so fun lmao
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What Game Engine was this made on? Clearly your going to get top 3, this is beautiful.
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CART GOBLINSA really cool game, and so dynamic too! 😄 The granny idea is very original — great work!
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Storekeeperthe art is really cool, love the responsiveness of the ui too!
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Cool Math Stock ExchangeIncredibly fun! It's already polished as heck too, it feels weird I didn't pay for this lol. Awesome job!
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You Make ChangeWow, this game is so well done. It's amazing how something like this is done in just a month. Looked like something that you would find on steam for a full release. : )
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Dream EstateLots of wiz bangery! Super juicy! Would be great if this could be a deck builder where you can challenge the other grannies with your coupon skills!
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This Little Piggy needs a Home LoanYup, this is indeed Granny Balatro!
Second game I got 1.5x better percentages, double coupon, 20% off everything, and two $10 clearance tags all in the first two rounds. I turned my brain off and saved like $200 by the end of the game.
I'm concerned the lack of educational focus may hurt your chances at winning, but the game is fun, the polish is SUPERB, and the concept is fire! With more depth in gameplay and story, I could see this becoming a featured game on Markiplier's channel.
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BankrollWOAH! thats sick! Haha. Thanks so much!! Yeah I discovered some of the percentage strats are a bit broken, so ill have to nerf some of that for sure. Haha. Thanks so much for taking the time to play it!!
Educationally its definately on par more with "card games have math, and so does this one". Lol. That's okay though, I just wanted to make something fun, not worried about winning. Ill add it to my dusty collection of other jam games! Haha.
I appreciate your desire to make fun games instead of trying to win! That being said, if there was ever a dusty jam game to keep working on, it would be this XD
and I'll be honest, it does stand out compared to the rest of your collection. There's gotta be an emerging market for coupon collector games featuring secret granny societies.
Balatro wasn't made in a month! It took 2.5 years in fact.
Given how polished your game is already, I'd say you'd come close with a roadmap and a few months. Maybe a Kickstarter further down the road? I think it's all worth looking into!
As for how much further it can go, there are plenty of areas to innovate IMO. Maybe you have to fill up your "cart" with products using the same grid logic before using coupons, giving you control over what types of stuff you take. Maybe the store adapts to your meat coupon strat by removing meat (something like the boss effects from balatro that disable suits). Maybe the win condition involves taking X value of products each round to make a larger dent in the company's profit margin (requires putting more stuff in your cart, which risks you not being able to afford it).
These are some good ideas! yeah, idk. Im also a big believer of "not all games need to be massive full release campaigns" which this feels more like it falls into. Scalability wise, without complicating the UI even more I think its at its limit. Haha. E.g. books can only be so big without introducing multiple pages, and its already pushing the limits with the UI at this dimension as far as items are concerned. Im also just not confident I could pull it off Honestly. Im decent at themes, art, music, programming and time management but not very good at the arguably most important part of game dev which is fun and design. Haha. Im getting better, I just gotta keep making games!
Anywho, thanks so much for the encouragement! Definately food for thought! :D
LocalThunk had similar sentiments about his games. Balatro was merely a side project shared amongst friends but he was eventually convinced to turn it into something fully fleshed out on steam. Did it pay off? Absolutely! Am I expecting you'll have the same results? Probably not, but given your game currently sits as the #1 most popular entry in this jam, I'd say you have a decent shot of getting noticed. Considering what currently exists on the market and what publishers are looking for, you would stand out.
I'll leave you with something "financial literacy" related. Opportunity Cost is a term used in investing to describe how much you lose by not pursuing the best option. In your case, it would be the cost of working on this vs a different game. I hope my feedback convinces you to go further with this one!
Haha thanks! I really appreciate the encouragement! We'll see. I think my plan is to release 2 more patches/updates and guage the interest/response and go from there. Thanks for the financial literacy term too!! Very useful to know and think about! :D
BTW I am definitely looking forward to checking out bankroll! Got a list of awesome entries here I plan to work through this week/weekend! :)
Wow, as other people said... awesome visuals! After playing for a while, I am confused a bit, but I somehow managed, lol. This is pretty entertaining, really well done.
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Equilibrium: Paper TrailBro this game might aswell be a steam game its so polished and a just a great game that words wont do it just :)
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Breaking BanksI've been looking forward to playing this! It's really polished and the voice acting is wonderful. I really, really wish there was just a bit more to do and the game was just a bit longer but it's fine. Also just a rougelike in general is a bold move, and this specifcally is really well executed. I went for a sort of High number mixed with dump find build, and by the end I was making 2 expired per round. Pretty fun! I would love for you to expand on this and maybe give a full steam release because It's just great.
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LemonZYeah that is really the biggest downside to front loading art & polish is that the gameplay is kept very slim. Usually works out better for me on shorter jams, but I think this one could have sacrificed a few graphical details & additions in exchange for deeper gameplay exploration (namely coupons and other features like boss rounds, permanent upgrades, etc. Haha). Originally i had those as stretch goals but I cut it to just focus on the experience that was achievable instead. Haha.
Thanks so much for checking out though! Cant wait to check out LemonZ!!
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