Route: Vending Machine Round

Six vending machines. One van. One day. You drive the round, see what sold since you were last there, restock out of the back, and set one price at every stop.

Load the van once, because it will not hold enough for everything. At each stop you see what sold out, what did not move and what went off, restock from what you brought, and set the price. Nothing you decide today is settled today: the price you set at a machine is what it pays out the next time you stand in front of it. Six stops is about three minutes, and the last one is midnight.

What's in it

• Yesterday's takings, machine by machine, in one glance
• Six streets that want different things: the junction is commuters and hot coffee, the arcade is teenagers and cold fizz
• A roof lot that is nearly dead until it is hot out, and then it carries the whole round
• Weather moves all of it, and every pitch charges rent whether you stocked it or not
• Twenty lines to sell and a van that will not carry them all
• Machines with opinions and no way to express them except which row jams and what somebody has taped to the front
• English and Korean. Plays offline, no account, no energy bar.

It is not idle. Nothing earns while you are away and there is no tree of numbers to grind. What carries over is what you worked out about a street, and a street changes with the weather.

Controls (PC)

• Mouse: click the stock rows to load and restock, + and - to set the price, then Drive on.
• Esc: back

The itch.io version

• No ads. No in-app purchases. The full game, once.
• "Take an advance" is a free button here. It only shows up when a round closes you under and you cannot buy tomorrow's stock.
• The mobile version's other video offers (patch the van, fill the van, move a machine, warm the cans) are not in this version: free every day they would remove the round's costs.
• A tall window (540x960) that fits a 1080p screen and can be resized.

Credits

Art: LimeZu (limezu.itch.io) and assetmegapack. Fonts: Rubik, Lato, Pretendard (SIL OFL). Made with Godot.

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