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Neighboring by psychonull

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made by psychonull for LD31 (JAM)
This is our attempt at an apartment-neighbours survival game.

Every person in each apartment has different interests, and some of them may interfere with others. Try to keep everyone in the neighborhood healthy... while you can.

We initially planned lots of interactions and features but had to leave some stuff out because of the lack of time.

Controls: Point and Click

Tools used:
A JavaScript lib we are making (the jam was great for testing :) ): https://github.com/psychonull/pac
Art: A mix of photoshop, gimp and piskel
Sound: LMMS, except crying baby from http://www.soundjay.com/baby-crying-sound-effect.html

Stay neigh-boring!
Web http://psychonull.github.io/ld31-game/
Source https://github.com/psychonull/ld31
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-31/?action=preview&uid=31386

Ratings

Coolness 100% 1
Overall(Jam) 3.42 315
Audio(Jam) 2.85 449
Fun(Jam) 2.91 607
Graphics(Jam) 3.61 344
Humor(Jam) 3.25 199
Innovation(Jam) 3.63 174
Mood(Jam) 3.24 363
Theme(Jam) 4.09 95

Feedback

Blue Thumbs Gaming
09. Dec 2014 · 01:51 UTC
Super fun! I like that everything depends on each other. Fun! -Kintinue
BtheDestroyer
09. Dec 2014 · 03:06 UTC
Certainly interesting...
digibody
09. Dec 2014 · 03:06 UTC
Fun like a doll house, lasted only 89 seconds before the sims bailed on me.
NickMakesGames
09. Dec 2014 · 03:07 UTC
I like the idea of trying to have to balance everything. Very satisfying and tense to keep everybody happy for long periods of time
stvr
09. Dec 2014 · 03:07 UTC
Man, that baby is just NOT happy!
jackrugile
09. Dec 2014 · 03:09 UTC
Haha, I died laughing when I saw Mind: Insane, Body: Wrecked. Can't believe you made this in a weekend, very well done.
SarahFrisk
09. Dec 2014 · 03:11 UTC
Man, I cannot keep these people happy. Interesting concept though, and great job with the pixel art.
SecondDimension
09. Dec 2014 · 17:05 UTC
Good concept, became quite stressful to manage them all. Fits the theme really nicely. I like the cross-section view and the graphics are really nice
RobotLovesKitty
09. Dec 2014 · 23:07 UTC
We learn a good life lesson in this game, keeping people happy is hard :P
aidinviper
10. Dec 2014 · 15:20 UTC
nice work .
rottenmage
10. Dec 2014 · 17:39 UTC
Wow this game is hard! It's an interesting concept, and I think it's worth exploring further. Good job!
Milktoast
11. Dec 2014 · 01:02 UTC
Darn that cursed crying baby to heck!! This is a good start. Are you planning to do a post-compo version?
Murchurl
11. Dec 2014 · 01:02 UTC
Cool concept! great job
insane66
11. Dec 2014 · 01:03 UTC
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PapaCheech
11. Dec 2014 · 01:26 UTC
Lasted 103s. Cool concept! That baby is too real though!
Jaloko
11. Dec 2014 · 04:08 UTC
Cool game, nice use of the theme.
cxsquared
11. Dec 2014 · 18:51 UTC
Really cool idea. It's almost more fun to see everything fall apart but that just might be me lol. Nice work.
oscarabraham
11. Dec 2014 · 22:15 UTC
This really fun and really funny. Congratulations.
vinull
12. Dec 2014 · 01:16 UTC
Interesting concept, but I couldn't really work out what raised the stats - seemed like everything went down no matter what. I loved the sounds and the graphics are pretty good too.
OldPeculier
12. Dec 2014 · 16:03 UTC
Super cool. I want to play this in a bigger, expanded form. Please keep developing it!
freaknarf
12. Dec 2014 · 16:11 UTC
Great!That was funny, the family know they're disaster as parents and i like sound sample when everyone gets crazy. The animation quite reminds me some old lucas art in a way... Good! but if this stupid baby would die in a way it would be better
hoyt hoy
12. Dec 2014 · 17:54 UTC
Can win this game?
Good idea, nice use of the theme.
Pretty hard, easy to play ^^
Good work!
snickersnacks
12. Dec 2014 · 21:42 UTC
Huh, not sure what to think. I like time management games but this one doesn't really grab me for some reason. Maybe because there are no meaningful event chains you can set up? Nice entry tho :)
Sundry
13. Dec 2014 · 02:43 UTC
Interesting concept
Incredible Ape
13. Dec 2014 · 19:02 UTC
Grandma Dorothy went insane :(
mrspeaker
13. Dec 2014 · 21:01 UTC
I love the idea, need some more interactions though. I hope you guys keep working on it post-compo! Graphics and animations are excellent, and great take on the theme.
dunin
15. Dec 2014 · 17:53 UTC
The concept is REALLY cool (do you know georges perec's book Life a users manual?). Need more works (animations, more possibilities, maybe levels (more and more appartment...)) and this will be a good point and click!
Does the man in the middle want to become a pirat? He remind me someone...
maxmetallica
16. Dec 2014 · 15:48 UTC
nice dude
ponk
16. Dec 2014 · 22:02 UTC
I like it a lot...!!
It's really hard :p ...
But it just some speed adjustements, otherwise it is really good !
Great work :) !
01rafael
17. Dec 2014 · 08:38 UTC
I like viewing angle in this game)
But I don't understand what is the main meaning(((
Backterria
17. Dec 2014 · 12:25 UTC
Grat concept and mechanics!Argg, that crying baby :)
Backterria
17. Dec 2014 · 12:26 UTC
Great concept and mechanics!Argg, that crying baby :)
Team Buttface
17. Dec 2014 · 12:35 UTC
Apartment-neighbours survival game, haha, great idea, very well executed. Its really hard to keep everyone happy, just like in RL ^^.
hexagore
17. Dec 2014 · 16:54 UTC
I confess I found this completely baffling (I managed 248s) but I absolutely loved the Lucasarts style art and how different and unusual this is :)
zatyka
18. Dec 2014 · 02:59 UTC
One of the best uses of themes I've seen so far. Cool retro graphics. I really liked figuring everything out.
alwaysinbeta
21. Dec 2014 · 18:16 UTC
Great idea. Really love the graphics. Very amusing. Could see lots of ways this could be taken further.
Mekuri
27. Dec 2014 · 21:35 UTC
This game really stressed me! Which is a good thing, I kinda godt caught up in it :P - The idea is really fun, and I loved the old lady! Good job!