A Life At Stake

by justmars

co-authored: @happytomato, @jokku, @raffe

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.56

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.50

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.35

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.73

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.28

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.46

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.80

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.36

You must live a life, avoid prison and death, gamble, date, workout and drink yourself to victory (a royal one). Controls are explained in a quick tutorial inside the game.

The game includes a character creation with 250 different combinations. You can choose your clothes by yourself or randomize them.

The game also includes some hilarious voice acting and even more hilarious events as you might do something illegal without always knowing it by yourself.

Please play with audio on or don't vote on the category. The music is just so good so please appreciate the trouble @happytomato went through to make different kind of music that his talented mind usually makes.

This game was made by @justmars (Coding), @raffe Twitter (Art and Voices), @happytomato SoundCloud (Music) and @jokku (Sound Effects and Coding).

Tags: #dark humor, #dating sim, #funny

Genres: simulation

Tools: Unity

Comments43

Pyoid30 Apr 2019, 10:02

This is a really good game, I enjoyed the gameplay!

Pyoid30 Apr 2019, 10:02

This is a really good game, I enjoyed the gameplay!

Becher30 Apr 2019, 10:07

OMG you can customize your character... best ld ever!!!!
nice concept ;) good work

Gao Ming30 Apr 2019, 10:08

Interesting idea, like this game, great:)

AlexFSmirnov30 Apr 2019, 10:23

Customizable characters are cool! I like the gameplay. Took me 3 attempts to beat the life. Nice job!

Conroy30 Apr 2019, 13:51

Awesome job guys, can tell you put quite a bit of effort into this, and it shows great job!

iagorigel30 Apr 2019, 14:20

That's a good game, loved the idea

OddSocks30 Apr 2019, 16:05

Fab game. I got rejected and couldn't cope with it! Great with the character customisation, and the art style was interesting. Theme was top notch as you could gamble your health. Great concept.

RAFFE30 Apr 2019, 17:03

JofersGames30 Apr 2019, 19:40

Fun game, love the idea :)

XMPTEd30 Apr 2019, 19:52

Good interpretation of the theme, and a polished presentation. The gameplay itself (a series of minigames, often based purely on chance) didn't really grab me - don't think there was much to "figure out", more just doing things repeatedly? Great job creating something that feels very complete though!

schrunkin30 Apr 2019, 19:53

I had to spend a couple of tries before i figured what i had to do to optimize my life: Such a fun idea! I loved the character creation and the voice acting was a wonderful touch! The graphics were well made and the game was intuitive for the most part. Well done!

Lansselot30 Apr 2019, 19:54

An interesting idea, I really liked the game, only I never finished it)

Khamekaze30 Apr 2019, 20:03

Got sentenced to life for lifting like a beast, glad I dont live in such an anti gains world lul.
With some more variety (especially in the dating department) I could see this becoming an interesting experience, but at the moment it feels too repetitive for what it is aiming to be.
Very well executed none the less, well done!

agurcan30 Apr 2019, 20:10

Amazing game! How did you get tsois much done in such a short period of time? The amount of activities, customizations and outcomes are mind-boggling!

refraction30 Apr 2019, 20:33

Brilliant little game! Nice use of a bunch of minigames and nice to see a character creator in there! I think the rejection penalties are a bit harsh in some situations, I mean losing 150HP for getting rejected sucks, especially if you have to go through the character creator again (I just didn't bother after a couple of times). Great graphics and use of the theme, good job!

cozmic30 Apr 2019, 20:47

I have to say this is a really funny game for me!
I think the art style needs a little more polisihing, but it could just not really be my taste.
I really like the ease of control and the quick explanation at the beginning, that's a plus for me!

RAFFE30 Apr 2019, 20:49

@refraction yeah, the ultimate sadness had a 25% chance xD thanks for the review though :D

refraction30 Apr 2019, 20:54

@raffe 25%?? damn I was unlucky! xD RNG must hate me lol

johnnydalvi30 Apr 2019, 21:37

Lovely Idea, I just think that there should be some sort of indicator that the player will break a machine on the
gym, for example, otherwise it's too random (the player won't feel that it was their fault)

RAFFE30 Apr 2019, 21:42

@johnnydalvi yeah I get you, the point with this game was to just make it so flippin random and funny that the player doesn't even have to do anything by themselves. And it's just rng, it has a 10% chance to break if it goes to 100 score 10 times.

fatPenguin30 Apr 2019, 21:45

Haha that was a fun little ride - thanks for that :D :D
I love how youre able to bail out of jail for free if you're a guy but not as a woman :up:
I feel like textbox choices would've also fit to the game without being too much work :)
(like in Faster Than Light for example)
Well done! ;)

dasPanjo30 Apr 2019, 21:49

Just a normal day: I woke up, pumped up my muscles at the gym, broke something, met a cool judge who also hates gyms. After that I won at the casino, drank some alcohol and went back to the gym to flirt a little... As I said, a normal day :grin:
I really like the concept behind the game. It feels polished and the artstyle was great. I love that you managed to put in a character creation. really well done!

RAFFE30 Apr 2019, 21:52

@daspanjo Ahh feels so good to hear that you enjoyed it.. JUST A NORMAL DAY

RAFFE30 Apr 2019, 21:53

@fatpenguin Sorry to say this, but the bail out for free are just complete RNG XD I think it’s like 1/4 chance to bail out for free, but I guess you got lucky lol. And thanks for the improvement proposal. Everything is really important to us!

RAFFE30 Apr 2019, 21:55

@khamekaze and @xmpted

RAFFE30 Apr 2019, 21:55

@agurcan

J_C - One Bit Studio30 Apr 2019, 21:59

Very cool game. Although I didn't know it is illegal to date a 16 year old, haha. :D Dating is just dating. But it's all good fun.

RAFFE30 Apr 2019, 22:03

@j-c-one-bit-studio Yup, it is illegal to date a 16 year old as an adult in most countries. (Except for something like China where it is goddamn 12..)

qlqrcoisa30 Apr 2019, 22:32

Pretty nice!

Fadex30 Apr 2019, 23:27

Hahahaha, this is so funny :D. And everything works good. Such a nice game.

Darylsteak1 May 2019, 05:55

This game was really really fun. A little too luck based for my taste (got arrested the first time I touched a piece of gym equipment. Nonetheless, it was funny, and the voice acting was icing on the cake.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

B33Thr331 May 2019, 16:34

Very cool. Character Customization, music, voice over, humor, theme implementation and graphics all on point. Good job!

Nico Fallosch1 May 2019, 17:39

I hate gyms...
hahaha nice xD

nice game overall very good experience!

413x1 May 2019, 22:18

So beeing good at live is random, sounds right. But it was a little too random for my taste. But other than that good job.

ludwici2 May 2019, 09:36

Patricia Klauck2 May 2019, 10:20

Great idea, well executed and polished for such a little amount of time :D

Pusheeneiro2 May 2019, 10:42

An interesting game with character creation. I like the scenes when the police catch you.

RAFFE2 May 2019, 12:20

@ludwici :DD

Mathstr0fficial2 May 2019, 23:54

A very fun game, super well polished and enjoyable for only 3 days. I would believe (though I am in no way saying that you did) that you made this beforehand and turned it in, it's that good. My favorite game from this LD so far! Hats off to you guys!

Z_Doctor3 May 2019, 05:20

So apparently I got really lucky when playing this game according to the dev. I won on my first try using the gym equipment to get all the way to 150. As I understand it, each click (or each time you gain life) it had a 10% chance of breaking the equipment. I manged to avoid that until I beat the game. I had some other dumb luck as well.

RAFFE3 May 2019, 05:43

@mathstr0fficial Hey, I can gladly tell you we did everything from the start :) No ready asset used, no ready music used, no lines of code ready, everything was done during these 72 hours! Thanks for the review though XD (best compliment we could get :3)

pcoridan4 May 2019, 21:05

Well, at first i got rejected by Cindy Stone, so I dated an older chick and that went well, then Cindy Stone couldn't keep her hands off me. 10/10 would win at life again. Great job guys!

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