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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| ANTI-CAPITALIST POWER | #12 | 4.231 | 4.231 |
Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Perfectly captures the mechanisms of capitalistic infinite growth with the upgrades. The news ticker is also a great read. Didn’t seem to work for me on firefox, the text doesn’t appear and all the graphics come out blocky. Strange since it even works fine on my phone.
Hi there - really pleased you could see what I was trying to do with the game. Sorry to hear it didn’t work on Firefox. I used Firefox on my mac to build it so not sure what happened there. What OS were you using? Maybe I can work out what went wrong.
Windows 10 using Firefox 139.0.1 (64-bit)
No extensions enabled
Here’s what the title screen looks like
Thanks! That looks quite cool actually 🙃. Looks like the textmode font isn’t loaded/ drawn and it’s just drawing the background colour for each tile. I’ll test this on my wife’s computer. Hopefully I can work it out.
Neat pixel art and a good way to show how fucking shitty and absurd Amazon is.
Fuck Geoff Bozo! I love how the absurd mixes with the very concerning stuff. Also good way to put the very big numbers controlled by billionaries in perspective. Sometimes it can be hard even to imagine how huge their empires are.
Fun little game! I enjoyed how much it purposefully puts you in the headspace of prioritising money at all costs, and how immediately you kind of stop paying attention to the titles of the upgrades, because more number = good
Fun little game! I enjoyed how much it purposefully puts you in the headspace of prioritising money at all costs, and how immediately you kind of stop paying attention to the titles of the upgrades, because more number = good
I loved the upgrade options, it made me want to keep going on the game and discover what will be coming next. Also, the UI and the aesthetic of the game were great.
great message, effectively communicated! i especially loved (hated) all the upgrade options haha
i really loved the ticker at the bottom but it was a bit hard to catch all of it – let me know if you ever post a full log anywhere!
Thanks for the comments! I have published an article about the game on my blog and included the news ticker and upgrade messages. https://www.binarymoon.co.uk/writing/prime-time-anti-capitalist-game-jam-entry/
incredible!! thank you for the link :)
I really enjoyed this one. I enjoy a good idle game and this one had a good UI that was simple to use - I was able to get it without even reading the instructions. I just dove in and everything worked well. The music was kind of "innocuous" or harmless and that helped set up the shock to come later.
Which was, after a while of playing I had to stop and my eyes went wide at the "Upgrades" that I could buy and how they just progressively became more and more outrageous. I was also struck by the fact that I'd chosen so many of them, and how bad that was, but also that with patience I wouldn't have had to do that at all. It's an idle game, all I had to do was sit back and let money accumulate in the window and eventually I'd get to Bozo's great space adventure (It's fine, he can go if he wants lol) without doing horrible things. And it strikes me too...how hollow it was. An idle game was perfect to illustrate the point of just earning without ever being able to enjoy it in a meaningful way.
I was so impressed by what you did here. Good work!