Introduction: Today! A highly anticipated stock-exchange enlisting, from a company named: Gooqle A promising trading-company, whom the Ball Street Journal predict are going to rely on quick, high-risk decisions and a lot of hard work, to survive and grow to become one of the strongest corporations on the market.
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Ball Street Journal is an arcade-style game where you take the role as a newly enlisted company. Roam the stock market to find smaller companies to invest in and increase your capital. But be careful not to clash into a bigger company, as they will buy you out and you will be forced to retire. If you have the skill to manage a combination between company acquisition and share dividend, you can become the leading trading company on the market. Good Luck!
I liked the audio especially the background noises added to the mood, liked that the credits were scattered around the city. Gameplay was a bit too simple for me.
Fun twist on the big fish eating small fish trope! Needing to"engulf" a company makes the reward rise with the challenge. I also liked the movement and chase mechanics, which leads to some cool dynamic situations such as whipping around your pursuer or doing a fly-by past an even larger company to distract them both.
Kept trying but couldn't break half a million. On my last attempt, I got eaten by a company with the diameter of more than half the screen that just appeared on top of me. :)
Nice job on the audio and the buildings, and i really liked the metaphor! Gameplay is hard to control though and knowing which is possible to acquire is difficult
There is a bug where another big "business" can spawn right on you when you eat smaller one that uses "stay still" behaviour. I was expecting game design of this type to show up but you had very good thematic design. Well done!
Now that's what I call a "hostile takeover"! Probably best free market portrayal I've ever seen. On technical side, game is well polished - city landscape looks great (thanks to unique stylistic choice) and AI enemies behave better than your average Agar.io Player.
Would love to see the gameplay a bit more developed, it felt very sparse, not at all the speedy dodge-em' style twitch game would would expect wall street to be! Not much to acquire, the larger companies drifting behind like slow balloons! City was beautifully modelled.
Well, it's quite agar.io-ish (not that it's a bad thing, there is some big gameplay similarities).
That said, I love the idea of hovering over the city like that and the graphics are gorgeous, lacking a bit of color but that's it. The audio is very well done as well.
Well that was plain awesome! Loved the graphics, the music even more! It's a cloned idea but the execution is really original. My only concern was that it was a bit too hard to swallow other companies.
The game is a nice take on the fish in the sea game, graphics are great but appear to be kinda half-done? (lots of white)
Music & Audio were great!
Movement felt fun but collision detection was a bit weird.