Package Man

zungryware 2023-05-02 05:35

High score: 12

Fun little arcadey game.

It was hard to tell at first what was a game object and what was just set dressing. I'm not sure why you made so many unique sprites just to use them clutter up the game area. Were they for planned mechanics that got cut? The background is pretty noisy as well. Try putting a semi-transparent solid color layer over it to reduce the contrast. That way, the eyes naturally glaze over it and know it's not part of the playable space.

The jump felt a tad sluggish and floaty. I noticed that it's responsive to how long you hold the jump button, but it doesn't affect it by very much. You can't really short-hop with it. I think the parameters just needed more adjustment.

It was fun getting the hang of the throwing mechanics. I like how the box would carry your existing momentum, allowing you to choose precisely how far it goes if you can control your speed well enough. My one nitpick would be to let the player pick up the box if they're already holding the grab button when they come into contact with the box. Not a big deal though.

kgurniak91 2023-05-02 10:22

Throwing boxes was fun, my high score is 9. The purple thing in right-top corner was creepy, lol.

fluffi-owl 2023-05-02 15:18

@zungryware the background is kind of wild isn't it 😵‍💫 You could say we ran out of time, or you could say we joined this jam on a whim at 10pm Sunday night LOL Thanks for all the feedback! Hopefully we will be able to take some time to refine it a little 😩

@kgurniak91 the purple monster scares me too 🥲

noskro 2023-05-03 18:45

If you only worked half a game jam on this I am impressed. The game look really good and that explains the "little" content. For me the controlls are a bit too fast, but I know that thats also personal prefenerce (And with our game I shouldn't complain about hard controls). All in all I'm glad I found htis game, because it is a good enough jam game to go unnoticed

tim-sims 2023-05-06 16:14

Hey, this was really cool! A nice simple game with tight controls and a good loop. The graphics were excellent, and I thought the music was great.