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A jam submission

The Wanted MerchantView game page

Avoid Guard Patrols while Packing and UnPacking your Store to sell your illegal Cargo.
Submitted by Fadrik Alexander (@FadrikAlexander) — 1 hour, 15 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Originality#64.5714.571
Adherence To Theme#134.5714.571
Game Design#274.0004.000
Style#294.2144.214

Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted(+1)

This is a really cool submission i was waiting for, and somehow managed to forget. I was following the development loosely on twitter, and was wondering what this gonna be! I was confused at first what to do after settling as pressing space just picked me up again. Then i figured i have to move to the ghost boxes to pack out! Slight minor problems, the right bottom corner and the middle bottom spot seemed a bit to OP for me as i could sell almost 90% of my goods in those two (moving from one to another at like 50% from a single shop). Music is great, art is solid, nice job!

Developer

Thanks for the nice feedback and yeah some spots are really op lol XD

Submitted(+1)

Really cool interpretation of the theme!

Loved the gameplay and the very original idea

Developer

Thanks mate <3 

Submitted(+1)

Became a drug overlord in medieval times, would play again haha.

Some of my suggestions to a couple of the mechanics can be found in my overall...

Summary:

Adherence to Theme 
  • You fully incorporated the Theme, to the Point that I kinda feel like I'd have to go through a bunch of Submissions and not rate them 5* on that aspect.
Game Design 
  • The core Gameplay loop was pretty in depth and thoroughly seen through!
  • The packing and unpacking of Goods felt a little unintuitive at first but was simple enough  to get the hang of it after a couple of tries.
  • The incorporation of guards patrolling made for an excellent design decision to keep the player on it's toes. However I felt like the aggro range was quite big and packing in took long.
  • I would recommend a  more line of sight based approach. This would mean a lot of work though to make certain places more risky to sell in but have more customers.
  • I liked the kinda risk/reward structure of setting up all your shop or only partially, however I never felt the incentive to fully lay out my shop, it didn't appear to get customers more quickly to buy but punished me for having to pack up fully before I can leave. Perhaps some tinkering would make for a more fluid experience.
Originality
  • Probably one of the uniquest Titles of the Jam, never quite played something like this before.
Style
  • The Art is amazing.
  • The Sound is amazing although the sudden switch to alert sound was a bit jumpscary at times haha. Made for great player Feedback.
  • The Menu-screen Music and In-Game Music appear to be the same? Why do they cut each other out, then?

Overall:

Really enjoyed this one, with a couple of the suggestions I mentioned, implemented like this or otherwise, this could become a great title!

Developer

Thanks for the amazing and detailed feedback.


"I felt like the aggro range was quite big and packing in took long." and I'm sitting here trying to make bigger and more difficult XD

-"The Menu-screen Music and In-Game Music" because they are in a different scenes and when reloading the music start from the beginning that it. but need to thought of next time.

Submitted(+1)

- "and I'm sitting here trying to make bigger and more difficult XD"

Hehe, no worries. For a one off game scene I think it would be problematic to have them more difficult. Maybe in a full game / after Jam version there could be different "Realms" where you increase difficulty. 

- "because they are in a different scenes and when reloading the music start from the beginning that it. but need to thought of next time."

Jeah that's where you can use a singleton pattern. Quite useful for music.

Developer

Yeah the pattern would be the perfect fix for the situation

Submitted(+1)

What a cute little game, I loved the art style, simple gameplay. Had to figure out that I had to touch the cart while packing in order to leave. Overall, it was a pleasant experience

Developer

Thanks for playing and the Feedback <3 

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Really nice game! Enjoyed it!
Nice art and gameplay, nice idea too!
I played for a while xD
At times i found a particular spot with no guards and sold for a while. but thats good and leisurely, to not be chased for a while

unpause could be bound to esc key, unpacking could be explained a bit better by walking over the boxes

Developer(+1)

That is tricky to find that spot but you can sell sell as much as you like until the game gets harder lol XD

BTW I have the code to pause the by esc in the project but forgot to link it lol Jam stress I guess 

Submitted(+1)

yeaa I understand. Time limit.

And I guess there can be more levels with increasing difficulty if you plan on continuing work on it :)

Developer(+1)

yeah I was planning a post jam version and I'll see if it really worth continue working on. how would describe ( increasing difficulty )?

Submitted

Maybe more guards frequent patrolling.. and more view/range of the guards for chasing us once they see us
And another extreme would be the guards who saw our cart unpacked would remember when they see us on the road
It would need play testing to balance.
Let me know when you have a new version I would love to play it

Also you can check out my game if you would like to :p
Flock by shoze, Julien Mulard, JoAMD

Submitted

Really interesting game concept. It fits the theme very well and the music is themetic with respect to the medieval styling. Controls are a bit confusing at first but once you get the hang of it they are nice and snappy. Good job!

Developer

Thanks for playing and the Feedback, yeah I went with controls that you don't have to press much buttons I guess it turned out great

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

I really liked playing the game and the progression was really good. Never sold the whole thing but reached 6%. Really good and inspiring. Great art amazing music great job!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing and the Feedback <3 

Submitted(+1)

Really fun and really cool looking art.

Developer

Thanks <3