Glorify your peasant subjects by gifting them gold, only to tax them when your own stash runs low!
The Poor Rebellion is my Ludum Dare 44 entry around the theme, "Your life is currency". It is a reaction based game where you must spend your own personal stash of money to turn peasants into nobles. Be careful however, as your funds might run out! Keep it full by taxing the money back off your subjects. Aim to glorify the most amount of peasants amongst your friends!
Controls: A and D to glorify peasants, W to tax them!
@grllle I might be able to get a webgl one up. To be honest I hadn't even thought about building to multiple platforms! I'll see how much a build change breaks my game and make a decision based on that :D
I always appreciate a stick man game. But the game was a bit confusing. I did not know why I was crowning some old guys, and when tax time came it was pretty unclear what was happening.
@kristinnes Thanks for the feedback! What would you suggest to get rid of the confusion? I suppose I could add a short cutscene at the start to create a quick "to the point" story?
It is a rather nice submission. However I do think the main issue is clarity, I honestly didn't know how what I was doing affected the game, a small text blurb could work or better yet maybe showing an example at the beginning. But its nice that you gave the audio a personal touch.
@team-on I didn't want to because I thought audio related moreso to having a decent soundtrack etc, whereas mine is just random quotes. Not sure what the rules are on enabling after the deadline though
Yeah, this is a bit all over the place, a bit more clarity would have been nice. I am actually quite fond of the art style, and the design, but it needs a bit more expanding.
Interesting game! I really like the voiceovers, they're fun, but i'm not sure I entirely understand what I'm doing in the game, unless it's to just "glorify peasants" and not let them touch me, lol.
@szabe Thanks for the feedback! @josefnpat Thank you! That's literally it. A twitch based game where you glorify peasants to get a highscore. If you miss one then you get a penalty, and they move into you and take your money! @mrtnldm thank you!
This was hilarious, Love the idea. Definitely need to put some control instructions in there somewhere, and every time the screen shook the game was laggy. I'd love to see it more polished! but it was still super hilarious and cool.
@nayaki-anandan Thanks for the feedback! I should add the option to turn off screenshake for accessibility I think. Perhaps the lag was a result of my 3am spaghetti code!
I wish the artstyle was a bit more consistent. Stick figures fit the game just fine, should've made everything else the same doodly art. Great job on the voice acting, made me giggle quite a bit playing the game :D
@sempiternal Thanks for the feedback! I agree with you, but my drawing really is terrible, ha. I'll try and improve my art skills for the next one! I need to get a style locked down so the end result isn't so bad
I like the approach. Actually reminds me a lot of my game. Yours has good flow, highly repeatable (makes for a good casual game), nice menu with a high score tracker. A lot of quality audio. I mean this man did his VOs, vocal audio track, and beat box. I'm impressed. Well done!
Audio and graphics are the epitome of programmer art! I love it! :D Just what I expect when playing compo games. My problem here is your gameplay loop. It's quite confusing at the beginning what's actually going on. Although you have a quick tutorial, it's not really explained anywhere what 'economy' and 'funds' actually mean. Also, I think the peasants arrive too early in the beginning. If they come slower at the beginning, you give the player a chance to grasp what's going on, and then the spawn rate can gradually increase.
@luckyfeathers Thank you! What would you suggest to help explain the economy and funds? Maybe I could weave that into the tutorial as well, and force the player to tax at least once so that all the controls are used? Spawn rate is definitely an issue as time goes on. It gets chaotic fast, it's something I'd like to get under control. Thanks for taking the time to play!
@adam-clayden Yes, put it in the tutorial. Also, slow everything down in the beginning. A good rule of thumb to remember is that you have been practicing your game for 48 hours, but we only get to play it for 5-10 minutes. Try to make the game easy, and call that hard mode.
I liked your idea. The game was also funny. But unfortunately the controls were very clunky and didn't always respond correctly. But after all, nice game!
@corqi Thanks for the feedback! That's interesting. In which way do they not respond? If you hit the enemies correctly then the cooldown resets, but if you miss you get a 2 second penalty where you can't move at all. Is there a bug that I'm not aware of?
@adam-clayden I can't really tell. There isn't really any indicator that shows where your attack will hit (besides hitting right or left), so dunno, maybe I was just missing. But my impressions as a player was that the controls were not responding.
Unexpected but nice and funny take on the concept.^^
Adding voices was a fun idea and the stickman is always an art direction I can get behind :p I really liked the onomatopoeias when you "glorify" the peasants.
As Corqi said, I found the controls kinda clunky. I wasn't even sure it was doing anything at first until I read your comment about the penalties^^" Adding some kind of feedback would be useful in that regard. Maybe a flash or a circle that "shrinks" as the time window passes or an exclamation or even the key you have to press or just to inform you about the penalty.
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Fun game, I got to 40!
@josefnpat Thank you! That's literally it. A twitch based game where you glorify peasants to get a highscore. If you miss one then you get a penalty, and they move into you and take your money!
@mrtnldm thank you!
Great job on the voice acting, made me giggle quite a bit playing the game :D
Yours has good flow, highly repeatable (makes for a good casual game), nice menu with a high score tracker. A lot of quality audio. I mean this man did his VOs, vocal audio track, and beat box. I'm impressed. Well done!
Additional plus for the entering cut-scene. Gameplay is easy and fun.
Overall - nice entry!
Spawn rate is definitely an issue as time goes on. It gets chaotic fast, it's something I'd like to get under control. Thanks for taking the time to play!
P.S. Probably shouldn't have opted out of audio ;)
Adding voices was a fun idea and the stickman is always an art direction I can get behind :p I really liked the onomatopoeias when you "glorify" the peasants.
As Corqi said, I found the controls kinda clunky. I wasn't even sure it was doing anything at first until I read your comment about the penalties^^" Adding some kind of feedback would be useful in that regard. Maybe a flash or a circle that "shrinks" as the time window passes or an exclamation or even the key you have to press or just to inform you about the penalty.
Anyway, good job! o/