Neighboring

by voider

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.42

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.91

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.63

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.09

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.61

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.85

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.25

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.24

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★100%

This is our attempt at an apartment-neighbours survival game.

Every person in each apartment has different interests, and some of them may interfere with others. Try to keep everyone in the neighborhood healthy... while you can.

We initially planned lots of interactions and features but had to leave some stuff out because of the lack of time.

Controls: Point and Click

Tools used:
A JavaScript lib we are making (the jam was great for testing :) ): https://github.com/psychonull/pac
Art: A mix of photoshop, gimp and piskel
Sound: LMMS, except crying baby from http://www.soundjay.com/baby-crying-sound-effect.html

Stay neigh-boring!

Comments37

Blue Thumbs Gaming9 Dec 2014, 01:56

Super fun! I like that everything depends on each other. Fun! -Kintinue

BtheDestroyer9 Dec 2014, 03:11

Certainly interesting...

digibody9 Dec 2014, 03:11

Fun like a doll house, lasted only 89 seconds before the sims bailed on me.

stvr9 Dec 2014, 03:12

Man, that baby is just NOT happy!

NickMakesGames9 Dec 2014, 03:12

I like the idea of trying to have to balance everything. Very satisfying and tense to keep everybody happy for long periods of time

jackrugile9 Dec 2014, 03:14

Haha, I died laughing when I saw Mind: Insane, Body: Wrecked. Can't believe you made this in a weekend, very well done.

SarahFrisk9 Dec 2014, 03:16

Man, I cannot keep these people happy. Interesting concept though, and great job with the pixel art.

SecondDimension9 Dec 2014, 17:10

Good concept, became quite stressful to manage them all. Fits the theme really nicely. I like the cross-section view and the graphics are really nice

RobotLovesKitty9 Dec 2014, 23:12

We learn a good life lesson in this game, keeping people happy is hard :P

aidinviper10 Dec 2014, 15:25

nice work .

rottenmage10 Dec 2014, 17:44

Wow this game is hard! It's an interesting concept, and I think it's worth exploring further. Good job!

Murchurl11 Dec 2014, 01:07

Cool concept! great job

Milktoast11 Dec 2014, 01:07

Darn that cursed crying baby to heck!! This is a good start. Are you planning to do a post-compo version?

insane6611 Dec 2014, 01:08

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PapaCheech11 Dec 2014, 01:31

Lasted 103s. Cool concept! That baby is too real though!

Jaloko11 Dec 2014, 04:13

Cool game, nice use of the theme.

cxsquared11 Dec 2014, 18:56

Really cool idea. It's almost more fun to see everything fall apart but that just might be me lol. Nice work.

oscarabraham11 Dec 2014, 22:20

This really fun and really funny. Congratulations.

vinull12 Dec 2014, 01:21

Interesting concept, but I couldn't really work out what raised the stats - seemed like everything went down no matter what. I loved the sounds and the graphics are pretty good too.

OldPeculier12 Dec 2014, 16:08

Super cool. I want to play this in a bigger, expanded form. Please keep developing it!

freaknarf12 Dec 2014, 16:16

Great!That was funny, the family know they're disaster as parents and i like sound sample when everyone gets crazy. The animation quite reminds me some old lucas art in a way... Good! but if this stupid baby would die in a way it would be better

hoyt hoy12 Dec 2014, 17:59

Can win this game?
Good idea, nice use of the theme.
Pretty hard, easy to play ^^
Good work!

snickersnacks12 Dec 2014, 21:47

Huh, not sure what to think. I like time management games but this one doesn't really grab me for some reason. Maybe because there are no meaningful event chains you can set up? Nice entry tho :)

Sundry13 Dec 2014, 02:48

Interesting concept

Incredible Ape13 Dec 2014, 19:07

Grandma Dorothy went insane :(

mrspeaker13 Dec 2014, 21:06

I love the idea, need some more interactions though. I hope you guys keep working on it post-compo! Graphics and animations are excellent, and great take on the theme.

dunin15 Dec 2014, 17:58

The concept is REALLY cool (do you know georges perec's book Life a users manual?). Need more works (animations, more possibilities, maybe levels (more and more appartment...)) and this will be a good point and click!
Does the man in the middle want to become a pirat? He remind me someone...

maxmetallica16 Dec 2014, 15:53

nice dude

ponk16 Dec 2014, 22:07

I like it a lot...!!
It's really hard :p ...
But it just some speed adjustements, otherwise it is really good !
Great work :) !

01rafael17 Dec 2014, 08:43

I like viewing angle in this game)
But I don't understand what is the main meaning(((

Backterria17 Dec 2014, 12:30

Grat concept and mechanics!Argg, that crying baby :)

Backterria17 Dec 2014, 12:31

Great concept and mechanics!Argg, that crying baby :)

Team Buttface17 Dec 2014, 12:40

Apartment-neighbours survival game, haha, great idea, very well executed. Its really hard to keep everyone happy, just like in RL ^^.

hexagore17 Dec 2014, 16:59

I confess I found this completely baffling (I managed 248s) but I absolutely loved the Lucasarts style art and how different and unusual this is :)

zatyka18 Dec 2014, 03:04

One of the best uses of themes I've seen so far. Cool retro graphics. I really liked figuring everything out.

alwaysinbeta21 Dec 2014, 18:21

Great idea. Really love the graphics. Very amusing. Could see lots of ways this could be taken further.

Mekuri27 Dec 2014, 21:40

This game really stressed me! Which is a good thing, I kinda godt caught up in it :P - The idea is really fun, and I loved the old lady! Good job!

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