{"id":1799,"edition":10,"categories":3,"features":0,"size":13299,"name":"Merchant of Death","authors":[{"name":"Justin Gilman","url":"https://eyeofmidas.com","twitter":"eyeofmidas","login":"EyeOfMidas","gh":3173530},{"name":"Danielle Gilman","url":"https://daniellegilman.com","login":"danusha","gh":4016380}],"description":"
You are a gentleman merchant, grave-robbing and selling disreputable goods to the upper class.\nAfter spending your nights gathering materials, sell them to your discerning patrons at high prices.
\nYou seek the legendary blue diamond, buried with one of the world’s elite.
Move with WASD, ZQSD or the arrow keys, or click or tap next to your character to dig in that direction.\nTap fast, you’ve got to dig up as many graves as you can before the night is over!
\nMade by @EyeOfMidas and @danusha
\n","source":"EyeOfMidas/2022js13k","stars":1,"comments":[{"typ":2,"at":315629266,"author":"Filip Dukat","login":"fdukat","gh":87642690,"url":"https://people.andersenlab.com","twitter":"filip_dukat","text":"Overall, the game is really fun for me. Controls are simple and I like grinding resources, I had some fun trying to get as many as possible in one night.
\nShop feature is also a good thing, it’s interesting for me that you don’t automatically sell your items for fixed price but can look for better or worse deals with customers.
\nThe downsides I witnessed are that sounds are buggy in larger areas and after couple seconds of clicking I didn’t hear any sound. The other thing is that after some nights, the customers didn’t want to buy any skulls, only bones and I don’t know if this was planned or some kind of bug but it was a bit odd for me.
\nI would say that the biggest disadvantage of the game is that it is really short so you don’t have much time to enjoy collecting items from the grave and searching for diamond was quite easy in my opinion but the mechanics, retro-style graphics and idea of the game is really cool in my opinion, kinda reminding me Motherload with all of this digging underground :D
\n"},{"at":315728629,"author":"Roberto Capuano","login":"robertocapuano","gh":2651123,"url":"https://2think.it","twitter":"robertocapuano","text":"Good idea and the theme was dealt with well.\nGameplay is affected by too many description.
\n","games":["The High Cost Of Life"]},{"at":315977355,"author":"Michael Primo","login":"michaelprimo","gh":10359577,"url":"https://michaelprimo.it","twitter":"MPMintis","text":"I liked a lot this game! So simple and addictive too! My only problem is you will not care so much about saving resources and think carefully to the offers you have, because you will have so much to satisfy everyone every day. Maybe that change if you speedrun the game, obviously. Awesome game!
\n","games":["Bye Roll!"]},{"at":315991484,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"Really fun game, I played the whole thing and it was entertaining. Good theme. Loved the concept of the store.\nThe graphics are simple but effective, I liked all the different dog breeds. The sound effects were also good, would be perfect with some funny music loop.\nThe later levels were a bit laggy. I think the screen moving was causing the lag somehow, and the more items were in the game, the worse. The panning effect was also too slow to keep up with the top-speed digging.\nOn that note, the top-speed digging was a bit too fast and made me miss my targets often, so I had to walk back.\nWhy did the customer start getting really cheap the more I progressed? They used to pay me 5 bucks per bone, but my the end it was hard to make them pay me 2! Am I flooding the market with cheap bones every morning, thus shooting myself in the foot? Damn.\nOnce I purchased the last map, I had a suspicion that the diamond would be here, so I just dug straight down until I saw it :))
\n","games":["Planet B"]},{"at":316084023,"author":"Christian Staudte","login":"t4khosu","gh":28463194,"twitter":"t4khosu","text":"One of those games that helps me develop some form of tendonitis. Still a lot of fun! Just would have wished for a faster camera movement
\n","games":["Book of Death"]},{"typ":2,"at":316230467,"author":"Christer Kaitila","login":"McFunkypants","gh":2111957,"url":"http://www.mcfunkypants.com","text":"That was so much fun!!! I loved being a digdugdog and finding all the bones and skulls! I enjoyed myself so much I ended up playing until I had purchased 100% of the upgrades! Very nice work.
\n"},{"typ":2,"at":316242980,"author":"Raf Mertens","url":"https://crazygames.com","twitter":"CrazyGamesCom","text":"This was really fun and quite addictive. Played until the end. I found the shop aspect of the game really interesting as it makes you consider which offer is best. Visually the game isn’t the most exciting, but the gameplay is spot on. I would love to play a longer version of this game with more upgrades and items.
\n"},{"at":316256414,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"A fun little game, reminded me of digdug but played at an RTS rather than arcade speed.
\nGraphics were good, the shop was a nice additional aspect to the gameplay.
\nI felt this game suited mobile more than desktop as it felt geared towards mobile.
\nThe bone pickup sound was a little harsh.
\n","games":["Bee Kind"]},{"at":316431753,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"Good entry, found the blue diamond!
\nA little hard to keep clicking after a while. Good level up features and on theme!
\n","games":["Soul Jumper"]},{"at":316505449,"author":"Tiago Correia","login":"dosaki","gh":1957450,"url":"https://dosaki.net/","text":"This game is fun. Actually made me spend lots of time playing it!
\n","games":["Hell Inc."]},{"at":316984638,"author":"Igor Estêvão","login":"IgorFIE","gh":17085338,"twitter":"IgorFIE","text":"I enjoyed farming bones! xD
\nYou should add a “3”, “2”, “1”, “DIIIIIIIIIG!” so people get ready to dig!
\n","games":["The Raising Fighting Spirits"]},{"at":317007943,"author":"Jonathan Vallet","login":"jonathan-vallet","gh":5329099,"text":"I loved this game, nice design, upgrade systems and random shop.\nEasy to understand and fun to play
\n","games":["Tindeath"]},{"at":317048067,"author":"Jerome Lecomte","login":"herebefrogs","gh":1383818,"url":"herebefrogs.com","text":"Addictive game. Took me a bit to get the rhythm but then I had to get all the upgrades and won the diamond!
\n","games":["Stand By Me"]},{"at":317120674,"author":"Miguel Ángel Pérez Martínez","login":"zlash","gh":1052438,"twitter":"zurashu","text":"Very fun! I played a lot but couldn’t get to the diamond. I had a lot of bones and keep piling more and more but couldn’t get enough buyers to get to the last update. Maybe I was just too unlucky? Anyway, good job!
\n","games":["Deathwish"]},{"at":317217542,"author":"John Edvard","login":"johnedvard","gh":656024,"url":"https://reitgames.com","twitter":"ReitGames","text":"I had fun playing this, and I found the diamond! I got a bit tired after clicking so many times on the “wasd” keys to dig as fast as possible.
\nI didn’t know how the shop worked in the beginning. It looked like I had to pay for something, but I had no cash. Picking any option, I understood that we were selling bones to other dogs (fun dialogs btw.) Having the bone emojis in the text would make it easier to scan and hopefully understand too. I think I would have added a column with “price”, and another with “reward” to make it easier to understand that we actually get money by selling bones.
\nGood job.
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