykhoff
04. Oct 2023 · 02:06 UTC
This is such a cool concept for a game! I'd totally play it with a bunch of friends if there were custom "compare art" servers!
whoaitstom
04. Oct 2023 · 03:37 UTC
The voice acting was so funny to have alongside the frantic masterpieces and seeing the other drawings as I went was super charming!
EarthToThien
04. Oct 2023 · 04:02 UTC
Voice acting added to the charm of this game! Reminds me of Sticky Business but I kept giggling listening to the commissions!
Rincs
04. Oct 2023 · 04:10 UTC
I had a lot of fun, will definitely play again to make better paintings LOL
Mehul
04. Oct 2023 · 04:11 UTC
Love the graphics and the gallerys at the end of what people made is hilarious. Big jackbox party game vibe!
agentparsec
04. Oct 2023 · 05:23 UTC
I forgot to put in my name ^^;
LDJam user 2331
04. Oct 2023 · 14:32 UTC
Really unique game- and pretty relatable. :') Mostly just took the constraints literally and put together a minimum acceptable painting, but would be fun to go back and try and draw more creative stuff while still satisfying them. :D
morgie
05. Oct 2023 · 05:30 UTC
This game is so charming and unique. :D I really enjoyed the humor; clearly there was a lot of love put into it. I just there wish there was some visual or audio indicator that I had selected certain colors and I wish there was an option for bigger/smaller brush sizes, but those are very minor. The voiceovers made the game more fun than just silly drawings and made me want to wait til the clock ran out to submit! Thanks for making a super fun game!
Agraffs
05. Oct 2023 · 07:14 UTC
Hilarious, the game resumes fairly well the briefs that some clients give for artistic work. Nice ^^
LDJam user 258850
05. Oct 2023 · 13:46 UTC
damm I love it 5/5 ^^ I was spending way too long putting colours down and only having 5 seconds to find stamps hehe
SnekOfSpice
06. Oct 2023 · 12:15 UTC
online functionality in a gamejam game... absolutely wild

this was very funny and entertaining, I loved the voice acting and how silly and doodly everything was

the only thing I noticed was that the pen cut out fairly regularly when you move your mouse too quickly
LDJam user 168929
07. Oct 2023 · 04:06 UTC
Really enjoyed all the stamps, and the online feature is really cool! It'd be nice if there was a way to browse the best submissions on a prompt or something along those lines, though I realize that's a headache. Had a fun time with this!
LDJam user 245646
07. Oct 2023 · 05:17 UTC
@anson-rutherford We ran out of time before we could implement it :(

Fortunately for you, that feature is in the post-jam version on Newgrounds!
picross
09. Oct 2023 · 02:46 UTC
Incredibly fun and polished game. Have no idea how you accomplished the online functionality. Huge jackbox vibes. Great work team!
Euler Moises
13. Oct 2023 · 04:40 UTC
AHAHAHA!

I loved it!
An extremely original idea!

You guys used the theme very cleverly and built the game in a very picturesque way.

Congratulations!
Natano
16. Oct 2023 · 01:13 UTC
WOOOOOOOOOOW!!! As an artist, I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS GAME!!!!
It's amazing! I don't even have the words to describe how much i enjoyed it!!!!
You did a really really great job!!! ^^

For sure a 5/5 stars >;)
NuiN
16. Oct 2023 · 01:36 UTC
This is awesome, only complaint I have is that the requirements would sometimes lock up and not update even when they were visibly fulfilled

First 5/5 for me though :)
LDJam user 277851
16. Oct 2023 · 01:53 UTC
This game is fantastic! I like it very much! goodjob!

![Illustration2.png](///raw/b5d/34/z/60554.png)
LDJam user 250905
16. Oct 2023 · 03:14 UTC
So glad you invested the time in voice acting, that's really what did it for me, hahahah. The whole campain was enjoyable, though because you *had* to rely on stickers for the majority of it, it left all the finished products looking about the same, which was a little disappointing. My favorite part was the free draw, though I only spent a little less than 4 minutes on it, making this masterpiece.

![FreeDraw.png](///raw/914/d3/z/60567.png)

Few things I would've liked: more colors to begin with, even just one or two more for the sake of free draw would've been nice, even if the story mode wasn't any different; changable brush sizes (though of course I don't know what you're using to draw the lines so that could've been hard); if it were possible to show more than four other submissions -- maybe even a submission viewer -- I would've like to see more free draw products without making a new one myself! :3

I enjoyed that, nice job all of you! See you next jam! :beers:
LDJam user 245646
16. Oct 2023 · 03:28 UTC
@sephowepho Thanks for the input! We made a submission viewer in the post-jam version (we narrowly ran out of time to implement it in the submission lmao) if you wanna see other people's silly contributions. Glad you enjoyed what we got though!
blobo
16. Oct 2023 · 19:18 UTC
Absolutely perfect. I love drawing games, and this one absolutely stands out! The ridiculous commissions, the voice acting trying to defend why they need these outlandish requirements... it's hilarious and I love it.

I recorded myself playing to provide maximum feedback. Cheers!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awZMa1Otj-I