Draft:The Bazaar (video game)

• Comment: See WP:COI. Greenman (talk) 18:08, 8 November 2022 (UTC)

• Comment: Lacks coverage in reliable sources. Too much WP:GAMECRUFT. Almost certainly WP:TOOSOON for an article. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 16:59, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

• Comment: Large parts are unsourced, the majority of the citations comes from primary sources, and there have been little changes since the last decline. IceWelder [✉] 18:41, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

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The Bazaar
File:The bazaar.png
Developer(s)	Tempo Games
Publisher(s)	Tempo Games
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows macOS Android iOS
Release	Windows, macOS October, 30th Android, iOS TBA
Genre(s)	Auto battler, Strategy, Hero-builder
Mode(s)	Multiplayer

The Bazaar is an upcoming, free-to-play, hero-builder strategy video game based on the auto-battler and card game genre developed and published by Tempo Games, a game development subsidiary of Tempo Storm. The Bazaar was first announced on April 6th, 2018, by Reynad, founder and CEO of Tempo Games. It will be a free-to-play live-service game which will monetize itself with cosmetics such as animated cards, hero and board skins and more. The game is planned to have an in-game marketplace where players can buy, sell and trade their cosmetics with other players. The game releases as a Closed Beta on October, 30th lasting until December where the Open Beta will commence. Closed Beta access can be gained by purchasing one of the limited-time Founder's packs or if users had backed the game from methods in the past, they also get access to the Closed Beta. The Bazaar is anticipated to be available for Microsoft Windows and macOS at the beginning, with Android, and iOS. releasing later. The game will officially launch sometime in January 2025.

The Bazaar features several Heroes with unique items and playstyles and involves players facing a series of deck-building decisions and PvE threats followed by PvP face-offs with asynchronous matchmaking.

Gameplay

The main goal in The Bazaar is to reach 10 PvP wins, before losing your "Prestige", which is you run health. You start with 20 Prestige and lose some equal to the "Day" count when you are defeated in a PvP battle. Over the course of a game, players can buy items to place on their board, which include small items that take up 1 space, medium items that take up 2 spaces, and large items that take up 3 spaces. During the drafting process, players can move these items around their board freely, as often the items have positional effects. Items have rarity tiers that affect how powerful they are as well as when they show up in a run, these are Bronze, Silver, Gold and Diamond. When you find the same tier of an item, you can fuse it to upgrade the item. Not every item has each tier, some items can start at diamond tier. From the start of a run, players have access to a "Stash" which has 10 slots for items to be placed in. This is purely a storage space for extra items as they do not activate inside the stash during battles.

Battles in The Bazaar do not require player input, and instead, items on both boards trigger automatically after an item-specific cooldown timer. Players each have a health pool, and the PvP battle ends when the opposing players health is reduced to or below 0. If the battle continues long enough with neither player winning, a sandstorm appears that damages both players, growing exponentially until one of the players loses.

Before each run of The Bazaar, the player must first choose which hero to play as. Each hero has their own set of around 100 items, and when you unlock that hero, you unlock every item in their pool. Since The Bazaar is a live-service game, it will feature many playable heroes, each with distinct playstyles. The Closed Beta will feature 3 heroes, those being, Pygmalien, Vanessa and Dooley, with Jules, Mak, Stelle and future heroes having their releases spread out. Some heroes feature different mechanics, such as Jules who fills her opponents with Joy, offering a different win condition, or Dooley who centres around an item that can be upgraded throughout the game. Heroes can be unlocked for free by earning enough Gems or by purchase.

A Bazaar run is structured through "Days" and "Hours". Each Day features 6 hours. The 3rd hour is guaranteed to give you an option between 3 PvE fights and the 6th hour is where the PvP battle takes place. The other hours can be a variety of different encounters such as Merchants who sell you items, Skill Trainers who sell Hero Skills, free items or special events. At the start of each day, you gain gold equal to your income. The default is 5, however this amount can be increased through various methods such as items and events. In The Bazaar, your board has a total of 10 slots. You start a run with 4 unlocked with the rest being unlocked via the "Level" system. You unlock 2 slots at Level 2, 3 and 4. Every level up provides you with a benefit such as a free skill, item upgrade or item buffs. In order to level up you must gain 8 XP. You get 1 XP at the end of each hour, however you can gain some from PvE battles as well as purchase some from a merchant. The 3rd hour that presents PvE battles usually provides you with an Easy, Medium or Hard fight, each giving either 1, 2 or 3 XP, along with some amount of Gold. You must win the PvE battle in order to gain these rewards. Additionally, you also have the chance to drop one of the items or skills the monster uses as well.

Hero Skills grant passive stats or bonuses to the player during combat (including but not limited to a damaging effect when hit, a maximum health increase, and additional gold income per battle).

Development and release

Development of The Bazaar was first made public through an Indiegogo campaign, from which the game raised $115,000 toward production. Soon after, developer Tempo Storm—a former competitive esports organization—formally announced a company division dedicated towards the production of The Bazaar: Tempo Games. In 2019, the game was made publicly available for pre-order which granted the user early access and the amount they paid as in-game currency, doubled. Pre-orders were closed September 16th, 2021.

On February 20th, 2020, Tempo Storm announced they received a $3.3 million investment led by technology investor Galaxy Interactive. On March 5th, 2021, Tempo launched their open investment campaign on Republic and successfully funded and closed on August 10th, 2021 with $700,734.

Tempo Storm announced multiple industry veteran hires on September 2nd, 2021. Tempo welcomed Erin Krell, Eric Flannum, Gregory Marques, and Stephen Dewhurst to the team working on The Bazaar.

Throughout the development of The Bazaar, the team uploaded update videos showcasing the games progress in all areas of the games development such as art, music, design and gameplay. Video updates stopped after February 7th, 2022 so the team could focus on finishing the game.

The Bazaar was officially announced at the OTK Games Expo on June, 4th 2024. Alongside this announcement the Closed Beta date was revealed to take place in October. This date also commenced the return of weekly videos, this time focusing on finalised topics (instead of the previous in-development videos) such as gameplay reveals, art spotlights and music previews.

Art

Tempo Games outsources N-iX, a European software development company. They are responsible for many art pieces players see in The Bazaar.

Plot

The Bazaar is set in an intergalactic marketplace where a variety of different technologies, cultures, species, and people are coming together to trade and barter.

External links

• Official website

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