Taxbear of Haybrunn

Nice game. Love the graphics and enjoy the frantic search for items. Feels very polished. I especially like that you had time to add the little dialog lines!

fun game loop, the game might be a little more challenging if there was a randomized list of tax items each house.

shit... stealing from the poor to give it to the government haha

Original and funny with some kind of challenge. Good game

Honestly, being a tax collector turns out to be surprisingly fun! The theme fits perfectly, the graphics are really well done, and the music sets a great mood with an impressive touch of humor. I’m not sure if the penalty for taking things you shouldn’t is a bit too light, though maybe that’s intentional. It actually makes sense that you’d be rewarded more for collecting proper taxes than for grabbing what isn’t yours, now that I think about it, haha. Fantastic game, I loved it, great entry!

OMG this game is hilarious!

The gameplay isn't revolutionary, but the humour more than makes up for it :p

Keep up the good work!

Fun concept! Like @stef-studio-7 said, I think having different taxable items from day to day would add a bit more challenge. I also really liked the fast pace of the game. This, and the cute animal characters, contrasts with the moody music, theme and dialogues, which results in a very funny atmosphere. Really fun game!

I really hope Taxbear doesn't come for me today...

Nice concept. Would like a little more depth like in Papers, Please: having consequences for being a perfect and efficient tax agency worker. Love the audio overall: sounds, music and the fact you've voiced the protagonist!

Great game. It's fun to play, pleasant visuals and music complement the atmosphere. I liked the game, thank you.

A simple gameplay mechanic, but it works. I loved the setting and the combination of the cute animal aesthetic with the grim tax collecting. The little voice acting and simple but effective music loop adds a lot to set the atmosphere. Silly and kind of depressing, I like it.

The first game where I played as a debt collector (though I thought there’d be more like that) – the graphics are cool. I felt bad taking food from the animals :-(

@linus-lindberg @vikfx @yarli @automatonvx @torte478 @elanor Thank you for playing, commenting and giving feedback!

@milq It is intentional, kind of hahaha I didn't want to put fixed penalty as the items have different prices so they are just tied to their original tax price.

@torte478 you wish...
@ehtd what a concept right?

@stef-studio-7 @ghettobastler Originally I thought that it would be like that but then decided to go without randomizing because the game loop is anyway really short. The items are randomized though if you end up playing again.

@rogaven @02fc I had more in depth idea for the game but well as always other things took up too much time and other features didn't end up into the game. I was toying around with some kind of moral system or that your progress is being controlled by some other actors but didn't end up implementing those.

small game but funny.. great entry

I hate when the Tax Bear comes to my house and steals all my corn!

Nice little game, love the bear! I agree with the comment that states more depth would be great, but being a fellow compo game maker I know how hard that is! Good job

It was a short but fun little game!

Fun and simple gameplay! I really enjoyed the frantic search for objects, though the difficulty probably could've increased a bit more. Loved seeing all the characters and reading their dialogue as well tho ^^
The music was also a nice edition to the mood. Great job!

Lovely game, it probably can be expanded like rogue-like tax collector plus dialogs and choices with consequences like in I'm not a human. Kinda addicting too, that's cool

good job making the game! i like the sound effects, they look like papers please.

Took me a while to realize that I shouldn't just rob the people of everything they have xD

Made it to 1380$ with some good RNG. Would be nice if there were always the same total value of items in a run through to make it more comparable :)

Nice work! I guess the winning strat is taking everything that isn't nailed down... very soviet taxation system XD. It could be interesting to have some penalty items that detract from the total value---e.g. smelly/rotten stuff that spoils the other taxable goods---since currently it seems like the best strat is to click on everything as fast as possible (since there isn't really a penalty to taking everything). But maybe that is the point!

Nice small game. I like it!
I also like sounds.