It's December 1st and it's time to start preparing for Christmas 2014.
You have $50,000 and 24 days to create as many presents as possible.
Hire from a selection of elves with different traits, buy blueprints for different presents and manage your workforce to get the best from them with the time you have.
Make sure you delegate jobs to the right people and don't run out of money!
When you reach Christmas Eve (or run out of money) you will be scored on the number of presents you have made. Leave your scores below!
Instructions -> Hire people through the laptop. You can only hire 4, and they're with you 'till the end so choose wisely. -> Buy present blueprint from the laptop. Again, you can only have 4 and they have different properties. -> Each present has a happiness score associated with it. The more expensive the item, in regards to time and money, the more score it will give. -> Elves have different energy levels and will get tired, requiring a rest.
Bugs I'm aware of -> The green bar is energy. When that reaches 0 the character should stop working to recover. This works on Windows, but not HTML5. -> The energy bars go down way too slow
Anyway, hope you enjoy Christmas Tycoon and had as much fun this LD as I did. :) 35 hours roughly this weekend!! See you all next time around. :)
PS. I tried to embed onto this page, but the cap of 900*600 is too small!
Interesting game. Fun to tinker with. The sound needs a lot of work, but the graphics are great! I like that the fireplace and window effect productivity and energy.
Fun game! The idea's good and the different elves/presents adds some replay value. Like you said, you don't have that many mechanics (same thing happened to me), but what you already have is simple and fun. Note: At the start, in the logo, it says "Chrsitmas" instead of "Christmas"!
Thanks all. Yes lots of effort went into aesthetics and things like the descriptions. I'd love to have another 24 hours to flesh it out, but that's the nature of the best. :D Thanks for playing.
Nice graphics! I had fun! It would be nice if there was some way to make money back, I hired the best workers and only made game boys and still had plenty of money left, I think the economy could use some balancing.
An impressive amount of game implemented in a LD. Great looking pixel art, and it all seems to work well. I wasn't quite sure how to figure out what I should be building though. I guess the strategy would be to get as close to running out of money as possible before Christmas?
The art is awesome! I really missed some stats of the produced items in the middle of the game. Probably adding some more activities will make it even better because after you've hired elves and gave them blueprints there's not much to do.
Thanks again all. Main criticism seems to be lack of varying activities, like derpy elf setting himself on fire. I did plan to add this stuff, but time beat me. Pretty pleased that people are liking what's there though. Thanks. :)
Not sure what could cause it to freeze, I never ran into that during dev and no-one else has reported. Sorry about that. All i suggest is refresh or try windows source!!
Pretty good. Noticed that a few things wound up being off screen due to the large window and I could not figure out how to full screen it. Oh well. Anyway, I really liked the art and the direction the game was going in, though it may need some more mechanics to make it more involved.
Neat game, the mechanics need a bit more to them, I couldn't tell if there was anything I could do to effect the elves once hired. Like if the fireplace is just novelty or helps the morale or something. Very good art and style though.
It looked promising on the screenshots, but I was a little bit disappointed by the lack of clear goal :/ It would be a very good thing to add goals in front of each toy.
Love your pixel art <3 Quite a funny game, hope it gives more information before starting the real game so you don't lose days figuring out what to do.
Hi there. Interesting idea. Didn't realise blueprints until 7 days to go lol... much clicking elsewhere. Like the humour in the Elf descriptions. Good job!
Great concept! The pixel-graphics are nice and the mood in the little cabin is cozy.
However, when you have hired the elves there is not much to do? I think it would be nice if you (e.g. playing santa) had to somehow control the elves and keep them occupied and stop slacking off, etc. :)
I wasn't sure if I was doing good or bad and in the end it looked that I can't really lose but who cares, it looks amazing for sure. Quite ambitious project for the compo entry. Thumbs up!
A lot of neat touches with a lot of content. I think it would make a good incremental-type game with a bit of balancing. Not having everything unlocked at the beginning would be a good way to keep it interesting throughout.
But unfortunately it's a long time 'til christmas and not much to do.