Pretty cool game. The art feels really polished and the gameplay is satisfying. I loved that it is balanced in favour of the player, so it feels relaxing and not stressful. You can take your time and you will always progress, but your skill determines how fast you do so. Hope we get more of it! Good job!
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Merchanting in 1346's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Narrative | #228 | 3.968 | 3.968 |
| Artwork | #581 | 4.170 | 4.170 |
| Creativity | #655 | 4.128 | 4.128 |
| Enjoyment | #664 | 3.851 | 3.851 |
| Audio | #695 | 3.660 | 3.660 |
Ranked from 94 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
The merchant leaves his house every morning, takes his daily trip around the neighboring cities, and then returns back before the night.
(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Made everything myself (well, except the font)
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Thanks for playing! I'm guessing you didn't finish the game, but did you at least come to the second level where your wife is dying? Lots of the stakes in this version is story based, but I also didn't want the game too hard in the jam. The aim is to buy wares as chep as possible and then sell them more expensivily, but I think you got that part.
Thank you! The game now had a steam page, it would mean a lot if you wishlisted it so you get notified when it releases :D https://store.steampowered.com/app/3930780/Merchanting_in_1346/
1 year ago(+1)
Thanks for playing! I'm glad you liked it. I'll rework the day/night system a bit in future updates. I also didn't want the robberies to feel to penalising in a jam game, I don't want to make people loose all their progress.
The game now had a steam page :D I would be very grateful if you wishlisted it https://store.steampowered.com/app/3930780/Merchanting_in_1346/
1 year ago(+1)
You got the secret *totally not bugged* ending in which you get softlocked and your wife dies haha. Unfortunate, but thanks for playing!
fairly good game. The audio was at a good volume. I understand the going home part for narrative reasons and to make it fit the theme however its whole purpose seems to be to just limit the player, I think it would make sense if it was a scenario where you had to make x amount of money in x amount of days in which case it can add to the game but as it is, the game would feel better if you didn't have to go back to the house each day and it wouldn't really sacrifice the narrative if there just wasn't days as it isn't something the player would think of. would also be nice if buttons could also work for movement as clicking becomes annoying after a while. I also done the 7 vases and was going to do the last challenge but the antidote got stolen and no way of getting thyme it seems so gave up.
1 year ago(+1)
Thanks for the indepth review and feedback! Yeah, I'll definitely tweak the days system, perhaps simply making the days longer could make the experience smoother. I'll add a +1 to the challenges, even the last challenge, getting the antidote stolen is a bug that'll get fixed in a postjam update (in addition to some more polish)
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