Shopping Simulator 2018 Mega-Deluxe Edition by MrSerp

made by MrSerp for LD 42 (JAM)

Description

By some stroke of luck, you have been afforded the shopping spree of a lifetime, at none other than the illustrious Sale-Mart! Sale-Mart, where the deals are great, the products are large, and you'll be running out of space in your wallet with all the savings! The only catch is: you only keep everything if you complete your shopping list, anything you scan past that is extra savings!

Sale-Mart has also been so gracious as to leave you a top of the line, vintage (and slightly rickety) cart to haul around your savings! There may not be much room in it, but nobody said you couldn't make multiple trips!

Controls

WASD to move

Back Quote ` or tilde ~ key to lock/unlock the cursor

Click the shopping list button in the bottom right to open it

Hold LMB to interact with things in your vicinity

When holding an object Q/E to lower/raise the held object (!BUG! sometimes an item has to be dropped and picked back up to be able to manipulate objects)

Disclaimer

Current build has a hard coded 5 minute timer and gives you a random shopping list to complete. Scan objects at self-checkout in order to remove the item from your shopping list.

Controls can be found on the wall when you first spawn.

See if you can actually complete the round! If you can, leave a comment!

Special Thanks and Credits

Quill18 and Tim Ruswick for providing entertainment on Twitch while slogging through development
Bit Orchestra for the royalty free store music
My original team, who I had to abandon due to an early unexpected emergency

Screenshots

Suffice it to say, I had a bit of a tantrum at 2am as code remained glitchy!

Arby's ain't got nothing on Sale-Mart's choice cuts! we have the meat.png

I will nurture the eggplant, raise it... until it can wield the power of all of the infinity stones! giant eggplant.png

Windows	https://phynxt.itch.io/shopping-simulator-2018-mega-deluxe-edition
Original URL	https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/shopping-simulator-2018-mega-deluxe-edition

Ratings

Overall	1016^th	2.975⭐	22🧑‍⚖️
Fun	1098^th	2.658⭐	21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	933^th	2.842⭐	21🧑‍⚖️
Theme	681^th	3.389⭐	20🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	789^th	3.132⭐	21🧑‍⚖️
Humor	183^th	3.472⭐	20🧑‍⚖️
Mood	733^th	2.972⭐	20🧑‍⚖️
Given		13🗳️	16🗨️

Feedback

Moo

14. Aug 2018 · 02:05 UTC

I liked the games idea however the cart was a bit glitchy and it was faster to just pick up the items 1 by 1. The controls were way too complicated. I couldn't manage to unlock the cursor so I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to do but I did spend a good time just messing around listening to the music and making a mess of everything. Mood was spot on!

Jan

14. Aug 2018 · 02:16 UTC

I like the idea of the game. I think it needs a few fixes and expanding though.

I couldn't figure out what was on my specific shopping list. The cart was rickety indeed =D.
The controls were too complex. I'd play this again!

🎤 MrSerp

14. Aug 2018 · 02:22 UTC

@jan Yeah, I kind of just gave up on fixing the cart physics at some point and just embraced them! I planned on adding more items, scalable difficulty, and ai shoppers that would steal items from you, but I ran out of time because I couldn't work on the game today 😞

🎤 MrSerp

14. Aug 2018 · 02:24 UTC

@moo Same as the above comment, I just embraced the cart the way it was at some point, but the controls were definitely something I wished I could have fixed today! I had every intention of remapping them from what I had set for testing. The back quote or tilde key unlocks the camera though to be able to interact with the ui.

BloodJohn

14. Aug 2018 · 03:16 UTC

I control the camera and then there is a window where you have to move the mouse (which is not!!!) on the button. Uncomfortable game :(

Snowdrama

14. Aug 2018 · 03:21 UTC

Besides the physics and the cart being a huge mess, It was fun. Akin to things like Goat simulator, and Surgeon Simulator where the fighting the controls and physics is kind of expected.

Useability changes are what I'd love more than anything, Raycasts that actually pick up what I'm looking at instead of the object near my feet would be a HUGE improvement(But I already mentioned that on stream)

jackw899

14. Aug 2018 · 15:57 UTC

I couldn't work out the controls, the physics felt very glitchy, my cart disappeared somewhere! My sensitivity was way too high I had to change it on my mouse! If those things were fixed I think it could be a good game, but I didn't really get to play the game because of the issues!

Bloc97

14. Aug 2018 · 17:32 UTC

The game really had a similar feel to the other "___ Simulator" games. Wonky physics, bad controls, name it all. I carefully stacked all the produce in my cart only for it to explode everywhere as I walked forward. The produce also seems to like to get stuck in walls. Overall it was fun and I had a good laugh playing this.

![Shopping Simulator.png](///raw/c7b/81/z/19515.png)
*"Mission failed, we'll get 'em next time."*

CristiHKJ

01. Sep 2018 · 16:40 UTC

Great game! Very cool and interesting! :D