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Loot Box Simulator by Chronodrax

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made by Chronodrax for LD 40 (JAM)

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Open LOOT BOXES and gain LOOT in a Pay-to-win simulator !

  • Open endlessly spawning LOOT BOXES,
  • Add LOOT in your inventory to increase your virtual player's character's POWER !
  • You gain more LOOT BOXES at each LEVEL UP !
  • Sort your LOOT and throw your unused LOOT into the GRINDER, to gain COINS.
  • With COINS, you can buy more LOOT BOXES !!!

And if you still need more, spend your virtual player's fake real MONEY to buy more LOOT BOXES ! You will have more fake real MONEY to spend at the end of each month.

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  • Left click: grab loot box or loot.
  • While grabbing:
    • Right click: rotate grabbed item
    • Mousewheel: zoom grabbed item closer/farther from you

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The best items of each category dropped in the inventory will be considered as the character's best equipment and will increase his power (PWR).

Higher power will speed up his XP gain.

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  • Chronodrax - Game designer & programmer
  • LordFriteuse - Graphic designer
  • With music by Kevin MacLeod
  • Sound FX from freesound.org (lemudcrab, jorickhoofd, kolczok, brnck, alegemaate)

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  • Added "mounts" LOOT category
  • Game balancing revamped
  • Added new options (clear invnetory)
  • Unlimited PWR and GOLD
  • Additional text messages with physics !
  • New info panel with options and stats
  • All known bugs fixed
  • Mac & Linux versions untested, tell me if you find anything not working on them !

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Windows http://www.teradem.net/LD/LootBoxSimulator2017/LootBoxSimulator_Windows.zip
Source code http://www.teradem.net/LD/LootBoxSimulator2017/LootBoxSimulator_Source.zip
HTML5 (web) http://www.teradem.net/LD/LootBoxSimulator2017/index.html
Windows http://www.teradem.net/LD/LootBoxSimulator2017/LootBoxSimulator_Windows_v124.zip
macOS http://www.teradem.net/LD/LootBoxSimulator2017/LootBoxSimulator_Mac_v124.zip
Linux http://www.teradem.net/LD/LootBoxSimulator2017/LootBoxSimulator_Linux_v124.zip
HTML5 (web)
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/loot-box-simulator

Ratings

Overall 846th 3.136⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 910th 2.864⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 689th 3.045⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 705th 3.273⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 366th 3.818⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Humor 153th 3.75⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Mood 448th 3.452⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 28🗳️ 2🗨️

Feedback

DBONGames
05. Dec 2017 · 07:04 UTC
I can't reach the windows or webGL links :(
Grahamliphts
05. Dec 2017 · 09:12 UTC
Arg ! loose my wikipedia loot !!! my knowledge an happiness are gone T.T
g12345
05. Dec 2017 · 17:30 UTC
nice idea for a game! although i have no idea how to put items into the inventory. if i have an item i can't switch to the other screen to drop it. so every time i do it, it's done on pure luck.
eric-lathrop
07. Dec 2017 · 04:11 UTC
I had no idea how to use the inventory, or what the tablet things did. I don't have a mouse wheel, and the left part of the instructions were cut off.
tinykidtoo
07. Dec 2017 · 04:19 UTC
Still a better game then star wars battlefront 2. I really liked the art in this game. However I had no idea how to switch screens with an item. So i just dropped it. It sometimes made it into my inventory.
Mr.MadCat
07. Dec 2017 · 11:07 UTC
How do you put items in your inventory?
I tried for several minutes, but to no avail. Maybe you should update the description explaining this.
🎤 Chronodrax
07. Dec 2017 · 14:29 UTC
Hi and thanks all for your feedback!

I'll make a post-LD version of the game soon, with better balancing, bugfix, music volume and with all the improvements working. Also more hints to help understand this unusual inventory.

To make sure something will drop into the inventory, drop it on the slide that links the main platform with the inventory bag :)

I still haven't found the bug that causes the loot's texture to disappear on WebGL version, I'll upload a new version afterwards.
Also sorry again for making a game that doesn't work with touchpads haha. I'll work on alternate controls after the more pressing bugs & features are implemented.

ps: Linux and Mac versions are untested, if you do test these please tell me if you see any bugs !
zgragselus
11. Dec 2017 · 20:32 UTC
EA-games simulator (aka Look box simulator) works really well! I had more fun than in Battlefront 2. Anyways I absolutely love this as sarcastic reaction to state of some companies in game business and keep up the good work!

I had fun for quite some time!
Thrillho
12. Dec 2017 · 02:10 UTC
Very nice looking game, and the music is super catchy! One issue... how do I exit the program?
ciderWrath
12. Dec 2017 · 02:18 UTC
The game is a really fun idea and awesome to incorporate an important topic about video games today. I like that it doesn't actually condemn or praise getting loot boxes, which is pretty nice...or at least felt like it to me since I was having a lot of fun just playing around with all the boxes.

The game did feel a little too overwhelming at first with the three different screens and trying to understand what was happening in each, but a lot of that seemed taken care of in the post LD version. For me personally, the theme didn't impact me as much since the game only got more fun as I got more boxes. My reaction was basically, "YEAH, MORE BOXES!"

Now, depending on the route you want to take this, you can easily make this game sway more in one message than the other. I imagine if you remove the top screen and make it a pop up window in the main one to be more obnoxious, then it can easily be an anti loot crate game. You can also have the the money button start flashing or something once you are out of funds to encourage people to buy. On the other side of the spectrum, you can make it so the game gets all celebratory whenever you pull something rare and exciting, or more decorative as you play more and more.

Overall, has a lot of potential and fun!
Gomango999
12. Dec 2017 · 02:21 UTC
As a comment on the rising amounts of lootboxes in games, I find this game very funny. However, the actual gameplay itself was not that fun. It was hard to tell what the cards actually did, and I just ended up blindly dragging all of them into my inventory because only the highest powerup counts. The money is so small as to be almost impossible to collect, and you will probably never run out of loot boxes due to the ease at which you can buy them with fake real money. Perhaps this is some sort of cookie-clicker-esque game, but it is still rather tedious to build up power, xp, gold etc for seemingly no reward and no end.
adhesion
12. Dec 2017 · 02:48 UTC
Nice use of the theme and funny concept but man, the physics and controls are so wonky. I accidentally threw lootboxes and items off the stage so many times while trying to get used to the controls. Like others have said, having to click to get to the bottom screen with click & drag as the only way to move items is super awkward, keyboard controls for switching screens would probably help a lot here (or maybe just a more obvious bucket to put items in). Also for some reason it took me a really long time to notice the upper screen, which has most of the important gameplay elements in it. Clicking on the tiny coins was pretty annoying too, having bigger hitboxes for them would probably help a lot. I don't know how to explain this but having to read the items to figure out if I should keep them just did not feel good - it felt like a distraction from the rest of the game, like I was missing out on things happening somewhere else, even if there wasn't any real time pressure in the game. Reminded me of item comparison in games like Diablo, which I find to be pretty tedious and unfun. Despite all this the core concept is fairly solid, with some control/gamefeel fixes this could be pretty cool. Keep it up!
AdroitConceptions
12. Dec 2017 · 03:00 UTC
My reaction can be summed up as 'Ugh, another parody of the loot-box craze in AAA games' and it feels just as fun as loot boxes do in most games.
Kobi Hawk
12. Dec 2017 · 17:38 UTC
Fun game! I liked the mechanic of finding a rare item and watching your XP/second skyrocket. The transparency on %chance drops and gold values was nice too. Getting things into the grinder was tedious though. But I really enjoyed it, a nice take on the clicker genre.
BarCodeDoge
16. Dec 2017 · 06:01 UTC
![Screenshot 2017-12-15 20.57.26.png](///raw/016/11/z/e9dc.png) i challenge all of you
DragonZlay
27. Dec 2017 · 22:34 UTC
Not really sure what this has to do with the theme, but quite a good entry overall.