Desert Trader by WERT Studio
Desert Trader is trading oriented game. The core gameplay loop consists out of you driving from city to city, while stealing goods that fall off a truck, to sell your resources there. Shapeshifting comes into context when you select your next city to drive to. Instead of choosing your city right away, you can select as whom you want to disguise. Different cities will offer you different discounts depending on who you are. So use that to your advantage.
The game itself is not the best, no excuses. But we had fun making it in this short period of time and it taught us about planning our next Ludum Dare. If you have any feedback whatsoever, please leave it in the comments below. Thanks!
Controls:
WASD to move your vehicle
X to reset your vehicle in case you fell over
The game itself is not the best, no excuses. But we had fun making it in this short period of time and it taught us about planning our next Ludum Dare. If you have any feedback whatsoever, please leave it in the comments below. Thanks!
Controls:
WASD to move your vehicle
X to reset your vehicle in case you fell over
| Windows | https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/764563/DesertTrader.zip |
| Original URL | https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-35/?action=preview&uid=55091 |
Ratings
| Coolness | 69% | 3 |
| Overall(Jam) | 2.44 | 1138 |
| Audio(Jam) | 2.26 | 668 |
| Fun(Jam) | 2.47 | 1002 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 3.00 | 740 |
| Humor(Jam) | 2.09 | 701 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 2.75 | 791 |
| Mood(Jam) | 2.61 | 875 |
| Theme(Jam) | 2.10 | 1098 |
Also - I didn't get the point of the shapeshifting, even tough I read the desc.
Overall, nice work!
The shapeshifting to get different discounts is a good way to apply the theme, but it would be nice if your discount was displayed in the trading menu somewhere to make it a bit more obvious.
Good effort, good luck in the jam!
I enjoyed trying to ram into the truck as hard as possible. When I did, it was really cool to see that more crates drop! Models were well done, too.
The mood is immersive but the use of the theme is quite complicated as you dont see it visually.
Please think of the non qwerty keyboards.
Like maybe that you can go between cities, buying low and selling high, with a cost to travel between the cities (so that you can run out of money and potentially lose the game). But you're kinda scraping on thin margins unless you use your shapeshifting/disguise properly.
Also on the choose your disguise screen it's not immediately obvious that you're choosing two different things.
In fact, I'd actually say consider taking the car bit out, because it doesn't seem to add much, aside from just giving you random resources.