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A jam submission

Loop MerchantView game page

A Loop Hero inspired, merchant themed virtual board game.
Submitted by EAJB, Callum Birkett — 4 hours, 7 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Artwork#25813.4003.400
Audio#39742.7602.760
Enjoyment#40222.8802.880
Creativity#43613.1603.160
Narrative#45712.2002.200

Ranked from 25 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?
You travel around a randomly generated loop.

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
See description for full credits

(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Ed & Callum

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Comments

Submitted

Cool concept, very Loop Hero–like! The visuals are nice, feels like playing classic chess. Sometimes the game feels unwinnable — a bit of balance tuning would help. Overall, great mechanics and a solid idea.

Submitted

I love the idea and it´s really intuitive to play. And I must say that I love the visual style: very clean and beautiful! However, the rewards are too rng dependant, you need to get a combo to generate coins in the first or second round or you are dead, now it's a fun puzzle to think if you can make it to the end of the round but very frustrating. I think it's a great game and I encorage you to expand on the idea. Great job!

Submitted

Amazing game !! Beautiful and really smart.  I was incredibly lucky on my first run, and didn't meet an enemy until tax 10. The game was a bit tricky, but in a good way, and really enjoyable. My next runs where a lot more chaotic and kind of unfair, I have to admit. Maybe the enemy shouldn't appear until tax 6 or something ? Great work still !

Submitted

I'm in love with art

Submitted

This was a cool idea! I'm not sure if sometimes it was generating early rounds that you would auto lose or if I was being too stupid and missing something but once I got a generation that seemed to get me beyond 2 tax I was on a roll and having a pretty good time! I did accidentally break the game I think by killing a bandit whilst I was stood on it's tile, which prevented me from moving forwards. This was a lot of fun though all around despite the bugs. The art was cute and the inspiration from loop hero really speaks to me! Great work

Submitted

Very cool idea! I love the random path each time, makes every run a bit more unique. If the early rng is improved, then it would be a perfectly relaxing experience.

Submitted

good job!

Submitted

good job!

Submitted

I love how everything looks like wood! Did you do all this 3D modeling and texturing? You are amazing! 5 stars! Great work!

I'd appreciate feedback on my submission if you get a chance!

Submitted

First of all visuals are amazing, but I love the idea as well, could use some balancing but it's still exectued quite well! Great job!

Submitted

Once I got a good seed going, I actually found myself having a good bit of fun, but procedural generation is definitely a very tricky thing to pull off and balance, especially within the bounds of a game jam. Huge props for going through with this!

Submitted

Great concept, it would be nice if you could automate the loops instead of doing the tedious work every time you pass the tiles. The RNG is also super unfair with situations where I couldn't physically win because I was not dealt tiles that generate things.

With some Quality of Life features, content additions and a way to scale the loop to infinity, it would make for an enjoyable idle economic game

Submitted

I really like this concept, it's just too hard to get a run going with the boards being random. Perhaps hand-crafted levels would have been more appropriate? In any case, I think what's there is executed well and the idea is clearly inspired. VOD here with my full thoughts. Thank you for submitting to the stream!

Submitted

Really like this one! Very fun concept. I know how hard it is to balance a game in a jam, but the RNG is a bit unforgiving, would be nice to have a hidden system that tracks your hand so it doesn't feed you a bunch of selling spots if you already have more selling spots than gathering spots. But other than that I could really see myself playing this game for hours and hours! This should have way more ratings than it does rn

Submitted

It's a better version of my Loop Hero xD I really enjoyed it, but I didn't managed to get beyond loop 3. I know that you can visit each a tile on each side, but even though I never had the right tiles to gain enough to pay my taxes :c. I love the visuals and design.

Submitted

The art and graphics look really cool, I think this is a really cool concept! Nice job! 

Submitted

Love the art direction and the game idea, but as it is, the game is too unfair/random in my opinion.

I got more than 5 loops in a row where I would start without any way to get money in two consecutive turn or have a bandit turn 1 and thus dying without having set a little economy loop in place, maybe we should start with some basic tiles and then start the "random" loop ?

Submitted

Nice, I did it until tax 6, but when I used the sword, I got stuck.  Maybe look at that, don't make it too random at the beginning, it's difficult to pay the tax, maybe after the 3rd tax, set a table of possible combinations like rock and rock shop, wood and wood shop, and gold and gold shop. Really nice game! It would be nice if you could play and rate mine. Thank you!

Submitted

very fun and addictive no time to horse around anymore, will definitely play again 

pls add tax evasion thx

horse approved 🐴👍

Submitted

Your game is privated

Developer

Thanks, the game is public now!