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Skinny Steve! 5 Points

Pull Steve

Just a Guy in a Suit! 5 Points

Pull Bunny Boy

A Man With Great Aspirations! 5 Points

Pull Rookie Ross

Good Nyan-ternoon, Myerster~! 5 Points

Pull Sally

Just a Short Guy 5 Points

Pull Faldor Orangebeard

Short of Stature, Big of Heart 5 Points

Pull Herman

A Most Wicked Circumstance 5 Points

Pull Kelly

I Take My Robes and Wizard Hat 5 Points

Get Marvin

An Act of Merchantry 5 Points

Pull Trader Bob

A Perfectly Unsuspicious Individual! 5 Points

Pull Ryan

Castle Crashing the Gacha 5 Points

Pull Castle Guard

A Ten-Twenty Three 5 Points

Pull Officer Jim

Swift as the Wind 5 Points

Pull Sato

Local Healbot 5 Points

Pull Nina

Goblin Mode 5 Points

Pull Raavek

GLUB GLUB GLUB 5 Points

Pull Fish

Sour of Taste, Sweet of Heart 10 Points

Pull Lemon Boy

Not Your Typical Christmas Elf 5 Points

Pull Helen

Just A Valiant Hop Away! 10 Points

Pull Sir Ribbit

He's ROYALTY, dang it! 10 Points

Pull King Harold

She's ROYALTY, darn it! 10 Points

Pull Queen Eve

Average West Coaster 10 Points

Pull Bigfoot

The Best Yeti Yet 10 Points

Pull Yeti

<Moai> 10 Points

Pull Moai

Absolute Tinner 10 Points

Pull Tina

Join the Pixel Underground 25 Points

Pull Sierra Mix

*Squid Noises* 25 Points

Pull Squidly

Floridian Anamoly 25 Points

Pull Floridian Man

Duck It 25 Points

Pull Pit the Duck

Yare Yare Daze! 25 Points

Pull A Very Handsome Fella

A Wisened Warrior! 25 Points

Pull Mentor Lance

He Who Asks-A-Lotl 25 Points

Pull Axolotl Wizard

A Relaxing Stress Ball 5 Points

Slay a slime

Squashed! 5 Points

Slay a pink slime

Mornin' Dunkies 5 Points

Slay a dunkie

I Get Mine Iced 5 Points

Slay an iced dunkie

Rat-Packed 5 Points

Slay a rat

OOOOH shit a rat 5 Points

Slay an albino rat

That's A Fun Guy! 10 Points

Slay a red mushroom

Is This Mushroom Toxic? 10 Points

Slay a mushroom

Lobster-Rolled 25 Points

Slay a lobster

If it ain't fresh, it ain't Legal 50 Points

Slay a blue lobster

Go Go Gacha Gal! 25 Points

Pull 30 times in one run

SUPER LUCKY GACHAPON TURBO!!! 25 Points

Pull 100 times total

I Feel Like a Purple Pikmin 25 Points

Get 10 followers at once

-Wealthy Duck Sounds- 10 Points

Pay your rent 30 times total

Monthly Rent for a 1 Room Apartment 50 Points

Pay a rent of 100,000

Who needs friends anyways 25 Points

Lose 100 gacha friends

My debt is an ocean, and I don't know how to swim 10 Points

Get Evicted 3 times

Author Comments

Collect a wide selection of gacha friends and have them fight to collect money for your rent!


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And don’t forget to pay your rent!


Made in 72 hours for Ludum Dare, plus some Newgrounds exclusive Medals and Highscores!


Vote for us on Ludum Dare


NOTE: This is the post jam version with tweaks to make the game play smoother. If you're judging for Ludum Dare and want to see the game with its original balancing, download v1.0 on itch


If you're a fan of this game and like art, consider joining the Pixel Underground! We're a scrappy lil up and coming pixel (and all art) discord that runs daily challenges and believe in making art cause' ya want to. All the devs for this game hang out there and it's always a good time. Also we have the best duck emotes around 🦆


Team

Squidly - Programming, Direction, point squid of the operation

Ven - Art, Portrait Art, Misc Art, More Art, we don't call em' skinny steve for nothin

Astropulse - Environment Art, 3D Art, putting Boston in an arguably good light

Pearl - Gacha Gal Art, Gachapon, Illustrations, has a driver's license

Tina - Main Illustration, Secret Hidden Talent, is a bat 🦇

Pit - Enemy Art, the Quack of Good

SouthRiverPoet - Enemy Variants, Misc Art, Floridian anamoly

RustedShell - Music, SFX, just banger tracks left and right

Landlord Duck - Rent enforcement, quackery

Gacha Gal - Bad life choices


ChangeLog

Version 1.5 - Gacha Friends will stop attacking when offscreen, enemies won't follow you unless you have gacha friends that are on screen

Version 1.4 - Fixed the Game Over and Skinny Steve medals, reduced Game Over medal requirements to 3

Version 1.3 to 1.1 - Check itch

Version 1.0 - Jam Version

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Pretty fun little autobattler gacha game! For as mindless and dumb as it can be, I had a surprisingly good time with this and ended up getting addicted to building up my army and watching them eviscerate enemies like a pack of piranhas. And as much as I say it's dumb, there is still a method to the madness where you need to decide how best to plan your gacha purchases around the rent time limits and so on. So yeah, nice stuff!

Having said that, there will a few rough spots I encountered:

*On my first playthrough, I kept just encountering slimes over and over until it got to the point where I couldn't earn enough money for rent. It wasn't until my second playthrough that suddenly I started encountering coffee cups and other higher tier enemies that could give me enough money to stay competitive. Maybe the spawn system could be better reworked to avoid this, or better yet, the spawn system could be removed and instead have different areas on the map where different tiers of enemies congregate that the player should move to as they get stronger? Might give it a bit of a journey/adventure feel where you're moving forward instead of running circles in the city: maybe you even need to pay to unlock the doors to these new biomes like COD Zombies to add more strategic elements.

*The game started to feel rather monotonous and unsatisfying as it went on as I don't think it delivered the sense of progression/evolution effectively. Compared to something like Vampire Survivors where you go from small stuff to thousands of bullets covering the screen later on, this game feels rather stagnant: the enemies change shape and the numbers are technically increasing, but everything "looks" the same. One change that I think would help would be the way money is handled: I was surprised when I started to get so much money later on because it didn't "look" like I was. Instead of only increasing the coin sizes like you do, maybe you should keep the size the same, but just spawn more coins: an explosion of 100 pennies looks more appealing than 4 quarters, if you catch my drift.

It's annoying when you have enough money to pay rent but not enough money to buy a new gatcha and you don't have any or your only dies, then you just have to wait around for a minute for next rent. I think an interesting mechanic to fix that would be the ability to go into debt.(like maybe the counter goes to "-89" or something) But having to get to money to pay back that debt might not be enough of a punishment so maybe you have a timer to pay back or the rent timer speeds up... But this was made in a gamejam so . Anyway, quite fun game!

this is awesome, the art is so damn cute, too!

Difficulty scales way too fast. like holy cow

This is an amazing game, nicely done everyone who made it.

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