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A Developer's Adventure by Jonas Michael

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made by Jonas Michael for Ludum Dare 45 (JAM)

How it all began...

Most developers started with nothing, usually with the idea of creating something great - and nothing more.

With time opportunities revealed themselves and you learned new skills, new programming languages. If you continue this idea of growth you can see a bright future. You can become a CEO of a giant development firm. Who knows, maybe you will pile riches with ease.

If you don't want to wait for that to happen, this game will lead you through all those experiences in a classical clicker game.

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In-depth explanation

In this clicker game a new ressource is added. With upgraded actions you gain SKILL, which has an influence on the probability of success. Just like knowledge determines your success in real life programming. If you don't succeed with an action you will lose half of what you would have gained. This means that you CAN in fact lose. If you do, don't worry, you can start from scratch again. :D

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Every action (sentential calculus, assembler and c# programming, working with a small dev group and leading a programming company) has four upgrades representing ways of getting better in each task: trial and error, video tutorials, participating at a Ludum Dare and professional support. In order to successfully "complete" the game we want you to get to 1.000.000! All of this follows just one big goal: piling money as much as possible!

PS: Don't worry if your upgrades don't show the time saving any more. Unfortunately I had no time getting the formatting to the point where there are no visual bugs. That may get changed in a future version :D

Youtube https://jomic2610.itch.io/a-developers-adventure
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/a-developers-adventure

Ratings

Overall 770th 3.224⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Fun 561th 3.267⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 868th 2.776⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Theme 388th 3.55⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1004th 2.4⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Audio 534th 3⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Humor 493th 2.865⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Mood 866th 2.923⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Given 22🗳️ 38🗨️

Feedback

SBakolis
08. Oct 2019 · 06:41 UTC
Mate your link seems to be broken.If it works for you, you probably forgot to make it public.
🎤 Jonas Michael
08. Oct 2019 · 13:48 UTC
Thank you @sbakolis
The link has been updated. I really forgot changing it to public... My apologies
NachtWitch
08. Oct 2019 · 17:52 UTC
That's a very interesting game concept you decided to make for the jam, absolutely fantastic game
NCarrico
08. Oct 2019 · 19:08 UTC
Cool idea! The game definitely needed some balance and limits on the upgrades (my first run i played only with pen and paper. no need for other skills). Some UI Design would be pretty cool tho, just so it isn't the Unity default.
MechWarrior99
08. Oct 2019 · 19:36 UTC
I like the addition of Skill, and it isn't bad for a clicker game. I feel like there was a lack of information given to me though. It wasn't clear to me at least what the % number was on each of the actions you could do. Was it the chance that it would succeed? It also seemed that you need to right click on the new tasks to buy them. I am not sure how, but I managed to break it, I bought the 3 and then the 4th and 5 task types. And cot the % to be -Infinity... so... you may be missing a validation check somewhere?

I feel like it is a good twist on the clicker genre, just needs a bit more polish. :)
Xakkar
08. Oct 2019 · 20:17 UTC
I’ll take a break from game development and play a game about game development
themarioga
08. Oct 2019 · 20:20 UTC
Interesting concept, with some balances it would be a nice clicker. Also I myself made a clicker haahaha. Great job!
LuckyFeathers
08. Oct 2019 · 20:39 UTC
Cool idea! Clicker games work very well for game jams. Wish there was more feedback though. More sounds, animations and colors when you unlock stuff. It is especially important for a clicker game where the only gameplay is pressing a button. Either way, good job and good luck next game jam :)
Yaroslav Kravtsov
08. Oct 2019 · 21:07 UTC
Unfortunaly, interface doesn't fit on wide screen monitons (2560x1080). I can't see my money. No possible to play :o(
![wide2.png](///raw/669/z/28f5d.png)
DS Nahogara
09. Oct 2019 · 04:52 UTC
I just reach the 150$ one! It was an interesting meta game :smile:
🎤 Jonas Michael
09. Oct 2019 · 08:50 UTC
@yaroslav-kravtsov very sorry to hear that. Unfortunately I don't have the means right now to publish a version that works on wide screen monitors, as I am not at home right now. Maybe you can give it a try later? i will message you once it has been fixed. Anyways, the game was set up for 16:9 resolution, meaning that any other resolution will distort the graphics.
🎤 Jonas Michael
09. Oct 2019 · 08:51 UTC
Thank you, everyone, for playing and voting on this game! I will go through all of your games in the next few hours! I am alrrady hyped to see what you have come up with :D
Yaroslav Kravtsov
09. Oct 2019 · 09:48 UTC
@jonas-michael yep, I will check your game again when you say. I recommend to you to use Canvas Scales set Scale With Screen Size and Match set to 1 (Height). This will make you UI works good on any resolution and wide monitors. Here the tutorial about that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4AdT5cKmZQ
🎤 Jonas Michael
09. Oct 2019 · 14:33 UTC
@yaroslav-kravtsov I know, I just left it at default scale with width. Will change it once I can!
Cornel
09. Oct 2019 · 15:15 UTC
As I said I played your game today and I'm gonna be honest as I think constructive feedback is better than just kind words :wink:

You could have done WebGL build easily and I advise you to do it next time :wink: I, luckily, didn't have problems with resolution but the game doesn't seem to be polished well. I had fun playing it, you did it well on the theme but it lacks some more work. I know not everyone has this much time and I hope you guys had a lot of fun doing this game because intentions were great I think :smiley:

You made playable game and I wish you hit those 20 ratings (rate more games!) Good job!
🎤 Jonas Michael
09. Oct 2019 · 15:22 UTC
@cornel thank you for your not so kind words :D I tried WebGL, but unfortunately the save feature needed for going back to the menu and returning to your last state wasn't supported. That's why I decided against it. I hope I will find some time to polish the game and upload a post-LD version of it!
Cornel
09. Oct 2019 · 15:43 UTC
@jonas-michael they may not look kind but I really had only good intention writing it! :smile: I won't argue about saving in WebGL as I haven't tried it yet but good to know why this decision was made.

After all you guys made a game and to be honest - I don't lose my time to rate unfinished and unplayable games :smiley:

EDIT: I just saw I had problems with resolution because owl was covering Menu button :smile:
Ausstein
09. Oct 2019 · 16:42 UTC
Nice Idea, I went pen and paper all the way after I failed the first time due to errors. Automated it got it to some subfraction of a second and saw the money coming in.
Clicker games are kind of addictive, although this one needs some poish and balancing :)
🎤 Jonas Michael
09. Oct 2019 · 19:17 UTC
@cornel I know, I was just joking :P I appreciate your feedback and I am glad you commented! This will at least be a lesson learned for the next LD, maybe even more so an input for this game if I find the time to refine it.

@ausstein thank you for your vote! I am aware of the lack of balancing. I didn't test the game enough at the end, which is why pen and paper is so exploitable. I hope you still had fun with it!
🎤 Jonas Michael
10. Oct 2019 · 19:49 UTC
@yaroslav-kravtsov through... let's say remote access I was able to upload a version with the fixed resolution under the link on the top, called Post_LD (zip). I hope xou will give it a try :D
Vaibho
11. Oct 2019 · 10:39 UTC
The game's concept is nice but the game requires some balancing as the game is very easy now. The UI elements could have been made look better in this game. Overall, a nice game and I liked it. Nice work.
🎤 Jonas Michael
11. Oct 2019 · 10:55 UTC
Thank you @vaibho for your feedback. Balance has been a huge point of criticism and after the voting phase I will probably spend some time and rebalance the game.
NinjaCatz
11. Oct 2019 · 12:32 UTC
Wow, I didn’t expect to see a clicker on LD. This is Original! :smile:
Potti
11. Oct 2019 · 18:58 UTC
Now this is an interesting entry.
Incorporating skill and failure into a clicker is a fresh idea.

In the end i managed to conquer the world by just automating paper, which reminded me of universal paperclips.

I did encounter two bugs:
* UI Layout does not work outside of 16:9, on 16:10 the money and skill labels are shifted upwards. You can test how your unity game looks with different aspect ratios using the aspect ratio dropdown in the top left of the game view
* Overflow on Skill: After some time accruing skill points, my skill value turned negative
🎤 Jonas Michael
11. Oct 2019 · 19:09 UTC
@potti thank you for your feedback. I honestly wasn't expecting any other screen ratios other than 16:9. I guess it would have taken a lot of effort to fix the UI for all screen resolutions...
As for the skill overflow: I didn't make it to the point where you wiuld earn n"kP", meaning that skill would be scaled down to fit into integers for longer. I will add this soon!
stamestratagem
13. Oct 2019 · 11:47 UTC
Not bad for a 3 day idle game.The music is simple but fits well with the game mood.
Balancing is not the easiest job, but it is essential for this type of game.
🎤 Jonas Michael
13. Oct 2019 · 19:03 UTC
@stamestratagem thank you for reviewing the game! I agree, balancing is key to most games and I wish I had more time to spend on that. Hopefully you still liked the game and appreciated the effort we put in :D
Yaroslav Kravtsov
14. Oct 2019 · 18:37 UTC
@jonas-michael I tried the new version. It's playable and much more convinient, but still have some issues with numbers fit.
![wide3.png](///raw/669/z/2993b.png)
🎤 Jonas Michael
14. Oct 2019 · 18:53 UTC
@yaroslav-kravtsov As I mentioned in a comment before the problem is that all graphics are set up for 16:9 screen ratio. I fear I can't fix these issues. I have neither the time nor the means to fix graphics for every screen ratio. Thank you still for your interest!