How to play Rip Them Off + 5 MINUTES OF GAMEPLAY
Rip Them Off is a satirical puzzle / tower defence / micro-management hybrid game. Your job is to place shops on busy city streets and make as much money from the shoppers as possible before The Board decides that your time is up.
[olist] Rip Them Off's levels take the form of different, beautifully stylised fictional cities. Each level has multiple day-based milestones which the player must hit before the next milestone unlocks. To complete each challenge, you must make enough money to fill 100% of the gauge in the corner of your screen before the final day of each challenge ends.
To make money in Rip Them Off, you must use your strategy and management skills to place multiple shops that the shoppers (or Dupes) won't be able to resist spending all their money in. Placing the right shops in the right places at the right moments is the key to your success. There are 9 shops to choose from, each coming at a different cost and with different stats; how long shoppers stay shopping, how much they spend, and how many can shop at once. Youll need to keep an eye on how much money you have too, as that will directly impact your ability to buy new shops and open up new profit opportunities.
Every day, shoppers are released into the city streets, from different entry points and often heading in different directions. Your job is to place shops for them to spend their money in, and make enough money from them to reach the 100% target. Shoppers will not enter the same shop twice, or enter a shop that is full when they arrive; they'll just walk right on by! Youll need to keep timing, placement, shop type, and your cash (or lack thereof) in mind if you want to maximise profits and appease the Board. Remember, once the shoppers leave the street, theyre gone for good, so make the most of them while theyre around!
At the end of each challenge's final day, the Board will arrive to judge your efforts, fail to reach 100% and you'll promptly be (pretty harshly) told to get back to work and try again. Beat the first milestone of each level however, and you'll unlock the next milestone of that level if you fancy a challenge, and the next city if you just feel like moving on and seeing more of our stylised world. [/olist] So, there you have it! You now know how to play Rip Them Off, courtesy of a detailed bullet-point list the Board would be proud of. We hope you enjoyed this extensive look at Rip Them Off. Before we go, we do need to emphasise that as an indie team of two, we need your Wishlists and your support in sharing Rip Them Off far and wide. So, if you like the look of our game, please do Wishlist it on this very page (!). You won't regret it, and you'll be making this husband-and-wife dev team very, very happy. Thank you, and stay safe out there! Ava and Mat.
[ 2020-07-30 14:51:22 CET ] [ Original post ]
Hey friends, Ava and Mat of Lozange Lab here. In case you missed it, last weekend we debuted 5 WHOLE MINUTES of never-before-seen Rip Them Off gameplay exclusively at Pocket Gamer's LaunchPad event. We are delighted by the reception, and so proud to show off our new puzzle game on such a large stage. Check out Pocket Gamer's awesome coverage here: https://www.pocketgamer.com/RipThemOff Following our gameplay reveal, we thought today would be a good day to give you a deep-dive on how playing Rip Them Off actually works, so you have a better idea of the Board's capitalist shenanigans youll be enacting on our September 24th launch day. Now, let's be clear, the following deep-dive is a text blow-out, so if you'd rather watch our aforementioned, lovingly crafted 5 MINUTE (!) commented gameplay video, here it is for you: [previewyoutube=aRqsrU19QGI;full][/previewyoutube] So, lets dive in, shall we?
What is Rip Them Off?
Rip Them Off is a satirical puzzle / tower defence / micro-management hybrid game. Your job is to place shops on busy city streets and make as much money from the shoppers as possible before The Board decides that your time is up.
How do I play Rip Them Off?
[olist] Rip Them Off's levels take the form of different, beautifully stylised fictional cities. Each level has multiple day-based milestones which the player must hit before the next milestone unlocks. To complete each challenge, you must make enough money to fill 100% of the gauge in the corner of your screen before the final day of each challenge ends.
To make money in Rip Them Off, you must use your strategy and management skills to place multiple shops that the shoppers (or Dupes) won't be able to resist spending all their money in. Placing the right shops in the right places at the right moments is the key to your success. There are 9 shops to choose from, each coming at a different cost and with different stats; how long shoppers stay shopping, how much they spend, and how many can shop at once. Youll need to keep an eye on how much money you have too, as that will directly impact your ability to buy new shops and open up new profit opportunities.
Every day, shoppers are released into the city streets, from different entry points and often heading in different directions. Your job is to place shops for them to spend their money in, and make enough money from them to reach the 100% target. Shoppers will not enter the same shop twice, or enter a shop that is full when they arrive; they'll just walk right on by! Youll need to keep timing, placement, shop type, and your cash (or lack thereof) in mind if you want to maximise profits and appease the Board. Remember, once the shoppers leave the street, theyre gone for good, so make the most of them while theyre around!
At the end of each challenge's final day, the Board will arrive to judge your efforts, fail to reach 100% and you'll promptly be (pretty harshly) told to get back to work and try again. Beat the first milestone of each level however, and you'll unlock the next milestone of that level if you fancy a challenge, and the next city if you just feel like moving on and seeing more of our stylised world. [/olist] So, there you have it! You now know how to play Rip Them Off, courtesy of a detailed bullet-point list the Board would be proud of. We hope you enjoyed this extensive look at Rip Them Off. Before we go, we do need to emphasise that as an indie team of two, we need your Wishlists and your support in sharing Rip Them Off far and wide. So, if you like the look of our game, please do Wishlist it on this very page (!). You won't regret it, and you'll be making this husband-and-wife dev team very, very happy. Thank you, and stay safe out there! Ava and Mat.
Rip Them Off
Lozange Lab
Lozange Lab
2020-09-24
Indie Strategy Simulation Singleplayer
Game News Posts 20
🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
Mixed
(10 reviews)
https://www.rip-them-off.com
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1295860
Rip Them Off - Linux [169.56 M]
Rip Them Off is a minimalistic new puzzle game of economic management and tower defence. The Board needs its profit, and it’s up to you to line the streets with shops the masses can’t resist. Choose your locations, pick your stores and earn enough to advance up the corporate ladder with its increasingly difficult challenges!
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Welcome [New Hire Name Here]. We’re proud¹ to have you as the newest member² of our [Product Name Here] sales team. Here at [Subsidiary Company Name Here] we’re passionately committed to [Vague Passionate Commitment Here] and we know you are too³.
Here at [Company Name] we’re all about giving the people what they want, and what they want is [Product Name] (the ad boys have seen to that!⁴).
As a valuable member of our [Company] family⁵ this is where you come in.
¹ Any assertion of pride is purely performative and does not reflect the Board’s opinion of individual employees
² Unless otherwise stated new employees shall be referred to as “Office Drone”
³ Please see Standard Employee Contract section 11b Subsection 12: “Your New Personal Opinions”
⁴ Any suggestion of consumer manipulation by [Company Name] advertising practices is purely hypothetical
⁵ [Company Name] is a registered corporation and not a familial unit. Please see Employee Contract section 154a, “Knowing Your {Lack Of} Rights”
*not suspicious at all
*Self-building stores coming in [Unobtainable Release Date Here]!
*Year on year growth is currently set at a more-than-reasonable 3015%
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Choose your location, choose your stores, give the people what they want. And of course, don’t forget to…
Rip them off!
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Welcome [New Hire Name Here]. We’re proud¹ to have you as the newest member² of our [Product Name Here] sales team. Here at [Subsidiary Company Name Here] we’re passionately committed to [Vague Passionate Commitment Here] and we know you are too³.
Here at [Company Name] we’re all about giving the people what they want, and what they want is [Product Name] (the ad boys have seen to that!⁴).
As a valuable member of our [Company] family⁵ this is where you come in.
¹ Any assertion of pride is purely performative and does not reflect the Board’s opinion of individual employees
² Unless otherwise stated new employees shall be referred to as “Office Drone”
³ Please see Standard Employee Contract section 11b Subsection 12: “Your New Personal Opinions”
⁴ Any suggestion of consumer manipulation by [Company Name] advertising practices is purely hypothetical
⁵ [Company Name] is a registered corporation and not a familial unit. Please see Employee Contract section 154a, “Knowing Your {Lack Of} Rights”
Choose
Maximising profit and satisfying the board will require planning. In each city, utilise suspiciously* empty locations and create an inescapable maze of retail opportunities the masses simply won’t be able to refuse!*not suspicious at all
Spend
Those stores aren’t gonna build themselves*! Make sure to prioritise your earning potential by managing your budget: buy the right stores in the right locations at the right price.*Self-building stores coming in [Unobtainable Release Date Here]!
Earn
Once you build it, they will come. And keep coming! But it’ll take more than one location to satisfy the Board’s exponential profiteering*. Combine locations and store types to really take them for all they’re worth and open up exciting new opportunities around the world!*Year on year growth is currently set at a more-than-reasonable 3015%
- An innovative new type of game: Combining puzzle mechanics with tower defence games, Rip Them Off is a new breed of challenge, easy to pick up but hard to master.
- Gorgeous design: Evoke your inner Mad Man with 1950s inspired music and graphics.
- Addictive gameplay: Each new city provides an increasingly devilish challenge. Can you make it all the way to the biggest metropoles?
- Go fast or slow: Control the flow of time to make sure your strategies unfold with perfection.
Choose your location, choose your stores, give the people what they want. And of course, don’t forget to…
Rip them off!
MINIMAL SETUP
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04+. SteamOS+
- Processor: SSE2 instruction set supportMemory: 1024 MB RAM
- Memory: 1024 MB RAM
- Graphics: shader model 3.0
- Storage: 500 MB available space
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