Ludum Dare #40compo

Drink For Money

by wizcas

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.73

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.54

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.56

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.85

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.00

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.21

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.92

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.62

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Introduction

You'are summoned by your boss, ordering you to get investment by drinking with the honored investors.

It's not a common social dinner:
- Try earn enough money during the dinner. You'll only get money by accepting the alcohol treats.
- Any alcohol you take destroys your stomach and sanity.
- Refusing is possible if you can deal with your guests' fury. They take refusal as humiliation.
- On the other hand, refusing improves your physical and mental condition.
- There might be some food left on the table (with glowing golden scent). Don't forget to take them!
- Depending on your moves and status, there are 7 endings* (try empty health and sanity at the same time. Ha!)

Controls

- Click to refuse the flying treats, or to eat food on the table.
- `ESC` for menu

Apologies

- I don't have enought time for optimization. So there won't be a WebGL version
- Sorry but people in this game have nothing under their waist. :grin:

Things that could have gone better

- I designed different responses for every character when they are furious, which I didn't have time to finish:
- The bald man punches you and you lose a ton of health
- The girl's leave will piss off everyone on the table, i.e. they will all turn into rage mode
- Music and image effect should vary, depending on your status, to enhance the atmosphere.

Tags: #life simulation, #sitting-simulator

Genres: simulation

Comments30

maskinmask4 Dec 2017, 13:44

哇！敬酒虽好，可不要贪杯哦~

Wizcasauthor4 Dec 2017, 14:09

@maskingmask 亲人一滴酒，司机两行泪（滑稽

因为司机要负责搬亲人回家

oliverlevay4 Dec 2017, 14:44

Can't play this in school since I play on a mac :( This game looks really cool but it doesn't have a mac port.

Wizcasauthor4 Dec 2017, 14:51

@oliverlevay I'm soooooo sorry about that. Mac version will be available tomorrow, because I left my macbook at company (yes I took a day off for LD40 :grin:) I'll let you know as soon as mac version is uploaded.

TIMOTHEUS-254 Dec 2017, 17:04

This was hella funny and fun to play :D thanks for this, well up!

TIMOTHEUS-254 Dec 2017, 17:04

This was hella funny and fun to play :D thanks for this, well up!

oliverlevay4 Dec 2017, 17:14

I liked this, it was great. Wish I could get the girl. Amazing how you finished it in 48 hours wish I could do this myself. Great work!

Call_me_Nutty4 Dec 2017, 17:15

Solid little game. I'm a big fan of the Art Style. The card-boards matched with the 3D items actually work a lot better than most may think and adds a very unique charm to the game. I love how you incorporated the theme into this game. I think I got 3 or 4 out of the 7 endings and they were quite charming in their own respect. Sound was quite insignificant I thought but Gameplay wise I loved managing my little bars at the bottom there. Good Job overall! :)

Strelly4 Dec 2017, 17:47

A fun little game! Thanks for not making it too long, appretiate that instead of having you collecting 9999999 points you only need 2000, good job!

junjunlowpoly4 Dec 2017, 20:23

Really like the comic art style - it fits the topic of the game so well. Characters' facial expressions are hilarious. Although it's short, it precisely captured certain aspects of Chinese business dining culture. Full score on Humor and Mood!

GoldRanger4 Dec 2017, 21:38

OMG I need to deal with these shi* even in a game!!
haha just kidding I am still a student but I know that' suck.

After trying to get new ending by only leaving the girl, I finally found out she is spending my money!
(why you don't make an ending of this?:drooling_face:)

BTW I love the graphic!
If the screen will get some changes(maybe yellow when you are dying, that will help players to decide what to do and feeling like the character.

Wizcasauthor5 Dec 2017, 01:53

@oliverlevay Hi, the mac build is available now! But I guess you've played somehow already ;)

Wizcasauthor5 Dec 2017, 01:58

@call-me-nutty thank you for your detailed feedback! Glad you love the mechanics and not being freak out by the mess of alcohol bombing :grin:. I don't like the sound either as I'm a real beginner in sound designing...I'll try to make it better next time =)

Wizcasauthor5 Dec 2017, 02:00

@strelly I have to keep it short because I'm a poor level designer, so that players won't be too mad at me LOL

Wizcasauthor5 Dec 2017, 02:07

@goldranger a brilliant idea for the girl-only ending! I really didn't thought about that, thanks! I actually did have a design for the screen effect in different situation, like swirling and twisted for nausea. But I got no time to do, sadly. :disappointed:

JeffChen5 Dec 2017, 06:18

That is a very fun game!The art style reminds of some Japanese mini games,fells very funny.The game is hard,but real life is harder;)

guoboism5 Dec 2017, 08:19

+1 as the game is realistic themed and showing bits of truth in real life
+1 as the author is very skilled to convert "strange" concept into playable even fun game mechanics

Gao Ming5 Dec 2017, 13:56

不同的人物形象和表情都好生动，好在做独立游戏不用经历这种可怕的场景……

Wizcasauthor5 Dec 2017, 15:16

@gao-ming 庆幸+1

Zitao YE6 Dec 2017, 00:46

特别喜欢这个风格！虽然我用触摸板玩，一旦四个酒杯向我飞来我就懵逼了！
看到有7种结局但是我只打出了三种T T。
游戏文化的主体十分中国特色，太有趣了~
美术上做得好生动，太厉害了！

Bocodillo6 Dec 2017, 15:48

A really fun idea that you turned into a really fun game! Good job with the art & audio especially. Gameplay was great fun & a little panic inducing at times. Overall, a great game!

Wizcasauthor6 Dec 2017, 16:25

Big thanks for @jeffchen @guoboism @bocodillo! Really appreciate your feedbacks! =)

zantze6 Dec 2017, 16:51

Enjoyable little game. Was slightly hectic at first, but when I realized how to play it got pretty easy. The graphics are pleasant to look at, but I would have loved to see some art for all the endings :D. I also had fun trying to get some of the other endings. It's a fun game, good job d:

AmigoPadilha6 Dec 2017, 17:00

Great game, liked the theme, seems too real haha =)
Nice job!

Wizcasauthor7 Dec 2017, 00:36

@zantze You become a drinking master when you feel no pressure among them ;) Thanks for playing!

Antti Tiihonen7 Dec 2017, 06:22

Wow, the boss is HARSH :smile:

The core idea works but it's a little bit overwhelming to get started with the game. Maybe a short tutorial scene with just one guest could be good for introducing the mechanics? The graphics and the dialogue brought a lot of flavor to the game. :thumbsup:

Wizcasauthor8 Dec 2017, 06:54

@antti-tiihonen You are absolutely right about the tutorial thing. I really need to think about the skill barrier of players in future works. Thanks a lot!

tobia888 Dec 2017, 15:41

题材挺有趣的，第二把通关，我其实挺喜欢这画面的，相当讨喜。有些东西不太直观，例如对方发黄光之后会有什么效果（教程我不是记得所有内容），女生的魅惑也加醉酒度之类的，总的来说还是挺好玩的

Wizcasauthor9 Dec 2017, 13:22

@tobia88 谢谢你的建议~确实东西有点多，如果做成渐进式的引导会好些，一下子全塞给玩家容易懵逼

Gildar7618 Dec 2017, 22:58

Nice game, but very difficult right at the start