There was an old text based game I played years ago, in QBasic I think, where you bought and sold drugs - it was fun. A sort of text adventure take on capitalism. This reminds me of that game - which is great! :D The fruit theme also makes it a bit more safe for work! ^_^
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #3 | 2.693 | 2.950 |
| Creativity | #3 | 2.921 | 3.200 |
| Interpretation of Theme and Completeness of Game | #3 | 2.921 | 3.200 |
| Graphics, Sound and Polish | #4 | 2.191 | 2.400 |
| Gameplay | #4 | 2.739 | 3.000 |
Ranked from 5 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Which theme did you choose?
Fruit
Which BASIC did you use?
MS Small Basic
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Hi! I see.
By the way, there is an interesting contest. The contest looks challenging . If you have time, you may be interested in it.
https://www.syntaxbomb.com/game-coding-competitions/code-a-game-comp-14-the-six-sides-of-qube-8840/
Looks like this is one of those idle-clicker sort of games. But even with that assumption it wasn't very clear what the goal was because there are no instructions on the main screen. There are instructions in the Misc. menu but I found them very vague.
- There are some nice options like being able to change background and foreground color, but those don't really add much to the actual gameplay.
- There is a sound effect ( the bell)
- Pop-up windows are convenient, but every option has Yes No Cancel, even when one or more of those don't even apply.
- I noticed that the Bank Deposit value doesn't round the number, so the decimals run off the screen.
- There is a nice variety of things to do, like guessing numbers and interacting with the bank. But some features don't seem to be finished.
- Usually games like this with a "Next Day" option has it very prominently displayed as a separate button on the main game screen, not buried in a menu like Misc.
Overall I'd give this 2/5.
Warning: This comment may contain spoilers and be overly negative. Read with care.
P. S.: Just found your line "Challenge to win the game in the shortest time (in days)" that made my day. Updated the creativity score accordingly :) .
The menu is really annoying. I like menus but not if all actions you want to perform are hidden in there.
The only way I found that you can sensibly play the game is SillyBuyer -> Sell Fruits, remember what they want, Misc -> Get Fruits, buy all they need, SillyBuyer -> Sell Fruits, click Sell, Misc -> Next day...
That's rather tedious and tiresome.
Apart from that, there are several bugs:
- If you restart the game, the interest rate stays the same, so you can spend all your money to move it up and then restart. Repeat this to get arbitrarily large interest rates.
- If you restart the game while on the bank screen, only parts of it are removed.
- The silly buyers often want to buy huge amounts of fruit that you cannot afford to buy or have.
- If you want to buy fruit and enter 300$ into the unlabelled box, you have 0300$ apples and cannot sell any.
- When you sell fruit, they do not disappear.
- In the Gambling menu, the two bottom entries do not work.
- In the Gambling -> Even & Odd screen, you cannot change the amount you bet.
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Unicorn DefenseWOW, thanks for your amazing feedback. My 'help' section has a lot of things I haven't written in yet. So one of the bugs you mentioned is actually working properly, like:
- "In the Gambling -> Even & Odd screen, you cannot change the amount you bet." -> This mini-game will generate a random number less than or equal to the money you have, and you will have to guess whether the random number is even or odd. If you guess correctly, your money will increase by that random number, if wrong, you lose money.
- "In the Gambling menu, the two bottom entries do not work." -> These two mini-games are coming soon in the next version.
- "If you want to buy fruit and enter 300$ into the unlabelled box, you have 0300$ apples and cannot sell any." -> This is really a bug. But the text box in this section does not accept the amount of money, it only accepts the number of fruits you want to buy. And you can only enter numbers in the text box, not the '$' character.
- "The silly buyers often want to buy huge amounts of fruit that you cannot afford to buy or have." -> So you have to play mini-games to earn money and get enough fruit to sell to the Buyer.
- "If you restart the game, the interest rate stays the same, so you can spend all your money to move it up and then restart. Repeat this to get arbitrarily large interest rates." -> Ye this is a bug.
The other bugs you say are true bugs. Thank you so much ╰(*°▽°*)╯
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