Ludum Dare #43compo

Red Blood Green Money

by james-leib

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.60

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.29

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.97

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.63

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.55

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.55

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.92

Sacrifice Lives and the Environment for Money

Using a simple four-step process, it's never been easier to sacrifice the world's resources for your bank account!

#### 1. Generate demand for death using catchy slogans
#### 2. Kill people using state of the art machinery
#### 3. Expand your business and destroy the environment
#### 4. Profit

#### Start nice

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#### Become evil

Controls

During the tutorial click to continue

Interact with the buttons using mouse

Camera

WASD - Move Sideways / Forward

EQ - Rotate

XZ - Move Up / Down

#### The game is available for both Mac and Windows.

#### Enjoy.

Comments16

s4m4di3 Dec 2018, 05:22

Wow, that's dark :)

tigerj3 Dec 2018, 05:38

I love the humor and dialogue of the opening part of the game. It was also fun when I maxed everything out to get some cool action shots. Thanks for bringing the game by my stream to share.

eroxxie3 Dec 2018, 08:22

The humor is great in the game! Well done!

Hindbodes3 Dec 2018, 09:09

Wooooooooooow. I can't believe how hilariously, darkly satirical this game is. Half as dark as Abe's Oddysee, and twice as funny. It really gets that message across and I just love almost everything about the game. The alt+F4 requirement is annoying though. I think every game, no matter what, should have some form of easily-known quit button.

James Leibauthor3 Dec 2018, 09:13

@hindbodes thats a good suggestion, I always Cmd Q everything so I didn't think to add it, but your right it would be a good thing to have.

Dazzumbledor3 Dec 2018, 10:54

I really enjoyed that, well done. A couple sound effects of a soundtrack would build so much more mood but really good show.

MadreDeDios3 Dec 2018, 11:00

I love those satiric games :smile: nice and very funny but the balance makes it very easy, I was able to have a sustained backlog with one single ad! (item 3 on the radio) and then spamming the "sun" contraption

Kultisti3 Dec 2018, 11:01

I was hooked, the artstyle, while simple fits in really well! Good job!

Vatigo3 Dec 2018, 11:13

I like the humor and graphics are nice especially considering the time limit. Well done! I found the gameplay a bit lacking since there is no actual challenge, reminds me of Cookie clicker.

Radical Dog3 Dec 2018, 13:34

Nice idea and design :) It did feel like a clicker at times - perhaps the ad campaigns need an expiry date! I also found one medium campaign set me for life, never needed the bigger ones.

William Derksen3 Dec 2018, 16:25

Good work. Loved how you took the theme! Could be more fun if there was something to develop against or some challenge component to the game. Either way, good stuff.

xesenix3 Dec 2018, 22:34

Nice idea you could add some more incremental mechanics check out https://www.reddit.com/r/incremental_games/ A lot of people play incremental games but you are missing some cost vs income variation. Depending machine costs on amount of already existing or something else would made it more interesting for such audience.

James Leibauthor4 Dec 2018, 03:28

@dazzumbledor yeah it sucks that I couldn't really complete the mood. I found that a lot of the sound effect generators made sound that was too cartoony and not dark enough for my game. I would have loved a music person but I wanted to submit to compo. Thanks for the feedback!

Paradox4 Dec 2018, 09:17

Really fun, I like the idea of taking over the trees with waves of blood and sacrifices ! A bit of music/sound will be great. 2 ads were enough for the whole game for me, maybe make it more usefull.

Paradox4 Dec 2018, 09:19

@james-leib For the music you can use FlStudio, you can make really dark music and ambient sounds with it.