Transaction Packed by Matthew McClure

Welcome to 2019, where every game that comes out has some form of microtransactions and lootboxes. Why not take it a step further? You want to shoot an arrow? Lootbox. You want to move to a different space? Lootbox. You want to do pretty much anything? You guessed it, lootbox.
Now, you may be wondering to yourself, "How can I afford all these lootboxes, I already spent all my money on Fortnite dances!" Do not worry, for the low, low price of a small amount of your health, you can get some cash and keep the lootboxes flowing.



IMPORTANT NOTE FOR GRADING:
I didn't make the fonts, so do not factor that in to your decision on Graphics feedback.
Also I didn't make any of the sounds, but I disabled feedback for that category. (Sit on the main menu for ~6 seconds to see the full effect of the song)
UPDATE 4/30:
Some people are getting an error where the title screen buttons are blank. I think this is because I used a default Unity font for them but not every computer has the font. I am uploading a new version now that will hopefully fix it.
If the fix doesn't work for you, the 3 buttons are "Play", "Help", and "Quit" from top to bottom.
| Windows | https://lukewarmpotato.itch.io/transaction-packed |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/transaction-packed |
Ratings
| Given | 31🗳️ | 31🗨️ |
Really love how the game looks and feels. If it had background music it'd be perfect.
The menu buttons are empty, is that intended? Also it took me a long time to figure out that I had to press ESC to see the shop. I started slowly losing any ability to do anything. It was a painful death.
Would 100% love this game turn into an actual game fully developed game. I'd buy it!
@nico-the-pro Which menu buttons were empty? Was it just the title screen or also the shop?
That is a good point about the lack of prompt telling you to go to the shop, this is my 7th LD and every time I somehow forget to make any tutorial/help screen until the last 10 minutes before turning it in.
played on win 10 pro
I needed to make it clearer in game but I ran out of time.
Things to improve:
- Enemies being simple and infinite makes camping to farm hearts the best strategy. You can get infinite health and money this way. A time limit, a limit on enemy heart drops, or some different types of more aggressive enemies could fix this.
- Some of the upgraded arrows were never very effective like the fire and diamond ones.
- I want bulk discounts on dollars!
I definitely agree on some of the arrows needing improvement. I thought about removing those two but decided to keep them because having them in the loot pool makes the good arrows more rare.
Really fun and really addictiv.
Congrats
Nice job!
And it would be cool to see several types of enemies, bosses.
YOU WENT TOO FAR WITH THESE LOOTBOXES! :stuck_out_tongue:
I really liked the ar and it would be nice to have a few more SFX and music.
I feel like you've given me a glimpse into the future!