Oh no! You find yourself trapped, chained to a desk with TWO BUTTONS in front of you. Play through each of the challenges to get to the MONEY GAME, then bet your hands off trying to GET RICH and ESCAPE!
Good luck!
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CONTROLS:
Left button: any letter on the left side of the (US) keyboard
Right button: any letter on the right side of the (US) keyboard
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I had a lot of fun with this one! I hope you think the game is just as fun :) Thanks for playing! and good luck to all the participants!
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UPDATE 1: Hey there was a game breaking bug with the "operator" type game, where sometimes addition or multiplication questions would have a result of '0' or another impossible result, I have fixed that (12/14/2015 10:49 PST) If someone finds this against the rules (though it says this is valid in the rules page) let me know and i'll put the old version back up. Thanks! and sorry if that issue caused any dismemberment ;)
Mini-games like this are always a treat in LD. Yours has great artwork, tho I found the games brutally hard. Just wanted it to leave my flippin' hands alone! :D Might be nice to play a more balanced post-compo version?
@hexagore yeah definitely! I had very little time to balance unfortunately, so yeah it's a litttllee too easy at the beginning and a taadd too hard after like the 5th game haha. (admittedly i haven't even beaten it myself. Who will be the first???) Thanks for the comments!
There's something really delightful about this game--at least, as far as a game about dismemberment can be delightful. Really gives me some Warioware or Work Time Fun vibes, which is never a bad thing. I loved the variety of minigames you got working with two buttons, and how intuitive they were. The betting added a lot of tension without feeling unfair. Awesome job!
@Zarkith That's a good point! The amount of money that drops represents how much you get per game, but it doesn't give your total, you're right. You can make the 'Escape' purchase of $1000 your 'high score' goal then! And if you mean 'high score' as in, higher than other people, know at least that the creator of the game has yet to win ;) Thanks for playing and commenting :D
So difficult!! Very cool game. Love the two-button snake clone. Also, even though they're blocky pixel hands, the dismemberment is really gruesome and gets to me. It might be the suddenness, but I wince every time. Nice work.
Hahaha I laughed so hard playing this game. Brings back great memories of Warioware Twisted for GBA. Loved seeing screenshots of this before it was done and it didn't disappoint. Congrats.
@nonetheless just how I like it ;) @fluidvolt haha then I did my job well! When i first programmed in the dismemberment (I did all the art and every bit of programming for it at once before testing) I couldn't stop laughing for like 10 mins haha. At that point i knew I had a good game on my 'hands' ;D @johntherobot ooh sweet! I'm glad you liked the WIP screenshots :D Thanks everyone!
Hilarious concept and solid execution! I always hope I come up with an idea like this for LD but I never actually do. :D
Didn't think it's too hard though. Maybe I haven't played enough, but definitely much more than 5 rounds. Too sad my best attempt failed because I've pressed a button too fast in a snake game and it didn't register. I had around $600 max, bought $500 money upgrade for it and lost the next round.
@mortus wow! thats amazing, i think the most i've gotten is like $400 haha. great job! Yeah I've noticed that one issue with the snake game, and i figured it was small enough to not care too much about, but it is annoying. Thanks for playing!
This game has it all! I was surprised that you had time to add the shop and everything - At first I expected the game to go on forever! Excellent work with everything - I hope you get great scores on this :)
Great stuff, though I lost..erm...escaped...far too often early on. Fun minigames.
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bob_fish23 Dec 2015, 05:48
had a huge amount of fun with this. Everything really fits together and its great. I would love a post-jam version with music and more games (only thing it lacks imo). Excellent work!
This is so hard, but I like it. The money betting feels so unfair, it's really hard getting any money. And some minigames are really tough when it doesn't display the information.
Very cool and difficult game! I was having an issue with it lagging, even on the swf version, so I kept dying at time-sensitive games. Still good though :)
Very nice game, but I am really bad at it... it took me way too long to figure out what I was supposed to be doing and by the time I did, the timer already ran out. You could add some difficulty setting, so that people who can't read quickly can win something too. Another design flaw I found was the minigame where you had to press a specific button and it said fast, would lead me too pressing the first button quickly over and over again, and causing in my hands getting guilloutined! Apart from that solid game, with lots of content!
This is hilarious. I enjoyed the hell out of it! Make it more friendly for casual players, add some tense music, refine the graphics and bam, you have an instant hit. One of my favourite so far.
The fear I felt as I played the games that my hands would instantly be cut off was insurmountable! It definitely made me lose more from nervousness than if you just "lost normally" when you did something wrong.
Awesome game and definitely one of the best this LD! But like others have said, could use some re-balancing (have you beat it yet @torcado194?!?!)
@vortex thanks for the feedback! yes i definitely agree the 'fast' should be reworded. I guess a good compromise for the difficulty complaint would be to greatly reduce the difficulty if you're seeing the game for the first time, then do it normally afterwards. If I make a post-compo version i'll definitely consider these changes!
@Frenchie thanks so much! and no, I still have not beaten it actually haha. Actually i think its the only game of mine i haven't beaten. I think if i've spent more time playing it I would have beaten it but I've been busy with other things! Thanks for the comments and ratings everyone! It makes me so happy
Outstanding entry! Very simple but very entertaining / addictive game, I love it! It just lacks a background music IMHO, but the rest is perfect! The graphics are great, the difficulty is challenging but fair, and the gameplay is very fun! Congrats!
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Thanks for the comments!
I loved the variety of minigames you got working with two buttons, and how intuitive they were. The betting added a lot of tension without feeling unfair. Awesome job!
Would've been nice to have a high score to aim for, especially with how addicting this is to play.
You can make the 'Escape' purchase of $1000 your 'high score' goal then! And if you mean 'high score' as in, higher than other people, know at least that the creator of the game has yet to win ;)
Thanks for playing and commenting :D
@fluidvolt haha then I did my job well! When i first programmed in the dismemberment (I did all the art and every bit of programming for it at once before testing) I couldn't stop laughing for like 10 mins haha. At that point i knew I had a good game on my 'hands' ;D
@johntherobot ooh sweet! I'm glad you liked the WIP screenshots :D
Thanks everyone!
Minigames were well thought out and I liked that the player got all the feedback he/she needed to succeed in them.
Good job, good luck:)
@esayitch thanks for the compliments!
Didn't think it's too hard though. Maybe I haven't played enough, but definitely much more than 5 rounds. Too sad my best attempt failed because I've pressed a button too fast in a snake game and it didn't register. I had around $600 max, bought $500 money upgrade for it and lost the next round.
Thanks for playing!
So tired of playing snake....
I jumped everytime my hands were sawed off.
Interesting concept I must say.
Another design flaw I found was the minigame where you had to press a specific button and it said fast, would lead me too pressing the first button quickly over and over again, and causing in my hands getting guilloutined!
Apart from that solid game, with lots of content!
Awesome game and definitely one of the best this LD! But like others have said, could use some re-balancing (have you beat it yet @torcado194?!?!)
@Frenchie thanks so much! and no, I still have not beaten it actually haha. Actually i think its the only game of mine i haven't beaten. I think if i've spent more time playing it I would have beaten it but I've been busy with other things!
Thanks for the comments and ratings everyone! It makes me so happy
Love the graphic style, the use of the theme, the challenge, the build-up for each question's end.
Good Job! :D
@kmakai oh yeah that'd be good!
Very hard, the money call is terrible ! I did not succeed to esccape.
Look boring the 3 firsts minutes and then you addict ! ^^