Video Game / Stick RPG

2nd Dimensional awesomeness.

Stick RPG is a game created by XGen Studios. It is a game revolving around a man who one day wakes up in the 2nd dimension. You play as the character of your naming, and Get various jobs at McSticks and New Lines Incorporated. You can buy various new houses and accessories for said houses. You can interact with a few other stick figures, and even deal drugs.There is a sequel, Stick RPG 2, which takes place in the 2nd and a half dimension, with a more defined plot of finding 4d objects to get back to the 3rd dimension.

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These games provide examples of:

Tropes present in both games

• Bland-Name Product: McStick's is this for McDonald's.
• Burger Fool:
  • In the first game, your default job is a cook at McStick's at a pay rate at $6/hour. You can defy this by starting the game with at least 20 intelligence and applying for a job at New Lines Inc.
  • In 2, applying to work at McStick's requires no prerequisites. Your starting salary as "Pickle Popper" is $5/hour. You get promoted after every five shifts, maxing out at $35/hour as McManager. There are also some random events that can happen to you, such as breaking up a food fight, throwing your back out and slipping on a hamburger bun.
• In-Game Banking Services: Both games have banks that allow you to store and deposit money in an ATM. You slowly gain interest over in-game days. You can also upgrade your living conditions by purchasing real estate. In the second game, Dimension Banks can let you buy out stores with enough money.
• Karma Meter: In both games, Karma is a stat that can be increased or decreased by doing good or bad deeds.
  • In the first, your karma can run anywhere from -100 to +100. You gain karma by doing things like going to work, studying, and working out. You lose karma by doing things like giving the kid on the corner smokes, dealing cocaine, and getting into bar fights.
  • 2 adds random events, buying ID cards or consuming Angel or Devil Food Cake. Certain jobs can only be accepted or promoted when you have positive or negative karma, two jobs (Ice Cream Tester and Kitten Exterminator) require 900 positive and negative karma respectively, and Devin's romance option is only accessible with high negative karma (-100 to start and -300 to marry).
• Smoking Is Cool: Smokes are an item that raise Charm when consumed at the cost of some HP.

Tropes present in Stick RPG

• Character Model Karma Meter: Your character changes color depending on your Karma Meter: red at -100, blue at 0 and white at 100. He'll be an in-between shade of purple from -99 to -1 and a different degree of cyan from 1 to 99.
• Enfant Terrible: If you don't have a lot of strength, it's possible for a Girl Scout troop to beat the stuffing out of you in one of the cities.
• Fireballs: When you have three attack points in a bar fight, you can toss these.
• Flat World: You can walk off the edge of the earth and respawn back on it with fewer hit points.
• Jive Turkey: The Convenience Store owner speaks this way.
  "Welcome to the funky-town five-O convenience store where I be servin up some high quality product for yo to get be getting yo drink on and getting yo snack on. How can I hook a brotha up?"
• Kamehame Hadoken: The Energy Beam attack, the best one you can get in a bar fight.
• MegaCorp: New Lines Incorporated is an office building in town where your job title depends on your intelligence. You start out as a janitor and can climb up the corporate ladder to CEO.

• One Stat to Rule Them All: If you decide to become the CEO of New Lines Inc., Intelligence will become this. Inverted when you want to trade cocaine.
• Save Scumming: You can easily become a millionaire in the game by saving, betting all your money at Blackjack, saving if you win, reloading if you lose, and repeating.
• Top-Down View: The game is seen from above.
• Updated Re Release: Stick RPG Complete in 2005 which adds possible job titles of President and Dictator.

Tropes present in Stick RPG 2

• Abandoned Warehouse: Two of them, in fact. Old Abandoned Warehouse and Brand New Abandoned Warehouse.(It Makes Sense in Context).
• Author Avatar: The whole company who made this game appears. And they're hiring.
• Bag of Spilling: The introduction reveals that the player character, after seven years, have managed to become the ruler of 2nd Dimension. And then you change dimensions again and are forced to start with a hundred bucks and basement as a flat.
• Batter Up!: Two kinds of baseball bats can be bought and used in combat.
• Better than a Bare Bulb: Lots of lampshades can be spotted here and there.
• BFG: Railguns and miniguns.
• Booze-Based Buff: The main way to raise Charm is to go drinking at one of the bars. In addition, drinking a bottle of 40 oz. from the convenience store also increases Charm by 2, which is much less cost-efficient, but does not put you to sleep and force you to wake up late the next day.
• Border Patrol: One of the streets in the Second Island supposedly leads to a Fifth Island, but the way is blocked by a construction worker and equipment. The developers have stated that there are no plans to add another island.
• Cash Gate: In order to enter bars and the XXX DVD shop, you'll need to buy an ID card (either a real one from the police station for $175, or a fake one from Fake ID Dealer Rudy for $150). Getting into Benjamins Club requires you to spend $50000 on a Benjamins Club Card.
• Chainsaw Good: Chainsaws are available as weapons from the hardware store, and a 55cc Chainsaw is needed to become a Lumberjack (which rewards you with the 70cc Chainsaw). In particular, the Chainsaw Club is dedicated to fights where chainsaws are the only weapon allowed.
• Chekhov's Gunman: Remember Tutorial Ted? You know, this guy who (even when you acted like a bastard) gave you money and a place to stay at the beginning? He's the guy who killed Ryan, the hardware store clerk.
• Cool, but Inefficient: The Ice Cream Tester and Kitten Exterminator professions require a whopping 900 and -900 karma to acquire, but each of them nets $10/$5 per shift, along with being the only two jobs to not have any promotions.
• Creator Cameo: XGen Studios themselves appear in the game. You can join them as a game developer if you so choose.
• Donut Mess with a Cop: The police department is located right next to the two local donut and coffee shops. In a negative rare event that you can get as a cop, you waste your time pigging out instead of actually going on patrol.
• Equipment Upgrade: Higher-level versions of sledgehammers and flamethrowers are obtained by giving the lower-level version alongside some other materials to an NPC ('Recon' Bob Yewlaiter for the former, Pyro Perry for the latter) to upgrade.
• Excuse Plot: Find three MacGuffins, deliver them to the professor and don't get killed by him.
• Expansion Pack: The Director's Cut unlocks the entirety of the fourth island for you to play around in (without it, only the outdoors is accessible).
• Gangbangers: The red-clad Westsider Gang fills this role. They can be found all over your home neighborhood and are mostly hostile to the player. Some even wear face bandanas and/or sunglasses.
• Gang of Hats: The Westside Gang, Eastside Mob and Sewer People use a color scheme (red, blue and green, respectively).
• Gatling Good: The minigun you get at the end of the government official career is called "The King."
• Hand Cannon: Doomsday Glock does almost as much damage as the railgun.
• Katanas Are Just Better
• The Mafia: As the foil to the Westside Gang, the blue-clad Eastside Mob fill this role.
• Mole Men: The Sewer People.
• Ornamental Weapon: The Ornamental Katana is the first weapon in the Katana line. Although fake, it is fairly effective in combat.
• Panacea: Bacon flavored narwhal can cure anything (or so the legend goes). It can be given either to the Mental Institution Escapee to restore his sanity, or to Creepster Marlo so he would no longer obsess over the nurse at the clinic.
• Permanently Missable Content: The Hoverboard is obtained by giving all four Trophemons in the game to either Animal Activist Annie (for positive karma and Charm) or the Eccentric Billionaire (for negative karma and money), and will become inaccessible if at least one Trophemon is given to both.
• Professional Killer: Vinnie. You can also become one.
• Rare Candy: Food items that boost your stats when consumed include the Fancy Coffee (+1 Charm), Smokes, 40 oz (both +2 Charm), Grand Slam Burger (+2 Strength), Rad Bull (+1 Intelligence), Pizza (+2 Intelligence) and Pecan Pie (+30 all stats).
• Restoration of Sanity: If you give the Bacon Flavored Narwhal to the Mental Institution Escapee, he'll regain his sanity and give you $600 out of gratitude.
• Rule of Three: There are three types of any weapon types in the game (three pistols, three shotguns, three miniguns etc.)
• Shout-Out: Plenty of them.
  • The leader of the Chainsaw Club is a man named Tyler, and his rules are pretty similar.
  • The third rank of the Doctor occupation is is Dr. Nick. The standard post-shift report is "Hi everybody!"
  • At McStick's, one of the job titles is "Milkshake Sommelier", and the normal work description is "Shake shake shake... SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE!".
  • If you manage to max out the game developer career path, your title will be "Miyamoto 2.0".
  • A Creeper can be seen in the earth underneath the alien.
  • The head of the Mafia is known as Vinnie
  • The fully upgraded Sledgehammer is called the Super Sledge.
• Teaser Equipment: The Contraband Salesman, who has a 75% chance to show up in the Second Island at the evening, can be seen selling the Doomsday Glock as early as the very first day. Since the Doomsday Glock is one of the most powerful weapons in the game and costs an obscene $1337000, you are likely unable to afford it until much later in the game, if at all.
• Unobtainium: There is an item acually named Unobtainium in-game. You can buy it from the contraband salesman on the second island for a very high price.
• Useless Item: Parodied. Reaching maximum rank as a McStick's Employee awards you with a Free Food Card, whose description specifies that it is not valid in Paper Thin City, where the game takes place (in other words, it does nothing in-game whatsoever).

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