Bug Bazaar by Jared Saizdelamora
Welcome to Bug Bazaar! A game by Jared Saizdelamora and Joshua Nichols.
There is a functional version of the browser version linked below on Itch.io. Works great on mobile! Thanks!
Controls: A/D/Left Arrow/Right Arrow - Cycle between views To clean up poop - click it. It can make your bugs very unhappy, so clean it quick!
Instructions:
You are an insect breeder, tasked with purchasing, breeding, and selling insects of various rarities.
From your computer, you can buy and sell your insects, as well as access the menu options.
To start, you can purchase some Unt eggs from the “Buy” section. Once purchased, the Unt egg will go to your Incubator automatically.
The Incubator will show how Many eggs you have queued up, and the time left for the current incubation. Once fully incubated, your hatched insect will automatically be deposited in the main tank.
In the main tank, You can watch your insects. If they have a question mark Over their head, they are hungry. You can dispense food by clicking On the food container. You can buy more food from the buy screen of the computer
To breed new insects, go over to the breeding journal. On each page, you can select an insect to breed. Once selected, you'll see the insects name, as well as any Mutations it possesses. Once an insect is selected for both pages, they will begin creating an egg. Egg goes directly to the incubator.
//Mutations - value, how they work
When you breed two creatures together, there is a chance the offspring will have one of several mutations. Mutations make the insect more valuable and change a couple of it’s stats slightly. Any mutations both parents share is automatically inherited by the offspring.
| Link | https://j2softworks.itch.io/bug-bazaar |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/bug-bazaar |
Ratings
| Overall | 864th | 3.203⭐ | 61🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 916th | 2.898⭐ | 61🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 415th | 3.457⭐ | 60🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 268th | 3.983⭐ | 61🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 871th | 2.983⭐ | 61🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 584th | 2.982⭐ | 59🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 729th | 2.685⭐ | 56🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 958th | 2.886⭐ | 59🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 63🗳️ | 106🗨️ |
FIVE STARS!
From a gameplay perspective, there seems to be no reason to keep any creatures besides the two you are breeding. All-in-all, congratulations on the game.
-You can breed insects of any species together. There is a 50% chance of the final insect being either species
-Hoppers sell for the most money, but the Beebl and Speetr come with a mutation (tusks and stinger, respectively), so it can be worth grabbing one to get those mutations if you don't have them
-The Sell tab on the computer doesn't update automatically, you have to click buy or option then click back. That's what we like to call "A Ludum Dare feature".
-If the game feels to slow for you, *SPOILER* click the pen next to the breeding notebook. While enabled, all eggs received from breeding will have a guaranteed mutation.
-You can turn the music off in the options menu on the computer. Didn't get to randomize the song order in time, so I know it can get a little old after a while.
But after my ants started reproducing, some of them randomly disappeared. Is that normal?And sometimes the ants get stuck and stop moving. It would be great if I could drag them around. (Also, it would prevent one ant from eating all the food— *hey! That’s not for you! *)
The concept is great and I would love to play a full game like this, so I hope you finish it! Nice job!
I think having the tutorial on the paper at the start should tried to be incorporated into the main game. It was very hard to read, and it had a bit too much text.
Graphics could be worked on a little bit more to help immerse me in the world. I think with a simple concept like this having it visually appealing would draw me into feel more invested in my creatures.
Overall a solid concept.
- maybe i didn't get it, but i wish there was a reason to leave my bugs in a tank to take care of them. rightnow i am looking at them for a sec and sell them immediately. thus i didn't really use eat and poop mechanics :)
- if the sell tab is open and a new bug appears in a tank, you have to click on 'sell' one more time to see the bug there.
- the names of the bugs are just adorable!
- i liked the idea of a tutorial poster, but maybe it would be better to have shorter instructions, so it would be easier to get yourself aquainted with them :)
- it would be really fun to have an additional goal, like breed a certain type of a beetle or reach a certain amount of money.
had fun, earned 5000 $, my bugs worked quite hard in a breeding tank, thank you!