Live for Money - A Pixel Art Economic Simulation/Resource Management Game

by gnd95
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.67
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.56
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.69
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.78
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.42
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.71
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.64
Resource management/economic simulation game developed in the pixel art style. The goal is to water your money trees until they get mature enough to begin producing money. You can use the money to buy water from the in-game shop. Be alert -- some deals are better than others; there is a dynamic pricing mechanism to the shop requiring players to think carefully before they buy. Additionally, money harvested from the trees is dynamically calculated as well. This adds for extra difficulty and no two games playing alike!!


Live for Money - Achievement System.png

Genres: strategy

Comments16

NIKond20 Apr 2020, 04:44
Maybe the problem is in me, but I can not open the archive.
MartinTale20 Apr 2020, 04:57
Game looks great.. Really wish I could play it but I'm on Mac :/ Good luck to you either way! ;)
Drachmor
Drachmor20 Apr 2020, 05:04
I've seen a few submissions about "keeping plants alive", but all have taken the theme in a surprisingly different direction. This is no exception; I love the idea that keeping the trees alive equates to keeping the economy alive. Or, your wallet. Whichever. Cool stuff!
GND95author20 Apr 2020, 05:09
@nikond I changed the download link from a RAR file to a ZIP file. This should fix that issue. My friend had the same problem!
@martintale I added the mac version of the game. I made it with Unity but didn't built it for that platform. Completely untested waters though :P
C1FR1
C1FR120 Apr 2020, 05:17
I like the water collecting minigame, it makes it more interactive than a normal clicker game. Unfortunately on my computer it didn't render the background on the screen where you are supposed to water the trees, so all I could see was a blue background.
Ilya_Nazarov
Ilya_Nazarov20 Apr 2020, 18:52
Nice game! I would add some penalties for searching market for too long. Water collecting is pretty fun!
NEKORUMA
NEKORUMA21 Apr 2020, 02:15
hahahah its funny, good job!!
Mark Smith
Mark Smith21 Apr 2020, 02:19
Nice entry! I found the water collecting super hard and took a while to get some money going but overall a fairly innovative game!
Blue Pin Studio
Blue Pin Studio23 Apr 2020, 08:04
Uhhh this was really hard and not that fun to be honest. I had to spend so much time trying to collect water and it seemed to have no point because it only gave my tree 1 level and if i tried to collect more, the tree went back to 0 afterward... Maybe its just user error but this game is too hard for me.
Jimbly
Jimbly24 Apr 2020, 04:07
What resolution does this need to be ran at, because this doesn't look like your screenshots? ^_^

Edit: Seemed to work okay, if I ran in 1920x1080 windowed mode.
Jimbly
Jimbly24 Apr 2020, 04:19
The water collecting was interesting, surprisingly engaging for how simple it was! It *really* would have been more interesting with just a little sound, the sound of water bouncing off the pails :). After I had 10 water, I just watered my tree and bought more water and repeated, but never really got anywhere much doing that, maybe up to $17 ^_^.
Szieberth Adam
Szieberth Adam25 Apr 2020, 22:12
Also a first-timer.

Lower resolutions are offered but are unplayable.

Also I feel the game not very to the theme. I am not very fond of the money trees, would have preferred regular fruit trees.
Goutye
Goutye30 Apr 2020, 10:02
Well done! Make me think of Animal Crossing and their money trees! :smile:
The water game was quite a skillful game in the end! But was able to get some water and make a beautiful money tree :v: Congratulations!
Boaz8 May 2020, 06:46
Good game
kruemelkeksfan8 May 2020, 20:14
Water gathering is pretty difficult, which is good to get players to actually buy it. Still a bit tedious, since it takes forever to collect enough water and wait for the growing cooldowns.
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