Barber Blues by Tijn
BARBER BLUES: living the dream
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You've grown tired of your boring desk job and decide it's time to pursue your life long dream: to become a barber and have your own barber shop.
With just $1000 saved up, it will be an uphill battle for sure, as running an independent business sadly isn't cheap. Will you be able to SHAPESHIFT the beards & moustaches of your clients and sustain yourself in the fashionable but harsh world of hipster chic?
Make it or break it in BARBER BLUES: living the dream!
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How to play:
- select a customer sitting on the bench in your shop
- memorise his requested hairdo
- try to recreate his wishes as close as possible using your trusty razor (controlled by mouse, click to shave)
- once you are finished, click the button labeled "done" and receive payment
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This is my 4th entry for Ludum Dare, and the 2nd time I've used the LÖVE framework. I had lots of fun making this game over the weekend, I hope you have as much fun playing it.
Sadly I didn't have time to implement some variety in how the characters look. I wanted to add different skin tones and clothes, but I simply ran out of time. So please know that having them all the same was not my intention!
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Here's a timelapse of my desktop, showing how I made the game over the course of the weekend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCIY2h88pf0
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The soundtrack for this game is available on my Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/martijnwf/sets/ld35-barber-shop
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You've grown tired of your boring desk job and decide it's time to pursue your life long dream: to become a barber and have your own barber shop.
With just $1000 saved up, it will be an uphill battle for sure, as running an independent business sadly isn't cheap. Will you be able to SHAPESHIFT the beards & moustaches of your clients and sustain yourself in the fashionable but harsh world of hipster chic?
Make it or break it in BARBER BLUES: living the dream!
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How to play:
- select a customer sitting on the bench in your shop
- memorise his requested hairdo
- try to recreate his wishes as close as possible using your trusty razor (controlled by mouse, click to shave)
- once you are finished, click the button labeled "done" and receive payment
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This is my 4th entry for Ludum Dare, and the 2nd time I've used the LÖVE framework. I had lots of fun making this game over the weekend, I hope you have as much fun playing it.
Sadly I didn't have time to implement some variety in how the characters look. I wanted to add different skin tones and clothes, but I simply ran out of time. So please know that having them all the same was not my intention!
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Here's a timelapse of my desktop, showing how I made the game over the course of the weekend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCIY2h88pf0
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The soundtrack for this game is available on my Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/martijnwf/sets/ld35-barber-shop
Ratings
| Coolness | 50% | 3 |
| Overall | 3.99 | 34 |
| Audio | 4.35 | 5 |
| Fun | 4.12 | 17 |
| Graphics | 3.26 | 373 |
| Humor | 4.45 | 2 |
| Innovation | 3.99 | 54 |
| Mood | 3.72 | 76 |
| Theme | 3.64 | 286 |
And as I told you before, the soundtrack is simply amazing.
How could you hold that tone for so long?! Haha!
Super fun game! Definitely gonna show it some of my friends!
Great entry! Wish it would show the photo again after shaving each client.
Music and sound effects are brilliant as well.
The perfectionist in me found the many pixels left uncut too disturbing which lead to my hair-styling empire demise.
I think the game gets a bit repetitive after a run or two, not sure how I'd tackle it though.
I liked the constant choice between doing something "right" and just saying screw it this is close enough can't afford to spend more time on this dude.
And the soundtrack is definitely one of the best I've heard this LD.
Well done!
unfortunately the music stopped at some time, maybe there is some scripting bug.
i really like it overall! good job!
Can't really fault any aspect of this game. I had a blast and picked up some styling tips along the way. :)
Curious: how are you doing the comparison? Just pixel by pixel, or is there more to it?
The comparison is indeed done pixel by pixel. Based on that, you are given a score from 0 to 5 (0 is very bad, 5 is very good). Within each tier, a random cash bonus is determined. So it's a little skill and a little luck :)
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I don't know, maybe it could show the initial request at the end just for comparison, but on the other hand, it probably just shows how horribly it's off in the end. The money received gives a hint anyway. Although sometimes they say like "You're an expert!" and give $9.. Shaving larger areas got quite frustrating as well. I felt like I'd need a bush cutter or something.
The fast background music really set the mood that you have to be quick all the time. It added the tension quite a bit. Even so that I kept clicking furiously the customers that are walking in. Except that didn't really work as then it skips the request as well.. Sometimes the razor sound got stuck on a loop even when not barbering, but it's okay.
Overall, a really fun game. :)
Other than that, fun game with simple and easy to grasp concept and a fun theme.
It definitely needs an option to make the razor shaving area larger though as I spent most of my time trying to perfectionistly get all the little bits off.
I played it briefly on stream @ I:25:05: http://www.hitbox.tv/video/991443
5/5 would shave again
Quite hard to get all those pesky little bits of beard off (just like real life!) - although I managed to snag $680 from some customer!!
Also I quickshaved 17 customer in one playthrough :) Great fun game!
The music is mindbogglingly good, I couldn't believe this was made during the compo until I saw the timelapse. Much wow!
I love the idea and thanks to the hilarious shaving sound effect it is so much fun too.
Excellent job, definitely one of my favourites this Ludum Dare.
Very well done.
I gave it a good score because the graphics were funny and the audio was really good.
LP vid https://youtu.be/p0pg_dPocRY
My suggestions for improvement would be to:
Make it so you could click on people coming through the door
Make it less random when you get a customer, although this isn't really a big deal.
Make the razor shave in lines rather than splotches, so it draws a line of removed hair between where it last was and where the mouse moved it to.
Maybe have the razor not rotate after you start shaving?
I did enjoy how they never said anything negative. "I'm sure you will be a great barber someday!"
The sounds were also top notch, good job :D
Art fit the mood and audio is pretty great, well done! :-)