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Unidentified Stacking Object

By arttu-halonen

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall2583.9039
Fun2943.8239
Innovation4803.5639
Theme1134.2640
Graphics5643.8040
Audio4223.5839

Comments

stefan-jovanovic 2021-10-04 15:20

Really strong entry. Loved the art and the gameplay mechanics are quite unique. Well done!

arttu-halonen 2021-10-04 17:02

@stefan-jovanovic Thank you for the kind words!

san4es9524 2021-10-04 18:54

Very nice. The idea of stacking is quite common, but the realisation is unique and feels fun to play. Liked the visuals and sound.

westmave 2021-10-04 23:00

I could not bring him home, because I ran over the tower by myself to often :D. Great physics, great visuals and overall a really good game. Liked it a lot.

arttu-halonen 2021-10-05 03:53

@san4es9524 Thanks for the feedback! Glad you liked it!

arttu-halonen 2021-10-05 03:57

@westmave The owner's manual of the U.S.O. seems to have been misplaced, that would explain the issues! :smile: Thank you for the comment!

lukeoco1234 2021-10-05 05:34

Really cool game, fun engaging game play and very polished. Great entry!!

richard-jiang 2021-10-05 05:40

Classic, simple and fun! I enjoyed every aspects of it except the part that I accidentally knock over the entire tower with my UFO in the last 20 seconds. I think the game would look great in 2D as well! ;)

daspikeyboss 2021-10-05 06:02

Wow! Really amazing game! Great graphics, good sound design and really good and fun physics. This game is so fun to play, I just had to keep playing again and again. The LD49 flag in the background is a really nice touch.

Very good job!

arttu-halonen 2021-10-05 06:18

@lukeoco1234 Glad to hear you liked it!

arttu-halonen 2021-10-05 06:21

@richard-jiang I feel your pain! But glad to hear you had fun! I thought about 2D initially, but since Unity makes 3D quite simple, I opted for this 2.5D feel instead.

arttu-halonen 2021-10-05 06:21

@daspikeyboss Thanks, really glad to hear you liked the game!

jesper-fyhr-knudsen 2021-10-05 15:46

Nice game, and very challenging, I only barely got to 6 in the time trial :p

arttu-halonen 2021-10-05 16:06

@jesper-fyhr-knudsen Thanks for playing! Seems we both went for a tower building game in this jam! :smile:

toxichouse 2021-10-05 16:24

Great Game, the physics work really well and controls are pretty responsive. Would like to see more variation in block shapes and gravity modes.

octahedronsoftware 2021-10-05 17:04

Good job on your entry! Overall I liked the game and I did not run into any problems while playing. My first tower in time trial was merely 7.5 tall. The last moments of trying to add one more block to an unstable tower in the last seconds are thrilling.

koolruz 2021-10-05 17:08

I really liked playing this! It felt like you had good control over your block placement, but the elastic nature of your tractor beam still made things tricky.

My one critique would be that in both time trial mode and endurance mode, it felt like you were always best off waiting a few seconds for your beam to stop bouncing, which slowed the pace of gameplay down. I would have loved if things were just a little bit faster :)

Overall though, great entry! I loved the tiny details in the background, like the LD49 sign :)

gorypixels 2021-10-05 17:26

Loved the physics of this game! it has a very cool early-psx era vibe to it :)

arttu-halonen 2021-10-05 17:35

@toxichouse Thanks for the feedback! I initially thought about having non-square blocks, but I had some trouble with the physics and decided to cut them due to time pressure.

arttu-halonen 2021-10-05 17:38

@octahedronsoftware Thank you! Glad to hear you liked the game!

arttu-halonen 2021-10-05 17:42

@koolruz Thank you for the detailed comment! I'll have to agree with you, moving quickly is not really viable in this game (or at least it's really risky), but waiting around isn't too thrilling gameplay. But glad to hear you liked the game!

arttu-halonen 2021-10-05 17:45

@gorypixels Thanks for playing! The physics required surprisingly little fiddling and tweaking, I've never before had such luck with Unity physics...

furfel 2021-10-05 19:06

I think that endurance mode would be enough because the game is already hard enough :D

arttu-halonen 2021-10-05 19:20

@furfel I see your point, but what's a better motivator than a ticking clock? :wink:

ache-games 2021-10-05 23:01

Wow, I made a similar game as this one. I think the concept is same as mine. Anyway, I have enjoyed playing this one. Well done!!

brainloaf-studio 2021-10-06 04:26

Simple but fun, and very polished - I like it! I also wanna call out the tractor beam sound effect, it's really satisfying to me for some reason. I couldn't make it very far - always ended up knocking over my own tower, but I still had fun on the way. Nice work!

arttu-halonen 2021-10-06 04:44

@ache-games Yeah, I noticed the similarity too! Thanks for playing, glad you liked it!

arttu-halonen 2021-10-06 04:47

@brainloaf-studio Thanks for the feedback! When I decided on making the tractor beam act like a spring, I knew I had to make a "springy" sound effect for it too, glad you liked it!

cukeds 2021-10-06 05:13

liked the game, noticed an unintended mechanic where you can stack a cube on top of your spacecraft and just glide as high as you can, in both endurance and timed trial haha. So I had fun trying to get as high as I could with the cube on my head :)

arttu-halonen 2021-10-06 05:22

@cukeds Ah yes, an *unintended mechanic* sounds much better than a *bug* :joy: Thanks for letting me know, glad you liked the game!

dob 2021-10-06 05:43

Really had fun with this. Clever, fun, crisp visuals, sounds, and controls, and a whole lot of interesting physics that's very intuitive and well-executed. Nice work.

arttu-halonen 2021-10-06 05:55

@dob Thank you for the kind words! Glad you liked the game!

yohsk13 2021-10-06 12:59

Nice stacking game (^w^). I did prefer the endurence one because the two time I tired time-trial the tower fell in the last 20s (^^'). So I only ended with 3.9 in time trial :p (And only around 9 something in endurence, but eh, that's 2 times more than the other game mode :p) Good game :)

misfire-dev 2021-10-06 13:14

Really enjoyed building up towers just to smash through them, gj.

arttu-halonen 2021-10-06 13:46

@yohsk13 Thanks for playing, glad you liked it! Three minutes can be a surprisingly long time when you're hoping that your tower doesn't fall... :smile:

arttu-halonen 2021-10-06 13:47

@misfire-dev Physics can be pretty fun just by themselves! Glad you liked the game!

kingslee142 2021-10-06 20:52

Nice game play! I found it quite challenging but in a good way. Physics works very well. I had pretty good fun. Maybe more variety of the sounds with different blocks size could add to it even more. Overall good game!

pascone 2021-10-07 04:41

Simple idea with great execution. Loved the sound and look of the beam

arttu-halonen 2021-10-07 08:24

@kingslee142 Thanks for the feedback! I initially did have plans for different shapes and looks for the blocks, but ran out of time. Glad you liked the game!

arttu-halonen 2021-10-07 08:25

@pascone Thanks for playing, glad you liked it!

namnam 2021-10-07 16:45

So simple and yet so fun to play ! I really liked it ! The game is polished and gamefeel is on point. Very good job !

arttu-halonen 2021-10-07 18:59

@namnam Thank you for the kind words! Happy to hear you liked the game!

lucasglass 2021-10-07 19:56

Had a fun time playing, it was challenging and suspenseful. Highlight for me was when my tower was falling over and I managed to grab the top block to catch it and save it. Are you familiar with AR game development? Stacking games like this can work really well in it.

sunnyrx 2021-10-08 00:38

Although it is a classic gameplay, it is more fun and easy to understand!

arttu-halonen 2021-10-14 04:17

@lucasglass Thanks for the feedback! I personally haven't tried AR development, but since I'm working with Unity it should be possible! Thanks for the idea!

arttu-halonen 2021-10-14 04:18

@sunnyrx Thanks for playing, glad you liked it!

ghubert 2021-10-17 06:50

fun

arttu-halonen 2021-10-18 05:03

@ghubert Glad you liked the game!