Super awesome entry! was very fun to run around and try to not.. die in a very slow way hehe.
My 50K+ strat:
Instantly buy both schooling and sell your Eye and Lungs (you dont need them)
Buy life insurance off cool down, this is 100% of your score tbh
When you bars are high work at the $$$ work.
Any time your lungs are full, walk over and deal with mental and wife.
If your kids want stuff buy it from $ store.
WATCH YOUR LUNGS, they burn your HP and forgetting to watch them is what killed my 66K run.
Once things start to get harder because your traveling too much between Stores and work, sell your kidneys, and start staying at the $$ work instead, so you can jump to hospital or shop instantly.
Your goal in the later game is to just survive between the insurance cool down, your metals matter more than the other things. If things get dire you could sell your leg to afford bills and such.
I believe this Strat could easily break 500k if played better, my 66K run died to accidentally walking with my lungs dead. The insurance payout Doubles per buy so buy it often and early.
Now as for feedback now that my start sharing is done lol.
I Love this type of game, was really well designed all around and fun to play. If you had a leaderboard I would shoot for number one. Having the "financial goals" was such a cute and smart way to set up a "target score" too! I think your game over screen should highlight which one you got, would be like a ranking system. S A B C F sort of deal.
A few flaws that I think could be dealt with, depending if you view them as flaws:
The shops have no differences but price, like the longer shops don't seem to make the time between tantrums longer I found. Or if they do I got very mixed signals form it. So either more clearity of a slight change would be nice. HOWEVER this could be considered the point, since the locations of the shops could be part of your routing and strategies. Again I start working in the south since the $ shop is right next to it. So this is a minor complaint if even one.
I wish bills had a more clear indicator of when they get paid off, a small cha ching with a number pop up by your money maybe. Would help with timing Insurance resets too!
The art blended pretty well considering, but not perfectly. Making it greyscale really hit that the assets are pretty scattered, but its still a bit noticeable. This is all perfectly fine btw, it is a jam game, but something to consider is that having so many different pixel sizes and art styles was a big jarring visually.
Okay seriously awesome game, I had a ton of fun!
Really fantastic work!