zenbreaker 2023-05-01 12:17
A nice idea for a game. Could need some help at the result screen what did go wrong and how it actually should have been. Showing how many letters are there to deliver could be nice.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD53 → Sorted
By harmadillo
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 300 | 3.18 | 27 | |
| Fun | 364 | 2.68 | 27 | |
| Innovation | 292 | 3.04 | 26 | |
| Theme | 124 | 4.05 | 27 | |
| Graphics | 336 | 2.89 | 26 | |
| Audio | 252 | 2.95 | 26 | |
| Humor | 293 | 2.37 | 25 | |
| Mood | 252 | 3.08 | 26 |
A nice idea for a game. Could need some help at the result screen what did go wrong and how it actually should have been. Showing how many letters are there to deliver could be nice.
Fun little game, think you have a solid idea, just need a little bit more oomph to it in order to get there.
@zenbreaker yes, the results screen is rather rudimentary.
@kylethecoder Thank you.
Nice, that was a really chill experience. A bit embarassing how often I had to look up in what region countries are...
779939.0400000848_image.png I love these addresses with just the country switched out though, they are really funny to me. Great job!
Impressive submission -- some of these fonts are really convincingly bad hand writing haha. It took me a bit to get into the groove, but once I got into the swing of things it was fun and relaxing. A nice take on the theme and a well executed game!
@zirrrus I did mean to put the country/regions in the Postal book but forgot, in case i had got any wrong. And customizing the names and addresses for different countries was too much like work :) @ollie-d Thank you.
It reminded me of Papers Please but without the atmosphere of dread, so I liked it quite a lot
The concept is very interesting, it reminds me of what Paper Please said above. What I would see as essential is knowing how to play, it is very difficult for me at first how it is. Or maybe I am very clumsy. But in my opinion, it took me a long time to find out. Despite this, I can only congratulate you on this game, incredible for a compo, congrats!!
@cheesepencil @milq The one screen style of Paper Please is something I thought of while writing Sorted. If I do any future development of it I'll look at adding a tutorial.
Really relaxing game. I continued until day 10, wasn't sure if there was any more content after that. Also would've really liked to see what mistakes I made to learn from them. I was struggling a bit to figure out which country belonged to which geographic reason but then noticed that it's just the first digit of the country code. By that point it became very easy to correctly sort. Seems like you already had some great ideas to add on to this and I'm looking forward to the great parcel DLC
Impressive entry! Really liked the graphics, the random generation and the bad handwriting. And the gameplay, although it was quite overwhelming at first (wall of text + wall of delivery boxes :smiley: ). I imagine in a more fleshed out release this stage could be worked up to with a small hands-on tutorial and slowly increasing level complexity as you go. Enjoyed this quite a bit :)
Really chill dug how much was going on but how much help was given to figure it all out. Music was good and there was a lot of variety in the post to keep me engaged for a while.
Unfortunately I took too long to figure out postcards have the address on the back, so I palmed a LOT of them off to the dead letter office. But that ones on me.
Once I stopped playing I realised you basically tricked me into doing a job for a while and I didn't notice. So great work :D
@sibi There are 30 days you can play through but after day 6 you can get all varieties of letter/postcard available. There are 5 unique letters/postcards after day 10. I should have moved them earlier because 30 days(290 letters) is a lot to sort through.
@richard-baltrusch Glad you enjoyed it.
@thaprofesional Maybe a career in letter sorting is just what you're after.
At first I was lost even with the instructions (maybe it could have used some images instead of / along with text pages ^^U) but once I got it it kept me entertained for a while ;-)
This was fun! I really liked the music and definitely got into the rhythm of the game with a decent amount of ease. Some of the letters were particularly difficult to read, which was amusing. I feel like some more prompts on what you did wrong could be nice? Great game though.
Really liked the concept of bad handwriting making the letter undeliverable and it was pretty fun to sort the mail into the slots!
Great job overall! We also did a papers-please-like game so it’s really cool to see other team’s take on the genre and some pretty creative solutions to the problems we were running into :)
Really cool concept, a very interesting take on a papers please-like. Would love to see this be developed further into a full game. Great job!
This seems very complicated for a compo game! Maybe you are good at UI stuff and it was a breeze. Pretty nice game!