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A jam submission

ULTRA CONSUMERISM SIMULATORView game page

Absurd incremental game about buying things, swat killing flies and throwing things by the window. yes
Submitted by nomaj — 27 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Art#233.6333.633
Creativity#253.9003.900
Overall#313.4003.400
Theme Interpretation#403.5673.567
Audio#473.0673.067
Gameplay#503.2003.200
Polish#593.0333.033

Ranked from 30 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted(+1)

It was very fun, although I didn't go past phone, sadly (some UI issues), the idea of just common items bringing you money sounds really plausible! Good job!

Submitted(+1)

Why did I feel like I had just played peak lol. Really funny, really great game. Sadly, I was unable to witness whatever is in the phone because the content seems to be too big for the phone's screen so I only see their names and half of their prices and can't buy anything. Otherwise, this should get a 10/10 in creativity.

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much it means a lot <3 That’s a weird issue you got, which version did you play ? if you replay it by any chance, drop me a screenshot of the issue !

Submitted(+1)

Something like this (and yes, I replayed the whole thing lol)

Developer(+1)

holy shit thanks for the dedication O.O I have absolutely no idea how this could happen maybe you have different visual libraries than mine idk it is very weird ? And why would it happen only on this phone ui and not the newspaper one… oh no it is going to haunt my nights from now

Submitted(+1)

This got a lot of good laughs out of me. Really hilarious and fun game! Lots of memorable moments in this, like when I accidentally threw my fly swatter out of the window lmao. The puking bird is also a big personal highlight. 

I really love the visuals and the sound, and the gameplay was really fun!

Very good job!!!

Developer

Thanks a lot for the kind words !! I’m glad that you threw your fly swatter away because flies have the right to exist :D i was afraid the puking pigeon was too much but people liked it so far ahah

Submitted(+1)

What is this game lol. It's so random. But it's also very funny. I like it.

I thought I was able to cheat the game by buying a whole bunch of water and yogurt, but that backfired so hard because I cannot get rid of the old ones fast enough, so it kept getting in the way lol.

I think it would be better if the phone has a scroll indicator on it, since I missed the second shop at the phone in my first run.

Surprisingly a very fun management game though. I really like it.

Developer(+1)

Ahah thanks a lot for playing and feedback !! Yeah I had a lot of funny random ideas and tried to implement them all lol

Totally agree with the scroll ui for the phone it is a missing feature

Submitted(+1)

By far one of my favorite games this jam !

The art,the audio,the gameplay i like everything about this game and i would 100% be interested in a devlog on how you did it .

But actually this game has so much potential and i would like to see where you can take it , well done!

Developer

thank you so much !! I don’t know if I will do a devlog but you can find the code here : https://github.com/louisaiva/ultracapitalism_simulator

i don’t know if I will work again on it since it was a 3 day gamejam break from my main game project ! I am afraid if I start improving this one I would just give up the other ://// but we never know !

Submitted

I would love to know more about your main project , we can chat on discord as you told me whenever you like .

Submitted(+1)

This game made me giggle. The sounds were great (once i turned my headset down lol). Good job.

Developer(+1)

I’m glad you liked it !! Thanks for playing ^^

Submitted(+1)

Silly game! I do like the fly swatter mechanic a lot lol. That pigeon is doing the work! Good job!

Developer(+1)

Thank you for playing yeah this pigeon is the goat <3

Submitted(+1)

W-where did that pigeon have my yoghurt? Um... I'm not hungry anymore...

Very enjoyable entry, I really liked it! Pixel-art graphics were really charming, not to mention some great unique artistic choices like a face on the back of your arm.

The clickerish-incremental gameplay was very fun, my desk quickly became flooded with smartphones and it soon became hard to aim and grab a specific item. Man, I nearly died of dehydration because of that...

Sadly I wasn't able to finish the game becuase I encountered a bug (in the windows build) where I wasn't able to do anything once I clicked to scroll my phone.

Overral you've done a really magnificent job, well done!

Keep up the good work!

Developer

THank you very much for playing and feedback ! It is the first real game I actually publish somewhere so it means a lot to see that at least someone liked it !!

Yeah a critical bug sneaked into the windows build as well :// I made a patch (2 actually), but I can’t post them rn on itch.io because I did them after the game jam. Will upload them here after the ratings !

If you can’t wait 4 days to play a version you can actually win, you can try the 0.0.7 one on the github page (where I posted the source code as well) : https://github.com/louisaiva/ultracapitalism_simulator/releases/ It is not perfect I just fixed the bug and made some slightly balancing but the end game is stiil wayy too annoying to me.

Don’t worry no pigeon was mistreated during the making of the game

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

survival/ stat management is a really good genre to pick in relation to the theme! I adore the art style and animations, it fits the comedic tone of the game, especially the pigeon "delivering" the newspaper hahaha! I think it's quite clever to have the newspaper act as a diegetic UI menu and tutorial and I appreciate that the  consumable items are more than a one time use! The detail of the exit game button changing text was also very cute and funny!

I also really like the inclusion of having to swat / shoo away the files. that can eat your food to give the game more spice and challenge.  

I also like the sound effects included as they add to the comedic tone very well! Just would like if there was some music included, that would be triggered on the balance of stats you have. 

However I did get a little confused when I threw the news paper away the game just kinda seemed to stop, I was hoping the pigeon would come back but they didn't, not sure if they were supposed to? 

also sometimes I grabbed an item I didn't want by accident because arrive close together, I'd suggest having the item outlined in a stand out colour so it's easier to know which item you're going to pick up.

Great Job, Well Done! : ) 

Developer(+1)

Thanks a lot for the detailled feedback and playing the game !

I’m glad you liked the UI I love making UI and I had a great time making it ^^

I totally agree with your points, some music would have been cool as well as fixing the newspapers softlock I thought about this but had no time to implement it sadly the time was running fast ://

After all the only real thing that had a cost was time omg

Submitted(+1)

Man I love your game! You're really a genius. It felt so great when I had the chance to smash those annoying flies. But when I throwed the news paper, there was nothing happening, It will be great if something happened.

Developer

thank you so much for playing and feedback !! oh noo yeah this is a soft lock, I thought of the pigeon delivering back the news paper but I had other things to fix so I forgot.

Submitted(+1)

I was thinking that maybe it will be a special ending or something

Developer(+1)

ohh that definitely could have ! Mysterious player trying to escape the game by throwing their main source of capitalist products. I think it should have been rewarded as winning the game instantly ahah love it

Submitted(+1)

I envy your art and animation skills. The game looks very polished at first sight. I also love how my desk can grow chaotic from the spam glass of water I buy. Also love the pigeon vomiting my items just for me to drink/eat it.

Developer

thanks it means a lot to me :D i envy your art & animation too lol. Yeah it is the vomitting loop paradox, are we eating pigeon vomit or is pigeon vomitting our old stuff ???

Submitted(+1)

I've got  only 2 ratings so far, sed :(

Developer

I don’t know why but I can’t see your game below your comment maybe that’s a bug ?

Submitted

BRUH

Submitted(+1)

The art is great and the sounds are funny. I dont like how the flies hide under the desk right when Im about to kill them sometimes and I miss the dang things, but its fair just frustrating. I really like how punchy the fly swatter is though.

Developer(+1)

yes the flies are really annoying ! Messing up with unity 2D sorting when you have a 2.5D game is always tricky, and I did not want to go full 3D, that’s why I have this bug :)) thank you so much for playing & feedback !!

Submitted(+1)

The art is amazing! Super funny and creative idea!

Developer

thanks a lot !!!!

Submitted(+1)

Not sure why everything is a pigeon vomit (with a toxic looking smiley face) lol… I guess why not! Great job, especially with the art and SFX, though some music would’ve been great.

Developer(+1)

actually i thought of making a proper pigeon delivery animation (with a package unboxing or something) but drawing the vomit animation was faster so i kept it :D thanks a lot for playing !!

Submitted(+1)

Pretty unique look, well thought, well done, massive work :D

Developer

thanks a lot for playing and feedback ^^

Submitted(+1)

Very good game. It’s not clear right away, it’s impossible to fully read a tutorial from newspaper at the first time. But if you figure it out, you can get a very fun experience of the game. All that’s missing is music. At the same time, there are funny pigeon sounds in the game. The best part of the game is the ability to use fly swatter :)

Developer

love you, thanks for playing and feedback !! (wait until you unlock the killzemall spray killer 0.0)

Submitted(+1)

pretty solid game, the loop of buying stuff to generate income while also needing it to survive is fun to figure out. well, stuff piling up everywhere and suddenly ur dying, prob skill issue in my part.

Developer

ty so much for playing !! totally agree it is getting tricky pretty fast to manage all the objects while starving at the same time !!

Submitted(+1)

Im glad i went through the trouble of downloading it because this is such a great game

Developer

love you it means a lot !!

Submitted(+1)

I like this pigeon. It a little bit hard to manipulate everything with a single hand, but you can increase income pretty fast. The only thing - your table can get messy, and I died when I needed water. But it was all gone. Very fun experience 

Developer

thanks a lot for playing !! yeah the game is poorly balenced rn, in a few days after the ratings i will probably publish a patch for it :D

i love the pigeon too poor little guy he’is just doing its job