Animal Merchant by sansen
Notice:
The HTML game may have some bugs, the character may move very fast if this condition happens, please play the game on the Windows plantform.(As we had tested, we recommended to open this game through Chrome instead of Firefox. )
Game Introduction:
In this game, you are an animal merchant, when you start your sailing, there will be some living things with you. You must breed them when sailing, because you have to get more of them to get more money. But every raft only have “limited space”, you have to pay attention to the number of them to make sure your raft will not sink.
Aim:
You can control the animal merchant to move these animals. The animals will breed when there are more than 2 of them. Based on the food chains, you can control the number of animals by feeding them to their natural enemies. So, take control of your “goods”, try to get more of them while avoiding sinking the raft due to excessive quantity. And also don’t forget your aim is to get more animals to get higher score.
Controls:
W/A/S/D or direction key-move
C-pick up/put down
Q/E- switch the animal to be lifted
Food Chains:
Mushroom-Sheep-Wolf
Mushroom-Chicken-Fox-Bear
Some Tips:
Animals will breed when there’s two, but a clump of mushrooms can also breed.
They will breed only on their own raft, won’t breed on others’ raft.
Animals will breed every 15 seconds, while chicken breed every 20 seconds.
Bear and Wolf will die in Mushroom raft because of poisoning.
You can try to take one’s natural enemies to their raft to reduce the number.
Score: Mushroom-1 Chicken-2 Sheep-3 Fox-5 Wolf-6 Bear-7
Credits:
Models - https://sketchfab.com/sansen54/collections/ld54-5cb47a8bc92f450c84c4654adff1cce1
Sound Effect - https://www.aigei.com/
@sansen - Art Design/Lever Design/Planning
@devil-ovo - Animation Design/Programming/Planning
| Link | https://devil-ovo.itch.io/animal-merchant |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/animal-merchant |
Ratings
| Overall | 1026th | 2.962⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1064th | 2.615⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 763th | 3.115⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 655th | 3.5⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 561th | 3.63⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 737th | 2.545⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 938th | 2.94⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 15🗳️ | 30🗨️ |
Nice idea! My feedback:
- The game was too difficult for me (not in a fun way), I wasn't able to finish any mission successfully. Maybe it's just me, but maybe the balance is a little bit off.
- Proper fullscreen would be nice.
- As other people mentioned, you can fall from the raft and can't get back.
I liked the low-poly graphics!
Nice concept. I had some trouble moving around, I got stuck a few times on the fences and once I felt in the waters and didn't re-appear anywhere until the boat reached the destination docks.
Overall the game was a bit too hard for me so I often made 0 score but it looked nice and I like your choice of music, it really helped with the chill mood.
Oh no I've fallen in the water and I can't get out! Haha this was a fun one. I tried not to breed too many wolves early on so I wouldn't lose my cargo, but gosh darnit - I lost my cargo! I like the iso vantage point and I feel the controls worked well. A little polish and I think we could have a compelling animal merchant sim here :)
I like the progression of animals through the levels.
A little simple at first, it was just a matter of seeing how many I need to feed to something else and then just waiting until the raft arrived.
Good work overall.
Idea simple but effective !
maybe just put a little break between two are sheep x)
GG :) !
I would've appreciated and enjoyed the game more if there was an option to respawn after walking off the raft, or perhaps the game could automatically restart. Otherwise, it was a lovely design and a unique concept.