The Social Network by Silveryard

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made by Silveryard for LD30 (COMPO)
Every have been on Facebook? Ever asked yourself how it is to manage one of the biggest services in history?

Try it out!

Help people around the whole world to be connected with each other. Help them to share interests and ethnics. Help them to send messages from home, take pictures on the way.
The more users you have the more features they will request.
But whatch out! Running a service costs money and with money there always comes stress...




There are no specific controls. Everything can (has to be) be done with mouse.

Instructions are avaliable ingame but skippable.

Music can be turned of in options.

There is a Highscore list at the end.


Good look and enjoy gaming :)



Changelog:

Version LD30.1
--Added
-A way to die *yay*
-A menu
-Instructions
-Background music

Version LD30.2
--Added
-New Instructions page (a short one i promise)
-2 New Features

--Fixed
-Some Bugs
-Balancing

Version LD30.3
--Added
-Realtime Income Update

--Fixed
-Number of users in game over screen
-Removed scroll view in feature list
-Cleanup on replay
-Some Bugs
-Balancing

Version LD30.4
--Added
-Highscores

--Fixed
-Server Capacity label
-Stopp gameloop at game over

Version LD30.5
--Added
-5 New Features
-Scrollbar for features (again)

--Fixed
-A float->int cast for satisfaction (to get gameover)
-Some Bugs
-Lots of balancing

Version LD30.6 (Post)
--Fixed
-Made the gane playable again

Ratings

Coolness 49% 1204
Overall 3.70 139
Audio 2.80 491
Fun 3.26 366
Graphics 2.66 839
Humor 2.40 505
Innovation 3.62 215
Mood 3.11 451
Theme 3.57 316

Feedback

The_Flash_Point
23. Aug 2014 · 18:06 UTC
cool game dude
anvarch
23. Aug 2014 · 19:57 UTC
great soundtrack, for real
Zer0
23. Aug 2014 · 20:04 UTC
This is kinda like Plague.Inc but with a sozial network. Great Game tho :D
MegaMasterX
23. Aug 2014 · 20:10 UTC
Absolutely stressful, but well done.
Geckoo1337
24. Aug 2014 · 00:46 UTC
Cool game with original concept, but it seems to me it bugged. In example I can't buy a server when I restart a game. Strange. Thank you ++
🎤 Silveryard
24. Aug 2014 · 01:15 UTC
@Geckoo1337 I upload while developing. The new version has some cleanup und restart and I don´t have any problems with buying anymore :)
xWarZonex
24. Aug 2014 · 01:25 UTC
This is amazing! How did you do this so quick?
breskin2000
24. Aug 2014 · 08:30 UTC
I don't know how do you did that, but game is awesome.
ViliX
24. Aug 2014 · 09:36 UTC
Nice idea :)
rd127p77
24. Aug 2014 · 12:01 UTC
It's Original, Love It!
Sacha862
24. Aug 2014 · 13:38 UTC
A really cool game! Stressful and difficult at times for well done!
Geckoo1337
24. Aug 2014 · 15:29 UTC
This game is really original. I love this new gameplay. You are one of my favorites. Thank you for your contribution ++
xbmdavross
24. Aug 2014 · 15:34 UTC
the problem is more people doesnt - more income, so it gets hard to keep people / servers happy when you buy everything and then it starts going down
🎤 Silveryard
24. Aug 2014 · 16:07 UTC
@xbmdavross: Currently I'm working on some new Features you can buy but you're right at some point there is an end as you can' t buy infinite Features. But my goal is to see you loosing before you've bought the last ;)
vogon101
24. Aug 2014 · 16:44 UTC
Good game, why did I die?
🎤 Silveryard
24. Aug 2014 · 16:45 UTC
@vogon101: If your money or your users satisfaction becomes 0 the game is over :)
Roknsk
24. Aug 2014 · 17:01 UTC
This is cool. Simple and clever.
maxkm5st1
24. Aug 2014 · 18:35 UTC
really cool but i had all of the features and a few servers in minutes
sylarisbest
24. Aug 2014 · 20:25 UTC
cool game.
Jupiter_Hadley
25. Aug 2014 · 02:48 UTC
Really awesome concept. I included it in my Ludum Dare 30 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :) http://youtu.be/CHUuhEZvNWU
nonetheless
25. Aug 2014 · 06:52 UTC
That's a nice game. Would like some more colours :)... and I feel music doesn't fit (although big thunmbs up for making the music :) ) All in all quite enjoyable!
badlydrawnrod
25. Aug 2014 · 10:57 UTC
Nice to see something on theme that didn't involve planets.
ViliX
25. Aug 2014 · 12:27 UTC
One of my favourites. You should do some post-compo version.
Slooowpoke
25. Aug 2014 · 12:31 UTC
Was having great fun, then I bought servers all around the world and something must have gone wrong like my server costs exceeding my income. It would be nice to have some kind of game over message telling me how I lost because I felt a bit cheated. Game is quite easy, but I really liked the features that you can add to the servers. I think more of those and some way of servers crashing if you exceed users(might already happen and I didn't realise). I'd like to see more from this game, nice one!
DrMelon
25. Aug 2014 · 12:33 UTC
Good take on the theme! Interesting little management game.
Pantelis Petsopoulos
25. Aug 2014 · 12:35 UTC
Epic game! It's lacking a bit of clarity on the graphics though. I'd love to play it again. 9/10
ZirconCode
25. Aug 2014 · 12:36 UTC
Interesting/awesome idea, also reminded me of Plague.inc (and friends). Liked the homemade music.

Think the gameplay could be a bit better balanced. Graphics were a bit too bland for my taste.
Flyinpig5
25. Aug 2014 · 12:37 UTC
Fun little game c:
clofresh
25. Aug 2014 · 12:41 UTC
Interesting board game-y game. Felt like I was watching a real analytics dashboard
Robinerd
25. Aug 2014 · 12:45 UTC
Cool concept. Thought at first it would go on to infinite, but then I realized the troubles of gaining a larger user base. Well done and very interesting! Creds for the instructions and the ability to turn of the music. Great learning curve.
McFood
25. Aug 2014 · 12:46 UTC
Really enjoyable social network clicker/sim type thing =)
I'm glad noone is dissatisfied by all the servers being full all the time, that might make it even harder.
Great Work!
hoyt hoy
25. Aug 2014 · 12:47 UTC
Intriguing
A lot of thing to understand to can play.
De sounds is a little repetitive, but is a good sound.
Gameplay interesting.
A little more feedback about the actions of player would be nice.
sapermysz
25. Aug 2014 · 13:14 UTC
Very good idea and game.
Geckoo1337
26. Aug 2014 · 06:20 UTC
One of my favorites for this LD32. Well done ++
EnigmAraigne
26. Aug 2014 · 08:47 UTC
Nice idea, but i hate the music. It's so annoying!

But overall gameplay is nice. I like it!
Hyoga-3D
27. Aug 2014 · 12:37 UTC
Nice game, very good concept and pretty complex too, well done.
gmfk07
06. Sep 2014 · 12:15 UTC
Awesome game, especially in such a short timeframe!
psychomonster
15. Sep 2014 · 09:33 UTC
Great concept, fast-paced gameplay. Love it