The Peddler by AndrewBallinger

The Peddler ( Click here to play the game )
Performs best in Firefox Quantum.
Buyer and Seller of Fine Wares
The Peddler; always there when the hero needs them most. Cheerful, trusty, and ever ready to buy ALL the heroes' goods.
With naught but the clothes on your back, a purse for gold, and a backpack full of goods, you venture forth to make some of that sweet, sweet gold.
But BEWARE!
The life of a peddler is fraught with hardship, dangerous monsters, and more loot than one could possibly sell to all those stingy adventurers.
Are you clever enough to succeed in the life of The Peddler?
Highlights
- Play as the shrewd peddler and earn your fortune!
- Help weary travelers by purchasing their dungeon loot.
- Upgrade the forest, its inhabitants, and the Peddler.
- Lots of Bags
- Over 25,000 items to buy and sell!
- Super expert hero name generation.
How to play
- Drag items to the Sale Box to see how much the hero's offer.
- Choose a good item to sell to each adventurer to help them on their way.
- Make the sale.
- Buy upgrades. Repeat. Ad infinitum.
Controls
- Drag items around to organize your inventory.
- Move items between bags by dragging an item over a bag tab and releasing.
- Click the sell button to trade the item in the Sale Box.
- Click the Upgrade button to purchase the next upgrade.
- You cannot sell multiple items at a time.
- You can never sell monster parts, but heroes are happy to unload them on you!
Tips
- If you're about to run out of inventory room, worry not, your clientele are generous enough to supply you with a spare bag.
- If you find your purse getting light, consider skipping heroes until you find one who will pay good money for one of your remaining items.
- The Peddler buys valuable equipment before monster parts, so you'll always have something to sell.
- Some items are worth a WHOLE lot more when given to the right hero. Sometimes, all you need to turn your fortunes is the right hero browsing your wares.
- Organizing your inventory will make it easier to find the item the hero wants the most, and is willing to pay accordingly.
- Look for benevolent adventurers whose generosity is as renowned as their heroism. Oh, but watch out for those Jerks.
- You can't lose! The Peddler is always making those monies! Why are you still reading the tips instead of playing?!
| HTML5 (web) | http://thepeddler.aaballinger.com/ |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/the-peddler |
Ratings
| Overall | 841th | 3.145⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 918th | 2.855⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 339th | 3.447⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 680th | 3.303⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 696th | 3.276⭐ | 40🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 598th | 2.778⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 490th | 3.097⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 656th | 3.167⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 40🗳️ | 40🗨️ |
Like the concept.
However after a few traders I got stuck when I couldn't drag an item out of the trade box.
The music with the words gets a little annoying after a while but the other track is nice background music
All in all not too bad, reminds me of WoW days having to manage backpacks with sets of gear
The calm music is fantastic, but the one with lyrics feels so out of place. That was an odd choice, but still respectable.
Regardless, this was an interesting thing to behold. Got me hooked in for somewhat longer than the average submission. I'll let the rest of the team know about this one. Kudos! :whale: