That was so great I am so thrilled ! Clearly a 10 for me, the pixelart is beautiful I love it, the gameplay was really challenging and the multiple combos were really satisfying to learn !!
really enjoyed all the moving upgrades, the healing beam is slightly overcheat maybe ahah I could not win without it ^^ the player movement prediction by the demon is also really good
This is so cute ! Maybe an UI with the current number of unhappy villagers would have been great because I was always looking around in desperate need to help unhappy villagers but most of the time there was none :/
This feels like a complete game ! the graphics are nice, vfx and sfx are great, and the core gameplay is nice. I just wish there was a way to increase player speed, but I think it would have been less stressful so maybe it is better like this.
The UI is really nice, and the gamepad integration is bonus points :)
Should have include the title music in the game tho
holy shit thanks for the dedication O.O
I have absolutely no idea how this could happen maybe you have different visual libraries than mine idk it is very weird ? And why would it happen only on this phone ui and not the newspaper one… oh no it is going to haunt my nights from now
The idea is so cool. I love the aesthetic the visual style is so polished really good job. I feel like you had no time to implement the rest of the game because I can’t really win or lose but I really enjoyed trying it !
Hitting space multiple times you can go super mega fast and sometimes it breaks the game lol but I love it
Thank you so much it means a lot <3
That’s a weird issue you got, which version did you play ? if you replay it by any chance, drop me a screenshot of the issue !
Lovely game, very fluid and well designed. the cell division / mutation is so cool ! I wish it was a little harder and had more levels, which is a good thing :)
Thanks a lot for the kind words !! I’m glad that you threw your fly swatter away because flies have the right to exist :D i was afraid the puking pigeon was too much but people liked it so far ahah
Everything is so polished I love it !
Super fun & creative idea, the result is challenging good job
The final level took me a while to complete, mostly using jumps & dashes I love that you can do things the way you want to do it :)
Art & music sfx are amazing, the UI also is perfect, you scoped it perfectly !
The game was fun ! Getting the upgrades was really enjoyable I could see the progression.
However I think it would have been better if I could fire multiple bullets, because when a bullet is bouncing over the walls I could not shoot anymore and I ran into a bug where the bullet had too much speed and escape the scene sooo I was doomed to death since I could not fire anymore.
Other than that, good job ! with the sfx the music and the screenshake it has some juice !
Love the visuals ! The pixelart is cool keep going :)
I had to make a few run before I could beat the final room, it’s hard with all the ennemies ! And I had a bug where cats glued on my head so it was hard but I manage to beat it !
The final cutscene is amazing, was worth it
Maybe it would be better with upgrades I agree but controls and screen shake are on point
Hey I don’t know why but I could not break the glass ? Is this supposed to happen ? I was shooting at it and it breaks for 0.1s and then it reappears. I could not go up way to the other zone and so I was always dying at some points because I could not get enough ectoplasm… What I am doing wrong ? It worked for other people
I love clickers and this one also ! It is very simple and has some bugs but you wroten 67 on the cover so there are bonus points for this ! Keep making games !!
10/10 for me ! Love the aesthetic the post processing the UI the color the gameloop well I really loved everything ! It looks like a 3month game projects from a small team so the fact that you pulled up this solo in 3 days is amazing ^^
Love the core idea but I am biaised I love scripts and sys admin things lmao
Even the little how to play menus are banger, gj !
I love the core idea, but could not really draw the spells correctly I think ? Except the basic one, the others were working once per 3 tries and so it was very difficult because there were a lot of ennemies around. But maybe I wasnt precise enough and that’s it !
The overall game looks very good and polished, good job !
i don’t know if I will work again on it since it was a 3 day gamejam break from my main game project ! I am afraid if I start improving this one I would just give up the other ://// but we never know !
It’s good to start with pygame ! This way you will learn how to work with libraries and how to tweak things to make them work the way you want :D When you will be satisfied with your pygame progress, then it will be time to switch to godot and everything will be easier and faster because you learnt the hard way ! That’s my advice this is how I did it and I am glad I did this way but maybe it’s a terrible advice idk lol
It is always hard to build .exe from python there are always missing libraries, do you have discord it would be easier to talk ?
Loved the entry !! I started making games with pygame & pyglet before switching to unity so I’m glad to try a pygame game !!
The latest build still has broken no library found (python313.dll but also others) but the python code runs perfect with python 3.13 + pip pygame installed
I was very confused bcz when you enter the boss fight with no abilities the boss does not attack you and you can’t do anything but alt f4 and restart. However, after buying all the upgrades I could fight it and it was very good :D love the screenshake it matches perfectly the ball bounce ! love it
Thanks a lot for the detailled feedback and playing the game !
I’m glad you liked the UI I love making UI and I had a great time making it ^^
I totally agree with your points, some music would have been cool as well as fixing the newspapers softlock I thought about this but had no time to implement it sadly the time was running fast ://
After all the only real thing that had a cost was time omg
THank you very much for playing and feedback ! It is the first real game I actually publish somewhere so it means a lot to see that at least someone liked it !!
Yeah a critical bug sneaked into the windows build as well :// I made a patch (2 actually), but I can’t post them rn on itch.io because I did them after the game jam. Will upload them here after the ratings !
If you can’t wait 4 days to play a version you can actually win, you can try the 0.0.7 one on the github page (where I posted the source code as well) : https://github.com/louisaiva/ultracapitalism_simulator/releases/
It is not perfect I just fixed the bug and made some slightly balancing but the end game is stiil wayy too annoying to me.
Don’t worry no pigeon was mistreated during the making of the game
ohh that definitely could have ! Mysterious player trying to escape the game by throwing their main source of capitalist products. I think it should have been rewarded as winning the game instantly ahah love it
Solid game ! It is a tryharder game I love that :D
The level design is really cool and that’s the strengh of the game, and that’s why I think the ore colliders should be bigger and easier to touch (I missed so much each time !). I think the difficulty of the game is managing the speed and platforms, and so if you need to manage perfect time mining ore it becomes reaally hard i think. But it is only my thought maybe you want a hardcore game and that’s fine ahah. The mouse sensitivity also is way too high for me.
Again, these 2 points are details and polish, so it makes sense for a game jam that they come as lowest priorities, but it is part of the game now !
thank you so much for playing and feedback !! oh noo yeah this is a soft lock, I thought of the pigeon delivering back the news paper but I had other things to fix so I forgot.
The game loop was pretty fun ! One thing is I could not tell when I was losing health, maybe a sfx or effect would have been great. Other then that, it was cool to explore around and upgrade the ship ! good game
Loved the scenario. The combats and the punitive death are less fun to me but it is not my game genre so it makes sense. Would have love to have some checkpoints, yes. And maybe have a less distracting/contrasted background for the combats so you can clearly identify the dangerous projectiles, it was a bit hard to see them with the moving stars.
But interesting to mix a shoot em up with a dialog scenario system like this ! good job
The core game loop is very addictive and we feel the progression. everything is very polished, had a great time ! This would make a great phone game. sfx and visual fx are soo juicy good job ! upgrades’ ui is peak
Solid game. Game controller is very smooth and enjoyable to move. The art is very polished and the core idea has a lot of potential. good game good job !
I could not figure out if the jumpscare and gameover was just random or has a reason but they was scary all the time !! Mysterious little game I loved it. The chara design is peak
