I did it again. I attempted to turn a real-world boring scenario into a “game”.

Its a game about the stock market. Simple as that. Well ‘that’ isn’t actually very simple, it turns out. There were a lot of complaints about the game being too complicated. As I was designing the game I felt like I was adding far more instructions and tutorial elements than last time, but I guess it still wasn’t enough. Lessons learned for the next Ludum Dare.

This time around I was able to get a basic game done much faster, thanks to my custom library. I spent the last day polishing what I thought to be lacking – sound, art, bugs, etc. I added a ton of corporations, and actually spent a decent amount of time on the interface and visuals.

Because of this the game had no major bugs, or at least none that have been found yet.

I’m pretty proud of the game flow – you drag these little digital cards that can hold ‘stock’, placing them on different parts of the interface to buy/sell. I also managed to get some sound effects that wouldn’t interrupt game play. All in all it worked out well, and I’m happy with the product.

This time I did not have an FTC tournament in the middle of development, therefore I was able to do the compo.

Corrugated Fidelity

Congrats to everyone who finished their game! I’m really impressed/intimidated by the jam side this year. It is unreal how much can be added to a game in so little time by so few people. Again, great work everyone! Here’s to LD33!