Broke Custodian: From Dust Till Display
Ludum Dare page here!
You have nothing but a dusty bone. a rotten banana peel, a shovel, and a dream.
Alright, you also have a museum, technically. It's empty and dilapidated, but it's your job to fill it with items on display and make some bucks!
Play by dragging and dropping items from your inventory to the museum. Press 'Continue' to let time pass and for things to happen. Excavate by digging, then quickly pull items into your inventory!
Made for Ludum Dare 58: Collector
Authors:
titos2k - coding, writing
outstar - art, music
Additional credits:
Sound effects from Epidemic Sound (some edited)
Wall and table assets repainted and edited from OpenGameArt assets [LPC Walls] and [LPC Wooden Furniture]
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My items are randomly getting sent back to my inventory from my museum even though there was no field trip? (Im on Chrome browser if that helps)
I H A T E K I D S
I really love the concept of this game but for the life of me, I cannot pick up items at the dig site. The curser changes to the hand quickly back to the shovel with out moving so I end up not getting any of the items I've dug up :(
Awesome game! I did want to mention a glitch I found, though; during one of my digging expeditions I wasn't able to drag anything to my inventory. I'd pick it up and attempt to put it in there, but it would just go back to the hole I found it in. This only happened once in 87 days, so not too big of a deal, just wanted to point it out for you!
im not sure if im just bad at the game or not, but how do you not go further into debt? I just go down the rabbit hole and can't seem to get into the positives, maybe I'm missing a strategy? pls help :(
Popularity is important and putting out a lot of items with negative popularity rating may tank you! Also, you get bonuses for setting items of the same "type" on the table (fossils/bones together, rocks together, treasures together, and even trash together). Popular trash can sometimes be better than unpopular treasure :)
OHHH I tried putting them into groups, it makes the popularity go up!!! Thank you!!! yippee!!!
0/10 cant play again due to not loading
if its firefox, wait a bit. i think i should compress the audio more.
its chrome
The game was great but I now have an unstoppable hatred of children.
9/10 (There are unfortunately children in this game)
I will nerf the school trip with the post-jam patch. It is the worst thing in the world, I agree. They were suppose to be annoying. Just not *this* annoying.
Thank you very much! I really like the ruby sprite!
Every time I got the school trip EVERYTHING would have to be put back
I really like your game! But the kids... I'm terribly tired of having to install everything again. :D
Amazing game, but it seemed to have some issues with the web version. After the day event for day 21, it just turns the entire screen white, even if it isn't full-screened
I will look into that
is there any chance that you had more then 256 items in total?
No, I had like 14 items, and the bug happened every run
Really fun game, exactly the type of strategy and optimization I enjoy. However, I was a little annoyed with the placement mechanics. It seemed totally random,and I had a really hard time figuring out the strategy for that. On top of it, what was a good spot seemed to change randomly and for no reason. instead of being an interesting mechanic, this was mostly aggravating.
There was also a problem that I think was a bug - when the digging time was over on the expedition, I was unable to move the items from the dig site to the side bar, despite the game saying that I could. I lost a lot of valuable artifacts because of that.
Overall, I really enjoyed the game mechanics and ideas behind it, there are just a couple of kinks to iron out that might make it more enjoyable to play.
i was confused by the placement mechanics for a moment too, but i noticed if you hover over the items it shows their stats and type, if you put items of the same type next to eachother they seem to pretty much always get a positive reaction, especially if you fill out a single table with all the same category!
i feel like its almost impossible for me to get past 30 ðŸ˜ðŸ˜ how do you guys do that
super cool game but for me it always sort of crashes at around day 20 something and i gotta start over again other than that its rly fun
can you point to event/anything related to crash so we can investigate?
yes so on day 20 whenever I go to the place to dig up artifacts, either on the way there or when i try to go back to the museum the screen goes white, I played in browser btw
i beat the game!
some feedback:
what is the 3x3 square for? i found everything else but not what matches with the square.
i really don't like it when the event happens where all the stuff is placed back in the inventory. it's really annoying to put it all back the way i like it