The Sloth Machine

by j0ye

co-authored: @kapuetze

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.07

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.90

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.55

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.98

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.90

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.26

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.53

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.23

Story

Have you been dreaming of winning a years salary worth of acorns? Well, you came to the right place. Beat the sloth at his own game and cash out! It's easy, just pull the lever and get those sweet, sweet acorns. Don't like your odds? Just go to the shop and turn them to your favor.

*BEWARE* the sloth ain't having broke people as his place and the entry price increases on each spin, so spend your money wisely.

Features

- Win a metric shitton of acorns
- Sloth always wins
- Every spin wins!
- Skill based
- music
- Non
- Sloth
- WINNING

How To Play

- Pull lever to spin
- Obtain more animal symbols from the shop to increase odds
- Obtain more multipliers from the shop
- Don't run out of acorns, you need acorns to spin or you lose

Score

- Squirrel, Bird: 1 acorn
- Mouse: 2 acorns
- Ladybug: 3 acorns
- X2 Multiplier multiplies whole row
- Specific multipliers only multiply the row if condition is met

Know Bugs

- The Sloth Shop button switches text but does not open the shop, if the wheels are spinning
- The lever does start a new spin if left in a specific angle after pulling

Tools: Unity

Comments13

Pachino5511 Oct 2024, 18:47

Very cool

Joshua_Reumann11 Oct 2024, 18:53

Funny idea ^^ Impressive art skills xD

f1tzy11 Oct 2024, 18:56

Fun little slots game. A bit more fedback in the interface might help as the acorns increase.

slay a stone11 Oct 2024, 18:58

Looks cool, everything fits well together. Good _vibe_ :-)

Wished there was a bit more strategy to the gameplay

Bonus points for the name of the game!

Yoav Kagan13 Oct 2024, 03:25

Very nice visual and interesting concept, I really can see how making a slot machine style roguelike could really work as a full game (sort of balatro but slots).
As for improvements I'd think it would really help to have more visual UI of the current machine odds.
Well done!

jk500014 Oct 2024, 18:33

Funny but also a bit weird.

Big Cyckos17 Oct 2024, 08:30

Played on itch io
Sometimes the lever doesn't work, when I redeemed things from the store and reset the store a couple of times it crashed the game xDD
nice soundtrack and sense of humor.
~Socio

Nazariglez17 Oct 2024, 10:30

Really fun concept! The visuals and humor worked great together, but I think more feedback in the interface would help, especially with acorn counts and odds. Gj!

kokostyrko17 Oct 2024, 11:20

The game has impressive visuals and a fun concept, though adding more strategy could enhance the overall gameplay experience!

J0yeauthor20 Oct 2024, 16:42

@slay-a-stone, @kokostyrko Yeah that was always the plan, but it took us forever to get the machine at all. More strategy to the buyable mods would definitely be the next step. To eventually land with what @yoav-kagan said. Slots like Balatro.

ChuChuGeralt20 Oct 2024, 17:54

I really did like the graphics!

CiaranW20 Oct 2024, 18:50

Looks really good graphically - nice style, and the audio suited the game really well. I played through a few times, but it seemed the best strategy was to just not buy anything from the shop, because otherwise the increase in spin cost kills you.

It would be nice if there was some kind of visual which helped explain how the scoring worked (like a real slot machine).

Nice entry!