Ludum Dare #50compo

Cramzon Ad Creator

by recursor

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.30

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.34

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.08

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.24

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.58

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.65

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.52

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.80

You have been hired at Cramzon online to work in their ad creation department. Make money by creating the best ad you can given a product and a sentence structure. Words are limited and most can only be used once (unless they're green). Use the money from ads to buy more words to make more ads ... until the words or your money runs out. Try to make the best ad and get on the coveted Cramzon online high score board! Note: It is not currently possible to complete an ad for all the products.

Notes:

- Green words can be reused
- The base money earned for each word is shown below it
- Any bonus money earned is shown above the word (when it has a bonus)
- Alliteration will get you extra money. The more alliterate, the better.
- Some word combos give additional bonus money (because they are so cool). Try to find them.
- If you don't like a word, you can put is back!
- Bonuses can also be negative (but even negative words can give positive net bonuses when paired with certain other words)

Version History:

- 0.41 Bug fixes:
- The word 'a' was not properly spaced.

- 0.4 Bug fixes:
- Alliteration bonus points were not added into the ad score
- Alliteration bonus was incorrectly calculated

- 0.3 Bug fixes:
- The rest of the products were not showing up.
- The win condition was never occurring.
- Prevent spamming the submit button
- 0.2 Bug Fixes
- Null check issue
- Some words were not showing up

Comments15

LDJam user 2796104 Apr 2022, 19:55

Really fun concept for a game. I had no idea why I would get various bonuses. +$100 one time, not sure why. If I knew it would be more strategic, I just placed the words with the highest values and called it a day.

Srynetix5 Apr 2022, 19:03

Cool game ! Sometimes the phrases don't make sense but it's fun.

Corporation5 Apr 2022, 19:05

Funny idea, hard for non english native though) found my brain melting a little from this. I feel like it is something that can get developed further, there is some potential. Also UI was suprisingly good and smooth and fitted this game very well. Good job)

LDJam user 2345675 Apr 2022, 19:07

I am not a native English speaker so it is difficult for me to play your game. But I understand how it works.

borgi5 Apr 2022, 19:16

Interesting concept, I liked managing the alliteration bonus :-D
On the last ad I could spam the submit button and get endless money :-D
Graphics and sounds are minimal but functional!
Really work for this LD jam!

subvertissement5 Apr 2022, 19:25

highly impressive! very cool concept, and beautifully executed! loved the various bonuses, alliterations and little similar additions.

at the end, it seemed like the end-state didn't happen, and i was left on ad 17/17 (which i could submit infinitely). before end-glitch, final score was 258$. loved it! :)

*look mom, i do a marketing!*

recursorauthor5 Apr 2022, 22:26

@subvertissement there should be more products than that, and you shouldn't be able to spam the submit button. You've found some bugs I'll need to fix. Thanks for letting me know.

jitspoe6 Apr 2022, 01:07

"Your ring is shiny" got me $100.

firescape games6 Apr 2022, 01:12

Really a nice game. Cool concept and it is really fun to play! One small issue, when I had alliteration and the text said I had the +20 for alliteration, I only got the point value of the original message without alliteration, which is 20 less than the ad value stated. Again, that's just a small bug that did not take away from the gameplay at all. Overall, a really great game, one of my favorites!

recursorauthor6 Apr 2022, 14:20

@firescape-games thanks for the feedback, and I'll check into the alliteration issue. One could say that is just the Cramzon corporation trying to slip one by its employees, but it is more likely a bug.

LeviDSmith9 Apr 2022, 02:40

Interesting concept. Reminds me of when I was in second grade and had to do sentence diagrams. I made it up to ad 10 ($218) before running out of adjectives.

LDJam user 27891811 Apr 2022, 01:58

Fun idea! There's a lot of opportunity for some pretty funny ads. Great job!

ambrits11 Apr 2022, 21:34

Surprisingly fun concept! The alliteration bonus made a "word management" interesting, altohugh I don't think I found any of the other bonuses. The UI was working perfectly. It's nice that you were able to add a scoreboard as well and using the currency of the player was a nice little touch though it was funny for me since my country's currency is really bad so all my ads were basically worhtless.:)

0x74656412 Apr 2022, 02:14

I ran out of adjectives! This was a very creative idea. Made me chuckle quite a bit. Wish I realized I could get the alliteration bonus sooner!

fueelin12 Apr 2022, 07:53

Neat idea, but it felt hard to find alliterative options (particularly in the 4 word ads where you pick 3 words and the product is in the second position). Nice work!

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