FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD45 → Barterin' Buckaroo

Barterin' Buckaroo

By chelc, bobo-games, paragonraptors, Fernando Puig and onlyallygrace

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall274.2560
Fun304.1660
Innovation2433.6260
Theme504.2160
Graphics104.6161
Audio574.0558
Humor174.2360
Mood404.2260

Comments

kisann 2019-10-07 15:13

Wonderful art! I loved IT! exchange mechanic is a good

barracudadisaster 2019-10-07 18:18

The art is very nice and funny! This is a nice take on click and point puzzle games and the characters were fun. The exchanging mechanic is nicely implemented. Very finished looking game. Great job!

bjeaurn 2019-10-07 18:21

Great art, music was alright to keep running for a bit. Fun little puzzle game, not always the most logical trades but really interesting take on the game. Masterfully done! Great job!

radgegames 2019-10-07 18:25

This was the first funny game I played from the jam, which was a great change of pace lol

asue 2019-10-07 18:36

The concept is super interesting, and the atmosphere of the game is really well done. Congrats to the whole team!

hatten 2019-10-07 18:57

Awesome art and fun mechanics. The characters where all very interesting. Nice work!

danny88881 2019-10-08 02:59

Really fun game! I loved the gameplay, sound effects, and artwork. Great job!

mmason 2019-10-08 02:59

I question why I traded a crown for a cowboy hat but hey, the heart wants what the heart wants

purrseus 2019-10-08 03:01

Wow, this world clicks immediately! Hilarious setup, awesome characters, graphics that are otherworldly, the moody repetitive song doesn't even seem repetitive (seriously, I only noticed through the other commenter). If only the trading would sometimes be easier to figure out. But still, an amazing puzzle. Everything about your game is great! I love it :heart:

coleslaughter 2019-10-08 03:02

I loved the hell out of the style and presentation of this game. The character designs reminded me a lot of Professor Layton games, and I enjoyed the equivalently laid-back nature of it.

The trading did seem a tad like guesswork at times. I would know exactly what item I would need to give a shopkeeper to get my sheriff stuff, but I would kind of have to fumble around trading random things until I was able to obtain that key item.

That certainly doesn't mean I enjoyed it thoroughly though! Awesome game. :)

adam-gaskins 2019-10-08 03:04

This game is awesome! I loved the graphics and the polish and everything. I was nervous at first about trading because I didn't want to trade myself into a corner, but the way the UI and everything worked really quickly made me feel at home. Good stuff!!

eupde 2019-10-08 03:11

Lovely, very well executed and fun. Well done!

kellmen 2019-10-08 03:27

I loved the opening, all the characters and the goofy dialogue! Game mechanic was great. Felt like Dwight at the garage sale in the office lol! Well done!

sarah 2019-10-08 03:40

I beat it \o/ I love the music, and the whole feel of the game (: Well done! It took me a minute to remember that I could go back and talk to the one guy eventually, but overall it was a good puzzle!

lauryn 2019-10-08 04:14

Great art, music and humour. No bugs that I could find, game felt really polished. Overall really well done, congrats :D

yubs 2019-10-08 04:16

The art and music is great! Was a bit tough to figure out the game at first, but after the first learning curve was great!

karwei 2019-10-08 04:52

This was very entertaining. Great art!

moechen 2019-10-08 06:15

The art is great! I like the idea that players can change things to achieve the goal. The words are so interesting!!!

sbakolis 2019-10-08 06:47

Great game, your art really stands out.

dygar 2019-10-08 07:36

Wow, best art of the jam so far

pierre-feuille-studio 2019-10-08 08:18

Really cool concept and well delivered, took a bit of trial and error but I completed the game (first one for me on this jam)!

laurens 2019-10-08 09:15

Ok so this is awesome. From the artstyle, to the sound, the humor and the whole general feel and theme of the game. Amazing job!

citsua 2019-10-08 10:52

Really fun game, and amazing character design!

ryzy27 2019-10-08 12:06

I got into it and couldn't stop before I was done. Gameplay is simple, but not boring, best for LD game. Sound and art design reminded me of those old point and click games. Thanks for sharing! Cheers!

redmountainman1 2019-10-08 17:22

Whew, the amount of effort put into this is amazing!

feingehacktes 2019-10-08 17:48

hi guys. ingrid von schnauz sounds very german :) deshalb weiter auf deutsch ;) toller art style. lustig, unterhaltsam und einfach gut ;)

detectivelosos 2019-10-08 19:21

I really like the visual style of this game. It felt a bit like I was watching an episode of some weird old TV cartoon from my childhood. There is also a very colorful cast of characters and some nice non intrusive puzzle hints in the writing.

The only gripes I have are that characters have multiple dialog boxes, so I ended up missing a lot of barter reactions focusing only on the bottom part of the screen, and that it dropped me into a win screen very abruptly without me collecting all the items (I was still missing a badge). Another thing is that after I got the hang of how the things work, I (for some reason) pretty much stopped reading any text and just went here and there dropping things. And it's a shame that I missed half the flavor text on items. Maybe it would be better to make it a little bit more intrusive, like always displaying the description of items in your inventory somewhere on the bottom.

Overall it's a nice little game with quite entertaining writing and very pleasing visuals.

ruddgasm 2019-10-08 20:28

I absolutely loved the design of the characters and everything about the world. I am a sucker for good pun names. The gameplay was fun just seeing what wacky things people would trade for. Each shop felt distinctly unique and I had fun jumping around trading stuff randomly. Great Job!

sheepdog123 2019-10-09 00:51

Very nice! I love the artstyle and sound effects! Impressive for being made in only 48 hours!!

All the best~

donut-daria 2019-10-09 00:56

I mean, I gotta give you 10/10 just for that BDG reference, well played, sir

bar0net 2019-10-09 01:04

Great game! Loved the aesthetics and the music, and the bartering mechanic is original.

I must admit I ended up just droping items to the various vendors to see what new items they offered and I probably missed most of the flavour text.

But overall it's a really well crafted game, kudos!

robodoig 2019-10-09 01:07

Great effort, really enjoyed this!

guitarbro 2019-10-09 01:09

The character design and general art style is great! Also really dig the play on words you've got there with Rick. :stuck_out_tongue: It was very interesting trying to figure out which items people would want, however I eventually ended up just guessing on a few of them because it was faster. The music fit well but was a bit repetitive and probably could have used a _little_ more variation. All in all, a pretty great little experience! Definitely captures that cowboy essence.

sbackus 2019-10-09 01:23

Nice game! I had fun finding all my stuff. Took me a while but I just got all 4!

elnu 2019-10-09 01:49

Great game! I managed to find all of the items except the hat. Fantastic game design that is well complemented by the art and characters. Can't wait to see what you do next jam!

jezzamon 2019-10-09 06:29

haha this game is great :) Quality art and solid writing! In a few places the text went outside the screen which was a shame because I wanted to read everything the characters said. Nice job!

annie-owl 2019-10-09 13:30

Very well done the game and a story! I wish a could put so many puns, references, and jokes in my stories! :smile:

rayne 2019-10-09 18:16

This was the best game I played in this LD. Amazing work. Deserved 5 stars.

pestodesign 2019-10-09 19:16

One of the nicest graphics in the whole jam! Story was nice too, had a great feel to it.

Something to improve could be the graphics. The start screen looked different style than the shopkeepers, and the city map looked even more different. I like all of them, but they did not fit into the same visual world for me. Oh and the objects seemed distorted a bit when you got them!

But this is really just nitpicking, great game overall!

almighty-games 2019-10-10 00:26

Excellent work! This game fits the theme, is fun to play, the music is fitting, sound fx work, and overall was easy enough to figure out 'how to play', thus making it addicting enough to want to complete.

matt-rix 2019-10-11 14:33

This is really good. I love how the trading system wasn't super strict, so there were lots of possibilites and (as far as I could tell) no way to get stuck, since you could almost always reverse a trade. On top of that there were little twists to the mechanics (like finding the dagger in the dead hand). The art and audio were fantastic too. Great work!

catie-jo 2019-10-14 11:24

Really well done look and feel! The music and sfx really sell the vibe, and I really appreciate the small touches like skipping repeated dialog and the punny names (oh man, Rick R Mortis!). Fantastic work; one of the best overall contenders I've seen so far :)

bryvox 2019-10-17 06:28

This game is really cool! I love the mood, art style, dialogue and sound design. The characters were memorable and the puzzles/bartering system was challenging, but a lot of fun. Perfect use of the theme too. This one really stood out to me, well done! :clap:

purpledartfrog 2019-10-17 13:57

Wow ... really great entry :thumbsup_tone1: thanx @coleslaughter for the reference on main page.

Liked the bartering mechanic and the atmosphere you achieved ... really really nice

:purple_heart: :dart: :frog: