Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD51 → A Handy Job
By 0x-void-x0
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 87 | 4.08 | 160 | |
| Fun | 140 | 3.95 | 161 | |
| Innovation | 34 | 4.21 | 160 | |
| Theme | 123 | 4.19 | 161 | |
| Graphics | 297 | 4.02 | 161 | |
| Audio | 223 | 3.75 | 160 | |
| Humor | 38 | 4.23 | 161 | |
| Mood | 240 | 3.82 | 159 |
Wow this was a very polished experience! I love the art style and the uniqe idea with the two hands as a puzzle game. The 10s mark makes it quite hard to finish the first few rounds but you got me very well covered with the tutorial. The fact that you made this in just 4 days is insane, you realy have alot of talent!
The concept overall seems nice to me. I give 5 stars
Very cool art, sounds, gameplay and even humour. Definetly one of my favourite games in this jam.
Nicely done, I love the humor, the base mechanic is solid and the theme is incorporated well.
This is pretty hard! Love how the manager sneaks around, peeking over the table... Got my well-earned 5 second break.
Came from a stream, looks fun and funny. The 2 arm idea is quite good, looks hard to control though.
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Nice art style! I like the arm as the mouse in the menu. I didn't get how to control the second arm.
Awesome concept and great execution! It's definitely breaking my brain trying to do these tasks, but I still tried a lot 😅 The art and audio was great, and I really appreciated the super in-depth tutorial! Really awesome job!
This game is so cool!! The controls are interesting and the art is amazing :D The SFX and audio are sick, too. It's honestly quite challenging but that makes it more fun.
It's a really cool idea for a game! the controls are already super hard, so putting this 10 second limit on it too - it's certainly frustrating% But once it clicks it's really fun!
The game is well made. I got to round 14, with 6 fast. Having a tutorial is a great touch, though quite necessary for this game as well.
Loking good
Very challenging, but I loved the double hand control mechanic and got immediately attracted by the quirky graphics, very charming and funny! Congratulations! You even put a tutorial in the game, it must've been so hard given the time costraint. Chapeau!
I punched the asshole and it was awesome.
Amazing experience! It does feel very punishing the first few times. I did miss a play again button on the result screen. Having to go back to the main menu did break my flow a bit the first few times. But overall I enjoyed every second of it!
Loved it! Very polished, nice looking, sound is good, good game mechanics and super fun! Plus it has a tutorial. Very good job, the only bad point was my brain not managing to move both hands separatly. Maybe having the second hand on the arrows would makeit easier to control.
Really cool game! Lots of polish for a jam, wihth good music and fun unique gameplay! Love the style and art, but hate the fustration it gives me haha! Well done :)
Sooooooo hard but I loved it, I have trouble IRL to know where is my right and left hands... soooo well it's the same in your game. Good job
This is a really cool game! I love the humor and it is quite challenging! Good work!
It seems like I have 2 left hands, because this one is really hard for me... Fun tho.
Amazing game! But man, it really does have a learning curve! Don't remember the last time when i was so concentrated playing a game.
As riptide studio said above, a big learning curve however addictive when you get the hang of it. Great job!
This game brakes my fingers and my brain, oh god
We did something similar in the very core concept on 49 LD, but that's a whole new level. really good one!
Its a little difficult but is sooo interesting,I tried game many times and cannot control my hands!Nice entry!
Very polished and clean. A fully complete game that does not even feel like a jam game. Very impressive what you have managed to create during this short timeframe.
Love it
Great game, frustating manager! Feels like the smartphone game "Employee of the Moth", both graphics and gameplay wise!
I loved this O_O it 's very original!!!!
Really glad I played the tutorial. This was fantastic. As an adult who still needs to put both his hands in front of himself and make an L to tell which way is left I definitely struggled for a good bit, but it is very obvious the confusion was intentional and not just a byproduct of sloppy design. I can definitely see this game sitting on a shelf in some future museum right in-between the likes of QWOP and Getting Over It.
First off, hahahahahahaha.
So many things in this game are just pure fun. From the core mechanic that tickles your brain to the unexpected tasks such as massaging the boss's back, it's delightful! Also, the 5 second break was veeeery welcome, so thoughtful. thanks for the incredible entry :)
whaou, I am bookmarking this one, I need to practice it again and again! It's too late in the evening for me too be coordinate enough!
Wow great idea! It's pretty hard to control 2 hands at the same time, but very original. Love it.
Ohhh I enjoyed this game :) I obviously sucked at it, but it was fun and made me do dumb stuff and laugh. Wish I had good high scores but I don't see myself improving :( Screen Shot 2022-10-04 at 3.28.40 PM.png
Really polished game! It's challenging but not insane difficulty which makes for a nice balance. Tasks were very creative and I like that you can actually punch the boss haha, congrats on the entry!
The music slaps for real. Good art too! Goofy mechanics that mesh well with the design of the game.
Such a unique and well-executed concept! Had a lot of fun playing this game. It was really challenging and I feel like there could potentially be a lot of replay value and high skill level capacity in this game. Good work!
Great game and execution. Reminds me of papers please a little.
Omg.I love the art style and the idea of puzzle. It is a lit bit hard for me and it is hard to control two hand at the same time. It is so amazing that you guys can do such a great game in just three days. 5🌟 Well done!
Hah! This idea is great, easy to learn, hard to master.
This is great, although it's really difficult! The tutorial certainly helps a lot though. Art and sounds are very stylised and they work well together!
My favourite game of the jam so far!! It's impossible to make this manager happy though, I fixed like 80 machines and gave him 20 backrubs :(
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haha, cool game! Really messes with your coordination on both hands - also switching to mouse for the menus is a interesting twist.
it really messes with my brain a lot. it's too difficult to multitask both hands for me. i think its a bit too hard too quickly. Very fun and humorous!
This is a fantastic concept, I wish my brain could handle it better! Great art, and thanks for including such a detailed tutorial!
Yoo, such a cool game! I love the concept and the mechanics, it was so confusing at times and my score is definitely not a high one lol Btw I found a hard-locking bug (on html) if you move one of the hands really low it can get stuck and not be able to move again. Could be nice to have a reset button for hands position.
Oh man is it tricky to coordinate those two hands. Great idea for the game and some good humor added on top too
Such a solid game. It was a real mind fuck to play single player. Maybe two players can be easier hahaha
I know it's a rage game but this makes me want to punch the boss who keeps passing by. It's so hard!
Very funny and well made. Art and animation are great. Interactions are super clear. Tutorial super well done. Controls scheme and mechanics are super clever. Reminds me of Surgeon Simulator. Broke my brain but was still extremely fun multitasking. This is probably really fun as co-op too. Fantastic job!
Cool entry! The in-game tutorial is great. It took a while for me to master all the tiny levels, but it was definitely worthy. I could feel my progress since I did it better each time, which provided me great sense of achievement.
The art style fits the gameplay well. The funny look and the behavior of the manager really add to the hilarious mood. XD
Now this is agile working.
Awesome game! Hard but very funny, also love the art/sfx and general mood
great tutorial !! very funny game , required two brain , one for each arms ! by starting over several times you manage to master the game and then everything follows correctly! (the massage of the boss back is hilarious ^^)
Hello the concept is cool and I found it REAAALYY hard. GG wp
this game was really fun! I particularly enjoyed the audio.
the visuals were also great, but it was hard for me to pay attention to anything that was going on in the background while I was focused on the tasks (hopefully stream enjoyed it ^^)
UHJK is definitely an odd choice when IJKL is right next to it :p
for the gameplay loop, it felt like it would go forever once I figured out all the tasks - i wish there was some way that the difficulty ramped.
thanks for linking it on stream!
awesome concept
BANGER ludum dare entry. Here's the VOD of me playing it on stream earlier: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1609990150?t=00h13m23s, should be up for a week or two.
Really enjoyed this one. The tutorial was thorough and taught me everything I needed to know to fail within a few tries. I was eager to jump back in and demonstrate my prowess, scoring 56 total / 26 fast. You did a great job with a consistent polished art style, unique gameplay concept, and just difficult enough to keep me trying. Glad your game came up on my wheel of chance!
So, i got a 53 streak. It was hard! I enjoy it.
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Great game! Controlling two hands to do different jobs is both challenging and fun, keeping my hands busy and having enjoyment
but when the game gets to the later stages of each machine is basically familiar with it becomes a test of endurance, perhaps consider letting the manager do something more annoying to increase the difficulty?
hope this game can continue! Well done!
Very good Idea :laughing: quite hard too.
This is definitely a well done game, with a full detailed tutorial and nice graphics.
My only complaint would be its sheer complexity (tried multiple times, failed the first level), but that can be fixed with some balancing and smoother level progression
Overall, really good job :thumbsup: (fine marks all around for me)
Challenging game :smile: Nice idea with a lot of potential!
It would be great if user could control menu with keyboard. You forgot to add ludum dare banner on itch.
Had loads of fun, it's quircky, challenging and very well made :)
such a funny game :clap:
This is fun I like how think go crazy when you brain start to handle task in a certain order, a really nice entry that play well with the concept of having time but not really enought to take your time :) ! I have only one think to say : BlBlBlBllllBlblblLbll Keep coding guys !
Great idea. Lots of tiny humorous touches. Love that you can punch the boss at the end.
Really enjoyed this one, thanks for sharing it on stream!
Loved the concept and how touch it was. I found the moving the node ones particularly tough, but there's nothing bad to that. Had a good one more try feel to it too. Well done!
Thank you for sharing your musics :D The concept is fantastic - and really makes me realise how bad I am at coordinating at the moment... The pixel art is brillant, I love when the manager just randomly sneaks up on you on the side, I couldn't hold a laugh, and I then got fire for failing ahaha!
After competing in Ludum Dare 8 times I can hand on my heart say that you are the first one I've voted 5 stars on every category.
That was an amazing experience start to finish, and I will be surprised if you are not the winner of any category. I looved the work, especially the massage which just felt so right with the theme you went with. The sound was perfect, and hilarious. The tutorial absolutely killed it, I really understood how to play the game. Everything ran smoothly. I have no criticism. I cannot find anything negative about this game. It's amazing.
I really enjoyed the game. It has interesting puzzle elements. I do like pixel art. It was a beautiful puzzle game.
Graphics, audio, and mood are all great. The game is super polished and enjoyable to play.
The main highlight for me is the tutorial. It was a total game changer for this style of game, adding that in was an incredibly smart move to give people the opportunity to play around before jumping into the frantic 10 second timers. I think without it I wouldn't have understood half of the mechanics that were added.
I like how the theme directly ties the action and plot together. The game has a unique style that prioritizes readability and comedy, controls are super nuanced and the ending is excellent :fist:. Haha, this is awesome, thanks for sharing.
Very solid entry! awesome implementation of the theme, the best so far, I find it a little hard for me but im very bad with synchrony, in fact I think this game can improve that, great mechanics, original and fun game, is impressive what have you done in 3 days, really polished game, it feels like a original retro game, you have future bro and a lot of talent, sadly I think i'm not gonna get that job lol, very nice work!
Really awesome stuff, everything ties together nicely. Eventually the difficulty plateau'd, so perhaps there should be a hard goal to win? Nice job!
Great idea - I am terrible at it but so fun, really polished and genuinely funny! Great Entry
OMG I love the sound effects and music haha :D Really nicely done game. I like that it even has a quick tutorial to play. The game feels really polished.
Awesome Game! Handling both hands at once is a really nice mechanic and stresses me out so much :D i love it!
woooow this is so great and so hard at the same time! you have to score high on innovation because it was definitely an innovation for my hands! loved the humor and the tone overall!
Good game. Really funny how you can punch the manager, when you loose. But I didn't get how to control the right arm. I used the web version on macOS safari
This game is polished in so many ways it's insane. I mean, you even thought about the frustration this game would cause, so you added NOT ONLY the possibility to punch your manager, but even the funny trombone laugh. That's some seriously next level thinking, kudos.
Great implementation of the jam's theme, nice graphics and music does its job. But of course in a game like this what counts is gameplay experience, and I have to say, it is fun and original. All the different kind of interactions, combined with the randomly ordered levels, make this game very difficult to master, but in a good way - in fact, I'll probably play it a lot more during the next days.
Maybe I would have opted for a slightly smoother learning curve, introducing all the different interactions little by little, but that's just because the current difficulty level might scare a less experienced player. Personally, I loved it as it is.
Nice game! I really like the idea, art, audio and controls! Tutorial was well made also! My only nitpick is just that this is a bit too hard bit too fast. It really isn't fun to lose many times when just starting game! Would be more motivating having some super easy levels with the timer before going all out :D But anyway still good work! Keep it up!!
Haven't got much to add on top of what everyone else has already said, my one piece of feedback would be that it gets tedious having to move my hand to the mouse to use the game menu, when the tutorial and the rest of the game is entirely played through the keyboard - consider making the game just played on the keyboard. Really, really good game man.
Wow, it is unexpectedly addictive. The game is polished, keyboard controls are solid.
Very addicting game, especially liked the mechanics of the game
WOW!!! This is the best game I've played in Ludum Dare 51. Absolutely amazing job in everything, great use of the theme, love the graphics, the music and the gameplay was really innovative. I would love for this to be developed <3
Very cool idea, but it's quite hard for my brain to use both hands at the same time.
Quite an original idea, nice game! Good job! (:
Very cool and unique game idea. The overall experience felt really polished aswell.
Incredibly fun, super polished and challenging! I love it!
Absolutely top notch. It's very hard and very satisfying to punch the guy when you fail.
Really fun and immersive the only down side is having to use the mouse to select menu before playing with keyboard
It is a hard game! but it is a fun a additive game and the concept is clever!
You need good coordination for this one! It's really amazing! Congratz!
Silly fun mini game game, the pixel art makes it hard to see what i was meant to do.
Very silly and very funny game! Especially being able to punch the manager is a really nice touch :smile:
REALLY cool concept, took me a little while getting used to, but after that I was hooked. I also really appreciate that you put in a tutorial/practice level because otherwise I might have given up after two unsuccessful tries xD
Very cool gameplay and art design! However it's a bit hard for me... Failed to get used to the brain-split design.
Amazing concept and game! Controlling both hands separately takes some getting used to but after a while it worked really well for me. I just wish that the difficulty would increase over time, because I basically had to lose on purpose. But otherwise, really well done, I loved it!
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That was awesome, such a cool concept and the way it was executed is really well done. It's way harder than you originally think, so many times my brain just fell apart trying to control the hands in time to finish different puzzles :laughing: Really amazing work.
Very cool game, some concepts are similar to my own, although mine is a lot more basic :) This is very well implemented, the graphics are good and the sounds appropriate for tools and interactions.
What I would like to see improved is perhaps a way to control from a controller :)
very cool implementation and project :)
Genuinely lovely game, had its share of funny moments, and the mechanics were quite varied for a jam entry! I wish the elements were easier to tell apart and slightly larger. I think that would have boosted the fun element, but I still enjoyed it when I started to manage playing it better!
Thanks for sharing this, it's a great entry!
Great game! loved the humor and the crazy boss animation and audio. :D Everything works really solid and smooth, feels really pollished. Well done! Impressing that you got all of this done during the jam! -The music loop in the tutorial is a little strange when it loops, but the music and art is really nice overall! Thanks for this!
Fun and brain melting, but some of the tools seemed difficult to find or absent
The game is nicely done, especially the art, however, it is a bit too hard for a single player.
Good game, it's funny and it's a way to play that i never saw before, congrats !
Wow this is amazing and so unique! It was for sure challenging to have to operate both arms at once though. I was a bit confused as to whether I just had 10s to complete each task at hand or multiple in a row because sometimes I felt like I lost faster than 10s. It was also unfortunate that I couldn't grab and hold a thing in each hand and move them together while holding space to their designated area, so whenever I got one that required a lot of grab and moves, I always lost, not sure if I did something wrong. But exceptional job with the art and the music, this was awesome!
It's amazing how hard it is to have two hands :laughing: It's a unique idea and a fun take on the theme. And I get to punch the manager after 'game over' - how can you resist that!
There are some quite hard tasks in the game that seem next to impossible to do in 10 seconds. But it is fun to play and get used to the controls. It does get easier with time :)
If I would suggest one improvement, it's making the tools more distinct from the background. There is little time to perform each task, and visually locating the needed tool should be immediate.
Very cool! The manager is a very funny aspect :laughing: :thumbsup:
Very unique controls. I think I'm not enough coordinated for this or just need more practice because I tend to lose very fast. Very nice graphics and sound. Really like it :)
Very nice aesthetics! Thank you for tutorial! :smiley:
Really interesting entry. Quite unique idea here, and I like the way you guys implemented it
Overall - nice graphics, nice sounds, nice gameplay.
Thank you for awesome submition!