Picker's Paradise by Phlip45
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You should play this game first: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/the-marketers-dream
My game and the one above are linked. The above game has the intro in it. Thanks for your attention.
You need money quickly. You decide the best way to accomplish this goal is by acquiring items from local sources such as garage sales, storage unit buyouts, and metal detecting on the beach. It is practically pennies to get these items from the local populace but you can sell it for a high price at the picker's paradise flea market that happens every Saturday.
In this game you will play minigames to acquire items. Then you will take those items on over to a different LDJam game made by cukeds and sell them at the market. Everything in both games was done in the 48 hour time slot by just me for my game, or cukeds for his. Technically we worked together on the item list and descriptions, but I feel that it is still in the spirit of Compo.
Made entirely in barebones vanilla Javascript.
Home Screen
On this screen you can view what items you've acquired and choose where to go next. The first three options are minigames and the last option will leave to the market. It is recommended you have as many items as you can before you leave and you are forced to leave on Saturday.
Storage Units
For the storage units minigame, the auto-suck-o-tron (not pictured) launches bags of potential goodies from the storage unit (left side of screen). Use your Stor-Technology brand hover dolly to juggle them over to your car. If you manage to collect a majority of the bags, you will get an item. Has the best music!
Garage Sales
At garage sales, the owner will try to get you into picking cheap garbage, but you have the nose for value. You will be shown four cards at the beginning. Keep track of the star. If you pick the star after shuffling, you will receive an item.
Metal Detecting
A relaxing time at the beach. Stop the metal detector when it detects something of value. You have 5 chances to find something and if you don't like an item you found you can toss it into the sea where it can be free to swim with the other trash. There is both an audio and visual queue on where to stop.
Items There are a lot of items. 35 of em. Each item can only be found at a particular location, so even if you beat the came, do come back and check out the other cool items you can get.
Two Games in 1! Playing this game you will also automatically play user Cukeds game, so after you rate this one, go rate that one too! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/the-marketers-dream
Update Log Nothing so far!
| Original Code at Time of Compo End | https://www.phlip45.com/LD52Phlip/LD52Phlip.zip |
| Living Source Code | https://github.com/MHGray/LD52Phlip |
| Link | https://mhgray.github.io/LD52Phlip/main.html |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/pickers-paradise |
Ratings
| Overall | 250th | 3.196⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 198th | 3.25⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 91th | 3.614⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 290th | 2.932⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 301th | 2.818⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 173th | 3.136⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 16th | 4.045⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 154th | 3.333⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 25🗳️ | 20🗨️ |
Super funny item descriptions in this, always made me laugh out loud, the toy story game console was my favorite. Also want to point out that the storage unit minigame music was an absolute banger (that was ultimately the minigame I played the most, I felt I was getting more expensive items if I did well in that).
The fun factor of the game is high, with the minigames being enjoyable and challenging. The innovation of the game is also noteworthy, as it is linked to another game by Cukeds, and players can seamlessly transition between the two. The humor in the game is top-notch. The mood of the game is relaxing and enjoyable.
Overall, this is a fun and enjoyable game that is worth checking out.