You are a merchant in the village market, trying to succeed. To do so, buy from the local suppliers and resell them in the weekend market.
\nDemand for you products depend on the market demand, but also on your reputation selling those products, as well as the price you set compared to what people would pay for it.
\nThere are 9 products to unlock: 🍎 🍞 🪵 🥚 🥧 🏺 💎 🌶.
\nThe game goes on unless you run out of money.
\nControl the game with arrow keys + Enter, with the gamepad, or on mobile with the virtual gamepad keys.
\n","source":"lopis/market-street-tycoon","stars":0,"post":"https://dev.to/lopis/a-tiny-pixel-art-game-using-no-images-49df","comments":[{"at":347432986,"author":"Rob Louie","login":"roblouie","gh":5448110,"url":"roblouie.com","twitter":"rob_louie","text":"Love the detail of the shadows of the crowd going by. Adds a ton to the game with a pretty simple effect, really nice!
\nUnfortunately at least for me the controls were completely broken. When I tried to change stock, it would jump back up to the previous item and increase the stock of that. I could never actually increase the stock of a secondary item so I gave up.
\n","games":["Upyri"]},{"at":348192911,"re":347432986,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"I’m sorry to hear about the broken controls. I did test it on a couple different mobile devices but there’s always variation.\nI’m glad you like the little details. I wanted it to feel alive an not boring even if the market phase is mostly “for show”
\n"},{"at":347436709,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"A nice idea, like a 13th Century Lemonade Tycoon! Nice graphics, UI and animations. I liked the crowd walking past, nice touch.
\nThe font was a little hard to read in some places and the controls a little clunky on some of the buttons.
\n","games":["Fort Knight"]},{"at":348193054,"re":347436709,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"Oh, I never played Lemonade Tycoon but I guess that’s pretty much the same kind of game!\nSorry about the font. It was an early choice to save bytes but then ran out of time to improve it. Look out for new version releases, I might have already fixed it ;)
\n"},{"at":347593122,"author":"ch!k0","login":"Chiko4Samples","gh":34527406,"text":"i think the song is stuck in my head lol!\ni had fun selling and re-stocking my merchs.\nthough whenever there’d be 13+? items, there’s a weird floating brown box that will appear on the cart’s counter and the items images are allover the place. also the monetary symbol and numbers were quite hard to make-out, maybe use smaller fonts next time?
\n","games":["Rock Feud"]},{"at":348193219,"re":347593122,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"I’m glad you liked the song so much. It’s actually based on a part of the classical music Les Patineurs. I regret adding the brown box, it looks weird. I’ve removed it in new versions, as well as improved the font, but glad you enjoyed this version regardless!
\n"},{"at":347828423,"author":"Christoph Schansky","login":"DerBenniBanni","gh":5499976,"text":"Ah, my dream comes true, selling stuff on a market! “Jaguars’ earlobes! Dromedar prezels! Get them while they are hot!”
\nI like the graphic-style (especially the customer-shadows) and the buy-sell workflow with the control over the sell-prices.
\nMaybe it would be better to be able to use the buttons with the mouse or touch.
\nMusic and sfx are good too.
\n","games":["WitchCup1276"]},{"at":348193303,"re":347828423,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"Ah, you’re the only one so far that unlocked the secret Dromedar prezels suppliers! :)\nI wanted it to be a NES-style game, that’s why it’s keyboard/gamepad only.
\n"},{"at":347865370,"author":"Thiago Romão Barcala","login":"thiagorb","gh":821208,"text":"I spent hours playing this game. I got more than 1 million dollars. This is extremely addictive.
\nEven though the audio is very simple it feels nice, so I kept the music playing the whole time.
\nOne thing that annoyed me a bit is that there is always some offer to sell me wood for all the money I have. I ended up making 99% of my money by selling wood, which is great, but I didn’t have the option to skip buying the wood, to try to improve my reputation for the other goods. Also, I got a great deal to buy 22k wood, and I did it, but then the game started to use A LOT of CPU, to the point that the music couldn’t play anymore. So the next time I got an offer to buy 100k wood I refused till I stopped playing. Maybe I played more than I was supposed to.
\nThe reputation thing is very cool. It is hard to get started, but it reflects well how businesses work. Once you reach some reputation you can put whatever price you want and people will run to you to buy your stuff.
\nWell done!
\n","games":["Duelo"]},{"at":348193535,"re":347865370,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"Thank you for stress testing my game more than anyone! 😂 I didn’t expect people to play so long, and certainly didn’t test it rendering 22k items. No wonder your game froze!
\n"},{"at":348012366,"author":"Sami Heikkinen","login":"sz1521","gh":38181301,"text":"Simple idea works very well. Great retro feel to it, although the texts were somewhat unreadable at times. I noticed myself playing “just one more round” for quite some time :)
\n","games":["Predecessors"]},{"at":348193640,"re":348012366,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"Glad my game trapped you just a little bit ;) The font choice was unfortunately, as other reviewers commented on. I have released an improved version on github if you fancy checking out.
\n"},{"at":348115058,"author":"Daniel Whiffing","login":"dwhiffing","gh":4886651,"url":"http://directive.software","text":"Nice fun and simple gameplay loop! For such a text heavy game, I think you should’ve refined the font rendering a bit more. The controls can also feel a bit sluggish. But it’s fun, and the graphics and music are charming. Good job!
\n","games":["The Silk Trail"]},{"at":348116611,"re":348115058,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"Thank you! I regret not paying more attention to the font. It’s ugly, unreliable, and performs very badly, as well as being the number one complaint by players. I’m addressing those issues in a new release outside the competition. So thank you so much for the feedback.
\n"},{"at":348386258,"author":"Joanna Jardine","login":"epicjoanna","gh":127295327,"url":"https://joannajardine.com","text":"Really fun game! The graphics were very neat and the gameplay was addicting, the music was a straight up bop.\nYou’ve obviously executed this very well and I love the little clock counting down during each round.\nOnly other comments would be that the font was a little hard to read (albeit this was already mentioned, though) and the controls were a bit stiff. I would’ve liked better use of the mouse so I would just be able to click on buttons. I did notice some lag too when clicking the ‘next’ button before the start of each round.
\nAll round, well done! This is a neat game with lots of charm to it :-)
\n","games":["FREEEDOOOM!!!!!!!"]},{"at":348386699,"author":"Cameron Early","login":"DastardlySky","gh":117837801,"text":"This game is so cool! I love the almost “stock market” idea where you can buy and sell at different prices. The jingle that plays when people are shopping is really catchy too. If I had any complaints, it would be that the font can be a bit illegible at times and the controls felt a bit laggy when naviagating menus.
\nAll in all, really fun, addictive sim!
\n","games":["FREEEDOOOM!!!!!!!"]},{"at":348560526,"author":"Roman Miniv","login":"RomanMiniv","gh":50551993,"text":"The control did not work immediately, you have to press it several times for it to finally work.
\nI liked the animation of the buyers’ shadows! Overall a good idea, played up to 4k+ thanks and congratulations!
\n","games":["Crusaders and their Journeys"]},{"at":348613336,"author":"Tiago Correia","login":"dosaki","gh":1957450,"url":"https://dosaki.net/","text":"I wish I could do a half stars because this game would get full marks in Graphics except for the fact that the font is very hard to read.\nThe shadows of people are a nice touch (though at first I thought everyone was going by ignoring my stall).
\nIn terms of gameplay it’s definitely up my street, I quite enjoyed this.
\n","games":["Swords & Quills"]},{"typ":2,"at":348712338,"author":"Ania Kubów","login":"kubowania","gh":51362610,"url":"javascriptgames.online","twitter":"ania_kubow","text":"Very much enjoyed this game! Who knew running a market stall could be so thrilling? The part that made this the most enjoyable for me is the ‘stock market’ approach with pricing your inventory. Having a peek at the source code is much advised.
\nThe retro visuals were very cool and the colour palette well thought out. Some bits were a bit hard to read due to the font but that is an easy fix. I can see this game being adapted to teach young children about supply and demand if you want to take it that route and try monetize somehow.
\nWell done!
\n"},{"at":348712638,"re":348712338,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"Thank you, super kind words! I feel a little bit more encouraged to continue developing it! The hard-to-read font was indeed the first thing I fixed post-comp.
\n"},{"at":348817562,"author":"Mark Vasilkov","login":"mvasilkov","gh":140257,"url":"https://mvasilkov.animuchan.net","twitter":"mvasilkov","text":"I dig the art style! The peoples’ shadows are super cool, and I see you’ve updated the font in the post-compo version, I like the new one a lot more.
\nOne thing I’d change is, please make the buttons clickable!
\n","games":["Super Castle Game"]},{"typ":2,"at":348826461,"author":"Björn Ritzl","login":"britzl","gh":1300688,"url":"www.defold.com","twitter":"bjornritzl","text":"I enjoyed playing Market Street Tycoon. There is a certain charm to these trading games.
\nThe font did not render very well in my browser (Chrome, macOS).
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":348836341,"author":"Victor Debone","login":"debone","gh":763457,"url":"https://javascri.pl/","twitter":"javascripl","text":"Hello! Thanks for your submission to js13k!\nI’m sure you’ve worked hard on your game, but I’m not aware of how much time you spent on it, so excuse me if things I mention were in your mind, but got left out in the rush of the month or just because you hit the 13kb limit :)
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