Have You Considered the Benefits of Life Insurance by crackerblocks
This game is not very self explanatory.
Story:
You are an ugly life insurance salesman, and you must purchase gifts for your trophy wife. This is sneaky, because when you go bankrupt your wife will still have all her gifts.
The gifts are at the bottom of the screen. When you have enough money, you can click to buy them.
To earn money, click on a little person to sell him insurance. He will pay you a life time premium of $1 per second. Should he die, his family will collect $100. So try to insure people with a long life expectancy!
The only life hazard for these little people is pits! They will constantly be opening up. You may click and hold on a pit to close it, at a cost of $20.
Good luck!
dev notes:
- I wish I had time to explain the story in game. And to draw the salesman and his wife. They were going to say funny things.
- I spent too much time tweaking variables trying to find a fun economic game. I don't think I found it.
- It might not be possible to buy all the gifts. This might be a good thing because there's no winning screen. It always ends in bankruptcy.
Story:
You are an ugly life insurance salesman, and you must purchase gifts for your trophy wife. This is sneaky, because when you go bankrupt your wife will still have all her gifts.
The gifts are at the bottom of the screen. When you have enough money, you can click to buy them.
To earn money, click on a little person to sell him insurance. He will pay you a life time premium of $1 per second. Should he die, his family will collect $100. So try to insure people with a long life expectancy!
The only life hazard for these little people is pits! They will constantly be opening up. You may click and hold on a pit to close it, at a cost of $20.
Good luck!
dev notes:
- I wish I had time to explain the story in game. And to draw the salesman and his wife. They were going to say funny things.
- I spent too much time tweaking variables trying to find a fun economic game. I don't think I found it.
- It might not be possible to buy all the gifts. This might be a good thing because there's no winning screen. It always ends in bankruptcy.
| Windows | http://blinkbat.nfshost.com/BenefitsOfInsurance.zip |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-20/?action=preview&uid=505 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 21% | 24 |
| Overall | 3.70 | 18 |
| Audio | 2.74 | 103 |
| Community | 2.00 | 224 |
| Fun | 3.65 | 26 |
| Graphics | 3.13 | 107 |
| Humor | 3.95 | 4 |
| Innovation | 4.39 | 1 |
| Theme | 3.61 | 29 |
I LOVE THIS.
Right off the bat I got a POPULOUS feel. Even though there are no instructions, I was able to figure out what to do really quickly. It's very intuitive. The visual style is rad and consistent, the gameplay is fresh and challenging, and it's HILARIOUS!
GAH!
I WANT YOUR POWERS!
Reminds me a bit of that game that the UK indies made recently about the life of an American stock broker. Very biting.
Great work!
Nifty graphics, got a wonderful simplicity that fits perfectly with the scheme of things - a somewhat bland expression that speaks to the very life of the insurance salesman. Are we, perhaps, seeing the world through his eyes, filled with cattle ripe for the milking with simple pitfalls that to avoid?
And you're getting a third thumbs up for the ludicrous dev notes... "they were going to say funny things". Lol :P I guess that's what Valve had written up for Freeman in Half-Life, too X-)