Factsheet
Developer:
Abyte Entertainment
Based in Ireland
Release date:
March 25 2018
Website:
abyteentertainment.com
Available From:
$9.99 - Steam
$9.99 - Green Man Gaming
$9.99 - itch.io
$3.99 - iOS App Store
Description
Dealer's Life is a funny tycoon game where you manage your own pawn shop. Haggle with infinite generated customers to buy and sell infinite generated items! Have fun for hours and use all your negotiation, psychology and management skills to create your pawn empire! Thanks to procedural generation, special characters and random events you’ll never know what’s coming next!
History
Abyte Entertainment is an indie game studio founded by Giulio Marra and Federico Palombini, two Italian developers with more than 10 years of experience in business projects, from web to e-commerce platforms, more than 5 years in the gaming industry and more than 35 years as gamers.
Everything began in 2006, the very first concept of an haggling engine came out as a university paper showing that negotiation can be engaging also in videogames. It was good at that time but not something that could be really called “a game”. The indie game scene was not that good at that moment and the best and most logical thing to do for them was to follow other choices regarding their first job. It was a safer option but you can’t ignore your true passion forever.
In 2016, after 10 years of professional and challenging IT projects in major companies (while doing personal side jobs developing basic prototypes and mini games), they decided to capitalize their experience and follow the path of designing and developing a videogame. That old concept came back together with a modern game design heavily inspired by the great indie game “Papers, Please” and a game setting that recalls many TV shows about pawn shops, auctions and negotiation in general. That's how Dealer's Life was born, a game where procedural generation meets behavioural simulation!
In 2019 they started working on Dealer's Life 2 to improve the concept and make it even better, from amazing new graphics to dozens of new features.
They are currently working on Dealer's Life Legend, a fantasy installment of your favorite haggling tycoon phenomenon Dealer's Life!
Features
- Procedural Generation
- Behavioural Simulation
- Negotiation Engine
- Retro Style
- Shop management
- Special characters
- Different game endings
- Tycoon game
- Random events
- Auctions
Videos
Dealer's Life Video Trailer YouTube
Dealer's Life - The Best Rated Pawn Shop Game YouTube
Images
Logo & Icon
Monetization Permission
Abyte Entertainment allows for the contents of Dealer's Life to be published through video broadcasting services for any commercial or non-commercial purposes. Monetization of videos created containing assets from Dealer's Life is legally & explicitly allowed by Abyte Entertainment. This permission can be found in writing at https://www.indiedb.com/games/dealers-life/presskit.
Additional Links
Dealer's Life on Google Play Store
Dealer's Life on Google Play Store play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.AbyteEntertainment.DealersLifeFull.
Dealer's Life on App Store
Dealer's Life on App Store apps.apple.com/app/dealers-life/id1606405358.
Dealer's Life on Steam
Dealer's Life on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/982270/Dealers_Life.
Dealer's Life on Itch.io
Dealer's Life on Itch.io abyteentertainment.itch.io/dealers-life.
Dealer's Life on Green Man Gaming
Dealer's Life on Green Man Gaming greenmangaming.com/games/dealers-life-pc.
Dealer's Life on Humble Store
Dealer's Life on Humble Store humblebundle.com/store/dealers-life.
About Abyte Entertainment
Boilerplate
Abyte Entertainment is an indie game studio founded by Giulio Marra and Federico Palombini, two Italian developers with more than 10 years of experience in business projects, from web to e-commerce platforms, more than 5 years in the gaming industry and more than 35 years as gamers.
More information
More information on Abyte Entertainment, our logo & relevant media are available here.
Dealer's Life Credits
Giulio "Tanek" Marra
Project manager, Product manager, Game designer, Algorithm mastermind, Developer
Federico "Fiz" Palombini
Creative director, Narrative copywriter, Game designer, Developer, Technical artist
Contact
Discord
discord.gg/DXuuj6v
Homepage
abyteentertainment.com/dealers-life
Twitter
twitter.com/dealerslife
Facebook
facebook.com/DealersLife
Dealer's Life Roadmap
trello.com/b/nAAmRDHM
Dealer's Life on IndieDB
indiedb.com/games/dealers-life
presskit() by Rami Ismail (Vlambeer) - also thanks to these fine folks