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A downloadable game for Windows
Game Jam entry for MDX MicroJam! Clicker game that you role play as a movie director/tycoon trying to release movies! Main PC is called Adem/Chadem/Brokem. You click to get Production (V) and click to get Money ($), you also passively earn both. You spend (V) on making movies and if you do so successfully you earn ($). You can spend ($) to buy upgrades. The goal is to successfully release movies by either meeting the requirements of (V) or taking a Gamble!
Credits:
Gustavo Peña - Creative Director, Narrative Designer, Balancing
Saif Ahmed - Lead Researcher, Narrative Designer, Balancing
Adem Sermet - Narrative Designer, Lead Artist
Argyris Pericharos - Technical designer, Lead programmer
Taking a Gamble Explained:
The unique mechanic of this game is that you can take a chance to try and release a successful movie without meeting the requirements. For example if you have 10 production and you need 20 production to release a movie you have a 50% chance of successfully releasing the movie.
Current Production / Total number of Production needed = Ratio x 100 = (The percentage of chance)
If you fail it means the movie you released was unsuccessful and it forever haunts your record! If at the end of your career you have more unsuccessful movies that successful you lose!
Upgrades:
-Cameras: Provide extra 0.5 V when Production button clicked.
-Lighting: Provides extra 0.5V whenever the timed "tick" comes in.
-Crews: Lowers timer by 0.5 seconds (At the start of the game the timer is at 2.5 seconds that at the end of it adds to both resources or when the "tick" comes in).
-Specialist: Provide extra 0.5 V when production button clicked and lowers timer by 0.5 seconds.
-Indie Director: Provides extra 1.5 V whenever the timed "tick" comes in.
-Famed Director: Decreases the chance of failure by 5%, Provides extra 1.5$ whenever the timed "tick" comes in and Provide extra 0.5 $ when Money button clicked.
-Creative Liberty: Lowers timer by 1 second, Provide extra 1 V when Production button clicked and Provides extra 1 V whenever the timed "tick" comes in.
All Upgrades Stack.
Some notes:
-Wanted to add more Upgrades but due to not enough time did not. These would have been: (all upgrades cost less money), (all events cost less production)
Some Bugs:
-UI is not shown properly. At the shop screen the exit button is at the bottom left barely visible (see last screenshot for reference).
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Beautiful game made me laugh with a couple of the events. Concept was fun. I like the mechanic that makes the player control 2 different currencies, also the option to produce the movie without a director.
Some improvements could be I noticed one spelling mistake in one of the events. Another improvement would be adding more polish like add music and sound effects to give the game more life.
Overall, I enjoyed the gameplay. Well Done!