Lemonade Startup – A satire simulator game

Re:Lemonade Startup – A satire simulator game by kylnew on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @09:39AM (#7666863)

OP here, we developed this game over the weekend for Toronto Game Jam and I thought the Hacker News community would appreciate the subject matter. There's a total of 7 endings and one involves getting acquired by Juicebook. See if you can figure it out :D

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Re:Lemonade Startup – A satire simulator game by danvoell on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @10:21AM (#7667120)

A couple nitpicks. It's stressful to land on a page with a countdown to start and no idea how it works or what I need to do. I couldn't scroll down to the instructions or forecast. Other than that the interface is pretty slick. Good luck!

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Re:Lemonade Startup – A satire simulator game by harvestmoon on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @12:15PM (#7667987)

It's using Agile methodology. The problem is likely with you ;).

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Re:Lemonade Startup – A satire simulator game by disdev on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @10:23AM (#7667140)

I think that's kind of the point...

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Re:Lemonade Startup – A satire simulator game by soneca on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @10:35AM (#7667232)

I can't read the instructions either, and the keyboard shortcuts don't seem to work. Drag and drop is not efficient to continuous playing, so I quit...

The first two times I was able to "pay myself".

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Re:Lemonade Startup – A satire simulator game by kylnew on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @10:23AM (#7667139)

Thanks, yeah. I had limited time for browser sizing during the jam but it does respond if you size down your browser a little bit to fit 1024 X 675 approximately.

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Re:Lemonade Startup – A satire simulator game by ckluis on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @10:38AM (#7667246)

FWIW - I did a lemonade stand as a kid and charged $.05 per glass. We (brothers/friends) would keep a jar with about $.75 in change on top of the table.

Everyone felt bad for us and tipped us $.25-5 per glass - avg tip was $1. We could not have charged $1 - we tested the price elasticity of demand. But, they felt terrible we never had any money in our jar.

Just saying tips make a difference.

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Re:Lemonade Startup – A satire simulator game by VLM on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @10:33AM (#7667214)

Only seen the "pushed out by board" ending. Getting up to $4M valuation on some runs.

My gut level guess of the underlaying mechanic is your most popular activity becomes your ending and focusing most on sales results in "pushed out by board"

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Re:Lemonade Startup – A satire simulator game by kylnew on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @10:38AM (#7667248)

Well, it mostly has to do with whether you are taking cash for equity and have the control to stay in power in that case.

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Re:Lemonade Startup – A satire simulator game by ckluis on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @10:53AM (#7667347)

11M valuation and pushed out by board too... picky bastards.

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Re:Lemonade Startup – A satire simulator game by taiki on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @10:26AM (#7667156)

how the hell am i supposed to make money!?

I just keep bleeding cash no matter what I spend my time on

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Re:Lemonade Startup – A satire simulator game by jyu on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @10:28AM (#7667170)

Focus on more sales.

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Re:Lemonade Startup – A satire simulator game by taiki on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @10:36AM (#7667237)

The instructions were cut off for me. screen on my machine is only 13"

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