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{{Infobox program<br />
| title=Snake Oil Stanley<br />
| image=Snake Oil Stanley Title screen.png<br />
| author=[[Minecraft:Mojang Studios]]<br />
| platform={{os|lin|mac|win}}<br />
| engine=Unity<br />
| programming language={{proglang|c#}}<br />
| date=November 29, 2014<br />
| size=≈ 117.8 MiB (Windows)<br />
| source available=No<br />
| customlinks=[https://download.floatingtrees.stary.pc.pl/mojam/snake_oil_stanley/snake_oil_stanley-win.zip Download (Windows)]<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Snake Oil Stanley''''' is a game by [[Minecraft:Mojang]] created for the [[Minecraft:Humble Bundle Games Against Ebola]] game jam.<br />
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== Gameplay ==<br />
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The game takes place in Haxxas (pun on [[Minecraft:w:Texas|Texas]]). The player takes the role of Snake Oil Stanley, a salesman of fraudulent medicine. The goal is to earn as much money as possible before getting executed.<br />
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The player starts out in the town of Owstin with $100.<br />
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Each day starts with Stanley reading today's newspaper, which lets the player see two headlines. One of them is either random or provides some information about Stanley's current reputation. The other is a weather forecast, this is random and has no impact on gameplay. The player chooses to either stay, or leave town.<br />
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If the player chooses to stay, Stanley goes to the fraud pharmacist, where potions can be bought. There are 4 options for varied prices: $1, $10, $85 and $1000.<br />
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After the player decides to finish, Stanley starts selling the medicine. 5 customers visit, with each deciding to either get none or one of the potions. If they are suspicious of Stanley, they will mention it before their purchase. The potions are sold for double the original price, for example by selling the $85 potion, the player gets $170. After that, the next day begins.<br />
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If the player chooses to leave town, they choose one of the towns in Haxxas to travel to: Owstin (pun on [[Minecraft:w:Austin, Texas|Austin]], Wacko (pun on [[Minecraft:w:Waco, Texas|Waco]]), Dollaz (pun on [[Minecraft:w:Dallas|Dallas]], Bluntsville (pun on [[Minecraft:w:Brownsville, Texas|Brownsville]]), Shmorman (pun on [[Minecraft:w:Sherman, Texas|Sherman]], Murshell (pun on [[Minecraft:w:Marshall, Texas|Marshall]]) or Housetown (pun on [[Minecraft:w:Houston|Houston]]). It takes a varying number of days to travel depending on how distant the town is.<br />
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Customers get progressively more suspicious of Stanley the longer he stays in town, and after a while, they will execute him, which ends the game. Each day Stanley needs to buy food and donkey fuel, which costs money. Running out of money causes Stanley to die of starvation, which also ends the game. The player needs to carefully balance scamming customers and travelling.<br />
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=== Controls ===<br />
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The game is controlled entirely using the mouse.<br />
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== Soundtrack ==<br />
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The game uses "Just Say Goodbye Again" by George J. Gaskin looped infinitely as it's soundtrack.<br />
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== Gallery ==<br />
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<gallery><br />
Snake Oil Stanley Welcome to Owstin.png|Owstin welcome sign<br />
Snake Oil Stanley Newspaper better than antibiotics.png|Newspaper, Stanley has a good reputation<br />
Snake Oil Stanley Pharmacist.png|Visiting the pharmacist<br />
Snake Oil Stanley Pharmacist description.png|Pharmacist describes a potion<br />
Snake Oil Stanley Customer ailment.png|Customer looking to buy a potion<br />
Snake Oil Stanley Customer sold.png|Customer bought a potion<br />
Snake Oil Stanley Newspaper beware.png|Newspaper, rumors spread<br />
Snake Oil Stanley Customer suspicious.png|Customer grows suspicious<br />
Snake Oil Stanley Newspaper 5000 dollars.png|Newspaper, Stanley has a bad reputation<br />
Snake Oil Stanley Customer angry.png|Customer is angry<br />
Snake Oil Stanley Newspaper 10000 dollars.png|Newspaper, Stanley has a very bad reputation<br />
Snake Oil Stanley Customer execution.png|Customer wants to execute Stanley<br />
Snake Oil Stanley Executed.png|Stanley was executed<br />
Snake Oil Stanley Travel.png|Travelling<br />
Snake Oil Stanley Starved.png|Stanley has starved<br />
</gallery><br />
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== Trivia ==<br />
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* Internally, the game's mechanics are quite complicated. For example, each customer is assigned wealth based on the average town's wealth, which determines which potions they buy.<br />
* In the game's code, there is an unused <code>Ingredients</code> class, containing lists of liquids, solids and preparations, suggesting that a feature allowing players to create their own potions was planned.<br />
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