Life Merchant by Webox
Life merchant is a game where you have to buy and sell trinkets to get older or younger. Each moment of your life has a special ability. Use them wisely to solve each puzzle.
Update in description:
It took me too much time to implement main mechanics so I endend up having too few levels as all of you who played noticed!. I'll keep working on it and adding more levels!
| HTML5 (web) | https://webox.itch.io/life-merchant |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/life-merchant |
Ratings
| Given | 44🗳️ | 37🗨️ |
And I just noticed this is your first LD. Well done!
Your choice of the music and artwork was very fitting.
1. It was fun enough that I wanted more levels and was sad when I ran out.
2. When you reach the goal for the level, you are able to move the character around in the mountains/background.
3. When you are putting people to sleep you can still move your character through them even though they aren't asleep.
Great game!
@dustin-eyers Also thanks for the feedback and I love to hear that you want more levels too!! I'm aware of those bugs! I'll fix the asap!
@skylark721 Thanks for the feedback! Yes it's the first time I actually enter and finish something, so many incomplete LDs.. I'll keep wornking on it for sure!
but this game some kind frustrated me ;( probably it's not because this game was bad but because I really don't like this type of games :/ anyway good job
I like the simple gameboy-esque graphic style a lot. The gameplay was very simple but effective, and I think there's a lot you could do with it. This was one of the most creative uses of the theme I've seen so far too, so kudos for that.
My only feedback (like others) is that it left me wanting more levels. (I do get that it's time consuming though; it's always surprising how long that can take, especially with puzzle games!)
Thanks for a fun entry!
@cppchriscpp YES!! that exactly, takes a lot to think on a good level, it's also my first completed game ever, so creating puzzles is double hard haha. Thanks for playing! really appreciate it
"When I was your age..." 😴
@attala haha yess!! I found out that it's a pain to press so many times the movement key after some extensive playtesting. But it's to late to change it, I'll think of something to fix it
@reality-blind Yeah sorry about the too few levels thing :(. I promise to keep working on it now that I know that some of you liked it :smile:
Also yes on the excesive key tapping, wasn't a great idea haha. I was going for a world that updates with your actions but it ended up being a bit too much key press. I'll figure something out, maybe keeping the key pressed makes a move every third of a second or something like that.
@levidsmith GREAT Feeedback! I'll take your hints into consideration, since I'll probably keep working on it!
Thanks a lot for taking the time to play it both of you! :D
Colors per age were good - although I expected some downsides from getting older (moving slower?)