Collector's case by HeadZerg

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made by HeadZerg for Ludum Dare 58 (JAM)

Pack. Bid. Profit. Every case counts.

In Collector’s Case you play as a specialist who takes part in auctions, assembling and trading cases filled with rare and valuable items to collectors. Pack suitcases of treasures and sell them to collectors as quickly and profitably as possible.

How to play: Buy rarities and antiquities at an auction, be fast to buy it on cheapest price but careful so your item fits into the suitcase. Sell suitcase once it's full of items. You can rotate and flip item with buttons below the suitcase or WASD keys. You can replace bought item with ones that are inside suitcase already. You can throw items that do not fit into trash.

Ratings

Overall 139th 3.893⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Fun 224th 3.625⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 137th 3.714⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Theme 106th 4.161⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 120th 4.304⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Humor 306th 3.22⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Mood 268th 3.759⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Given 27🗳️ 33🗨️

Feedback

LChaves
Oct 07th · 00:00 UTC
Clean, simple and effective, perfect scope and execution for a jam game. Nice work!

Artwork is superb!
LucaVazz
Oct 07th · 13:48 UTC
Pretty art and a fun concept which you implemented well.

Unfortunately both here and on itch the embedded game is very small, making it hard to recognize things and to read text/money amounts.
anaticula
Oct 07th · 16:01 UTC
Thank you for feedback!
Sorry for the size, we didn't think about that, might have been nice to double the pixels - will keep it in mind next time
LDJam user 375016
Oct 07th · 16:05 UTC
Yes thats a great idea! Nice artwork. I really enjoyed it. Good job
Kseon
Oct 07th · 16:45 UTC
The idea turned out to be unusual, and I like the graphics that came out
Magalix
Oct 07th · 16:56 UTC
Cool graphics and music ! Auctions mechanics are a bit weird but overall that's a really charming little puzzle game.
Ansible
Oct 08th · 20:19 UTC
The auction house art is beautiful!
Collecting, rotating, flipping and sorting all the items was loads of fun! Excellent game. (maybe only the bidding was a little fast for me).
marudziik
Oct 08th · 22:35 UTC
We've had somewhat similar idea, and I think yours is fleshed out a little bit more than mine 😅. I enjoyed the gameplay a lot, I think the rotation and flipping does change the approach to this type of puzzle and I liked it a lot.

What I missed was the ability to view the suitcase upfront, but I understand this was a design choice.
I can see no rating for the music, but I think it was a good selection.

The only problem I see is that I couldn't resize the game. I think it would benefit greatly from a 2x scaling, I even took a screenshot and can verify it looks awesome in 2x scale as well.

Congrats on the entry, great job!
Pierre Reimertz
Oct 08th · 22:35 UTC
Wow, music is so nice and the artwork / design is really beautiful. Great work! I like the game-mechanic, never thought I would play auction-tetris! :)
Eugenik
Oct 09th · 12:58 UTC
Very cool! A lot of fun to play
Aleksey Salion
Oct 09th · 19:59 UTC
Nice gameplay! And I love your artstyle)
takhomasac
Oct 10th · 01:36 UTC
really cool concept! i like the art style a lot :) nicely done!!
Accardo
Oct 10th · 02:00 UTC
Nice art style and concept, a full screen option will be nice and I don't know if it's by design that you can't see your inventory shape before buying, since I have runs where the item won't fit even with full empty inventory.
tyminix
Oct 10th · 11:39 UTC
Cool simple concept, i spend about 20 minutes collecting, Great job.
oxbuddulaj
Oct 16th · 17:29 UTC
original idea, excellent implementation plus distinct art style

you nailed the jam. we should learn it from you. thanks!
Shaggy
Oct 18th · 10:10 UTC
Looks great! I have such bad memory though so seeing the suitcase while bidding would be nice. But I guess that is part of the challenge!
l6ria
Oct 18th · 16:06 UTC
Super charming concept and presentation — the auction-packing mix was surprisingly satisfying! The art and music are both top-notch.
rosypenguin
Oct 18th · 18:30 UTC
Nice work with how clean and consistent everything is. Love the originality!
ruruie
Oct 20th · 08:52 UTC
I am extremely bad at this game and still found it fun, which I think says a lot. The time limit countdown with the brisk old timey music really did it. I think the game might be improved with a mode where you can at least see the shape of your case or go with a rectangular case though; the tiles were pretty wild.
Ranarh
Oct 23rd · 23:19 UTC
I love tetrising things into other things so this game made me happy. I liked the oldschool realistic pixelart as well. Also, my compliments for making the game so complete - we're so used to seeing half-finished jam games!
oller125
Oct 24th · 14:14 UTC
I'm a sucker for packing puzzle games and this one is great. Love the setting and it is very well polished for a jam game. Love the art style.