Ludum Dare #45compo

Money Management Simulator

by ascension

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.13

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.95

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.90

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.43

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.75

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.14

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.46

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.69

Some people are born rich, some are born wise, but many are born ordinary.Their lives Start with nothing.
This game you will play an ordinary person, no inheritance, no high salary, you can only manage your money to make life better.

Game Features:
- Four different ways to invest and manage money.
- Over 20 random events.
- Every time you play a different stock move.
- With complete statistics, you will know your financial ability when you finish the game.

How to Play:
- "NEXT" Butoon to pass time.
- Spend money on deposits, funds, stocks or insurance.
- You can adjust your monthly consumption or agree to requests to increase your happiness.
- When you're 50 years old , you'll retire and take stock of your financial results.

Change your life by managing your money.

ps: happiness system is unfinished.

Genres: simulation

Comments23

N0ught2347 Oct 2019, 09:03

One of the best LD games i've played so far. Audio worked well together with the music. I like the art style and the overall layout (Would have preferred it if the menus had x buttons to close them as well as clicking away but nbd). I think this game is trying to tell me something... Put all your money in the bank and you will be a millionaire by the time you're 40!

jk50007 Oct 2019, 09:05

This is a very simpler and fun little clicker game. I like both music and visual style. The game could use a small tutorial. Overall a good combo game. Well done.

Ascensionauthor7 Oct 2019, 09:07

@n0ught234 Thanks very much. In fact, different ages should have different ways of managing money, which may not be well reflected in the game.

Baturinsky7 Oct 2019, 10:27

Cute, but not much actual strategy involved. Need more meaningful choice. Would work better if there were several companies to invest, and you had to read a newspaper to get a hint of how they could raise or drop. Or you there were several different marriage candidates. Like, one would make you more happy, but other would help you getting promoted. Same for jobs.

Lumos7 Oct 2019, 10:37

Ah, I love realistic games: buy high, sell low both in real life as well as in the game. The lesson I seem to have learned from this was to make sure my salary goes up; and to never date and marry a literal gold-digger. I mean c'mon, spending 2 grand on a date and 10 grand on a wedding?! Holy shit!

Anyhow, this is a fun little game. It'd've been nice if the investment options displayed value gained/lost since the time of purchase, as -- not really paying attention -- I quickly lost track of whether my investments had grown or shrunk as time went on.

Adrien Dittrick7 Oct 2019, 10:42

Money is hard to manage

TasakaSama7 Oct 2019, 11:21

The idea is super good by cons lot of things doesn't work, no management of happiness, the consumption we do not see too much and especially 2 times I played and 2 times I had a bug or all month he told me that "I found a new job" but my salary remained at 0 ...
Another thing no button quit at the end ...

By cons non bug events are super fun

But it's a very good idea, congratulations to you

PurpledArtFrog8 Oct 2019, 10:53

Good job :thumbsup_tone1:

:purple_heart: :dart: :frog:

Mad Brokli8 Oct 2019, 11:03

Awsome game :) Managed to take a girl on a date... altough it was kinda expensive.

Bip9 Oct 2019, 06:33

Very cool concept, but it was a little bit slow. Overall though, super fun. Bitlife was always one of my favorite quick games so this was a very cool nostalgia trip.

Danilo Freire9 Oct 2019, 13:09

If you can generate a mac or web build it would be great! : D

Ascensionauthor10 Oct 2019, 01:56

@danilo-freire Thank you. I uploaded a web version at first, but it didn't work very well, so I cancelled it.

celsyum10 Oct 2019, 11:14

super fun :)

Sol Roo11 Oct 2019, 16:23

Very neat submission, clean and good sound design. good work!

small comment: I found a bug that after losing my job i got a new job notification every month.

Enzo_B11 Oct 2019, 17:18

was funny nice job ! :D

Franciszek Pyrć11 Oct 2019, 19:26

Nice management you have going there.

dqmhose14 Oct 2019, 10:07

Super cool! Is there a way to end the game besides Alt+F4? I couldn't find one.. Its super clean and everything fits well together. It's just a little easy, even without investing anything you can make it to retirement pretty easily. (wish my job was that well paid :D)

goudagames15 Oct 2019, 19:28

This is great! Love this kind of simulator, and the random events make a lot of sense and really add to the game.

sillyman98716 Oct 2019, 11:33

Really fun! Love the great graphics!

hiroboto23 Oct 2019, 15:11

interesting game!

Dongle23 Oct 2019, 19:19

This was a pretty interesting game to play. Loved the music. It was pretty fun, and I liked the random events thrown in there too. Good job!

dcrdro24 Oct 2019, 12:00

Pretty fun little money simulator ;)
Cool features with events
But always time I had 3/5 hearts , hm. Does money affect on it ? ;P
But there are too many costs - marriage, women hehe :/

solleys2 Feb 2021, 15:36

Hah, what an interesting game! Probably it could help with accounting skills etc. I would like to improve them, by the way. But every month I take a payday loan here https://maybeloan.com/payday-loans/mt this is a good and reliable company. And you know, guys I believe that it’s important to note the thing about the other sources of income.

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