carrot by Andrea
A simple clicker with - some randomized sciency lookin headlines - real time crypto currency exchange - an ending that makes you think.

| Youtube | Http://dev.androidandrea.com/ld45 |
| Youtube | Http://dev.androidandrea.com/ld45 |
| Youtube | https://gitlab.com/AndreaStar_TTV/ld45 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/carrot |
Ratings
| Given | 8🗳️ | 12🗨️ |
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I had some good balance at one point and it felt like I could stop, but it was also lots of fun to continue to click on buttons to see how far it goes :)
I guess I should have made it obvious that there was an "ending" to unlock, because I've heard from testers that they would stop after a few hundred Trillions :(
Eh, that's how you learn, I'll do better next time!
I wish we could have added much more graphics, it's always nice for the player to have surprises to unlock the further they play!
At some point carrot said they were much better than potat and I was forced to agree.
Then it told me that you appreciate carrots old so now I know.
Then I started investing in carrotcoin to sacrifice my friends in a capitalist way.
Very appropriate ending :)
Sorry about the bars running off the side of the screen. The game works on Chrome and slightly worse on Firefox, but I have to admit I haven't tried any other browser :S
I promise I'll do better next time!
It was a nice and somewhat silly incremental game (seems like this theme led to many incrementals). I appreciate the minimalism of using only some webpage-like layout with Unicode characters, though the progress bars seemed to be slightly misaligned in relation to each other (i.e. the research bar was slightly to the left compared to the carrot planting).
Speaking of research, I wonder what benefits did it do, aside from providing randomised bits of science? Having some research stat along the number of carrots and housing spots would at least give an impression that the research is increasing something. ^^'
Overall, a nice little entry, though it doesn't stand out among other incremental games I've played.
PS. "Got thinks Andrea is seductive" is more or less what the game told me.
I agree that the layout wasn't as good as it should be, it's only be properly tested on Chrome and even then with my own set of emojis, which means it looks good well, pretty much only on my computer :(
The research does upgrade a bit of everything, which means at some point everything else goes very fast, but it should have been made a lot clearer, you're right. I only kept the random headlines thing because it turned out to be kinda fun, but it was a placeholder at first :p
Now the truth is, you didn't see the part of the game where it finally goes fast: the CarrotCoins you invested turn into a realtime graph of cryptocoin values, which in turn allows you to sell CarrotCoins for, well, more carrots, until the end, cause there is, indeed, a sort of ending.
I agree that it's nothing more than yet another incremental game, but I'm happy with it :p
Thank you again for your help, I'll definitely consider all of this next time!