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A jam submission

The Algorithm Loves You: Engagement Farming SimulatorView game page

A sardonic take on running an engagement farm
Submitted by khodges42 — 17 hours, 30 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#123.3513.351
Overall#293.0683.068
Theme Implementation#303.4323.432
Visuals#333.1083.108
Gameplay#372.7032.703
Special Object Implementation#393.1623.162
Fun Factor#402.6492.649

Ranked from 37 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How is your game related to the Theme and Special Object?
It is an engagement farm, and you buy chairs for your youtubers to sit in.

What tools and 3rd party assets did you use?
Godot, Office Pack (credited), flStudio for music, asperite

How did you use generative AI? (If you did)
n/a

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Comments

Submitted

Nice idea and funny Game!

Submitted(+1)

Glad to see someone else also went the content / engagement farming angle! I appreciate that if you miss the goal, you can keep playing--perhaps I should have done that in mine. Funny game!

Submitted(+1)

Pretty funny! I like your take on the theme farm

Submitted

The game is cool! But I don't think it covers the topic. But the concept is cool. I recommend it!

Developer (1 edit)

why? It’s a content farm. I took the concept of farming and got creative with it. Content farm / engagement farm is a common term. 

Submitted(+1)

Farming for engagement is such a clever take! It gets a little hard to tell which comments are coming from who when you have all chairs filled but I had a ton of fun with it. I could definitely see this being a full game if you wanted to take it further!

Submitted(+1)

Weird, but very cool!

Submitted

A very interesting take on the theme. In my opinion, there is too much text on the screen when everyone talks. I'd prefer an option to lower the volume of the music but overall the audio was nice.

Submitted(+1)

Enjoyed! I like the different characters.

Submitted(+1)

Very great! Quick and easy to understand the flow of the game!

Submitted

Damn, this is amazing for three days. Great theme implementation and all around really fun to play!

Submitted

i love to hire spicy one hehe 

Submitted

I got to 1 mil like a second after it hit 13 months 😭😭😭. Really good game :) I love how much personality the different content creators have.

Submitted

definately Unique, in that I commend you. game felt like it needed some thing else but cant put my finger on it, either way great work in 2 days

Developer(+1)

Ahhh I know! I was really trying to figure out what else would push it over the edge. By the way I am obsessed with the logo for Asphodel Meadows that you put in your game, I've been drawing metal band style pixel art logos all evening because of it

Submitted

lol thats awesome xD thank you :)

Submitted

definately Unique, in that I commend you. game felt like it needed some thing else but cant put my finger on it, either way great work in 2 days

Submitted(+1)

really cool game, music fits very well. i couldn't get to 1Million in the first year closest i got was 870K. i enjoyed having to balance between letting them go off on a series of controversies to build up their following then giving therapy so you don't lose them. My favourite bit was reading the titles of what each of the creators was making.

Developer

Thank you very much!! I think you've gotten the highest score I've seen. Tuning the actual math was really difficult to make it challenging, the first iteration of the game was so easy it wasn't fun. 

Submitted(+1)

This was a very unique take on the theme and special object! I fired a lot people before I realized therapy would help lol. Fun idea and cool audio! Nice work!

Developer

That's what my former managers have said too

Submitted(+1)

The music is brilliant, and it goes well with the text clutter on the screen. 

Submitted(+1)

Really interesting take on game jam's theme! Cool music! 

Developer

Thanks for playing! :D 

Submitted(+1)

I'm in love with the music, it's so good!

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much!! You can get my album here for free if you dig that playstation era jungle stuff :) https://casualfriday.bandcamp.com/album/crisis-mode-eternal

Submitted

How did you learn to make something like this? Did you read books on it, took courses, watched YT videos, etc. I'm kind of interested XD

Developer(+1)

The music? Yeah really just youtube videos. It's probably easier than you'd expect. Just a matter of programming some drums and making some cool sounds with a synth.

Submitted

maybe it's my problem, but the game goes beyond the screen, which makes the gameplay less comfortable

Developer

Ah yeah it expects 1600 resolution

Developer

I made it a bit less wide, ty for the feedback.