Cart Life Game

Cart Life doesn't artificially heighten the drama of her predicament; the game understands that her situation is inherently dramatic and presents it in a refreshingly straightforward manner. Cart Life is a simulation video game developed by Richard Hofmeier using Adventure Game Studio for Microsoft Windows released in 2010. The game was added to Steam in March 2013 but later removed when Hofmeier released the full source code for free. Use your Nintendo Switch system to control a real-life Mario Kart. Create a course in your home by placing gates and watch the race come to life on screen in augmented reality. The kart will react as you boost, hit items and drift around the course. Unlock in-game environments, gates, costumes and more as you play. Cart Life is a management game in which the player takes the role of an ordinary person, perhaps a little unfortunate, who lives in a small town in the western United States and makes a living to get ahead each day. The game features quite a handful of playable characters, and each of them have their strengths and weaknesses. LDAILY Moccha 500lbs Capacity Folding Deer Game Hauler Cart with Big Wheels, Utility Gear Dolly Cart, Heavy-Duty Steel Deer Game Cart, Hunting Accessories 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 1 offer from $89.99.

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Cart Life

by hofmeier

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File size: 200 MB
Downloaded: 5,908 times
Graphics: 640x400, 16-bit color

Windows

Contemporary

Original

18 May 2011

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Short Game	Can be completed within 30 minutes
Medium Length Game	Takes at least 30 mins to finish
Full Length Game	As long as a Sierra / LucasArts classic
Non-Adventure Game	Using Adventure Game Studio for something else?!
Joke Game	You know when it fits this category ;)
Demo	Unfinished Games / Commercial Games
Training Game	Games made just to try out AGS
<Category Not Set>	Not yet categorised
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Mild
Frontal nudity
Occasional, mild

English

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About this game

A retail simulation for windows. See the people who made this game and any other games they've worked on >>

Writing, Art, Scripting, Sound + Music

Cart Life Game

Testing

Smooth Scrolling & Parallax Scripting

AGS Awards Wins

Won, Best Non Adventure Game Created with AGS 2011

Won, Best Programming 2011

This is an amazing game, but full of bugs. The developer gave up in frustration and open-sourced the game; I made a project on github with the code and have started cleaning it up, and making it so it compiles with newer versions of AGS: https://github.com/dubaaron/cartlife_src
That said, the code is an incredible mess. It's no wonder bugs happened with code that was so messy. I think the original author (hofmeier, much respect) was/is a brilliant designer but very inexperienced in quality coding and software construction. If the code is cleaned up to be more according to modern standards and 'clean code' in general, I think there would be a much better possibility of fixing the bugs and making it playable.
If you are interested, there are notes in the source code and readme with some of the direction I was trying to take with it.

2014-08-08 18:51:40 by Sledgy

Dear ray: You've done something that, as far as I'm aware, nobody else has done and therefore encountered a situation that Cart Life doesn't accommodate. Let me explain: The newspapers 'expire' at midnight (because they're no longer, technically, 'today's newspaper'). Since you've taken so long to get through the tutorial, midnight has come and the newspapers can't be sold anymore, and you can't finish the tutorial. I admit, I hadn't foreseen this circumstance ever arising, and you've explored new, unseen territory: congratulations. In the meanwhile, please consider restarting the game and trying to get through Andrus' tutorial in less than six hours. I'll include a suitable fix in the next build of the game. Cheers!

i don't know, looks promising, but i cannot play it.
right at the start i am told to pick up newspapers, did that. then i am told to raise price, did that, and raised to 50 cent. get the dialogue again, ok, raised again to 55 cent, get the dialogue again, but when i go to menu, newspapers are gone and i cannot raise them. error ? i cannot pickup new newspapers on tuesday because he wants to sleep, but i cannot sleep anywhere, no option in the menu, cannot enter the newspaper stand to sleep there, and cannot enter any other buldings. game keeps telling me i should raise the price, but there is no object in the menu to raise the price, because i need the newspapers from tuesday, but can't pick them up because he wants to sleep. really getting on my nerves.. no way to play on. tried for 20 minutes now. BUGGY!

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1 Cup	Not serious entertainment
2 Cups	A reasonable game, worth a try
3 Cups	A good game, worth playing
4 Cups	A great game, well worth your time
5 Cups	An outstanding, must-play game!