Hi -- The sale is over :)

I'll leave this up for as long as I remember to keep the backends running. I think it still runs even with those down, but not very good.

Good morning and good afternoon (arvo) and good evening and  good middle of the night. 

YOU SHOULD DO THIS ON A DESKTOP OR LAPTOP BECAUSE I PURPOSEFULLY IGNORED TESTING ON MOBILE

*** DESKTOP OR LAPTOP ***

** NO MOBILE **

Update 2024-01-27: Too lazy to fix the reporting to accurately display the correct entry, so it just shows score now :D

This sale will run for at least 48 hours. To enter, just play the game and submit your high score. Don't forget to actually put your contact and paypal email.

I will probably leave the game up after if you for some reason want to keep playing. 

• This sale will close 2024-01-27 @ 2200 (10pm) EST. Any entries submitted after this will not be counted for the sale.
• It's also blindbag. I didn't feel like dealing with logistics of also figuring out preference, so caps go in a box and your label will end up on a random one.
• If something is broken with the game/sale format, I will close it, fix the issues and restart the sale period. Wouldn't be something from me without some jank :D
• This is a skill based sale that will allow you to win 1 MX keycap. It will be randomly selected from the available below.
• To enter play the game, get a high score, and enter a Discord or Instagram name  along with your Paypal email. I might need to reach out.
• The keycaps being sold will cost you $5.22 and you can only win 1.
• Shipping is $5 and is only to CONUS. Please have a proxy or I will cancel your invoice. This isn't a joke.
• You can contact me on Instagram @stupidfruitcaps or discord @pears since it's pretty likely something will break with this whole thing. I tested what I could.

I don't know how many caps I'll have so the higher you place the higher the chance you win. You can submit as many high scores as you want, but I will only pull your best score once from the list (I hope, programming is hard). No duplicate wins. Ties have many other ways for me to determine winners. Maybe I'll make a nicer leaderboard after it's over since I only wrote a crude one to show me the data.

Please enjoy the skilled based sale. Hopefully the game works and doesn't break. I guess if it does this whole thing was a failure.  If you enter a name that I cannot find on Discord or Instagram, that's you forfeiting your entry. Don't be dumb. Or do. I like both.

This was originally going to be an April Fool's sale but I realized I didn't want to sit on this once it was completed. Maybe I'll do something else for the 1st. I should probably thank my good pal Antony for letting me send him walls of text while I was learning and making this. Honestly not sure I'd have finished without him.

Also this wouldn't be a me post without crediting the Keycap Archivist site for making the data gathering for resin painless. I hope more people are able to use the data provided by makers and enthusiasts for more things, especially more dumb things like this game.

How does the game work?!

Shoot the aliens. Or whatever is on screen. They get generated randomly. Different aliens have different point values. You can figure out which ones have more points. You may have to play a lot of times to get a good roll of RNG for higher point aliens. Isn't that fun? 

You lose if you get shot or the aliens get to the bottom of the screen or something. Maybe there are even secrets that will get you an auto-win. Who knows.

Did you really learn how to program a game for a single sale?

Yep. Learning is fun and now I know the basics to making a game. That's cool. I also made all the graphics (assuming you also count recreating the egghand as 8bit), made all the music and sound, along with a few backend services to handle pulling and pushing data. Even if this whole thing is a failure, I went thru a rollercoaster of ups and downs while making it, so overall, I'm glad I did.