Hi everybody!
We’re three guys from Italy (two computer engineers and a graphic) and we’re working on a game called Dealer’s Life. It’s a funny trade simulation that puts you in charge of a second-hand shop owner.
Many features of the game are freely inspired by famous tv shows (Pawn Stars, Hardcore Pawn, Storage Wars and many others), great indie games like Papers Please and glorious ancestors of early ‘90s like LucasArts adventures.
In DL you can buy and sell quite everything but you always have to negotiate with your customer to get the best price possible. There are plenty of different customers: some are stubborn and greedy, others are ready to throw money at you… the problem is knowing who is what!
Those are the main features of the game:
We are now in beta version, we’re on Google Play but only testers can access the game. If you want to try the game right now, we’ve just started a Kickstarter campaign where we give access to our beta game right away to most of our backers and we provide the full game for a discounted price!
We really hope you like the idea! If you do, have a look at our site and support us!
Thank you very much and have fun!
We’re three guys from Italy (two computer engineers and a graphic) and we’re working on a game called Dealer’s Life. It’s a funny trade simulation that puts you in charge of a second-hand shop owner.
Many features of the game are freely inspired by famous tv shows (Pawn Stars, Hardcore Pawn, Storage Wars and many others), great indie games like Papers Please and glorious ancestors of early ‘90s like LucasArts adventures.
In DL you can buy and sell quite everything but you always have to negotiate with your customer to get the best price possible. There are plenty of different customers: some are stubborn and greedy, others are ready to throw money at you… the problem is knowing who is what!
Those are the main features of the game:
- hundred of thousands of procedurally generated items to buy and sell
- countless procedurally generated customers to deal with, very different in appearance and personality
- there’s no fixed price for anything: you and your customers have to evaluate every single item you encounter, according with your ability to do that. In every negotiation, it’s really easy to have different ideas of the value of an item, so it’s not so fast to come to a compromise
- customers have different reactions during negotiations according to their personality
- the personality of a customer can be recognized by details of the appearance of the customer himself, thus putting attention to this could result in knowing your customer’s reactions and using them at your advantage
- counterfeit items, that are falsifications of rare and valuable items: they’re difficult to recognize if you don’t have enough skill and they’re equally difficult to sell to competent customers
- hire and fire from a vast range of different employees to help you in the shop in many different ways
- move to a new shop with new furniture, more space for items and employees and in a better neighborhood, to attract more clients
- random events that could happen anytime and have effects that can go from minimum to catastrophic
- parallel plots flows linked to recurring characters that can unpredictably appear during the game, bringing you rewards, quests, choices that change the story, challenges or even mini games
We are now in beta version, we’re on Google Play but only testers can access the game. If you want to try the game right now, we’ve just started a Kickstarter campaign where we give access to our beta game right away to most of our backers and we provide the full game for a discounted price!
We really hope you like the idea! If you do, have a look at our site and support us!
Thank you very much and have fun!
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