Fast Bastard by eupde
You’ve got fast hands, but not much time. How much can you steal!?

How to play: Approach a villager and pick their pockets. When you rifle through their things, the villager's alertness level rises with each item you reveal. Some villagers even carry traps in their pockets. Revealing a trap increases their alertness significantly!
Taking a revealed item also increases villager alertness, so be careful when you choose what to steal.
Get out of their pocket with your loot before they’re alerted to your presence! If the villager becomes completely alerted to your pick-pocketing, you'll lose everything you've nabbed from them.
Time is ticking, how much can you steal?
Made With: - Phaser 3 - Aurelia - All art is fresh af, drawn during the Jam with Photoshop and main map composed with Tiled
| Youtube | https://thehteam.itch.io/fast-bastard |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/fast-bastard |
Ratings
| Overall | 635th | 3.383⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 675th | 3.13⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 427th | 3.38⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 712th | 3.133⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 259th | 4.011⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 372th | 3.095⭐ | 44🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 809th | 3.023⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 29🗳️ | 38🗨️ |
Might just need to manually set the itch.io res to the correct value?
Otherwise, it's a fun and simple game and has a wacky, outstanding art design. The controls seem a bit slow on input to what happens in the screen, not sure if that's phaser or what...
I like the gameplay concept too. Basically a fancy version of blackjack or The Price Is Right, where you try to guess at as much as you can without going bust.
Ended the first run with 95 and the second with 112. Fun!
Ended my first run with 118 and second with 135, so 182 is ridiculous!! Nice work :)
Got 143 score, is that good?^^
Wanted to point out on thing: The art.
Simply put AMAZING
Would be even better with sound!
Great job!:)
Great job all around.
But where do these people put their horses ? I stole them a horse, twice!
The controls for the movement were a bit weird, the bounding boxes were hard to determine sometimes. But it wasn't a problem enough to stop me from playing the game.
Once I got a handle on how the stealing worked, the meter and what each symbol was trying to tell me, it make stealing a breeze and I just would try to nab as quickly as possible with the highest value I could get!
I think this was a stellar idea for a game about pick pocketing!
Thanks!
It took me some time to understand what is going on, but it’s a cool idea!
I felt there were a lot of information that I missed on my first few playthrough. For example, the first score I got was 0, since I didn't know one needed to click each card twice to actually steal. I also couldn't make out what was considered a trap, and what wasn't. Getting kicked out from stealing was bizarre for this reason; the card values didn't match, so why did it happen? I'm also not sure how traveling from one person to another added to the experience.
ETA: I forgot to add some bugs I encountered. This includes walking into objects, which (correctly) forced me in a 45 degree or so direction to avoid said object...then kept doing that well after the object was out of my walking path. I also learned the icon to steal remains even when your character is not within the bounds of stealing.
It feels like there's a lot of potential here
player movement (Specifically the ones for the houses) smaller rather than bigger. This is because it is frustrating to attempt walking by the houses, & be stopped by an invisible barrier that was presumably meant to represent the player colliding with the houses, but the barrier is nowhere near the actual house. Allowing the player to walk through the houses would be much better than having barriers even a little to big & stopping the player from progressing where they wouldn't expect to be stopped.
If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/494940957?t=9h24m42s
Hope you got some valuable feedback on your game and looking forward to seeing you next LD jam if I dont catch you before then! :D
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