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Live the ultimate pawn shop experience in this funny retro style tycoon game!

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Factsheet

Developer:
Abyte Entertainment
Based in Ireland

Release date:
March 25 2018

Platforms:
Windows
iOS
Android

Website:
abyteentertainment.com

Available From:
$6.49 - Google Play
$4.99 - Steam
$9.99 - Green Man Gaming
$4.99 - 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, and almost 30 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 that they wanted to fully commit to the path of 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. They quit their jobs and embraced the mission of making a real videogame, something to put in all what they’ve learnt so far as developers and gamers!

And that's how Dealer's Life was born, a game where procedural generation meets behavioural simulation which means that you never know what's coming next!

Dealer's Life is currently available on Google Play, App Store, Steam, Itch.io and Green Man Gaming.

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

Download all screenshots & photos as .zip
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Download logo/icon assets as .zip
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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.


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 Lite on Google Play Store
Dealer's Life Lite on Google Play Store play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.AbyteEntertainment.DealersLife.

Dealer's Life on App Store
Dealer's Life on App Store itunes.apple.com/app/id1438244426.

Dealer's Life Lite on App Store
Dealer's Life Lite on App Store itunes.apple.com/app/id1436631813.

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.


About Abyte Entertainment

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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, and 30 years as gamers. In 2016 they decided to capitalize their experience and follow a new path, designing and creating their first video game: Dealer's Life.

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


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