I thought that the gameplay and mechanics felt really thought out and I liked the music a lot. I did feel a bit overwhelmed by the amount of text sometimes but not being part of the target audience for such a game may be a factor. :P Nice job!
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Market Shapers's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Controls | #5 | 4.033 | 4.033 |
| Accessibility | #10 | 3.633 | 3.633 |
| Overall | #12 | 3.724 | 3.724 |
| Originality | #17 | 4.033 | 4.033 |
| Fun | #18 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Audio | #28 | 3.567 | 3.567 |
| Theme | #40 | 3.700 | 3.700 |
| Graphics | #67 | 3.433 | 3.433 |
Ranked from 30 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
4.4
Wildcards Used
Simple Shapes
Game Description
Build a deck to gain increasing control over a chaotic stock market and profit!
How does your game tie into the theme?
The stock market can be a chaotic thing to wrestle with - especially these days - but there are many things people do to tip the scales in their favor and conquer the chaos. This card game tries to capture those strategies and that feeling.
Source(s)
N/A
Discord Username(s)
.cinderous, nesretro
Participation Level (GWJ Only)
3
Comments
Love the concept and ended up playing it way too long! :D
You really captured the vibe of how I imagine the stereotypical day of a successful day trader. trading the news, playing your cards right while listening to Japanese City Pop. :D
triangle. then only buy/sell diamond for the rest of the run.
. I had lots of +600k% buydiscounts or sales on the next trade. At a point i couldnt discard cards anymore because the numbers where so big that the ui expanded out of view to the leftMy networth was this in the end.
I found a bug: selling x diamonds with bad news the next day, is playable when you have 0 diamonds and buys x diamonds with bad news tomorrow.
It was lots of fun, great game. contest winner imo :)
Wow thanks so much for playing and taking the time to write this out! I really appreciate it! I'm glad you enjoyed it so much and found some fun in the strategy. That's definitely the highest net worth I've seen, even amongst our play testing! Appreciate the bug report too, I've made a note to take a look at that. Stay tuned as we're looking into taking this game to the next level over the coming weeks/months. Thanks again!
345 days ago(+1)
For our updates to this, we'll be redesigning from the ground up! We had a lot of (I think) really cool ideas we had to cut because of jam time limitations, a messy codebase with a bunch of limitations, and a lot of this sort of evolved as the week went on. We leaned towards making the cards too strong and making the shop cheap so that players could feel their deck was "broken" (in a good way) quickly and experience a lot of the cards since jam play sessions are usually short. We want to strike a "balanced challenge" for the redesign, something that lets you build crazy combos (such as the one you shared!) but not quite as often/easily. Think Slay the Spire, Monster Train, or Balatro. Thanks again for your comments and feedback!
Love to hear it! Follow me here on Itch or on BlueSky (@cinderous.bsky.social) for updates! We're still early in our planning, but I'm building out some tools to help expedite the card creation process so we can hit the ground running as soon as we solidify some core ideas around the game. We would love to have people like you engaged in the early versions to help guide the direction of the game!
347 days ago(+1)
I agree that is a bit confusing, I had some sort of UI elements (clock maybe?) slated to better convey that but unfortunately had to cut it for time reasons. Thanks for playing and for your comment!
347 days ago(+1)
I'm so glad to hear that you enjoyed it - that was one of the goals; to take the 'fear' out of the market and turn it into something fun! Thanks for playing and for your comment!
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