Legal Tender
Legal Tender is a memory game built in GB Studio. It was made as a part of Into the Game Jam - Summer 2024, the game jam hosted by The Worst Garbage Discord community. The theme was "The Alchemy of a Coin".
Legal Tender is the first game I have made and finished, and the goal was to finish something, no matter how small.
The original concept was to have multiple rooms of vending machines where you would spend a coin per guess to match items coming out of those machines to each other. If you run out of coins, you have to start over. I imagined more ways to get coins as you progressed.
This build is simply 1 room. I probably won't come back and add more, but the idea is here, and I learned a ton!
If I pick it back up, you'll probably hear about it in a video or on my blog at MattHorton.live
Credits
Coin animation - 63choux (Thank you!)
Various sprites - Kenney
GB Studio Tiles - Woodlands - PixelMech
GB Studio SciFi characters - The Pixel Nook
GB Studio General Items Sprite Pack - Gamechanger Mods
Code, all other sprites and backgrounds, and music - Matt Horton (Me!)
Love and support - The TWG Discord
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Nice work! I know you didn't get to make it as long as you probably wanted but it's crazy how "polished" it already feels, in terms of feeling like a legit Gameboy-type experience from moment to moment. I love the idea of a game where you're spending coins on vending machines to progress [and make mistakes] and then you're graded by how many coins you have at the end. Really cool idea!
Can't wait to see what you make next in GB Studio!
Delightful, whimsical experience. The ending especially was very stylish!
Nice job on this, great color and aesthetic!
This is a really clever mechanic! Also I love the music