Montag, 14. September 2015

Premature Evaluation: Shoppe Keep

It’s a shame that Shoppe Keep reduces its encapsulation of fantasy commerce to frenetic makework - there’s loads and loads of interesting and eminently gamify-able elements to running a store. I’d like to see a game which used AI to explain/exploit customer psychology. In fairness to Shoppe Keep, there may be some AI-defined preference to what customers buy, but it is certainly hard to perceive and so impossible to manipulate in a meaningful way. There’s much more that could be done, for example, in charting the ways in which IKEA’s layout entraps and corrals its hapless consumer units. As anyone who has ever been swallowed by an IKEA hellmouth knows, it's a consumer experience so nightmarish as to constitute Sweden’s most significant act of international aggression since its war with Norway in 1814. It’s clearly also hugely successful in getting people to buy stuff they may or may not want - an effect that has been studied by academics at UCL.

Each week Marsh Davies peruses the scanty offerings of Early Access, stuffs anything halfway valuable down his trousers and legs it for the exit. This week, however, the tables have turned (or, at least, their percentage durability has decreased) as he plays Shoppe Keep [Steam page], a game about building up a retail enterprise in a medieval fantasy land.

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