The upgrades to Branch Manager income don't seem to work.
Edit: After purchasing Sapping Technique, it's possible to get the Ichor boost with any job. Selecting Mind Control and then selecting any other job will cause Ichor to continue growing as if you were still doing Mind Control.
Edit 2: Leveling up causes Branch Manager to display as Schmooze at Ratcorp Gala, but it retains Branch Manager's effects.
This is fun to play, although some of the description on what the drink does seem to be wrong. for example, one of the drink (I think milk? can't check cuz game stuck on the admin screen after I take full control of ratcorp) says it recovers 100 HP and add 2 Max HP on the vending machine, but after buying it says it recovers 50 HP and 2 Max HP. another is the drink from the 2nd row that gives 3 Max HP, after you bought the drink the description in the inventory says 2 Max HP but drinking it still gives 3 HP regardless.
I think some of the description need to be re-check to make sure they have the correct number, but beside that I have no complaint with the game and was able to bought everything and (I'm pretty sure) done everything I can. good job as your first game!
I had a lot of fun playing this game, but I did discover(?) an exploit. If you start using mind control(after the reversal upgrade) and then switch to Branch Manager you keep the ichor gain but you do not lose any ratcoin, in fact you actually gain ratcoin, But still fun game would recommend.
Also, do the letters that appear when you press the keyboard mean anything or are they just random letters?
just in case you want to come back and solve it by yourself:
hint 1: Check your email
hint 2: Even though the cola in 1-1 and 1-2 are functionally the same, they have different description
vvv |The Password| vvv
The email from the admin Jerry mentions 4 very specific drinks you can get from the vending machine: Sweet Coffee, Cherry Cola, Chocolate Milk, Omega Espresso. If you check each drink on the vending machine, you'll see they have different descriptions on them, specifically at 2-4, 1-3, 4-4, 5-4 respectively. Now, if you read the email again, you'll notice how Jerry like the number 1 and will start putting 1 at the start of everything. putting the 1 with the number you get from the specific vending machine drinks and you'll get"124134454", which is the password to unlock the admin.
I am not sure this is a bug or not. You don't need to buy the VENDING OPTIONS upgrade and you can still buy the drink. With 1000 RatCoins at the begining, testing all buying option is very easy.
Also, if you have the inert max coin upgrade. you can insert coin while you have negative coin
This upload was just to be able to test it live, so there are still some dev cheat type things included. Once it's actually completed, the player will start with 10 coins, 3 second vend time. Also as for the max coin upgrade, I'll test that out going forward! Thank you!
Although it is not recommanded, you could have a helper function to enable any cheat funcationality. whenever you need to cheat, just run the function in the browser console. This way you can keep your cheating for development and also publish your game for normal player at the same time.
No, that's totally understandable. I wanted to create something in the vein of Candy Box etc. entirely in JS, which was nice because I don't have any level of artistic skill. :P But at the same time it has its pitfalls. I tried to compensate with things like all the various "animations" with hitting the buttons and such, but I know it's rough. I'm going to continue to workshop it and maybe it will at least become a little pleasant? Either way, I appreciate the feedback.
Yeah I totally got you, I feel like the candy box was cool long time ago because it was only what's possible to be made, and also no offense to your work, that dev was reallllllly good with ascii
Sapping Technique appears to only apply the first time you go to the jobs, and it stops working every time after (which kind-of softlocks the game, you don't have any way to make faster ichor and have to idle it with the passive gain).
Cybernetic upgrades to ichor gain also awkwardly require the sapping technique, so buying them out of the intended order might also cause glitches.
Noted! I'll tinker with it and figure out where it went wrong. It's definitely a work in progress for certain. I'll try to mess with the window size and find a happy medium. Thanks!!
I think it's because Sapping doesn't give ichor when your money is in the negative, which happens extremely quickly because of how fast the drain is, and since you're then stuck with Seminar until you get the Branch Manager upgrade it's really easy for it to become completely unmanageable. I think just not letting money go into negative would probably solve it?
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The upgrades to Branch Manager income don't seem to work.
Edit: After purchasing Sapping Technique, it's possible to get the Ichor boost with any job. Selecting Mind Control and then selecting any other job will cause Ichor to continue growing as if you were still doing Mind Control.
Edit 2: Leveling up causes Branch Manager to display as Schmooze at Ratcorp Gala, but it retains Branch Manager's effects.
This is fun to play, although some of the description on what the drink does seem to be wrong. for example, one of the drink (I think milk? can't check cuz game stuck on the admin screen after I take full control of ratcorp) says it recovers 100 HP and add 2 Max HP on the vending machine, but after buying it says it recovers 50 HP and 2 Max HP. another is the drink from the 2nd row that gives 3 Max HP, after you bought the drink the description in the inventory says 2 Max HP but drinking it still gives 3 HP regardless.
I think some of the description need to be re-check to make sure they have the correct number, but beside that I have no complaint with the game and was able to bought everything and (I'm pretty sure) done everything I can. good job as your first game!
So I lowkey wished you didn't have to pre-load money into the machine, I wish it was just you make your selection.
I had a lot of fun playing this game, but I did discover(?) an exploit. If you start using mind control(after the reversal upgrade) and then switch to Branch Manager you keep the ichor gain but you do not lose any ratcoin, in fact you actually gain ratcoin, But still fun game would recommend.
Also, do the letters that appear when you press the keyboard mean anything or are they just random letters?
Bought all the upgrades and unlocked all of the work options, no idea how to get in to admin though.
Great game, I'd definitely reccomend it
just in case you want to come back and solve it by yourself:
hint 1: Check your email
hint 2: Even though the cola in 1-1 and 1-2 are functionally the same, they have different description
vvv |The Password| vvv
The email from the admin Jerry mentions 4 very specific drinks you can get from the vending machine: Sweet Coffee, Cherry Cola, Chocolate Milk, Omega Espresso. If you check each drink on the vending machine, you'll see they have different descriptions on them, specifically at 2-4, 1-3, 4-4, 5-4 respectively. Now, if you read the email again, you'll notice how Jerry like the number 1 and will start putting 1 at the start of everything. putting the 1 with the number you get from the specific vending machine drinks and you'll get"124134454", which is the password to unlock the admin.
I am not sure this is a bug or not. You don't need to buy the VENDING OPTIONS upgrade and you can still buy the drink. With 1000 RatCoins at the begining, testing all buying option is very easy.
Also, if you have the inert max coin upgrade. you can insert coin while you have negative coin
This upload was just to be able to test it live, so there are still some dev cheat type things included. Once it's actually completed, the player will start with 10 coins, 3 second vend time. Also as for the max coin upgrade, I'll test that out going forward! Thank you!
Although it is not recommanded, you could have a helper function to enable any cheat funcationality. whenever you need to cheat, just run the function in the browser console. This way you can keep your cheating for development and also publish your game for normal player at the same time.
I respect the design choice but it's not agreable to play.
I appreciate it! Is there anything in particular that springs to mind that makes it unpleasant to play?
It's a personal point of view, but nothing in the design makes me want to play, I've tried, but ASCII style is so bad in term of ergonomy
Again probably personal point of view, but will probably makes lot of incremental enjoyer like me just not wanting to even try the game ^^
No, that's totally understandable. I wanted to create something in the vein of Candy Box etc. entirely in JS, which was nice because I don't have any level of artistic skill. :P But at the same time it has its pitfalls. I tried to compensate with things like all the various "animations" with hitting the buttons and such, but I know it's rough. I'm going to continue to workshop it and maybe it will at least become a little pleasant? Either way, I appreciate the feedback.
Yeah I totally got you, I feel like the candy box was cool long time ago because it was only what's possible to be made, and also no offense to your work, that dev was reallllllly good with ascii
Needs a little bit of resizing the itch.io window to fully fit the game.
Heavily reminiscent of a-dark-room or candybox1/2 just from the ascii alone, but it's definitely a completely different genre of game.
Very nice!
Just wanted to give some feedback:
Sapping Technique appears to only apply the first time you go to the jobs, and it stops working every time after (which kind-of softlocks the game, you don't have any way to make faster ichor and have to idle it with the passive gain).
Cybernetic upgrades to ichor gain also awkwardly require the sapping technique, so buying them out of the intended order might also cause glitches.
Noted! I'll tinker with it and figure out where it went wrong. It's definitely a work in progress for certain. I'll try to mess with the window size and find a happy medium. Thanks!!
I think it's because Sapping doesn't give ichor when your money is in the negative, which happens extremely quickly because of how fast the drain is, and since you're then stuck with Seminar until you get the Branch Manager upgrade it's really easy for it to become completely unmanageable. I think just not letting money go into negative would probably solve it?