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I don't think I quite got the hang of the hagging, I was mostly selling things for less than I started :p","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":897526,"author_name":"square wave","author_uid":"square-wave","epoch":1673220061,"text":"A) this was super funny, B) I love the weird music, C) I was literally laughing out loud at the way the customers would start violently shaking the more angry they got, and my kid who is playtesting games with me was super confused. A+","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":898580,"author_name":"Iluvatar","author_uid":"iluvatar","epoch":1673251556,"text":"I'm still laughing while writing this review.\n\nThis game is the reason why I always play and rate even \"not so impressive looking\" games. Because you never know what gem you can find. I don't want to say that you game looks bad, NOT AT ALL, but objectively speaking graphics is not the strongest point in this game.\n\nTo my surprise I was shocked how detailed and well made the game is. It's entertaining, and most importantly it's freaking funny. Sound effects, music and voice acting is from another planet, absolutely loved it.\n\nI honestly expected to be just one-screen haggling simulator, and was really pleasantly surprised to see other options like beach digging for treasure. Haha, loved that one. BEEP BEEP :)","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":902648,"author_name":"Frib","author_uid":"frib","epoch":1673305995,"text":"This game is hilarious on so many levels, now I know what it feels like to simp hard :D Excellent job! ","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":902717,"author_name":"shahinm","author_uid":"shahinm","epoch":1673306634,"text":"Great job is all I have to say! :)\n","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":902744,"author_name":"adam-gould","author_uid":"adam-gould","epoch":1673306861,"text":"Pretty innovative idea, linking two entries like this! I was absolutely terrible at the haggling, but it was still fun anyway!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":907837,"author_name":"CaptainDreamcast","author_uid":"captaindreamcast","epoch":1673371484,"text":"I did it, I earned Chicky's eternal love and affection!\n\nVery funny game, I loved every second of it! The voice acting was super funny and the visitors had a lot of character (shoutout to Bob \"Baby\" Moneybags who would absolutely not fall for my reverse psychology mind tricks). It's been mentioned above, but the idea of linking two games together like this was creally creative, definitely a one-of-a-kind ludum dare idea, great job on that!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":913871,"author_name":"GoMango99","author_uid":"gomango99","epoch":1673471062,"text":"I really like this game, the music and audio is great, and the game has lots of humor and charm. :grin: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":921909,"author_name":"MachWerx","author_uid":"machwerx","epoch":1673752323,"text":"Nice idea to have the hats be a hint but I couldn't figure out the system. Also, it bummed me out that I couldn't just cancel the negotiation and that they would just steal the item in the end. But I liked the tie in with the other game. Fun idea!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":925167,"author_name":"HolySparks","author_uid":"holysparks","epoch":1673999737,"text":"Connecting the two games was a gimmick that really got me by surprise and it works very well. \n\nHaggling and shop games are not very usual, specially on AAA, and I'm happy to seem the genre getting some love here :)\n\nThat said, I had some trouble reading the clients and instead always went to upsell people with the sorcerer hat and reverse psych people with red hats.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld52\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/cukeds\/LD52\/raw\/main\/source_code_original.zip","text":"Source Code!"},{"url":"https:\/\/cukeds.github.io\/LD52\/index.html","text":"Link to game"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"86839","g_author":"1225818","g_event":"LD52","g_eventkey":"116","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"398681","g_title":"The Marketer's Dream","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"221","g_commentcount":"11","g_site2_node_id":"318058","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"318058","n_urlkey":"398681","n_parent":"313060","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/52\/the-marketers-dream","n_slug":"the-marketers-dream","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"225818","n_created":"1673035221","n_modified":"1759812693","n_version":"1006771","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD52","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":1,"author":225818,"body":"You are trying to impress the girl of your dreams. 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