Reap into Cash

by vulpineblazeyt

co-authored: @blondhie

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.78

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.65

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.40

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.95

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.60

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.93

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.44

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.83

Reap into Cash

Directions:

##### WASD to move. Arrow keys work too.

##### Grab your victims to reap them, *their lives are your currency*. Get it?

Rules:

Other Reaps are gunning for your peeps.

They will reap any peeps they can grab.

If they grab you, they will steal your hard earned cash.

You start will 10 CASH.

If you run out, you "die".

Once you reach 30, ~~or whatever arbitrary number I change it to during DEV,~~ you "Win!".

Story:

You are running around as whatever monstrosity God created or allowed to exist that is neither Man nor Grim Reaper.

You reap victims anyways, at your leisure, to save up enough life-cash-soul-essence-billfolds to purchase your very own Scythe and become a full Grim Reaper.

Comments23

Reaper66629 Apr 2019, 00:48

Simple yet engaging. Reminds me of the 80s games formats.

Aly Allen29 Apr 2019, 17:36

Enjoying this!! Collecting souls!

JediNeeson30 Apr 2019, 04:48

Was fun, I particularly like the SFX and music!

RaineTheGlutton30 Apr 2019, 05:36

Although it had a simple premise the game was fun for the minute or two it took to win, and I enjoyed the soundtrack as well. I believe the gameplay would have been a lot more engaging if you redefined the role of the reapers and set a limited amount of peeps that spawned. If the reapers sole purpose was to hunt you down and kill you on contact (for stealing their peeps) and you had to navigate around them looking for peeps to reap then the game play could have been extended a bit without having to change much logic.

Thanks for rating our game!

vulpineblazeytauthor30 Apr 2019, 06:10

@rainetheglutton The other Reapers do hunt you down, just moveToObject() with some jitter instead of any real pathing. We did experiment with lower peep volume, but maybe came to the wrong conclusion lol... It's a one line fix :laughing:

@jedineeson You can thank @blondhie for the wonderful audio. She is truly the light (and sound) of my life

Corbak30 Apr 2019, 06:19

Why is everyone naked XD ? I like the hectic feeling of all the npcs running around, and the graphics are cool too.

beanslasher30 Apr 2019, 07:44

Every one is NAKED!!!! HAHAHAHA. For real though this game is well designed and was fun to move around and get away from the reapers. I think this is a great jam game, and you should continue upon it :D

SnufkinsHat30 Apr 2019, 11:41

That was fun! With a more robust AI and some levels, I could see this being a fun game to kill time while waiting in the carpool line. Great job!

Raphiell30 Apr 2019, 22:25

A fun little romp for sure, I loved the Reaper sprite at the end!

GullynGames1 May 2019, 20:30

This game is fun, with no major bugs. Peeps do get stuck by walls where they're easy to ... um ... liberate. Music and sound fit well with the game. It might be better if the Reaps were a bit harder to dodge. Great job!

Lyrcaxis3 May 2019, 23:56

I finished it in 10 seconds. Was fun enough so I played twice

vulpineblazeytauthor4 May 2019, 19:33

Thank you guys! I did focus on good over long, so we have tiny simply-generated levels. I agree with everyone, tackling that could help expand way past jam into a really cool game!!

I'm so grateful for all the good feedback and I'm excited to see and play more of your games too !!

Kimily4 May 2019, 22:49

Too easy ;-; which isn't a bad thing, but because I think the game was supposed to be fast-paced and challenging, instead of a zen relaxing experience, it could've benefitted from being more challenging. Either that or if you want to go for a more zen experience, relaxing music or nice artwork to look at XD idk

Honeybunz054 May 2019, 23:40

Quick and really easy to avoid the bads, could be slowed down a bit to make it more challenging. The audio was 🔥 🔥 🔥

Oune4 May 2019, 23:51

Nice job. It would be nice if the game was a little bit more challenging.

FlashViper5 May 2019, 00:35

The game was pretty easy, but the concept was solid. Good work!

Webox5 May 2019, 02:38

As everyone said, a bit to easy! It should be easy to balance a bit! Keep up the good work!

heyycap5 May 2019, 03:17

Nice work, simple and straightforward; our team came across this kind of idea during brainstorming, but decided it was too dark... Otherwise an additional challenge (aside from adjusting speed) could've been different level designs. Or changing some parameter the more lives you collect.

Dorblin7z75 May 2019, 04:19

Was a little confused what I was doing and who was good or bad but figured it out eventually.
Very simple, but I kept hearing a crackling noise which I guessed was the many footsteps of people?

Like others said, it was a little too easy - upping the difficulty could make this a much different experience!

Mario Marinelli5 May 2019, 11:57

Nice Game good Work

schizoid2k5 May 2019, 12:54

Has a nice retro feel. Fun to play!

Kaitlin Quick5 May 2019, 17:59

Very nice! All the sprites look amazing and the music is perfect. One small thing I noticed just in terms of polish was that when I try to move diagonally, the animation freezes on a single frame so the sprite appears to just be drifting around. Also the first time I played, I spawned in a tiny boxed in area and couldn't do much but wait. Those are just small things though, and overall the game was still very enjoyable!

Nice work! :)

cppchriscpp5 May 2019, 18:08

I really liked how short and sweet this game was! It was very simple but that was kind of its charm. Simple controls, very easy to pick up what to do, and some good humor in the instructions. Well done!

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