Barterin' Buckaroo by chelC
You're the rootin-est tootin-est cowboy known to Swamp Gulch... that is until you gambled away all your cowboy-ly possessions in a night of cards and drinking.
Make your way through town. Reclaim your stuff. Become the cowboy you know you are.
Barterin' Buckaroo is a point and click puzzle game reminiscent of the point and clicks from the 1990s and early 2000s. Part logic, part absolute nonsense, we hope you enjoy this rootin' tootin' romp around the dusty town of Swamp Gultch and trading with its colorful cast of denizens.


| Youtube | https://bobogames.itch.io/barterin-buckaroo |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/barterin-buckaroo |
Ratings
| Overall | 27th | 4.259⭐ | 60🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 30th | 4.164⭐ | 60🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 243th | 3.621⭐ | 60🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 50th | 4.216⭐ | 60🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 10th | 4.619⭐ | 61🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 57th | 4.054⭐ | 58🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 17th | 4.233⭐ | 60🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 40th | 4.224⭐ | 60🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 28🗳️ | 43🗨️ |
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. :)
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.
All the best~
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!
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!
Liked the bartering mechanic and the atmosphere you achieved ... really really nice
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