Ludum Dare 52 January 6–9, 2023

and the clock ticks down

gonna try and maybe get some bird animations + a tutorial screen done before the end, but progress is being made

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Monkey Business

Trying to learn how to use Live2D Cubism this jam. It's been rough (and fun!)

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Graphics update

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After some deliberation, decided to "drop" the island/field metaphor and go for a more classical puzzle representation. The farms were cute, but a bit noisy and hard to parse. Time to get some sleep.

Trick shots

Makes me happy. There is no reward for it though. :sweat_smile:

volcanic giraffe

Main Idea

Our cat (Jay) fulfills his childhood dream and opens a bedroom. The opening turned out to be too expensive, which is why he ran out of money to promote the coffee shop, he urgently needed to do something about it, since there were very few visitors.

One evening he decides to take money from a local cartel. Having taken a large amount, he does not have time to give all the money by the time. The cartel meets with Jay and threatens to kill him, scaring him, they decide to use Jay's coffee shop for their own purposes until he works out all the money.

The deal was to secretly sell catnip, which our cat would grow in the back room. Customers will be attracted to the coffee shop for illegal goods.

At the end of each day, the profits are divided between Jay and the cartel. If Jay does not cope with the set bar, then the cartel kills him and they will put their own person in his place.

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Main Character

Our main character is a cat. His story can be shifted to real life, when a person despairs and turns to illegal ways of earning money from misunderstanding, which leads to sad consequences.

Don't be like our cat and experience his experience for yourself and don't repeat Jay's mistakes!начало катсцена 2.png

UI taking shape

Looks a bit better now, though I still got a fair bit of tinkering to do. Code is pretty much feature-complete, but we still need better sprites and some music.

And a name. Plant School just doesn't work for me... Gotta have a think about that one. But for now, another coffee! Screenshot 2023-01-08 110044.png

Buyers

The customers of the coffee shop are cats beaten on their heads, who are not doing well in life eitherрыжий кот.png

The Cartel

Jay get involved with the cartel is doomed to a sad life. One wrong move will turn him into a corpse.угроза катсена.png

Our biggest brainstorm

Hey all, Bonk Inc here again!

I have to admit, this jam actually went quite fast with designing a concept that would work (even though we definitely over scoped waaaay to much for the time that our dev team has buuuut don't tell anyone that!)

As you can see in our drawings here, we pretty quickly came up with some idea's and yes the smileys are some of the better ideas that we had, you got that right :) biggestBrainstorm.png

I don't wanna show off too much as everyone can still guess what our game will be about in this thread!

Good luck with the jam everyone!

my game concept

Why harvest when you can have bots do it for you Screenshot 2023-01-09 000751.png