Crazy Cash! Needs to Pay Rent is a rougelike heavily inspired by the Wario Land series. Players have seven days to explore dungeons in order to collect enough money to pay rent.
The team and I really used this game as a canvas to experiment with. We had a lot of fun getting weird with aspects of the game such as the UI and sound design.
In Crazy Cash, the dungeons are a straight path down. We wanted to implement an Indiana Jones/Wario Land 4 style escape sequence after the player grabs an idol. But a big issue was that the player does not have enough jump height to be able to ascend the dungeon. That is when I had the idea to flip the level! Not only does this allow for an escape sequence despite the player's lack of upward mobility, it also allows us to emphasize moving downwards.
