Commission Hell

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.18
Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.07
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.99
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.69
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.36
Audio★★★★★★★★★★4.12
Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.45
Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.08
Draw your way through chaos in Commission Hell!

Join Francine, a talented but overwhelmed artist, in a frantic effort to tackle her towering backlog of commissions. With limited canvas space and time, wield an arsenal of artistic tools to create as many mini masterpieces as you can before the night is over.

Controls:
* Mouse to draw and select things
* F in draw screen to fullscreen
* Z to undo
* Y to redo
* C to clear

Notes:
If it doesn't work in Ludum Dare site, try any of the alternative links below. (Anything that's not Chrome apparently)

Credits:
* Khoi (@crow-seeds) - Programming, Various Miscellaneous Art, Game Design, Coordination
* Ollie (@ollygons) - Character artist and UI designer
* Said (@popper) - Stamp Art
* Blag (https://www.youtube.com/@yellohblag) - Music
* Labib (@la-bread) - Creative lead, original pitch, stamp art
* God - Voice acting, stamp art
* Lauren - Voice acting
* Ajay (@awl1119) - Voice acting
* Darius - Voice acting
* Misha (@Mooobster) - Voice acting
Genres: simulation

Comments35

Shiiro 10psi3 Oct 2023, 00:10
This is super impressive. Very high production value and a good amount of content for a jam game. Showing off what I assume are other player's art is a very cool feature.
Natrist3 Oct 2023, 03:58
It's surprising how much you managed to get done in a small timelapse, even though you had a decently-sized team. Good job on the game.
Toasteto3 Oct 2023, 04:02
This game is an absolute masterpiece, all of the stickers made me laugh so hard and the style of the game was beautiful, especially the voice acting. All of you did an amazing job!
JunaGames
JunaGames3 Oct 2023, 06:34
Wow cant believe the game was networked, that's awesome!
XRy
XRy3 Oct 2023, 06:37
Overall very lovely game!! I love the idea of having to follow the restrictions of a commission and the canvas as the limiting parts to match the theme. And the feature to compare to other pieces of art is very satisfying too.
Milan88903 Oct 2023, 06:38
First i thought i had to draw the aliens and the man with the cigartte :rofl:

I really enyojed the game! Very fun art style and amazing voice acting
HangoverGames
HangoverGames3 Oct 2023, 06:40
awesome voice acting!
I literally laughed with you during every drawing order!!
Very nice
Congeesetador
Congeesetador3 Oct 2023, 06:42
This is another case of uniqueness on this jam theme, I really loved the art style and the sound effects, the sticker drawings were absolutely hilarious and were my favorite, I can tell you all worked on this game really hard and it was all worth it, spectacular game!
Shgamerk3 Oct 2023, 06:50
In this game, my creativity went beyond limits and the variable stickers made my paintings even more attractive. For more voice acting is perfect.
Joymagine
Joymagine3 Oct 2023, 07:25
5 stars best game so far lol
the audio was tooooo funny i loved it so much
wish it was longer
crylica3 Oct 2023, 14:39
It took me awhile to realise that I was meant to use the stickers instead of drawing the objects, but this is a really interesting take on the theme. I love how you drew francine/the dog as well, when shes painting it looks super nice.
satacat
satacat3 Oct 2023, 19:50
this is so hilarious and totally unsettling, i love it! my praises to voice actors – i got dedicated to my art pieces so much thanks to them
LDJam user 261037
LDJam user 2610374 Oct 2023, 01:02
Fun and unique. It was a little hard to pick up at first, but that I think that was inevitable since it's such a different game. I like the voice acting of the clients and especially had a laugh as I was rushing to achieve the requirements of the (6th?) drawing and distinctly heard the client say "I want the canvas to be between 20-40% black and add in a dog. I feel this represents my relationship with my cat" XD
DoomMustard
DoomMustard4 Oct 2023, 01:42
I don't know why but this gives me real jackbox party pack vibes
Violet Dykhoff
Violet Dykhoff4 Oct 2023, 02:06
This is such a cool concept for a game! I'd totally play it with a bunch of friends if there were custom "compare art" servers!
whoaitstom4 Oct 2023, 03:37
The voice acting was so funny to have alongside the frantic masterpieces and seeing the other drawings as I went was super charming!
EarthToThien4 Oct 2023, 04:02
Voice acting added to the charm of this game! Reminds me of Sticky Business but I kept giggling listening to the commissions!
Rincs
Rincs4 Oct 2023, 04:10
I had a lot of fun, will definitely play again to make better paintings LOL
Mehul4 Oct 2023, 04:11
Love the graphics and the gallerys at the end of what people made is hilarious. Big jackbox party game vibe!
agentparsec
agentparsec4 Oct 2023, 05:23
I forgot to put in my name ^^;
LDJam user 2331
LDJam user 23314 Oct 2023, 14:32
Really unique game- and pretty relatable. :') Mostly just took the constraints literally and put together a minimum acceptable painting, but would be fun to go back and try and draw more creative stuff while still satisfying them. :D
morgie5 Oct 2023, 05:30
This game is so charming and unique. :D I really enjoyed the humor; clearly there was a lot of love put into it. I just there wish there was some visual or audio indicator that I had selected certain colors and I wish there was an option for bigger/smaller brush sizes, but those are very minor. The voiceovers made the game more fun than just silly drawings and made me want to wait til the clock ran out to submit! Thanks for making a super fun game!
Agraffs
Agraffs5 Oct 2023, 07:14
Hilarious, the game resumes fairly well the briefs that some clients give for artistic work. Nice ^^
LDJam user 258850
LDJam user 2588505 Oct 2023, 13:46
damm I love it 5/5 ^^ I was spending way too long putting colours down and only having 5 seconds to find stamps hehe
SnekOfSpice
SnekOfSpice6 Oct 2023, 12:15
online functionality in a gamejam game... absolutely wild

this was very funny and entertaining, I loved the voice acting and how silly and doodly everything was

the only thing I noticed was that the pen cut out fairly regularly when you move your mouse too quickly
LDJam user 168929
LDJam user 1689297 Oct 2023, 04:06
Really enjoyed all the stamps, and the online feature is really cool! It'd be nice if there was a way to browse the best submissions on a prompt or something along those lines, though I realize that's a headache. Had a fun time with this!
LDJam user 245646
LDJam user 245646author7 Oct 2023, 05:17
@anson-rutherford We ran out of time before we could implement it :(

Fortunately for you, that feature is in the post-jam version on Newgrounds!
picross
picross9 Oct 2023, 02:46
Incredibly fun and polished game. Have no idea how you accomplished the online functionality. Huge jackbox vibes. Great work team!
Euler Moises
Euler Moises13 Oct 2023, 04:40
AHAHAHA!

I loved it!
An extremely original idea!

You guys used the theme very cleverly and built the game in a very picturesque way.

Congratulations!
Natano
Natano16 Oct 2023, 01:13
WOOOOOOOOOOW!!! As an artist, I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THIS GAME!!!!
It's amazing! I don't even have the words to describe how much i enjoyed it!!!!
You did a really really great job!!! ^^

For sure a 5/5 stars >;)
NuiN
NuiN16 Oct 2023, 01:36
This is awesome, only complaint I have is that the requirements would sometimes lock up and not update even when they were visibly fulfilled

First 5/5 for me though :)
LDJam user 277851
LDJam user 27785116 Oct 2023, 01:53
This game is fantastic! I like it very much! goodjob!
LDJam user 250905
LDJam user 25090516 Oct 2023, 03:14
So glad you invested the time in voice acting, that's really what did it for me, hahahah. The whole campain was enjoyable, though because you *had* to rely on stickers for the majority of it, it left all the finished products looking about the same, which was a little disappointing. My favorite part was the free draw, though I only spent a little less than 4 minutes on it, making this masterpiece.

Few things I would've liked: more colors to begin with, even just one or two more for the sake of free draw would've been nice, even if the story mode wasn't any different; changable brush sizes (though of course I don't know what you're using to draw the lines so that could've been hard); if it were possible to show more than four other submissions -- maybe even a submission viewer -- I would've like to see more free draw products without making a new one myself! :3

I enjoyed that, nice job all of you! See you next jam! :beers:
LDJam user 245646
LDJam user 245646author16 Oct 2023, 03:28
@sephowepho Thanks for the input! We made a submission viewer in the post-jam version (we narrowly ran out of time to implement it in the submission lmao) if you wanna see other people's silly contributions. Glad you enjoyed what we got though!
blobo16 Oct 2023, 19:18
Absolutely perfect. I love drawing games, and this one absolutely stands out! The ridiculous commissions, the voice acting trying to defend why they need these outlandish requirements... it's hilarious and I love it.

I recorded myself playing to provide maximum feedback. Cheers!

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