Graveyard Manager by DevWithMartinus

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made by DevWithMartinus for LD 42 (JAM)

Introduction

"Welcome to StupidTown, I am the mayor ! It's a small and peaceful village but strangely, people tend to die for stupid reasons over here. Our graveyard is small and we need someone capable of managing it without angering the population. Do you want to be our new Graveyard Manager ?"!

How to play

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Tutorial_3.png Our graveyard is small. At some point, you'll run out of space, and when that happens you'll have to bury the corpses in used graves.

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Tutorial_6.png But don't worry, each time a grave is visited, the bar will refill a little.

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Thanks

Thanks to all the friends that help me or support me during this jam, especially Bastien that made the theme songs. Some death ideas are inspired by : https://www.wattpad.com/5323846-50-funny-ways-to-die Thanks for all the people that give constructive feedbacks :D

What next ?

I want to improve this game with the help of my dev team @FrostWolfGames

The most important

Enjoy !!

Ratings

Overall 700th 3.286⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Fun 799th 3.018⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 585th 3.179⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Theme 307th 3.821⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1160th 2.143⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Audio 645th 2.75⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Humor 117th 3.667⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Mood 620th 3.093⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Given 24🗳️ 27🗨️

Feedback

Niarkou
14. Aug 2018 · 11:20 UTC
I had a lot of fun playing this game! I got caught up and couldn't leave. The balance is maybe a little bit too easy, I played for a long time and never lost (or maybe I am very good at this game, but I doubt it is the only reason).
Nice entry though, thank you for this game!
CalmingTides
14. Aug 2018 · 11:23 UTC
The game is easy to pick up and is never ending. Some of the death causes are quite hilarious.
Great use of visual indicators to tell the player what to do at certain moments.
Apparently it is not that harmful to only fill/change 1 grave a day. I was able to manipulate the happiness with this and able to keep it at 100% or I think 10 years? That might need a bit of balancing still.
Overall, good game with humor and some peaceful music!
o2o
14. Aug 2018 · 11:40 UTC
Their dead reason is insteresting.
I think I can play it no Gameover forever.
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🎤 DevWithMartinus
14. Aug 2018 · 14:15 UTC
@niarkou @calmingtides @o2o Thanks for your comments !

I think I will continue develop this game. I have already ideas how to balance the game (visit give less bonus and the more a profile wait in the queue the more it generate malus).
sdrrv
14. Aug 2018 · 17:00 UTC
Nice Little game!!! really enjoyed it!
Necromic
15. Aug 2018 · 14:32 UTC
Hilarious game, I've been playing for a while. Stupid Town is a great place to live, isn't it?
🎤 DevWithMartinus
15. Aug 2018 · 15:40 UTC
@sdrrv Thanks you !

@necromic Except the fact that you tend to die from stupid death, it is really a great place !
🎤 DevWithMartinus
15. Aug 2018 · 15:53 UTC
@o2o @sdrrv @niarkou @necromic @calmingtides Do not forget to follow the game on Gamejolt if you want to see future improvments ;)
lagoe
16. Aug 2018 · 11:53 UTC
I really like the idea and good musical theme too.
just some improvement and I think it will become a good game.
Naked Kiwi
16. Aug 2018 · 22:10 UTC
Such a nice game, it fits the theme. I played a lot of time and never get game over though.
🎤 DevWithMartinus
16. Aug 2018 · 22:24 UTC
@lagoe Thanks you ! I will continue to improve the games ( a friend will help with the graphism) so do not forget to follow the game on game jolt if you want to see the improvments ;)

@naked-kiwi Thanks you ! The game is not well-balanced I know, it will be fix on next updates ! Keeping corpse in the morgue will be more harmful and each visit give less hapinness. Making the game a little bit harder.
Ganonwarrior
17. Aug 2018 · 03:57 UTC
I really liked the idea presented by the game! Haha, the soundtrack is very good too. Good job overall!
Zicboy
17. Aug 2018 · 05:17 UTC
Really liked the idea!
FuriousWitch
17. Aug 2018 · 05:58 UTC
Nice Game! I liked the gameplay and the music was nice :) I didn't really get how to win or even how to survive for a while :D Although it appears from the comments that people find it quite easy. Maybe I didn't give it enough time, I don't know.
🎤 DevWithMartinus
17. Aug 2018 · 08:55 UTC
@ganonwarrior @zicboy Thanks you !


@furiouswitch in this version you can go far by just bury one grave by months because you get more hapiness each months that keeping people in the queue give you angerness. It's fixed for next update.
Skyc
17. Aug 2018 · 12:37 UTC
Good game. I got an idea before playing the game. What if the adjacent grave should have a different reason of death because you don't want to recall the sad memory of the bereaved.
🎤 DevWithMartinus
17. Aug 2018 · 12:55 UTC
@skyc The cause of death are mostly there for humor purpose. Everything is done to be detached from sadness, the peaceful music, the colorful sprites and the comic death are a way to create a contrast, an absurd vibe.
Enot487
17. Aug 2018 · 17:11 UTC
Nice little game, but it's too easy. You can play it endlessly. It would be great to add a complexity curve and additional mechanics, perhaps affecting the scale of joy.
🎤 DevWithMartinus
18. Aug 2018 · 08:12 UTC
@enot487 The game will be more balanced in the next update :)
FuriousWitch
18. Aug 2018 · 19:40 UTC
@devwithmartinus Oh, I see now. I thought it was really bad to leave the dead unburied so I didn't even try it. But I think it is better if it was more like a memory game. Like for example, the player should notice the graves that are visited less often and those are the ones to rebury the dead in. That is the way I thought it was at the beginning and I think it will be more engaging this way.
🎤 DevWithMartinus
19. Aug 2018 · 20:56 UTC
@furiouswitch it's kind of like that actually. Except that you have visual indicator (the grave sprites) and you can see when a grave was buried. But some sort of hardcore mode can be cool ! Thanks for the feedback.
Call_me_Nutty
20. Aug 2018 · 10:02 UTC
R.I.P Lee James|
Age: 3|
Cause of Death: Old Age

I was a bit unsure about the whole "Visisted Graves thing" it didn't seem to make much of a difference. As @enot487 said the game is way to easy and can certainly be played infinitely. I did, however really like the humourm and the idea has potential
🎤 DevWithMartinus
20. Aug 2018 · 10:57 UTC
@call-me-nutty I put Old Age exactly to arrive at this kind of profile ahah

The game will be more balanced next update. Keeping dead in the morgue will be more punitive.
When there is someone in front of a grave it means there was a visit this month (Not very good idea to replace it), a grave with flowers is frequently and was recently visited, a abandonned grave means you'll anger the population by less than 5%.
TLCoC
20. Aug 2018 · 11:12 UTC
The game can certainly be harder. Interesting death profiles though. Can try to make the profiles affect the time the graves should be kept. Real time families walking in and out will be great too. Especially when they see you digging up their graves.