The Wizard's Apprentice (Playdate)

The Wizard's Apprentice is a trading game inspired by classic games like Trade Wars, Drugwars, and Dope Wars, but with a more family-friendly theme.

Buy low and sell high in the fantasy lands of Helios in order to pay off your student debt as a Wizard's apprentice. You have 30 days to to earn as much gold as you can by trading in Potions. What will your high score be?

Local highscore records are saved to your game data.

Rules of the game:

• Press B to toggle your Bag of Potions. You may hold up to 4 different types of Potions, but there's no limit to how many each.
• Each time you move to a new location or city, time will advance by 1 day and Potion prices will fluctuate. 
• When you move to a new location or city, there's a chance that a Potion type will be in abundance or in demand for one day. If you are lucky, it may be just what you need.
• As you travel, there's a chance the Royal Guard may catch up to you and make you pay a fine for holding contraband. You can choose to fight or flee, to see if you gain a bag of gold or escape.
• Visit the capitol Helios to pay off all or a portion of your student debt. Interest will accumulate every day on the remaining balance.
• Visit the Mage Guild to study spells--for a fee. If your spells are powerful enough, you may be able to defeat the Royal Guards in a fight and seize any gold they may have.

How to play?

There are two ways you can play The Wizard's Apprentice.

• You can sideload it to your Panic Playdate handheld console. Instructions can be found here: https://help.play.date/games/sideloading/
• Or you can download it to your PC/Mac and play it in the Playdate Simulator. The Playdate Simulator is included in the free Playdate SDK. Link to SDK: https://play.date/dev/