ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

So I've made a new T-Engine game! This time called Monetizing Children, in which you play a Zynga-esque game company getting kids addicted to your games before inflicting them with "fun pain" to make them give you money. It was made for the 2013 Molyjam, and a couple of other guys did art and music for it. Overall makes for a quite a nicely polished project, with a really catchy theme tune! You can find it here:

http://www.molyjam.com/games/169

It has a wealth of roguelike features, but overall doesn't really play like one, thus proving that crap list-based definitions like the Berlin Interpretation don't work.

AHAHAHHAHA I love that

Congrats!

Out of curiosity, was this made with a moral lesson in mind, that you're attempting to show the world, or just as a joke about what some companies seem to do?

Very much a serious point being made, although with a dose of humour. It's based on the insightful blog posts of Ramin Shakrizade:

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/author/R ... de/914048/

Incidentally, Peter Molyneux came into the place we were jamming to look at the games being made. Here's a shot of he and I having a lengthy chat about IAPs (I was against them, he thinks they're not that bad):

Very nice!

Grey wrote:It has a wealth of roguelike features, but overall doesn't really play like one, thus proving that crap list-based definitions like the Berlin Interpretation don't work.

Woah woah woah. You're saying checklists aren't a good approach to game design? What an insightful and revolutionary realization