Scientific Research is Gambling with You Life by junjunlowpoly

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made by junjunlowpoly for LD 44 (COMPO)

A monopoly style game but instead of investing in real-estate with money you invest your life in establishing theories.

Resolution Recommended: 1024x768

Update 04/29:

  • Post-jam bug fixes

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Ratings

Given 11🗳️ 5🗨️

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GrogBeard
29. Apr 2019 · 01:36 UTC
I love this as a narrative delivery mechanism.
edshotmachine
01. May 2019 · 05:01 UTC
The hypotheses were pretty funny. The quuckles are so outlandish that they allow for anything to sound plausible. They almost sound like articles from the onion.
maskinmask
02. May 2019 · 16:08 UTC
cool game~but it's too much text for me...
Quasar47
02. May 2019 · 18:14 UTC
Some of the hypothesis are pretty funny, but it's hard to see where the game is trying to take us, narratively speaking. The board is very large, and ou need multiple matches to see what each tile does. It's also a bit hard to balance each of my decisions, since I don't know precisely why fame or my publishings matter.

Maybe a tutorial level, or some indications before the game would help, but apart from that, it was audacious to create a monopoly game for a jam. Great job !
Paul Nadan
02. May 2019 · 19:04 UTC
I really like the idea behind this, it's a great interpretation of the theme! The gameplay started to feel a little slow after a while, it might help to have a fast-forward button or something to speed up the moving animations. Overall though this was a really cool concept, and it was fun seeing all of the different research options.
Zitao YE
04. May 2019 · 15:41 UTC
I like the idea behind, and I have to say the designer's English must be so good and maybe have some scientific background, just like the name"低多边形厌氧菌", hah, so Geek , I can even see the quote from the SEP, It's hard to understand the content, and I get a little confused when the alternation of control of me and the AI. And nice graphics! And nice work for compo!
🎤 junjunlowpoly
05. May 2019 · 05:46 UTC
@zitao-ye Indeed, 50% of my idea about this game came from SEP :3