Inspired by tile-building board games like Suburbia, this game of mega-corp machinations has you slavishly working to satisfy company shareholders. Business style, bottom-lines, and ethics are unimportant to these jackals -- all they want to see is their portfolio swell with inflated stock prices!
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Made in 48-hours from the Ludum Dare Compo by Martin "quill18" Glaude Livestreamed start-to-finish in front of an audience of thousands.
Fonts: - Segoe UI Black and Segoe UI Symbol (for extended Unicode Glyphs) - Industrial Gothic Single Std Regular
Special thanks to Essentia, Eva, and Briarstone for beta testing -- as well as everyone out in Twitch-land for supporting me and my streaming!
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Known Issues: The UI works at all resolutions, but only when windowed. Unity 5.3 goes funny at full-screen and so is not recommended.
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DIRECTIONS (Note: There is a full tutorial in game.)
Select a hex tile from the row at the bottom of your screen, then click one of the highlighted areas to place it.
Your ultimate goal is to grow your Stock Price as much as possible. You can do this with cards that provide direct growth (▲▼) -- but also by having a large amount of cash, which provides dividends to shareholders.
Note that hex tiles have a base type (manufacturing, marketing, sales, and administration) indicated by their colour and icon. Additionally, many tiles also have a keyword (like "Offshore") that may give bonuses to adjacent cards.
UPDATES 2015-12-18: Unity 5.3.1 fixed the bug that was causing bad UI scaling in full-screen mode on Windows. New Windows build uploaded, with full-screen option (ALT-ENTER) enabled.
Nice job on the game. I enjoyed watching your livestream.
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qua11q714 Dec 2015, 01:35
I watched most of your livestream and i would love to watch it all but timezone diffrence is huge. This is one of the most addictive games i have ever played. This game really deserves to be a full game. I recommend everybody to play this game.
Watched the stream and honestly, this game is pretty fantastic for being made in 48 hours. The game has a lot of replay value, strategy, and decent interface. Great job Quill!
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NurikSakura14 Dec 2015, 01:44
Well done, good sir! Pretty nice game. As always, enjoyed watching the stream and all the fun of the creation process! Hope your game gets all attention it deserves.
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puls10014 Dec 2015, 01:56
Great game. Simple and fun with some replay potential!
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Jstank14 Dec 2015, 02:15
For 48 hours this game really has a lot of depth and polish. It is simple, fun and addictive. Quill is an amazing guy and watching him code this game was a great way to spend my weekend. Great Job!
Very cool result! With a bit of tweaking, I could easily see this as a fun full game. I didn't watch much of this weekends livestream (I get distracted too easily) but I wanted to say thanks for encouraging people to take part last weekend. I was going to skip it, but I'm glad I didn't!
I was watching your stream while working on my own game, great stream and very fun game! I think the only problem is the tiles are too random so I failed in the beginning and I have to use bail out. However, it was a very fun experience overall. Like the others said, mobile version please! :)
Wonderful! I listened to your steam as background music/a distraction and I knew before I played the game that it would be addicting. Wonderfully made, deserves to be at the very top!
Fantastic game - best game you've made so far. The other were definitely good, especially Drill18, but this is simply better :)
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aKiss4Luck14 Dec 2015, 18:21
Just one more try; I'll get more money this time. KK, One more try: better stock prices this time. No, I surely have time for one more game? I want to pay out better dividends too! I finally got an A grade. Now, gotta find out if I can do it again. Then I'll get breakfast. :D
Very well done. I enjoyed this game quite a bit. The UI could use some cleanup but I understand the time limitation and that you probably didn't have time for that. Very much worth a play. I'd love to see this for android.
I liked it! And watching you make it! I felt like I didn't really have a reference point for what's a "good" score as I was playing, so I wasn't entirely sure what I was working towards. But I can appreciate the fact that this makes it very replayable. And the execution of your concept was spectacular, feels very polished.
Solid entry and well polished. Can't say I fully understood all the strategy but that was my fault :) Satisfying to place cards, see things grow and happen. Played 3-4 games and 450m was my best valuation.
Excellent game, one of the best I've seen so far. Simple but deep game play that rewards you for thinking ahead and setting up synergistic combinations of tiles. The game itself also feels well made and is enjoyable to play. Great work!
I just got 3.367 and rank S. I think I won. In the end, I had 5 hostile takeovers and got about 24 extra months. I think additional months are a bit overpowered (and hostile takeovers too).
Great job on this game, it was a lot of fun to watch the livestream whilst developing my game. The music was too repetitive in my opinion, but the concept and all the small details was awesome.
Another LD and another great game by you. I watched the stream from time to time to see how you were doing while I was working on my own game. You've created so many great games that you need to work on post compo and release on Steam or itch.io. You are a very talented programmer and game developer. I wish I was half as good as you are! Congrats on another well done LD.
I really enjoyed this. You put together a really solid system of mechanics that makes a fun and challenging experience. The only critiques I have are that I found the music just a touch repetitive, and I had an instance or two of a tile placing when I scrolled the map. I can't consistently reproduce that one though, so I wouldn't count it. Also it seemed like all your sound effects were vocal, and I thought that was a cool touch.
great game, just found out theres an "S" rank. thought A+ was the highest but i guess not! Is there a rank higher than "S"? i got 2910 for final stock, and can't see getting much higher
It's a good game. I'm a huge fan of tycoons (it's my favorite genre, actually) and I think this one could be really good, but I don't like the fact that it's too short. Maybe it could be short, but let me keep playing. Maybe make it easier to lose. I didn't find it actually challenging.
I'm giving it 4/5 though, because I really liked the concept.
When I recognized the number on the right side represented increase in stock price, I felt focused on the simulation. If you continue to develop this, at first, I wasn't sure which cards I could select or not, and I couldn't read the text for "Chemical" type or other types.
Really like this game, played it several times, but just can't get better than a B+. I like the fact how you have to balance short-term goals (monthly income) with long-term goals (stock-price). The music got a tad repetitive tho. And some of the text on cards is unreadably tiny if you're not in fullscreen.
Awesome game, Quill. I've downloaded the android version and played it a lot, so here are some things I would work on if you continue the project (which you absolutely should). - Finance Dept. is way overpowered. - There should be a less random way to gain extra months, since they are the strongest addition you can buy. - Maybe an option to pay money to get a new set of cards would decrease the randomness. - Zoom on android doesn't really work, otherwise this would be a great mobile game. - You should prevent having two of the same cards to chose from. I'm curious how high you will score and how the future of your game will look like :)
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Sachmystorker24 Jan 2016, 15:03
If you add a bit more more to it I think it would be one of my faveourite games. It is a bit short but the consept is alwesome
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In my opinion this is your best LD entry.
I didn't watch much of this weekends livestream (I get distracted too easily) but I wanted to say thanks for encouraging people to take part last weekend. I was going to skip it, but I'm glad I didn't!
Otherwise, very addictive game and solid mechanics. Some images are blury, that's a tiny "-". And the sounds/music are clearly letting the game down.
Solid game, will play again!
The graphics were very coordinated, felt a lot like a proper board game.
Thanks for a great experience :)
also fun to watch you stream your fight with Unity :)
The viral video was fun ;)
I'm giving it 4/5 though, because I really liked the concept.
- Finance Dept. is way overpowered.
- There should be a less random way to gain extra months, since they are the strongest addition you can buy.
- Maybe an option to pay money to get a new set of cards would decrease the randomness.
- Zoom on android doesn't really work, otherwise this would be a great mobile game.
- You should prevent having two of the same cards to chose from.
I'm curious how high you will score and how the future of your game will look like :)