Capitalist FM by SuperDisk

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made by SuperDisk for LD34 (JAM)
It's a dog-eat-dog world in the radio industry.

Capitalist FM is a pseudo-game about hostile takeovers of radio broadcasting companies-- you will be directly competing against all other players.

Each player runs a "radio station," with songs selected from YouTube (starting with a limit of 5).

As your station gains listeners (actual other users) you can increase your song count. Once your station's listener count is higher than a competitor's, and you have room for enough songs, you may forcibly absorb a competitor's station and gain their songs. Consider it a mashup of Agar.IO and Pandora.

All the while, you are encouraged to subscribe and listen to all your competitor's stations.

Whoever has the most listeners by the end of judging period wins!

Notes:

If you minimized the game, it will appear in your system tray!

If the game won't load or crashes, please email me at yux50000@hotmail.com and I'll fix it as soon as I can.

The song loading is a little bit buggy but should work if you don't mash the play button repeatedly- give it a small bit of time to load.

Thanks for playing!

Ratings

Coolness 41% 1679
Overall(Jam) 2.78 943
Audio(Jam) 2.88 564
Fun(Jam) 2.71 854
Graphics(Jam) 2.33 959
Humor(Jam) 2.75 450
Innovation(Jam) 3.62 183
Mood(Jam) 2.76 812
Theme(Jam) 2.68 1014

Feedback

KZdev
15. Dec 2015 路 03:35 UTC
Sounded interesting based on the about page, but nothing seems to happen after log in.
馃帳 SuperDisk
15. Dec 2015 路 04:11 UTC
Yeah, the client was pointed at the wrong IP address. It should all be in working order (along with a better description) by tomorrow. Sorry!
eerongal
16. Dec 2015 路 01:31 UTC
I get a connection time out when attempting to download it from the link above. That said, this certainly looks like an interesting take on the theme...
hyperscope
16. Dec 2015 路 02:17 UTC
Unable to download
馃帳 SuperDisk
16. Dec 2015 路 02:22 UTC
Believe it or not my server's power plug was one that was toggled by the light switch. When I left the room I turned the light off and the server died instantly. Should be back and running now. Sorry for all the problems folks!
Spag Head Games
16. Dec 2015 路 03:01 UTC
Doesn't run on Windows 8.1 (64 bit)? But the idea sounds pretty cool. I'd love to see it though.
Drury
16. Dec 2015 路 03:21 UTC
Commenting to keep tabs, will rate when it works. Sounds super neat.
馃帳 SuperDisk
16. Dec 2015 路 04:12 UTC
I'm not sure why it's not working now; My server seems to be up and it's running fine on at least 2 computers at my house. I'll check in on it. Thanks for the comments!
ajayajayaj
16. Dec 2015 路 20:01 UTC
Music not loading
Neonlare
17. Dec 2015 路 03:49 UTC
Sounds like a cool idea, but sadly can't get this working. I'm on Windows 8.1 if this means anything. This feels like a concept you'd want to expand on outside of the Jam, sounds pretty damn ambitious for an LD entry, especially with the PvP element.
rjhelms
18. Dec 2015 路 04:28 UTC
Really cool idea! It may be too ambitious for a Ludum Dare game - but I was able to get it working in Windows 8.1, and will keep tabs and give a proper rating as my playthough progresses.
馃帳 SuperDisk
19. Dec 2015 路 05:18 UTC
Alright, I migrated my client to dropbox and updated youtube-dl so this SHOULD be 100% true and honest functional. Knowing my code though it probably isn't. Good luck!
nothke
19. Dec 2015 路 06:03 UTC
That's an awesome idea!
zulman
19. Dec 2015 路 09:40 UTC
OMG idea is fresh and brilliant :) God, it's first time i play as a radio station :) Amazing idea, hope you will polish it to nice graphics / mechanics and hope see you on IGF with it :)
AzureAspect
19. Dec 2015 路 11:03 UTC
For some reason the game crashes after 5-10 seconds or so...there doesnt seem to be any error, just "not responding"
JustASHadow
19. Dec 2015 路 11:05 UTC
It crashes after 10 seconds every time I open it up. Good use of the theme though!
Auroz
19. Dec 2015 路 11:15 UTC
Fun idea
Osaft
19. Dec 2015 路 13:15 UTC
Innovativ and Good Music :D

But listening to other Radios does not seem to work
felilix
19. Dec 2015 路 23:04 UTC
Great idea for a multiplayer game! I could see this becoming a great social media app.
Dimitri0xFF
21. Dec 2015 路 15:50 UTC
After pressing Register/log on the button turns gray and nothing else happens.
radmars
22. Dec 2015 路 21:24 UTC
This seems like a really awesome concept but I just get the grayed out button after trying to register too :/
馃帳 SuperDisk
23. Dec 2015 路 03:29 UTC
Thank you guys all for the comments but with all the technical problems and votes streaming in from people who didn't even play, I just decided to throw in the towel on this Ludum. Someday I might expand this game into a proper program or game.
Muel
26. Dec 2015 路 05:46 UTC
Tried to run, but something here don't let me play.
What it's a pity, cause the idea is good and I wanted to try it.

About you throwing the towel, dude, don't be sad.
At least you did something.
Take your time, polish this idea, it may be something great later.
alliel_a
26. Dec 2015 路 12:54 UTC
nice game
nihilaleph
02. Jan 2016 路 00:51 UTC
Pro:
+ Very interesting concept and mechanics, I think you should try to continue this project
Obs:
o Maybe you should add in the description that the server is down

Awesome work! Take your time with it, and I hope one day we'll see this become a thing~