The theme for Ludum Dare 44 was "Your life is currency", so in this game you start out deciding what you will do with your life. you "spend" your life on work, fun or family.
After You have decided how you want to spend your life a variety of events based on your choices. F.x, you will get work related events when your life is in a work phase.
In the end the game will tell you how you will be remembered after your death. If you do well, you will be told how you will be remembered reflecting the choices you made.
Hey I tied out your game for a bit, Enjoyed it, but I think there is bug where you can hit the buttons multiple times, the Green arrow will disappear and not reappear but I was able to max out any of the three attributes buy continuously clicking. The game was very Zen and was pleasant all around.
Very nice game! The music is simple but fits the game well, and there's something about those button click sounds that is really satisfying :P And great job on making so many different events!
The writing is funny and the art is good! Great job on the humor side. I'm particularly amused by how you can start working right from your birth. That's how a real workaholic lives.
Wow, loved the music for the game, it really sets a nice tone. Great artwork and consistent theme throughout. I loved reading all the choices and seeing what outcome would pop up. Very creative. Great one!
Really cool game, reminds me a bit of Reigns! Music is a nice touch, fits the mood perfectly and repeats without getting annoying. The main thing that would improve this game would be adding more scenarios.
Such a great game, love all the different outcomes you can get and the overall mechanics are great. Even if the music is very simple and repetitive, it fits the aesthetics nicely. Great work!
Nice polished game and fitting of the theme! I liked it. Would be interesting to see some metrics at the end to see how different choices affected the outcome, but that might take away from the magic.
This was pretty nicely made. The only issue I had was in choosing how to do my life at the start. I didn't realize that you click multiple times to change the color so my first playthrough was all fun. Some music would have been nice. The art looks good and overall great job.
Pretty cool online quiz style game. The unexpected nature of the results of your decisions keeps you guessing, and leaves you with a complete little story. Even if the results often feel very random, the player's agency in making decisions makes it a lot more fun. My little simulacrum may have died broke and unpopular, but at least he was happy!
Cool style of game, something I haven't really seen before. Seems to be about enjoying life while you can which is a good message. The one thing that bugged me a bit was that you choose work/family/fun right at the beginning rather then as you go; I'm not really sure that design decision works for the game too well. I enjoyed it! Good job!
This was really fun and interesting to play! Loved the graphics and aesthetics of the game. Good job not complicating too much on life choices. Questions about life were on point. Nice!
I enjoyed playing this game very much (partly because I managed to balance it perfectly with happiness in pretty everything just as I wish I've been able to do in real life) Love the idea of it, plays nice as well. Artstyle is fine, everything reads clearly (besides the three buttons, they make it look like there is right and wrong options... when in fact there isn't, is there?) Music is nice as well. Great job.
I played through multiple times to see the different endings and story options. I liked that there was a good bit of variety. It didn't seem to matter too much, which things you chose/meaning work, fun, or family, could get money still if you didn't choose work, etc. I liked the guitar music. It was a nice chill game, with funny writing.
I died poor, content, and well liked. That's not bad! Cool idea for a game, and good to see there are a lot of variations! Did you compose the quaint guitar loop?
This is really cool. The events don't change based on age so you end up with what I imagine to amuse myself, a 5 years old not seeing his family for weeks or being fired from his job.
A really good idea that was executed pretty well. I think it would have been a bit more fun if you could've made some choices on what to focus on as you went, rather than all at the start. Additionally, it didn't seem like your age really mattered much in determining which events came up or what happened, so that was a bit disappointing. The music and graphics are great though, and really give this game a nice aesthetic. The ending is cool - it made me replay the game a few times just to see how I could change it. A really awesome entry overall!
Wow, don't know exactly what to say. I didn't know what i should expect, i didn't know why i am scheduling my life, i tried my best in decision making, sometimes for the better sometimes for the worst. And then i died. I think you portrait life quite in an appropriate way :D Besides that, the pixel art is lovely and i really like the little stories.
I really liked your game, it was a lot of fun! I had a blast the whole time. Really loved the humor and the art. I ended up really happy but really broke, just like real life lmfao! thank you!
It's a quick and fun game, the graphics and the Humor is quite good.
Just 2 design issue: - The colors of the buttons makes me want to always go for the green one, even knowing sometimes it is bad, try making the 3 of them with the same color. - The choosing how will be your life part is a little clunky, a better approch should be by pressing firstly on the type of square and then on the square itself.
Great job with this one! I love the relaxing vibe this game has. 5 star for mood from me! I would also like to point out that the way the buttons look strongly guide the player to picking the green one. Still a great game tho!
I liked it, it was fun to play, story was interesting. only point, at first I didn't understood I had to click inside the square to chose my occupations, thought we had to drag and drop the legend (but maybe that's just me)
A really fun game! I played it multiple times to get the different endings and i enjoyed it so much. I like the simple style and the choices you can make. It's creative and I'm excited to see more in the future, maybe with a few more opportunities!
Good game! I don't quite understand the logic behind the three buttons (green, blue and red). They create a feeling that the first option is always correct and the last one is always wrong. Other than that, I enjoyed playing and somehow managed to finish with all the smiling faces.
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It was frustrating when unexpected things happened, but it was a perfect simulacrum for life.
Here's my "legacy":
Looks great, and the writing is nice.
Music is a nice touch, fits the mood perfectly and repeats without getting annoying.
The main thing that would improve this game would be adding more scenarios.
Good job!
Love the idea of it, plays nice as well. Artstyle is fine, everything reads clearly (besides the three buttons, they make it look like there is right and wrong options... when in fact there isn't, is there?)
Music is nice as well.
Great job.
Reminds me of Alter Ego on DOS wayyyy back. - https://www.abandonwaredos.com/abandonware-game.php?abandonware=Alter+Ego%3A+Male+Version&gid=1495
I ended up broke but at least I was liked well enough!
Thanks for the awesome game, best of luck!
Just 2 design issue:
- The colors of the buttons makes me want to always go for the green one, even knowing sometimes it is bad, try making the 3 of them with the same color.
- The choosing how will be your life part is a little clunky, a better approch should be by pressing firstly on the type of square and then on the square itself.
Congrats on the game ^^
I like the simple style and the choices you can make.
It's creative and I'm excited to see more in the future, maybe with a few more opportunities!
Great work!