Notorious Bum by Barbiche

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made by Barbiche for Ludum Dare 45 (JAM)

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PLAY HERE (Web - 1 player - patched) (or original version)

George is rich. George is famous. Every one knows who George is. But unfortunately for him, George drinks... a lot.

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After a crazy mondane party night, George wakes up in the street... entirely naked! With no memories of how he found himself into this situation, there is only one thing he can do: reach a taxi as fast as possible so that he can go back home discreetly.

No one needs to know about this awkward event...

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Notorious Bum is a stealth game in which you play as famous George, who must reach the taxi to go home while being completely naked.

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But the city is crowded with people: don't get pictured, or your notoriety could fall down irredeemably!

Instructions:

  • Use UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT to move George.
  • Avoid the citizens who want to take pictures of you.
  • Once you reached your taxi, you win!

Update:

We did a hotfix as some people experienced some bugs and freezes. We also adjusted a bit the global balance of the game as some values where clearly not the one we wanted to upload. You can pick whichever game version you like both are available : in jam time version, and bugfix version. You can check the patchnote to make up your mind.

Bugfix patchnote:

  • Adjust detection radius of certain ennemies, as well as the size of the cones.
  • Tweets now hurts your notoriety more hardly.
  • Adding a bit more ennemies in the map
  • Fix a bug provoking latencies when switching musics

Made by:

  • Maxime Chabance (@Drestin) : Game Design, Development
  • Thomas Guégan (@Barbiche) : Game Design, Development
  • Aurélien Coussat (@acoussat) : Game Design, Development
  • Erwann Martin (@Entropy) : Game Design, Sound Design, Pixel Art, Level Design
  • Simon Fontaine (@spiritus) : Game Design, Pixel Art, Level Design

Made with :

  • Dev : Godot
  • Pixel art : Aseprite
  • Sound design : Ableton

Ratings

Overall 116th 3.979⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Fun 99th 3.938⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 184th 3.729⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Theme 113th 4.021⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 384th 3.792⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Audio 97th 3.938⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Humor 3th 4.458⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Mood 150th 3.896⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Given 26🗳️ 18🗨️

Feedback

Quoc
08. Oct 2019 · 16:31 UTC
Nice idea! It's funny
DaniilN
08. Oct 2019 · 17:04 UTC
It was really fun to play XD
Doodums
09. Oct 2019 · 11:36 UTC
I love the theme!
Maytch
09. Oct 2019 · 11:41 UTC
Nice, you don't get many stealth games. Good job!
coffeedrinkers
09. Oct 2019 · 12:50 UTC
George's reputation was saved once again! Great game, had a lot of fun and the touitters made me laugh. Would really love to see more levels (different parts of the city and etc.)
Vhalenn
09. Oct 2019 · 14:05 UTC
The game is both very simple and funny ! Great idea !
Marmeladki
10. Oct 2019 · 08:53 UTC
So fun! Love graphics and whistle sound. Posts about George are adorable.
🎤 Barbiche
10. Oct 2019 · 10:41 UTC
Thanks all for your kindly comments!
@coffeedrinkers me too actually! Didn't have the time to add another level though :) Maybe for a release version!!
ImportantCreations
10. Oct 2019 · 16:59 UTC
Perfect! Especially the Sounds + Graphics ;)
Swordishmage
10. Oct 2019 · 17:04 UTC
This was a very fun game! I enjoyed the art, the audio, as well as the humor. Great game! Very enjoyable! :)
Seabird
10. Oct 2019 · 17:52 UTC
Hahaha, excellent game. I had so much fun running around for my dignity (taxi cab) haha, well done. Check out our game: Murder on peacock street. Give us some feedback/comments/rate.
DoDELoV
10. Oct 2019 · 17:58 UTC
Not bad idea. Fun gameplay!
trmrddr
10. Oct 2019 · 18:01 UTC
The audio is great here. The sneaky music that ramps up when you have less reputation makes me feel a great sense of urgency. Simple but well executed game. The addition of the tweets is excellent. Nice! :frog:
Roka Josh
10. Oct 2019 · 18:01 UTC
Good idea, and a fun little game! It would be great if it were expanded on more to give it more gameplay but what you have is a very fun and well polished mini arcade game.
ThatMalzan
10. Oct 2019 · 18:15 UTC
Great idea,would love to see more
Rodrigo Denúbila
10. Oct 2019 · 22:38 UTC
Really nice game! Very funny, and the graphics and audio are really good, besides be a really great take on the theme. Good job!
Hajden
11. Oct 2019 · 07:05 UTC
Very funny take on the theme, great art and audio, a bit stress inducing
Norris Eldridge
12. Oct 2019 · 14:04 UTC
This game sadly just doesn't want to work for me :/ I tried both versions. I get through the intro bit and then I'm just stuck looking at a grey screen with the twitter bar on the side and because I can't see anything I can't get to a taxi in time so that ends the game. This concept looks cool though and the music is nice. The artwork from what I can tell is also quite nice.
🎤 Barbiche
12. Oct 2019 · 21:16 UTC
Aww @norris-eldridge so sad to hear... We realized we had some troubles with our html export, tried solving some issues with the updated version but seems like everything is not covered yet. Maybe it depends of the browser, you might try with Chrome if not already. But thanks for your review!! :)
Emiliabea
12. Oct 2019 · 22:18 UTC
Wow this was stressful(in a fun way), the music really helped with the mood and it was pretty difficult which I enjoyed
Xotsu
12. Oct 2019 · 23:12 UTC
Cool music and uhmmm creative art? 😂
NunoRibeiro
12. Oct 2019 · 23:15 UTC
Funny idea and executed well. You mean I have nothing? Not even clothes?!?
I enjoyed this game a lot and the side bar with the tweets really helps this game. You should add a replay button when we lose, because we have to refresh the page when that happens.
Incredible job!