Moderately Exciting Tax Collecting
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Moderately Exciting Tax Collecting was created for Ludum Dare 58 with the theme Collector.
Here you take on the job of a Tax Collector, visiting houses and businesses to collect taxes and depositing them in the Tax Office. Higher ups need the dosh right now, but it is better to let the Taxes sit a bit, so they grow faster. Well, up until someone decides it is time for Tax Evasion.
It's not a great job, but someone has to do it.
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It was my first time doing a solo game jam and, oh boy, that's a lot of work, especially when I started Saturday evening. Half of the nice features I planned, like upgrades or investments, or juicing up the movement, didn't make the cut, because I spent a lot of time looking up a lot of very basic stuff that you wouldn't believe. But it was a good experience. Writing code is really satisfying. I should do that more often.
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Game made solo by me. Find me on bluesky
Some of the visuals were heavily inspired or linetraced from Unity Complete 2D by GameDev.tv, a course I did couple years ago.
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Update v1.1
I removed usage of F1 for Tutorial as it was conflicting in many browsers launching "Help" section, and especially on laptops with Fn + F1. Pause & Tutorial are now on P button. The old version is still to download, where there should be no problem, since it doesn't run in a browser.
Moderately Exciting Tax Collecting was created for Ludum Dare 58 with the theme Collector.
Here you take on the job of a Tax Collector, visiting houses and businesses to collect taxes and depositing them in the Tax Office. Higher ups need the dosh right now, but it is better to let the Taxes sit a bit, so they grow faster. Well, up until someone decides it is time for Tax Evasion.
It's not a great job, but someone has to do it.
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It was my first time doing a solo game jam and, oh boy, that's a lot of work, especially when I started Saturday evening. Half of the nice features I planned, like upgrades or investments, or juicing up the movement, didn't make the cut, because I spent a lot of time looking up a lot of very basic stuff that you wouldn't believe. But it was a good experience. Writing code is really satisfying. I should do that more often.
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Game made solo by me. Find me on bluesky
Some of the visuals were heavily inspired or linetraced from Unity Complete 2D by GameDev.tv, a course I did couple years ago.
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Update v1.1
I removed usage of F1 for Tutorial as it was conflicting in many browsers launching "Help" section, and especially on laptops with Fn + F1. Pause & Tutorial are now on P button. The old version is still to download, where there should be no problem, since it doesn't run in a browser.