Blockhead Bill

2023-05-02 03:00

The art style is simple and enjoyable, the only clutter that appears is when you frantically take the boxes off the conveyor, and stack 'em.

The game play is fast-paced, frantic, and has that mix of "Yeah, I get it, I can confer with how jobs are like this." and "Damn, that was frustrating, I had to cut a few corners because I couldn't find this dude's specific box.".

It's short and bittersweet, as art imitates life, and vice versa; except work usually isn't very short.

There are some underlying bugs, or just some oversights with the dialogue, such as the speech bubbles not being able to hold a certain number of characters, or that the clock continues to count down despite running the customer limit near the end of the day.

Overall it was enjoyable, it had some of it's quirks, and I really enjoyed the posters in the background.

afossofa 2023-05-02 15:40

it looks nice so i want to play

d3kryption 2023-05-05 21:05

Absolutely love the artwork style! cracking job with that. Gives me very cake mania vibes. nice job! :D

dustyredbird 2023-05-05 21:53

The artwork and humor were great. There were parts that felt a little unfair as a player - which is definitely part of the point of the humor - but getting 3 people all asking for a Red Box made it hard to feel like I could do much to improve at the game other than being lucky. I do wish the talking bubbles were at least semi-transparent. It got hard to read them when they overlapped and boxes would sometimes get stuck behind the bubbles. But it was a really crisp game and the UI and art were fantastic! Great job!

batisdark 2023-05-05 22:06

Nice gameplay loop:) Damn customers can't describe what they want!

Would love a bit better aiming at the customers and them stoping saying 'not my box' so it would be visible what they want when there are loads of them already. Difficulty goes up with not being able to see their needs because you clicked wrong one by accident at some point.

Good fun though! Neat screaming pictures :D

vknauss 2023-05-06 04:51

this game really does not wanna run under wine, using just vulkan it crashes on startup and with dxvk using directx it starts but crashes when I click the start button. I will give it another shot on a windows pc later, but if a linux build is easy that would be cool too :) the art looks cool i really relate to "I'm here for the fucked box"

digital-bacon 2023-05-06 05:09

Fun little game. Cute graphics and sound. Speech bubbles could be a bit annoying stacking on top of each other, and there seems to be a small bug when selected the person to offer the package to (sometimes, it'll offer it to the person behind the one you want to offer to). Very fun and frantic though, well done!

colin-misbach 2023-05-06 05:58

Pretty relaxing, ironically. It was satisfying just going through orders as they came in, and it was quick and easy to check the ids of the boxes. Liked the art style too. Only thing I wish is that the text bubbles didn't cover boxes you saved on the table for later.

Nice game!

chuckiee 2023-05-07 07:14

Very stressful for me :smile: I guess you can't deliver to the people that are not in the first place. Sometimes the text is too long and it gets cut, so you don't even know what it is anymore :smile: But that's how I imagine working in a post office, so good job!

prismapunch 2023-05-07 07:16

@vknauss I've added a Linux version for you, so you might be able to play it in a better environment!

retrisma 2023-05-07 23:33

Fun idea, and great art style and set design! I loved the humor and the characters. The gameplay felt smart but not oppressive. I think audio of some kind would have helped the mood even more but as it is it is quite fun. One small critique was I felt it was pretty hard to click on the correct person waiting in line, it seemed that multiple would be highlighted and it'd pick to talk to the wrong one. That's just a nitpick, though, I enjoyed the game!

devook 2023-05-17 02:43

Pretty cool! Controls were a little tough - hard to click the boxes or customers once they start piling up, but otherwise good execution with a cohesive art style, lots of funny little jokes.

raptor851 2023-05-17 12:05

Great artwork, controls were a little rough, hard to click on people, you keep accidentally setting the box down. Wish there was a bit more to it than just letting people queue up and giving them the boxes they ask for. (like maybe if the boxes could be lost or people could leave?