Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD51 → Milkman
By themorfeus
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 260 | 3.37 | 22 | |
| Fun | 209 | 3.40 | 22 | |
| Innovation | 337 | 3.05 | 22 | |
| Theme | 368 | 3.25 | 22 | |
| Graphics | 318 | 3.20 | 22 | |
| Audio | 219 | 3.23 | 21 | |
| Humor | 13 | 4.15 | 22 |
Actually quite enjoyed this one! I know its silly, but this just goes to show that a well executed interaction goes a long way. Super satisfying to throw milk at the customers and have them pick it up. I started experimenting with bouncing cartons at them! btw, I also found where they've been taking the milk...theres a spot on the hill where they're hoarding milk :ghost: Anyways, would love to see more fleshed out full version of this! Good work!
Quite a fun idea! Bit of a hectic time with customers doing their customer thing and stealing stuff off the shelves! Amused me a bit when a customer came up wanting a certain kind of milk and just picked it up off the shelf and completed the task for me.
One thing I would love to see apart from maybe a few walls for the shop is for throwing milk at customers not asking anything to ragdoll them for a second. I want to teach those customers a lesson!
Nicely done! I think my only real issue was playing it made me feel a bit sick so I don't if that's a camera thing or a me thing. Either way, I wouldn't mind seeing this developed a bit further to see what you come up with!
Haha, what a ridiculous and fun game. At first I was like "It's pretty dumb that the time it takes them to get to the stall counts against my time limit", but then I realized that you could throw milk at them while they were on their way and that's pretty awesome haha. That running animation is something else by the way. I absolutely love it.
I honestly think there's potential to build something truly amazing with this concept. Well done!
So this is why my Dad hasn't come back with the milk yet! They keep giving him the wrong one!
Great Game!
A very funny little game. The visuals are pretty good and I really love the music. Well done.
Very funny idea lmao, nice music and animations. A bit more physics like knocking the customers around a little and placing it in an actual shop environment instead of out in the wilds would set the mood better. Anyway great job!
(I am now in a rush to test as many games as possible to help, so please do not mind the cursory reviewing style.)
1. animated capture (+ "telekinetic powers" as confirmation): this looks like powers from *The Matrix* XD (and your pseudonym is "themorfeus": fitting) 2. "red, green and blue" -> hidden reference to "Zelda"? ;) Or simply nerdy RGB choice? (I once asked the same about *Gem Drilla Incorporated*, and [it turned out](https://itch.io/post/6157780) the latter was the real reason) 3. still captures: the graphic style for the characters (colours + shape + face) looks surreal and funny 4. controls are QWERTY-only instead of layout-independent (I have an AZERTY keyboard), BUT arrow keys are enabled 5. 2nd "shot": I think I got two neighbouring customers with the same needs in one shot! X) 6. What?! toggled some windows just to take some notes, and coming back, tells me I won, even though I really only served two milk cartons! XD 7. Ctrl toggles running mode, apparently 8. exploring! :) Can you fall? Yes XD And there is even a falling animation!! Reused from earlier game? 9. the silliness is strong with this one XD 10. and what is the "ALL MILKX" farther stand for? 11. where do these guys even leave anyway?! To the exterior pit of doom? X) 12. the games is a bit low on FPS, as is customary with many Unreal Engine games (and this is not only me, so I suspect it is really often resource-heavy and people seldom manage to optimise), which can be a problem to target milk cartons, but it is still playable quite enough 13. actually, the game seems rather easy! I have no problem serving everyone. And where is the stealing? :o What I saw was the repulsive effect when I sent an incorrect carton to several neighbouring customers, which was a funny ping pong move 14. funny music, by the way; matches the overall tone XD 15. looking for the disappeared customers: oh, apparently, they vanished (still wonder if they fell like lemmings!), and their milk cartons are still there!! What a waste The mystery of the missing cartons. Were these people abducted by UFOs?
**Takeaway:** ‘silly’ is the word that comes to my mind: definitely shining in the humour category. XD The telekinesis mechanic (and its sound) is great (I still have to play *Control*, by the way…), but I feel like gameplay lacks something, some challenging element (although I may have missed how stealing works… Please tell me if it eluded me). I also think the 10-second-before-new-customer take is classic (for instance, [*Dead End Job*](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/dead-end-job) went for a similar route), yet fair. This feels like an early prototype of a crazier version of *Control* that could go somewhere, but missing just a little something to feel complete!
Thanks for the zany entry. X)
I have no idea what bizarre set of circumstances led to the inspiration behind running a telekinetic milk shop, but I love it. Though there's not a huge amount of challenge to be found to help solidify it as a proper game, the game*feel* is absolutely spot on, with the snappy animations and movement and satisfying sound effects! A class act there, and that's very important as it really helps outshine some of the games awkward parts. I found aiming quite tricky with the sensitivity, and I think the FOV and camera distance might need some tweaking. Right now it feels a bit claustrophobic and I think that might cause some nausea in folks who get motion sick easily. But overall, really nice little entry, and a fellow UE dev! Hail!
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Fun goofy game. Well done
I loved running with milk. It'd be cool to get upgrades , to carry more milk, or lob the milk further.
There was a sound about 2 minutes in like a biplane crash-landing and getting stuck in a sink full of wet liver - I couldn't find the source, and then it stopped.
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