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Smooth Operator

By tad, quandtm and Robert van Duursen

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall7563.6021
Fun5983.5521
Innovation11333.0521
Theme16812.8421
Graphics9733.6321
Audio924.1821
Humor4153.3621

Comments

usenrame 2021-04-26 21:54

Elevator operator ( ˘˘з)♬♪

tad 2021-04-27 05:55

@Usenrame now that you've posted this, I realise I should have added a whistling part to the song!

keppersnapper 2021-04-28 04:33

Really really charming game! I loveee the mood and the concept! Personally feel that if would be great to have more control when stopping at floors! Overall still good work!

paetramon 2021-04-28 04:34

Very cool idea, good execution! Loved the music too.

plo 2021-04-28 04:35

why havent more people played this

pedrohph 2021-04-28 04:35

I loved the music! I could play a lot listening this music :smile:

I feel that more guest kinds that bring challenge to the game were missing..

Anyway, nice concept. It's fun operate a elevator. Good job :smile:

steven-glenski 2021-04-28 04:39

The song for this was absolutely amazing well done. Also really enjoyed the characters changing animations based on how long they were waiting. The help info graphic was very detailed and helpful. Only thought is to have the info graphic in a help menu so that it cannot be missed. Very well done and great jam!

ayced 2021-04-28 04:50

The music is great, gameplay is nice and simple, great for a jam. Art is consistent but perhaps could use just a bit more detail around the elevator itself, looks pretty odd floating like that and could use some sort of door/gate idk :slight_smile:

tengusheath 2021-04-28 04:57

I liked the idea for this game, but I think the execution could have some more polish. The elevator acceleration and deceleration made it too hard to stop on the right floor. It makes it difficult to stop in the right floor position especially when you have to look up at the top to see which floors you need to stop at.

The art was really nice and the sound was fitting. Just needed a little more polish on the gameplay mechanics.

phil-lesnar 2021-04-28 05:20

Fun idea and excellent mood. I had some weird scaling issues on my monitor, but overall an enjoyable experience.

ogelgames 2021-04-28 05:30

Cool game, the elevator was a bit hard to control, but I still had fun! Also the music was great, don't usually see (or rather hear) so much work put into music far a jam game!

madbarron 2021-04-28 05:33

Fun concept! Love the music. The UI is a little weird because you can/should just look at the two 2d indicators, and totally ignore the actual 3d world, even though it looks nice.

One issue is that the queue indicator goes off the bottom of the screen when in fullscreen on my ultrawide monitor. Also, when I restarted, it reset the complaints to 0, but not my score or the people waiting.

For controls, it might feel more like an old school elevator or interesting if you had to use a brake instead of pressing the opposite direction to slow down. Is that how they used to work? IDK.

I would try ramping up the difficulty over time. Probably by slowly increasing the rate of customers. I got to $1000 without any complaints.

So I think you have room for improvement, but you made a fun game and the mood is great. You should be proud of your game :)

rashcan 2021-04-28 05:44

Made it to 1200 before I had to call it, lol. Would like difficulty to ramp up over time. Otherwise, very simple and fun!

mololo 2021-04-28 06:14

Interesting concept, nice art design, and a very good looking tutorial image.

I love the song, and the gameplay is fun.

I got to 2500 score but the difficulty was the same, maybe make it scale a bit, nevertheless, I played more than I wanted cuz of the music :)

Good job.

david-u 2021-04-28 11:32

Cool idea, love the original music. I agree with the criticims about the controls - they add to the challenge, but it doesn't feel as smooth or as satistfying to play as it could do. Overall, a very nice game.

2rek 2021-04-28 12:05

Quite challenging game to be honest. I like how you can't really stop at the ends directly. Makes you more careful with driving. More tolerance with floors would be nice but overall i like this game. Graphics look good and sounds fit just fine.

mind0o 2021-04-28 14:33

Good music and fun gameplay.

madbarron 2021-05-01 05:15

If you haven't seen it yet, here is a game where they figured out how to show all the stuff you need to know in the game world, so you can look at the cool art instead of extra HUD/indicators. I doubt their music is as good though :smile:

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/hellevator-operator