Ludum Dare #46compo

Please Stay

by topbraj

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.70

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.44

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.74

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.32

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.31

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.94

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.63

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.69

Keep your party alive.

Your guests are arriving! Keep them entertained - have a chat, give them a drink, turn up the music for a dance (but not for too long - or the police will show up), and if things really start to slow down... Dip into your stash of gogo-powder. Do anything to stave off the loneliness.

INSTRUCTIONS

Left click - Click a button to perform an action (make a cockatil, turn on/off the soundsystem, etc). You can also click your guests to interact with them.

Right click - Go to location.

Made by topbraj in 48 hours for LD46 ("Keep it alive").

*Post-completion update:* Bug fix to enable sounds for drinking and inhaling gogo-powder, also you can now actually lose the game when just idling...

Genres: simulation

Tools: Defold

Comments24

welby20 Apr 2020, 12:34

This is a really clever use of theme!

Iluvatar20 Apr 2020, 12:35

Attention seeking bastards! I couldn't keep up with their greedy asses, HAHA. Absolutely love it. The gameplay is engaging and challengin, in the later stages too much challenging, but that means more fun right? Very fun game to play.

AlexandrosKap20 Apr 2020, 12:42

the music will play all night and i dont care

Ole Andreas20 Apr 2020, 12:44

Never had a harder time keeping a party alive! Kudos for some fun innovative stuff.

Landerack20 Apr 2020, 12:44

Oh what a wonderfull choice! love it. It was really fun to play~ a great example of a nice jamming game. The cop was a little tricky to figure out at the start, I thought it was someone who was like, I dont want music or I'll leave. but then I realised :') really well done~ super smooth execution.

cowa20 Apr 2020, 12:45

The dance animation is perfect!
These little stickboys felt so much alive when dancing, I loved it!

Nice game! Good job :)

bigTINYGames20 Apr 2020, 12:55

Very fun game, but there is something missing! You're not scored for being party monster at all. Add some rewards for doing those tasks.

Stefanie Leitch20 Apr 2020, 14:47

Go-Go Powder LOL, fun game, loved the dancing animation! Music was awesome!

Iothil20 Apr 2020, 14:51

Me before this game: Law abiding citizen, no problem with the police.

2 Mins in the game: FUCK DA POLICE!

AndideBob20 Apr 2020, 15:04

As far as I can tell, the only way to loose is to get caught by the police, because whenever a guest would leave a new one would arrive just before they exited. So I turned down the music and started stacking up on gogo-powder and drinks and then the party could go on forever! Whoop Whoop!

blotosaur20 Apr 2020, 15:52

Difficult to tell which one you are sometimes. Seems like the game is infinite but the difficulty stays the same. The music is great and implementation really good. I liked that when you want to talk to someone that is going up or down the stairs, you actually go to where they are headed. Good game!

SoKette20 Apr 2020, 18:37

Input or controls are a bit wonky, and the game feels a bit too easy -> You can focus on keeping a friend well "nose fed" and hydrated for the whole game.

The theme interpretation and the sound design on the other hand are pretty amazing, nice ! :D

singleshoe21 Apr 2020, 09:41

Found a few issues with ease of controlling the character and such, but the gameplay loop I found really fun, having to balance between the needs of the guests + the police, running back and forth. Really fun!

Efmi_21 Apr 2020, 11:39

I absolutely love the graphics, audio and the general athmosphere of the game, great job @topbraj! My only complaint would be on the difficulty of the game, or more a lack of it. I basically played for 15 minutes and didn't really notice any kind of difficulty curve, so the party never actually ended for me. Overall a really solid game, I love the vibes so much!

PerfectSquare21 Apr 2020, 12:27

Great job with the player character animations...the way they scurried around the house faster than everyone else really made me feel like an overworked host!

hhsaez21 Apr 2020, 12:45

Great use of the theme! Congrats!

Brice Mahier21 Apr 2020, 12:52

Nice use of the theme! I had random game over but for the most part it was really enjoyable, well balanced timing!

Keep up the good work.

winterbeak21 Apr 2020, 17:26

- I like the graphics a lot - it's simple, but clear and to the point.
- The little dancing animation is cute
- Keeping any more than two guests is much too difficult! The timers all run out so fast!
- I made so many drinks. SO MANY! I've lost count of how many livers I've destroyed tonight.
- Time survived: 16:55, with a score of 18

giu.zcc22 Apr 2020, 12:41

Very nice concept! Keeping guests is very big challenge!

Weirdybeardyman22 Apr 2020, 13:15

Nice, quite good little polished game.

Mircea12322 Apr 2020, 13:49

Stick mans with square heads, for sure on crack.

ryzy2722 Apr 2020, 16:10

Game looks very polished. Buttons and sound effects are very nice. Music is catchy and fitting.

Great entry. Cheers!

Kate9022 Apr 2020, 17:04

I like the music bit (stayed with me after finishing a game!) and art of the house, Its adorable how sticky people dance! At some moment I couldnt leave a bedroom (stickman blocked me?)

Taddl22 Apr 2020, 18:59

I find the concept of the game and how it relates to the theme very interesting, the mechanics are also quite interesting. It might be a little to easy at the moment, I tried to lose and didn't manage to do it.

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