Florbmart

About Florbmart

Each day you wake up in your space bedroom, get the shop ready, open the doors and serve the Florbs, Zorgons, Glorpians, Robo-traders and stranger folk who beam in to shop. Close up at night, go to bed, and wake up to see how much you made. Every alien has their own personality, and when you sign in they really talk back: they know what they came for, what they think of your prices and how long they have been queueing.

How to play

1. Move with WASD (the stick on a phone) and look with the mouse (drag on a phone). Aim the dot in the middle of the screen at something and press E (USE on a phone) to use it.
2. In the morning, switch the lights on, carry the delivery boxes in from the landing pad and hold E on a shelf slot to stack it. Cold things go in the fridges. Then flip the sign by the door to OPEN.
3. Customers fill their baskets and queue at the till. Stand at the till and tap each item to scan it, then take the payment: type the total into the card machine, or count out the right change from the cash drawer.
4. Press T (or tap a customer) to talk to them. Type anything, or use the quick replies.
5. Use the space computer by the back wall to order more stock (a ship drops it on the landing pad), set your prices, and buy upgrades and decorations.
6. At 8 pm the shop closes. Flip the sign, serve the last customers, cash up at the till and go to bed. Overnight you pay the station rent.

What's in it

• A first-person space supermarket: the shop floor, a glass front looking down on the Earth, the landing pad, the stockroom and your bedroom
• Eight species of alien customer and twelve personalities, from grumpy and posh to conspiracy theorists and confused tourists
• AI customers (signed in) who chat in character about the shop, the prices and the queue, and react to what you say
• A real till: scan every item, type the total into the card machine or count out the change
• 29 products from Moon Cheese and Comet Crisps to Bottled Starlight, Holo Pets and a Wormhole in a Box, unlocked as your shop licence grows
• Set your own prices: customers know the market price and walk away if you overcharge
• Opening and closing up every day: lights, deliveries, stocking, the OPEN sign, spills, empty boxes, cashing up and bed
• Upgrades: more shelves and fridges, express delivery, a cleaning robot and the TB-9 robot till merchant who serves customers for you
• Customise the shop: The Dude card game poster, a neon sign with your shop name, floors, wall colours, alien plants, a disco ball, a jukebox and a space jellyfish tank
• Move the whole station from Earth orbit to the Moon, Mars, Saturn's rings and the Orion Nebula, the same space as MDT Space Explorer
• The Galactic Rich List: see every shopkeeper's shop worth, or just your friends'
• MXC milestones for days open, customers served, shop worth and more

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