Take a Penny... by VicSparkz
Summary
A short little game about running a small hardware store. Made to emulate the original GameBoy resolution and limited colour palette.
Each day you operate the checkout, selling goods to customers. Enter the prices of the items they're purchasing in the keypad. Be careful not to over charge them or they'll leave without buying anything.
After each day you'll get a sales report as well as the current market trends. You'll need to adjust your prices to stay competitive. If you margins get too low you'll be forced to sell the business...
Controls
Game is played entirely with the mouse and mouse clicks. Hover over the keypad in the bottom right to bring it up.
| Link | https://vicsparkz.itch.io/take-a-penny |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/take-a-penny |
Ratings
| Overall | 690th | 3.528⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 830th | 3.25⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 646th | 3.361⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1221th | 3.028⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 332th | 4.083⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 556th | 3.139⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 405th | 3.75⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 17🗳️ | 8🗨️ |
For example, when I entered "1.09" into the calculator, it would show up as "109,00 €", "7.50" would become "750.00" and so on. So basically, everything was multiplied by 100 and every customer was mad at me - Is this intended? If not, it might have something to do with the fact that I am on a PC with language set to German. In Germany, we use a comma "," as decimal point, while the point "." has the function of a comma. For example, it would be "1.700,50" instead of "1,700.50". I think, this might have messed something up with the numbers. Also, after finishing the first day, I was stuck in the hardware store screen...
The graphics were nice though!
amazing work!