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And some kinda \"debt warning\" for heavy mafia days would be good as right now there seems to be no warning from a 0 mafia to a 30+ mafia day.","format":"md","likes":5,"spam":"N"},{"id":1087125,"author_name":"takhomasac","author_uid":"takhomasac","epoch":1728358432,"text":"such a cute game! really enjoyed the art style and i thought the sound effects were funny lolol. nicely done!","format":"md","likes":4,"spam":"N"},{"id":1087137,"author_name":"LDJam user 384219","author_uid":"384219","epoch":1728358565,"text":"What a cute game... i miss in the day 8 :sob:","format":"md","likes":4,"spam":"N"},{"id":1087141,"author_name":"poboy","author_uid":"poboy","epoch":1728358612,"text":"BUSINESS\n\nSALES\n\nRUN","format":"md","likes":4,"spam":"N"},{"id":1087206,"author_name":"OldToadPower","author_uid":"oldtoadpower","epoch":1728359261,"text":"I really enjoyed the gameplay and music! Good idea, great job! 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The art was great, the music was fitting, it's great that you had so many music tracks, the gangster track was my favourite. \n\nAlso, this is a surprising description of my day job, although I did end up being fired here so I don't know what that says about me!\n\nPS: I love how all the workers come in at night to rest, it warms my heart <3 Awesome job to the whole team!","format":"md","likes":6,"spam":"N"},{"id":1105604,"author_name":"M.Kusy","author_uid":"m-kusy","epoch":1728597244,"text":"Great art and audio (yes, business!). The time skip button is a greatly apprechiated feature in a game of this type. Overall fun time!","format":"md","likes":6,"spam":"N"},{"id":1108113,"author_name":"jnur","author_uid":"jnur","epoch":1728681108,"text":"So cure! I'm still not quite sure what I was doing, kinda randomly hiring new bugs each day :sweat_smile:  Speaking of bugs, the game crashed somewhere around day 8 randomly when fast forwarding. Didn't think to get more details on that, sorry!","format":"md","likes":5,"spam":"N"},{"id":1116482,"author_name":"UniOwl","author_uid":"uniowl","epoch":1729294905,"text":"I went bankrupt on the day 6 after I hired 30 beetles in one day \ud83d\udc80 Well I guess beetle business isn't my strength. On the 2nd try I survived a bit longer though.\n\nAfter about two weeks my progression was stuck a bit like so:\n1. day N: I get lots of money for trading.\n2. day N + 1: I lost almost all of it because of griefing (doesn't matter how much protection I have, defenders just sometimes run after single target while other bad guys ruining my deals!!!).\n3. day N + 2: same as N.\n\nAnd after unfortunate attack I couldn't recover. Eventually, I got to the income limit? Beecause my worker beetles were waiting in queues trying to make a deal. Or this is because of high expences.\n\nThat's a pity I can't fire someone, such unrealistic for a capitalism game! \/joking\nMusic is great, really liked it!!\n\nWell done team!\n\n![aaa.png](\/\/\/raw\/f39\/95\/z\/68f68.png)","format":"md","likes":4,"spam":"N"},{"id":1116486,"author_name":"Langotriel","author_uid":"langotriel","epoch":1729298123,"text":"Business. Sales! :D \n\nWonderful entry. Really polished visuals, fun atmosphere and relatively easy to understand gameplay :) Props to the musician, too! ","format":"md","likes":4,"spam":"N"},{"id":1116489,"author_name":"Manamat","author_uid":"manamat","epoch":1729298424,"text":"I love the music!","format":"md","likes":4,"spam":"N"},{"id":1116564,"author_name":"Roroto Sic","author_uid":"roroto-sic","epoch":1729325861,"text":"haha i love the ball of cash (so i guess its Dung beetle that we play)^^\nVery charming game ! Lovely art and audio !\njust one note, We need a job summary when we have to give work to new guy, because I don't always remember my staff. Else it a great game ! :)\n\n![Capture d\u2019\u00e9cran 2024-10-19 100541.png](\/\/\/raw\/d93\/94\/z\/68f75.png)","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1117582,"author_name":"Sockenpuppe","author_uid":"sockenpuppe","epoch":1729458769,"text":"Struggled a bit at first because I kept losing guards to the mafia. Changed my strategy to trying to get as much money and as many new recruits as possible to be able to hire some new guards every second day when I knew the mafia would show up again.\n\nI might have hired too many people\n\n![Screenshot 2024-10-20 225334.png](\/\/\/raw\/bee\/f3\/z\/68fea.png)\n\noops haha\n\n\nArt and music are great and as much as I dreaded being visited by the mafia again, I really liked their theme song :)\n\n_________\nAlso nice song for the credits\n\n![Screenshot 2024-10-20 225345.png](\/\/\/raw\/bee\/f3\/z\/68feb.png)\n\nI see what you did there lol, great idea!\n","format":"md","likes":4,"spam":"N"},{"id":1120697,"author_name":"PSV Games Studio","author_uid":"psv-games-studio","epoch":1729889984,"text":"Very good game! Good sounds and good gameplay, I really liked the graphics, one thing to point out is that maybe the mobs are too strong, it got to a point in the gameplay where no matter how many guards I had I still suffered damage. 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