Blood Barter

Blood Barter is a text-based adventure game that I made for Discord Jam 8's "decay" theme. It explores the concept of giving up parts of yourself to get what you want out of life. The player explores a seemingly ordinary "life changing" night market. As they progress through the stalls and crowds, they realize some of the merchants have strange bartering habits.

Background music from: https://jjbbllkk.itch.io/cosmic-horror-drones-and-melodies

How to Play

Commands that you can use:

• help - prints a list of commands
• go [location] - moves player to a new location (must be connected to the current one)
• offer [item] - offers a shop-keeper an item you own
• reflect - checks the player's current inventory

Post-Jam Retro

Thank you for taking the time to play my game!  This was my first time using Godot so I was doing a lot of learning along the way. Some things I wish I focused more on:

• Endings - I realized I never actually put in an ending, much less the multiple endings I had originally planned for. This makes the game unsatisfying since there isn't really a stopping point.
• Audio - I wish I had more time to put in some sound effects for the different locations and actions you could take throughout the game!
• Quality of Life - I wanted to put in a settings menu tab on the side to let players increase the font size, change volume, etc. I also thought it would be nice to add a tab completion option for typing the commands.
  

Overall, I had a lot of fun making this and I hope you enjoy playing! Please leave your feedback in the comments so I can keep improving.

Patches

8/11/2024 at 9:43PM PST 

• FIX: reduce volume of background music because it was way too loud
• FIX: fixed some spelling mistakes