The Amazing Creation of Moth Emporium

The game is a choice based game where you work in an oddities shop called The Moth Emporium and you can either be a model employee who sells forgery artifacts and other scammy items to your customers and profit?

Or piss off the entire population of the town and your boss… especially your boss.

I started with the good ol’ pen and paper, plotted out the general plot progression. The general beginning, middle and end.

The game includes a very simple main menu that I created in photoshop. I also used the background image I created for the main menu as the background for most of the gameplay.

Most of the game is just general dialog prompted by clicking various buttons, however there are some more interesting mechanics working in the background that might be easy to miss.

The main thing being the ‘morality’ system type thing. The game keeps track of your performance as an employee. It will give you points or subtract points depending on what interactions you choose and how well your sales go. At the end of the game a summation of those points determine if you get the good ending, the bad ending or the worse ending.

This mechanic was made possible using the Global variable system and just adding or subtracting whatever value from it.

The other mechanic is the ‘sale success’ system. The game uses different percentages to determine the likelihood of an item being sold to a customer. Some items are more likely to be sold, so there's low risk, but also no or minimal reward points given. However, other items are very unlikely to be successfully sold, however if a customer does happen to buy it, the player will receive many points, however if they fail they will lose just as many points. (And these points are referring to the points that determine your ending.)

Also the game includes a fun secret ending where you say to the Creepy Dude that you wanna marry walker and there's a 10% chance Walker is like “YEAH!” and then you skip to the marry walker ending and that's fun.