Had a lot of fun with this game!!! The trading concept is really fun and the upgrades are fun too
Got to stage 10 with like $3000
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Pawn Hub – The Art of the Steal's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #49 | 3.856 | 3.856 |
| Enjoyment | #88 | 3.907 | 3.907 |
| Overall | #102 | 3.761 | 3.761 |
| Innovation | #143 | 3.653 | 3.653 |
| Theme | #194 | 3.932 | 3.932 |
| Audio | #346 | 3.390 | 3.390 |
| Visuals | #366 | 3.831 | 3.831 |
Ranked from 118 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does the game fit the theme?
Buy and sell a bunch of junk inside your own pawn shop. But look out for scammers - you can't trust anybody!
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
Fonts:
- m5x7 by Daniel Linssen (https://managore.itch.io/m5x7)
- Karmatic Arcade by Vic Fieger (https://www.dafont.com/karmatic-arcade.font)
- Shader from https://godotshaders.com
How many people worked on the game?3
Comments
A very creative and polished game. The animations and small details are incredibly well done, and even though the pixel art style is quite simple, it feels surprisingly pleasant and charming. I ended up spending a lot of time playing it and really enjoyed the experience.
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DeceitDungeonThank you very much for this nice review. The pixel art we did was inspired by the classic Lucas Arts games like Monkey Island. We thought it looks still nice after all these years even though the its so simplistic in its design and tried that for our game as well. Glad all the little details didn't go unnoticed either :)
It’s my favorite game so far, but because of the jam's theme, I hate it just as much. I’ve never been deceived so badly and so often before.
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Thought RotGreat game, I realliy liked the art and the game idea, I didn´t play a lot of games so i dont know if it was original, but at least i didnt think of it
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I Think That Tree Is Watching Mew game.. it felt (surprisingly cozy??) i like pixel-art games that are done this way.. reminds me of many fav games i played before
also i love the store management mechanics they seem balanced well overall i had alot more fun than i though i would get
(i think you have to replace the screenshots with Gif’s since they dont look that interesting, i was surprised on how fun the game is after trying it)
( can u pls try my game :3 )
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intero CAT - Solve the MysteryThank you for the kind words and the good feedback. Yeah GIFS would make it look more appealing right away probably. But hey, this way you were pleasantly surprised no ;)? Next time we will definitely think about making GIFS for the preview pics. Already left a comment and rated your game a few days ago :)
Thank you very much for the kind words. We went trough to levels for our pixel art. For the character models, I did the first round and than my more experience colleague refined it to make it as pretty and readable as possible. The title screen and animations are all him. We only had one programmer on our team and he worked wonders.
This game is ADDICTING! Really nice retro art and music, and the sound effects are just perfect. The upgrades are really cool (especially the machine with the snake minigame!) and it's nice that the customers have preferred items that fit their aesthetic.
Overall simple but fun game and fitting the theme perfectly :D
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Cozy Loan SharkThis is one of my favorite games this jam. I like this style of game in general but, like. There's a lot of depth here. Good upgrade variety, the upgrades add stuff to your store. The snake minigame was fun, I just played that for a while. I got 39 as my high score there, lol. I've never been good at snake. I also like the links to other gamejam games, that's really fun. As of writing this my store, Real Good Stuff, was 10 on the leaderboards. Very fun!
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Three Goblins in a TrenchcoatActually I want to add a little more because I was thinking about it and I really like this game, but I really like a lot of the little touches this game has. The boot reappearing if you didn't have any items to sell meaning you can't get softlocked with having no money and nothing to sell. The robust options menu, the activatable cheats. There's a lot of care put into this game.
Cool idea that fits the theme quite well. The gameplay loop was really fun.
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Space ShiftYou can play this game for quite a long time until you get tired of it. It’s great for working on during week. The visuals are decent, and the game jam theme is well executed. Bobr coooool :>
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I Wanna Be The Chill GuyI played it again, and it’s honestly still so lovely! It was really creative. Great job!
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God made liarsThis game is so cool! The UI is great and I loved how the coloring of the price sliders gives you feedback about how likely it is to be accepted. It seems maybe a little too easy to make big profits, since unless I'm mistaken anyone will always buy anything, even if they only sell one item? My only complaint is that the snake mini-game was a little half-baked. It's very important for snake games to have input buffering so you can do things like hit two keys in rapid sequence to make a u-turn. I guess that's ok though since it was essentially an infinite money machine!
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Kill -9 BillionThank you for the nice feedback. We actually made the first two in-game days easier for the player. After that it picks up and you will have more difficulty to scam but also will be more likely to get scammed. We debated if the entry point in the game should be just as tough and decided to make it more accessible but some player like you didn't seem to need that :). The snake mini game is mainly an easter egg and it's not supposed to distract too much from our main game. There are for sure more polished snake clones than ours :D.
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