heyycap 2018-08-14 04:33
Very difficult to compete against the boxes spitting out, and tough to keep something in your forklift. With a little refinement, this could get addicting.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD42 → Box Simulator
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 680 | 3.30 | 22 | |
| Fun | 619 | 3.20 | 22 | |
| Innovation | 448 | 3.32 | 22 | |
| Theme | 897 | 3.10 | 22 | |
| Graphics | 661 | 3.35 | 22 | |
| Audio | 3.09 | 18 | ||
| Humor | 420 | 2.91 | 20 | |
| Mood | 2.70 | 19 |
Very difficult to compete against the boxes spitting out, and tough to keep something in your forklift. With a little refinement, this could get addicting.
There's potential here, but the movement is frustrating and the mechanics are a bit confusing. I feel horribly inept at getting anything done unless I have the magnet powerup, and it's not clear if there's any penalty for dropping boxes in the wrong zone.
What's there seems to work well though. Boxes appear to combine into bigger boxes, gas mechanic works. It might be worth playing with the movement a bit. I'd also suggest adding some more feedback for when boxes are dropped off, since they just kinda vanish right now. Similarly, it took me a while to realize boxes combined since there wasn't any clear visual or audio feedback of this occurring.
@fireslash thanks for the feedback.You cannot drop boxes off in other zones, it would be easier to see that if we provided some feedback. The magnet is strong, I disagree with you that the movement is confusing/frustrating (love to get more feedback on this from you) but yea we know it is tough to push the boxes without the magnet. The hitboxes were tough to figure out with all of the rotating of the boxes so to simplify it we just used circles to detect collisions which feels a little strange.
Thanks for taking the time to play and respond.
Took a little to figure out what was going on but then I managed OK. You don't get to see your score at the end though. Lukily it's readable javascript so I just snooped score from the console. I scored 3761.25 :-)
Thanks @lerc, also very impressive that you were able to get .25 boxes into the zone. Unheard of until now
nice game you got here! the controls are a little tricky and i feel that the hitbox / collision was not that accurate. i was only able to place boxes using the magnets. pushing them manually can be really hard :D. the graphics are really neat and the audio is nice. Good game!
Nice game! I enjoyed the music (but I think I would enjoy it more without the constant high note). At first, I was a bit overwhelmed by all the boxes (I didn't yet know that you could combine them), and was wondering how I could pick them up. I didn't really like how I had to push the boxes around, and I missed the option to drive backwards. The magnet did wonders, maybe too much? I would have liked to see my score in the game over screen (I think it was 5k+). I delivered a lot of boxes, but almost all with the help of the magnet. :wink:
A little bit tricky, but fun anyway! The magnet helped a lot, maybe too much (?), and it can be a good idea to tone down the music a little. Well done!
@lookslikesomething & @papaver magnet is your god when you play this game. You will have to get used to that. But anyways thanks for the feedback