Fail Fast Co. by hunz
Turn based card game meets management sym.
You are an entrepeneur in an era where entrepeneurs are supposed to fail fast. So you have to take actions every turn. Time won't advance until you act.
You received $10000 and some initial buildings to develop a factory. You are allowed to skip 5 actions until the investors get mad and fire you (game over).
You have 5 cards to chose from. Each card represents an action you can perform.
- Green cards are buildings, you play those on the playing field. Every building has a cost per turn, some produces resources and some boost nearby buildings. Hover your mouse over each building to see what it's doing on each turn.
- Yellow cards are research, you play those on the research box at the right.
- Blue cards are instant actions, like purchasing more land or demolishing a building.
- Pink cards are add-ons to buildings, you play those on top of buildings. Each building can have only one add-on at any given time. Add-ons last for some turns.
If you can't do anything on a turn, you select a card and drop it in the trash at your left. Remember that you can only skip 5 turns until the investors fire you.
This game is open-ended, meaning you can play forever if you manage to survive such harsh entrepeneurial environment. At the game over, you are evaluated and can see your final score to compare with your friends.
Good luck!
Screenshot:

| Windows | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j64gWySEN5DaPD6zu1z5JO9UqigNBJwq/view?usp=sharing |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/fail-fast-co |
Ratings
| Overall | 280th | 3.75⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 225th | 3.738⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 73th | 4.091⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 125th | 4.205⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 548th | 3.524⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 168th | 3.762⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 451th | 3.111⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 167th | 3.825⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 22🗳️ | 22🗨️ |
The game definitively needs a better UI to give that type of feedback to the player. We are thinking on ways to improve it and we'll probably continue the project after LD. :)
I really liked this entry - well done! :smile:
@Sky Yes, the game requires a lot of UI improvements to help the player understand what's going on. Management and strategy games are usually "overwhelming" to make it have many possibilities and many possible outcomes, so there's no "perfect move", you are always choosing and comparing pros/cons from a wide variety of possible moves. The "Fail Fast" name is just a joke within the game's thematic entrepreneur-ish style. If you like reading entrepreneur type of material, there's plenty on the internet explaining what's "fail fast". In summary, it's just the concept that you need to try something and either succeed or let it fail fast so you can pivot to another idea, so you are constantly trying, pivoting, changing ideas, approaches, etc, it doesn't mean to literally "fail" at your entrepreneur journey, it's just to let bad ideas to fail fast (and don't consume a lot of resources if it's doomed to fail anyway). That's our first LD entry ever and we appreciate your feedback, we'll try to either cut features or work more on UI the next time. Thank you!
Graphics : Check
Audio : Check
Theme : Check
Mood : Check
Fun : A little bit to overwhelming at first launch, but check !
The only part I feel could use a little polish is explaining what's going on. I feel like I got a decent understanding after playing a few times, but didn't feel the turns/main interactions were very intuitive. Still, this game looks beautiful and I love the idea and direction. Overall, Great job :)
Other thatn that great job, it looks nice and it plays well :)
Mine doesn't look as nice as yours but it's still worth checking out :)
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/sam