joseph-manley 2018-08-14 03:27
The game felt really good. It felt like Paper Please mixed with Tetris. Good job! Two little suggestions, you should have made the story mode selection a GUI in the game and add some music to liven up the game.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD42 → DWN
By micdoes
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 793 | 3.20 | 47 | |
| Fun | 841 | 2.96 | 47 | |
| Innovation | 683 | 3.08 | 47 | |
| Theme | 787 | 3.26 | 47 | |
| Graphics | 786 | 3.13 | 47 | |
| Humor | 468 | 2.81 | 43 | |
| Mood | 860 | 2.78 | 47 |
The game felt really good. It felt like Paper Please mixed with Tetris. Good job! Two little suggestions, you should have made the story mode selection a GUI in the game and add some music to liven up the game.
I do enjoy the package acceptance part of it the most.
I apparently am a sucker for games that simulate administrative tasks.
A agree some music would be nice. I liked the way that the two games worked together.
Great game ! I really enjoyed the "Paper Please" style haha , if you add some music it would be very good ! And good luck with your game xD
I loved the physics Tetris and the papers please, I only wish there was a bit of a sense of urgency, but that is exactly how I felt about papers please, maybe I'm the problem there lol.
Thanks to everyone who has commented so far, The papers please style was definitely intentional, I don't have that I badly want it, and I agree with the needing music, the only problem is I am no good at music, so I just used non-copyrighted music in the title screen (credit in credits)
I really liked the game. The papers please game play was challenging at times. I got caught by the Oday logo being changed more than once. The only criticism that I can see is that I would like the tetris game be at the end of the package acceptance phase. Also the game needs some urgency, time is money after all.
I really liked papers please so, of course, I would like this game. I thought it was funny and the gameplay was really fun! just wish there was more.
Really great game! Sound effects fit great. It's unfortunate that the game froze for me after placing package 2 on day 2, but other than that I really enjoyed it!
A good game idea, the music should be improved. The graphics are good. Try our game too, maybe you'll like it)
Nice work, I think this has potential, I think the more papers please style games the better. Found the fonts difficult to read. Some more instruction and tooltips needed to communicate mechanics would help.
I couldn't make it past day 4 it was too boring :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:
Yeah, nice Papers Please style of game. Wish it was a bit more fast paced.
Nice sound effects, neat graphics, a nice touch of humour and a cool concept.
Nice and polished. Simple, fun gameplay but perhaps too sedate. Maybe a hard mode with a timer for the checking process? Good effort and can definitely be built upon.
Great work! I enjoyed the slow pace of the address checking and I found it complimented the setting effectively. The only place I would've liked more speed was with the box shipping. I think it could have been nice to have an option to drop the boxes quicker.
@tinykidtoo I'm really glad you liked it, looking back the Tetris afterwards could have worked a bit better!
@darkmonkey-inc I'm torn about going back to it, its already one of my best games, and I am pretty sure if I went back to it I would need to re-write it because code gets real ugly in a hurry, but I am glad you found it funny I was going for that!
@yilian Dang, I don't know why it froze... I'll try to look into that.
@awix Thanks, I agree yes the music department is lacking, but I made everything but the audio myself, and that's because audio is my one weakness, also your game looks cool, I'll have a look now!
@disco Thanks, I meant to add instructions in the menu, hence the huge gap between play and exit, but suddenly realised I didn't have time to do that, I'll add better instructions in the Itch.io page
@m-dam any suggestions on how to make it less boring (apart from making it more fast paced)
@raivk Thanks so much, although I can't take any credit for the sounds, I just found them online
@poffle Super glad it comes off polished and fun, I myself did notice some bugs that I didn't have time to fix, but they were very minor
@happyhour I can understand the box loading stage being too slow, I thought that myself, one of my ideas was you click and it drops, but at least you didn't have the pain I had, when developing one of the first things I do is set it from 30 FPS to 60FPS, I must have forgotten, and on the last day I realised and luckily fixed it!
To everyone who said it was slow, I actually agree, that's half the reason I made the "story mode" (if you don't know the difference its basically no difference but the story mode has a cheat) If I was to go back to it, as I said before I am not sure I will, I will definitely try to make it more intense, and stressful, I do like stressful games, also I will actually play papers please before I start work again.
Really like this, music would have added the mood but good job overall!
The graphics and physics of this game are just amazing!
Cool idea, papers please inspiration. The easy mode was definitely easy :P - you should find more ways to make this difficult. like boxes with weird tape, faint noises coming from a box (bomb), etc... lot of possibilities.
Nice game but I found it a bit boring, here is why:
-The difference between days is sometimes seemingly non-existant.
-I hated having to open and close the phone list every time and that the phone book covered the adress of the package.
-I wish I could drop the package whenever I wanted and not having to wait for the timer.
-I didn't find the tetris package part challenging at all in a lot of the earlier days.
-I didn't like having to click to exit the tetris view every time.
-The lack of music is a shame, it helps a lot maintaining the momentum.
The Paper, please part was pretty nice, the sounds fit very well and it is actually very polished and with a lot of content. With some tweaks this could be a very fun game.
Clever game! Really made me want to go back and play Papers Please again. Only critique would be that I think the game flow would feel better if you checked all the packages first, then put them on all on the truck. Putting the packages on the truck really disturbs the flow of the checking packages bit and makes it feel slower paced. Overall I enjoyed it quite a bit. Nice submission!
@busy-games Thanks for playing it :v: also music is something I'll look into
@notlivingpool Thank you so much :)
@g4mr Those are really good ideas, I'm going to steal them!
@star-garden As I said in my previous message I think that's a really good idea!
@le-slo Wow you had a lot of text, so I might as well have a lot of text back! A lot of the points you made do have reasons for why I didn't put them in Ludum Dare, Mainly time. But that doesn't mean they are bad ideas. (the list is replying to your list with each point in the same place)
-I agree, I probably had time to make some kind of transition
-Okay, that one didn't have a reason for doing, I could probably think of something!
-There was a good reason for that, originally I was going to do that, but because of certain problems I had, I, of course, didn't, now I am thinking of it I could always make it so you can't place it if it's in something!
-Yea thank makes sense, around 15-ish packages it becomes impossible, and I was trying to prolong the game, but keep an increase of packages per day.
-That is only because of Ludum Dare, it would have taken ages to figure out how to make it go back after things stop moving, I had ideas but GameMaker doesn't like those ideas, hence why I am starting to move to Unity.
-Seems music is my main problem, I'll figure something out for a later release!
All in all thanks for playing and let me know if I should continue, at the moment I have a different long-term project that you can keep up with here: https://twitter.com/MicDoes
Liked it a lot!
The good: * Excellent graphics, really fit (and enhance) the feel of the game * Interface feels good, which is important in a game where the gameplay is basically the interface * The mix up between the tetris part and the package checking part makes the gameplay more varied, keeping it interesting.
What I liked a bit less: * I really liked the letters the first few days. Then I played until around day 6 or so and didn't get any letters for a few days, making me lose the interest in the story a little bit. I think it would be better (especially for a jam game) if the game was shorter and the story more condensed. * I tried playing through it two times, and eventually got fired in both (first time in day 4, second time in day 6), and both times I got fired it came as a surprise. I think there is some UI that shows how many "hits" you get in the tetris view, but I'm not sure if there's anything showing that you've made a mistake in the package checking view (if there is one I've missed it).
Anyway, really liked this entry, think it could be a very fun game if you polish it post Ludum Dare.
Nice little game. Maybe you can allow the players to click and drop the package at the desired position once they are ready instead of waiting for the 3 seconds.
Interesting
To me it was pretty boring but I guess I didn't reach the story part. I liked the graphics and the sound of the stamp was satisfying and maybe the story was nice but I tried ti get there got fired two times and had enough of it.
Well done! I enjoyed all of the mechanics put into this. Thanks for sharing your game with my stream awhile back. Your game was played around 0:56 into this vod: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/300724241