The rich get richer by Prealpha
Create grief and make people miserable through stock exchange. As I couldn't get the miserableness simulator working on time, the mission in this game is to influence companies to be less efficient and more annoying by increasing a 'chaos' meter.
As the level of accumulated chaos increases, you gain some slightly demonic abilities. The win condition is to raise the total level of chaos by influencing big companies to be Evil (or, at least, irritating). Have too little money on your pocket and you lose.
Made in java and tested in Windows and Linux.
Thank you for playing.
-----------Guidelines / Tutorial ----------
It seems I made this even more crytic that I at first thought, so my apologies to anyone who tried it and felt a bit lost.
Some guidelines:
- Clicking on a Company in the left side allows you to buy shares, up to as many as your current money allows.
- You lose the moment your money get too low (under 200) no matter what you own at the moment, so be careful when buying shares.
- Owning a chunk of a company gives you control over its chaos bar, the more you own the more control.
- A company low in chaos has more chances of growing and increasing its share values.
- The opposite is also true: high chaos makes the company shrink and lowers the value of its shares.
-The biggest a company is (size), the more it influences the total chaos.
- As total chaos increases, you unlock spells and, ultimatelly, win the game.
- The spells work as follows:
-Charisma lets you move the chaos meter over the bounds you would normally have.
-Fear allows you to buy cheaper shares.
-Perception filter makes companies you own look better: companies with high chaos will grow as if it was lower while this spell is active.
Putting all this together, some viable strategies are:
- Buy shares of a company with a middle-high chaos value and lower it, wait and its value will go up.
- Increase the chaos value of a company before selling it, later on its value will go down and you can buy it again more cheaply.
- Try to keep chaos as high as posible while letting the company still grow, so the total chaos increases and you get access to useful spells.
- Buy while fear is active, change chaos while charisma if active, keep perception filter active if you own anything.
Hope it helps!
As the level of accumulated chaos increases, you gain some slightly demonic abilities. The win condition is to raise the total level of chaos by influencing big companies to be Evil (or, at least, irritating). Have too little money on your pocket and you lose.
Made in java and tested in Windows and Linux.
Thank you for playing.
-----------Guidelines / Tutorial ----------
It seems I made this even more crytic that I at first thought, so my apologies to anyone who tried it and felt a bit lost.
Some guidelines:
- Clicking on a Company in the left side allows you to buy shares, up to as many as your current money allows.
- You lose the moment your money get too low (under 200) no matter what you own at the moment, so be careful when buying shares.
- Owning a chunk of a company gives you control over its chaos bar, the more you own the more control.
- A company low in chaos has more chances of growing and increasing its share values.
- The opposite is also true: high chaos makes the company shrink and lowers the value of its shares.
-The biggest a company is (size), the more it influences the total chaos.
- As total chaos increases, you unlock spells and, ultimatelly, win the game.
- The spells work as follows:
-Charisma lets you move the chaos meter over the bounds you would normally have.
-Fear allows you to buy cheaper shares.
-Perception filter makes companies you own look better: companies with high chaos will grow as if it was lower while this spell is active.
Putting all this together, some viable strategies are:
- Buy shares of a company with a middle-high chaos value and lower it, wait and its value will go up.
- Increase the chaos value of a company before selling it, later on its value will go down and you can buy it again more cheaply.
- Try to keep chaos as high as posible while letting the company still grow, so the total chaos increases and you get access to useful spells.
- Buy while fear is active, change chaos while charisma if active, keep perception filter active if you own anything.
Hope it helps!
| Windows | https://dl.dropbox.com/u/101140435/Rich.jar |
| Source | https://dl.dropbox.com/u/101140435/Rich.java |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-25/?action=preview&uid=15691 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 73% | 3 |
| Overall(Jam) | 2.11 | 314 |
| Audio(Jam) | 1.07 | 276 |
| Fun(Jam) | 1.66 | 322 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 1.38 | 328 |
| Humor(Jam) | 1.85 | 274 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 3.60 | 36 |
| Mood(Jam) | 2.07 | 292 |
| Theme(Jam) | 2.92 | 230 |
However I'm not sure how you are supposed to be able to win. You never seem to get any money back from your investments which means you can't buy more.
Interesting idea but you might want to explain it a bit more.
One easy way to make it more intuitive is to simply add tool tips to every component, explaining what it does. You might also think about making the impact of the player action more obvious: animations, changing borders and colors, etc. I think this idea is worth sticking with, even if designing a ui can be a pain!
By the way, if you're looking for a better host than dropbox, you might consider the free Java hosting I offer at http://StaticVoidGames.com. Either way, happy coding!