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To gain passage over this bridge the passer most pay the troll toll. The player has to play as the troll and calculate the correct tax for each person crossing the bridge
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Simple style and definetly cool gameplay, I was supprised playing this kind of game in a jam! Really cool! I would have gone with some "pieces of meat" instead of Lb and Pounds (It might seem weird, but calculating it with google kinda pushes you out of the game perception). Once you get the core mechanic of the game it turns quite simple, maybe adding some kind of variable like @andidebob said would help. Anwyay, this is a great approach to the gamejam theme :) Nice job sir!
Glad you enjoyed it. I actually had a feature built that had banned items with the ability to deny passage over the bridge to mix up the game play once the player got used to the mechanics. Unfortunately with the time constraints I didn't have time to make a tutorial for that new mechanic so I chose to scrap it. If you check game after the voting is done I plan to upload a new build with a few new levels and the banned item feature. I thinking it adds a great challenge to the established mechanics
So, I definitely started playing this incorrectly at first because I didn't realize I was supposed to check their papers - which is entirely on me, lol. That said, I think this is a cute style and the mechanics work pretty well. Adding some dialogue and some polish could make this shine even more, but all in all, I think it's well done!
Thanks for the feed back! I do admit the introduction tutorial could have gone through the mechanics a little better. Maybe going step by step with the first customer would have been a better route than the simple text blog at the start. But I defiantly plan polishing it up a bit
I think that's a great idea!
A really nice take on Papers Please! Didn't realize how well it fit the topic. I wish there was a bit of dialogue for every person passing by to give you some emotional attachment to the traveler. It would also be cool to have people who don't have enough money to pay the appropriate tax, so you can decide to let them pass on a lower rate out of compassion.
I'm glad you saw the Papers Please inspiration. I was planning on having individual characters similar to Papers Please but the art got pushed down on the priority list with the time constraints. A simple dialogue system would have been a good substitute and make the characters feel more real.