Packrat

scarytreegames 2023-10-20 18:26

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

ty-victorson 2023-10-20 18:34

Nice game! It was fun to juggle all my bags and try to make as many trades as possible in the least number of turns! The art and SFX were all nice and the game was fun to play great work!

pipima 2023-10-20 18:42

I find the concept of the game very intriguing, and the art style is cute as well. I do hope that in the later stages of the game, there could be more constraints and unexpected challenges for the players. Currently, it's relatively easy to earn money for upgrades, and there are no penalties for missing customer orders. This leads me to randomly shovel items into bags and wait for matching orders, which diminishes the game's challenge as it progresses. Nevertheless, good job!

gossioss 2023-10-20 19:18

Gameplay was a little unclear and didn't seem to have much depth to it unfortunately. The drawn art was lovely and a nice style to see in a game, though I would have preferred the UI and other elements to be consistent with the same hand-drawn style rather the more digital gradient style that you currently have.

doctor-zeus 2023-10-20 20:06

@pipima Thank you for your feedback! I also have the same feeling about the game's lukewarm incentives. There were some elements of the design that I intended to implement that might have helped: - Customers could have "bonus" objectives for scaling rewards (e.g. extra money for having mostly fire in a bag, worth more for larger amounts) - the ability to make specific customers stick around as you prepare to sell something to them - the ability to switch where you gather items from, and more meaningful differences between gathering locations

In combination, I think these could give the player more to anticipate and look forward to & more agency over what's going on. They wouldn't do much to increase tension in the game (none of them would have a penalty attached under the original plan) but I hope a lighter sort of tone would work well for this sort of game.

It's a skeleton of a concept, that's for sure. Thanks again for giving it a play and taking the time to share your thoughts!

doctor-zeus 2023-10-20 20:19

@gossioss Thanks for the feedback!

I agree that the game's design doesn't do much to introduce itself, and there aren't a whole lot of neat incentives at play to grip folks. I think there are paths forward to build depth, but it didn't really get there in the space of the jam.

I'll happily pass along your kind words to our artist, I also thought he did a great job! I'm responsible for almost all of the flat / placeholder UI stuff, their jarring out-of-place-ness lies at my feet. A fully cohesive style would be best, but we had to work within our limitations. My big hope is that the readability of information was okay - I worried a lot about keeping things understandable & functional without sacrificing too much of the real art's style and appeal.

Thanks again for playing and taking the time to give feedback, we really appreciate it!

victor-morozan 2023-10-21 17:46

nice game, please give us feedback, thanks

alchemic 2023-10-21 19:04

Really cool idea! I love shop sim type games. I like the art style and overall vibes. It got a bit easy towards the end, mostly because there's no real penalties or time limits or anything, so you can kinda just spam next day and random fill orders. But trying to actually make a "good" bag was a fun mechanic, and getting a big payoff customer was worth it.

Overall pretty solid. I see that icon.svg though!