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Gutted Goblin Trading Co

By doctormozart and BabyKing

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall4023.5626
Fun6093.2026
Innovation4883.2825
Theme314.3326
Graphics4333.6626
Audio2693.4524
Humor2.6119
Mood7013.0020

Comments

do-the-dog-avc 2018-08-14 05:00

i love the boxes bumping into each other!

zicboy 2018-08-14 05:07

Loved it! great job

miguel-fraga 2018-08-14 05:07

I like to much this game! It is soo good

zchangvx 2018-08-14 05:09

One of my favorites so far! It gets pretty chaotic after a while, but that's just more fun to be had. Could spend next to hours playing this. Nice one!

caerul 2018-08-14 05:09

Great use of the theme for the game jam. Control was hard for me since I kept on wanting to turn it with WASD like a top down view rather than playing the directions from the forklift's point of view. Took me a bit to figure out I didn't actually need to "pick up" the boxes, just need to push them :) It was fun watching me fail though.

cephalophor 2018-08-14 05:15

Beautiful game, lovely soundtrack, and a good time. It would have been cool if there was in incinerator or something to trash extra crates. I like to think the forklift driver is a goblin.

matt-fabius 2018-08-14 05:16

Fun game! I liked the mix of Diner Dash gameplay with an actual character you control. That said I felt like tank controls were a strange choice for a control scheme, or at least I wouldn't have used w for throttle. That felt especially confusing since the gameplay primarily involves moving horizontally. Other than that, I enjoyed it a lot. Great work!

chelc 2018-08-14 05:17

Wow it's really fun to drive the forklift and knock everything around!! Sometimes you gotta go all the way in the back to get your big red monster. Is this what it's like to work in the amazon workhouse? super fun! :)

doctormozart 2018-08-14 05:31

@matt-fabius, I was curious how people would feel about tank controls. I know they are either loved or hated. As a huge classic Resident Evil fan, I feel like I was raised on them, haha. Thanks for playing!

doctormozart 2018-08-14 05:33

@chelc I'm glad you enjoyed it! When making it, I kept trying to come up with a Punny name for the game involving the Amazon Warehouse, so I'm happy you were reminded of that as well. :wink:

doctormozart 2018-08-14 05:36

@zchangvx Thanks for checking it out! I had fun blasting through waves of enemies in your game as well! :smiley:

doctormozart 2018-08-14 05:39

@caerul It does get pretty hectic at times! Picking up the crates is definitely the dominant strategy, hehe, but I'm glad that pushing them around worked for you. :smile_cat:

doctormozart 2018-08-14 05:59

@Zicboy Thanks! I had a great time with your game as well. :laughing:

matt-fabius 2018-08-14 07:54

@doctormozart Tank controls are fine. I was just saying I thought it was a strange choice for this particular game.

doctormozart 2018-08-14 16:49

@matt-fabius Fair enough! :smile: The art in your game looks amazing! I can't wait to try it after work.

doctormozart 2018-08-14 17:35

@do-the-dog-avc Thanks for giving it a try! That is one of my favorite parts too. :wink: Your game looks really cool as well! I'm going to try it with my partner after work :smile:

keyurrana 2018-08-15 06:37

Cool game. I like the music. It was very fun to control the forklift and bumping into boxes.

It took me a couple of tries to get the hang of the controls, but that's not a big deal. However, I do feel that the icons for the boxes in the delivery area could have been more clear. I didn't know which boxes were supposed to go to which area the first time I played it. Apart from that, I really enjoyed the game. Good job!

babyking 2018-08-15 15:57

@keyurrana Thank you for playing! I'm glad we could provide you your box bumping experience! That is some good feedback, I think that @doctormozart and I will likely revisit this game after the voting is done and making the UI a little more obvious is at the top of my list.

babyking 2018-08-15 16:02

@matt-fabius Yeah, the controls aren't super obvious. I think if @doctormozart and I were to expand this we'd have some warm-up levels so that you have a little more experience with a less hectic experience. I wanted to emulate driving an actual forklift. Do you think it might be easier if we were to enable the arrow keys as a control option?

redhermit 2018-08-16 03:00

Really wonderful. The music was so fitting and perfect.. it made it such a peaceful and fun experience moving boxes around.. almost in a zen like state of organizing/sorting, even with the chaos of the inbound conveyor belts.

doctormozart 2018-08-16 18:07

@redhermit Thank-you for your kind words! I'm glad you enjoyed the music. At first I found it an amusing juxtaposition to the chaos going on around you, however, after playing testing it a lot, I've noticed it helps create a nice "flow-state".

ctrble 2018-08-21 02:58

That was fun! Took me a moment to figure out the meaning of the icons in the UI (my fault for initially skipping the controls overview), but once I saw that I had a good time. The forklift drove really well, too.

gaweringo 2018-08-22 09:29

Really nice game. Well done with the look and sound. The only thing that annoyed me was that the icons for the boxes on the UI were not really looking like the boxes so that I got confused wich boxes I need (especially the two with the blue in them).

roidz 2018-08-23 00:33

game played smooth. i enjoyed playing this. Music was good too

coda-highland 2018-08-23 01:35

Pretty fun! It took a little while to figure out how to actually make things happen but there's something particularly satisfying about how it handles.

2018-08-25 01:26

This music makes me feel good about my life choices

del-nordlund 2018-08-25 03:01

I love the name of the game; it actually made me super hyped to play this and I wasn't disappointed! The controls handled really well and it has a cool style! Amazing!!

chrissx2 2018-08-25 14:33

I really liked playing it. We really had the similar idea. You have a bit of a tetris element to it. Great job! :)

babyking 2018-08-26 17:11

@chrissx2 Thanks for playing!! @doctormozart has been raving about your game so I am excited to give it a shot after my bust weekend. It looks fantastic o-o