Shopkeeper Showdown
A downloadable game
About the Game
Adventure-Mart is the kingdom’s preeminent market, specializing in everything an adventurer could need for their wildest adventures. But the current assistant to the manager has heard the call of adventure and put their two-week notice in! To find a replacement, your boss has started a competition to determine who will become the new assistant to the manager. Whoever can fill fifty bags with gold will get the title, a 2% raise, and encouragement to hang out with me (the manager), unpaid of course. Lucky you!
Players take on the roles of competing store employees, racing to earn 50 bags of gold first. Each day, you’ll secretly decide whether you want to work in the shop or grab loot that was left behind in the dungeon. But beware: if multiple players choose the same location, you’ll be battling over the customers or loot there.
Expansion
If you want an added dose of roleplaying, sneakiness, and drama, check out the Shopkeeper Showdown: Now More RPG-ier expansion! It includes 4 new name tags for you to play as PLUS introduces motivation cards. These go with the twelve total name tags and introduce a back story and upgraded ability. Want to keep throwing your cards until you get what you want? Or literally just grab cards from the table and stash them for later? Go for it, just don't get caught! Or maybe you want to earn bags of gold every time people make deals without the stress of being sneaky? That's cool too!
Indiepocalypse #40
Shopkeeper Showdown is part of Indiepocalypse issue #40 alongside things from 9 other creators! 🥳🥳🥳
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Status | Released |
Category | Physical game |
Author | Beth and Angel Make Games |
Genre | Card Game, Strategy |
Tags | 18-card-game, shop |
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $5 USD. You will get access to the following files:
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Community Copy
Want a copy of the game but can't/don't want to pay for it? That's totally cool! :D Go right ahead 🙌
Development log
- Some adjustments, a reminder card, and an expansion!Jul 22, 2022
Comments
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This really seems like a fun silly (in the good sense) game :D
I loved the humorous tone of the rules. I am also curious to hear about experiences on how the "more RPG-ier" expansion plays out. It's interesting to see RPG mechanics blend in with board/card games.
OMG I just noticed this reply and thanks so much! I love bringing more story-and-roleplaying to games that have little (or none) and I figured it'd be fun to try it with something we created instead of just for things others have made too :D
And yes!!! Silly is 100% my aesthetic, and that means the world to me to hear 🧡🧡🧡
- ✨ Beth
Okay, seriously, you have no idea how excited I am to bring this to the table! It looks right up our alley, and has such cute illustrations to boot!
Hurray!!! Thank you so much for saying so :D Angel found almost all of the illustrations (I just did the rulebook and the name tags) and I agree, she did an awesome job on those. They're all from Canva! 🙌 And I really hope you enjoy it, but I'd absolutely love to hear any comments if/when you play it :D
-✨Beth