Demon's Wages by Bibilega

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made by Bibilega for LD 44 (JAM)

This is a story of an ordinary demon with his ordinary job. Help him so he can get his wages!

Chat with people to know what their desires are about: Art, Science, Fame, Wealth or Love. If you bother them too much with a small talk, character would leave. Pay attention to the news - it affects the character desire level, if one the news aspects matches the character desire. Fill their hearts with the desire, and when it turns black - offer them a deal! Their soul will be yours. Collect five souls to be a good worker!

How to find out what's the character desire:

  • They can talk about it in a small talk or think about it, standing alone in the pub;
  • Their desire level changes when news have the aspects, that matches their desire.
  • When talking about desires, character can react positively (that means that's his desire), negatively (that means that's not his desire) or neutral (it can be both).

(We would even recommend to write down the character name and their desire (when you find it out) :D)

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Luis J. Benitez
29. Apr 2019 · 21:57 UTC
I tryed but only got 1 soul. Kinda hard :D
Daria S
30. Apr 2019 · 06:12 UTC
@luis-j-benitez I added the hints in description! :) I think we need to make level desire changing more noticeable.
klausklapper
30. Apr 2019 · 12:27 UTC
I really loved the ending, and the artwork was amazing. I couldn't exit the game after it finished though. I can to shut down the application to get out.

Maybe if you wanted to make it easier don't have characters that look identical only with different coloured clothing. That makes it very hard.
Daria S
30. Apr 2019 · 18:20 UTC
@klausklapper Thank you for trying our game! Originally we have only 5 different characters, but when you got 4 hearts and only 1 character left, it becomes kinda boring. So we decided to add more, but I only have time to change the colours, sadly :( May be we should have made like 6-7 characters instead of 10...
krammetje
01. May 2019 · 10:34 UTC
I like the idea, but couldn't get a single soul.

The art looks really good.
Shunaky
01. May 2019 · 10:55 UTC
The general Idea is really god, but some characters have the same model, and that is very confusing sometimes.

There wasn't a lot of reason to be checking on the news, I totally forgot about that and did it anyway.

The artstyle is great, and the sound effects are well made.

Congratulations, bro!
TheSunshineRaven
01. May 2019 · 11:37 UTC
I love the art and the idea seemed interesting but I couldn't get any souls and didn't know much what to do ... I would also welcome some slower onboarding/tutorial rather than a lot of text during intro screen. It also took me a while to realise that the characters were returning back to my bar, with different characters looking the same – but once I did, the game became a bit more understandable. Thumbs up for the artist, the game really looks pretty :)
Zanar
02. May 2019 · 14:27 UTC
Nice idea but I failed having one soul. Good work though.
Daria S
02. May 2019 · 17:21 UTC
@krammetje @shunaky @zanar that's very sad you couldn't get the ending, because it was the whole point for us to make that game. Oh well :( That's our bad.

@Shunaky thank you for playing! Yeah, the news are there now mostly to change character desire levels.