Cult Quest by barleyarley

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made by barleyarley for LD30 (JAM)
Hey, ever wanted to run a cult in a city? Now you can!

Recruit people to The Church of Connected Worlds, and make enough money to ascend to the other side.

This is my second Ludum Dare, and my friend's first. We're not exactly sure what this game is supposed to be precisely, but we're pretty happy with the general weirdness of it and wanted to make something that was at least fairly original. What we ended up with was more of a rough tech demo than anything else. Hopefully you enjoy messing around with it though!

Some things we didn't get to signpost properly:


The aim of the game is to make enough money to create a portal to 'the otherside'. Do this by converting people to your cult. If you run out of money you lose.

All characters have a 'self esteem' level, which determines their effectiveness at converting/resisting other characters.

Converting a character increases this esteem level, aloowing that character to convert others easier in the fututre.

Grey characters are civilians. These can be converted to your cult if you have higher self esteem, and will give you money when converted.

Red characters are rival cult members. They will convert citizens and felow cult members to their own faith.

Purple characters are fellow cult members, these will convert people to your cult but cost you money per second. Taking them back to the processing centre will give you additional funds, but reduce their esteem to 1.

Orange characters are defectors, they will reduce the esteem of your cultists unless you convert them back.

Grey buildings can be converted into new procesing centres for $400. These will convert anyone who enters them to your cult.

Ratings

Coolness 39% 1598
Overall(Jam) 2.73 676
Audio(Jam) 3.00 401
Fun(Jam) 2.57 628
Graphics(Jam) 2.67 647
Humor(Jam) 2.85 218
Innovation(Jam) 3.10 354
Mood(Jam) 2.68 591
Theme(Jam) 2.35 647

Feedback

Headmade
25. Aug 2014 路 17:41 UTC
I'm getting a virus warning so I didn't dare to run it.
馃帳 barleyarley
25. Aug 2014 路 22:11 UTC
I've updated the link. Seems to be working okay now..
tbamberg
26. Aug 2014 路 22:22 UTC
Played on web, it's pretty fun, but a little more transparency would be nice. Hard to figure out exactly who's doing what and why
Spang
26. Aug 2014 路 22:25 UTC
I really enjoyed this game, Congrats. :D
ice cold muffin
26. Aug 2014 路 22:29 UTC
A bit confusing, I wasn't able to win. But the idea is nice!
IAmSpencer
26. Aug 2014 路 23:46 UTC
that was an interesting take on the theme, well done. Having a horde of followers is always enjoyable ;)
DragonInstall
28. Aug 2014 路 03:34 UTC
This is a neat idea. Kinda fun. There is so much going on at a high pace. I like how people are just doing these random dialog though. Maybe if you could put an indicator in purple(converted) when people gets converted or slow down the pace that would help. GG!
wdebowicz
28. Aug 2014 路 22:42 UTC
Jehovah witnesses online! ;-) Oryginal gameplay. I also like the building models, simple but nice.
kidando
29. Aug 2014 路 20:48 UTC
I didn't know what I was supposed to do. But I loved the music so much :). Great job completing the game
kibertoad
31. Aug 2014 路 15:18 UTC
It's a bit too fast-paced, but an interesting idea.
Nooner Bear
02. Sep 2014 路 21:55 UTC
I'd have liked if it was slightly longer. I'm not quite sure what I was doing wrong, haha.