Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD54 → InvenStory
By HaywireJo, pro4, The Obliterated and yammming
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 82 | 4.15 | 82 | |
| Fun | 151 | 3.96 | 81 | |
| Innovation | 409 | 3.53 | 81 | |
| Theme | 18 | 4.60 | 81 | |
| Graphics | 14 | 4.66 | 81 | |
| Humor | 124 | 3.88 | 78 | |
| Mood | 86 | 4.16 | 80 |
So cooool! The artstyle is amazing, the characters are so cute and alive ! I'm not the best at solving puzzles but I really liked trying many times (poor Tiberius lost a GOOD chunk of hair, should have bought hair care product from the local potion maker instead of doing a ritual) . It is really satisfying when you find the correct way to help customers. I will play again to go even further. Great work !
Even in a game jam I find myself sorting an inventory lol
Awesome game!
super high quality entry! some of the vocab was confusing (I didn't know what the word was referring to), not sure how much that was an intended part of the puzzle or not. very impressive!
Beautiful pixel art! Phenomenal job with the setting and items. It was so funny when the guy came back all beat up because I didn't realize I needed to give him as many potions as he could fit, not just the required minimum. Nice job!
Really great game, super challenging but very fun. I did get stuck at the fishing trip puzzle. The art is phenomenal!
Cute! It's always fun to infer tangible meaning from vague words in games. The puzzle mechanic is explored well, not too short, not too long. I had some trouble packing the australian inventory, but in the end I managed. Loved the music <3
@isiodae thank you!! when i made that sprite everyone in vc had a chuckle... we had to do it to him LOL
I really liked the art and overall
This was so fun! The art, music, quests and dialogue all make for a really cohesive experience, and the puzzles were also well thought out and required a fair amount of thinking to solve. Sometimes I felt a little unsure about the instructions given on the first quest attempt (like "would this item count for that?"), but I don't think that's really an issue (especially since you get more hints after failing. Loved the game!
Awesome twist on one of the most common mechanics in videogames. I noticed that if you click multiple times in the green text the same hit appears multiple times which can sometimes make everything confusing.
Nice concept, pretty graphics, challengin puzzles. The only issue, to me, is that the music start to get repetitive fast, but, overall, great game, good job!
Wow this is a very difficult but fun puzzle game. Incredible artwork and polish! amazing artwork and the final puzzle had me working very hard to finish but I did it!
Beautiful art style, comfortable drag and drop mechanics, might have been worth adding a spacer when clicking the linked text - so that it is easy to see the added details (------) etc :P. I will admit, I spent ~20minutes on the Zombie Emu problem, no matter what I did I couldn't get it to work. I'm guessing I should have moved the flags to the middle, but oh well! :P Nice work!
Lovely feeling overall, got stuck on Goldie's fishing trip! I tried to fit too many tasty treats and then the 2nd fishing pole wouldn't fit, no matter what! I believe a button to empty the whole bag would be useful, and I had some issues where I was dropping the item in an empty spot and it would disappear as if it didn't have enough space, the mouse controls are very finnicky. Other than that, great experience!
Great game! I had to stop once because I couldn't figure out the demon lord one, but after retrying it this morning I finally got to the very end. I loved the music and characters! The puzzles were very well designed, tough but not too tough.
really nice game and artstyle is perfect gj
Really great storywise, every aspect in this game just nails it. Tho idk what was her mission in town and why is she so bloody. But maybe she is not secretly a mass murderer, right? zoroa.png
Fun game, only recommendation would be a placement sound effect for the different items to break up the soundscape. Good job!
Nice basic concept pretty well executed! Art is amazing for a jam entry!
Liked the combination of inventory tetris and story telling
Fairly solid entry, I really like the art style and each level was designed nicely and was challenging enough (I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the boomerang one). One thing I would change is add the ability to rotate shapes by using right-click, that way the game can be played with one hand only. Other than that, good game!
Great art and concept. And the concept to guess customer's need was fun. it was a bit tiresome to trying packing with unknown needs. But i liked the play!
What a game! No kidding, I think I spent around 1 hour and a half to get to the end! Music, art and game design are to be congratulated, the fact that the game starts by showing you exactly what the character needs and as you pass the stages it just gives you tips, it's a great treat for those who like challenges, some of these took me more than 30 minutes
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I loved the fact that, if you make a mistake, the character comes back to you with bruises and a disappointed face, really a fun and complete game!
The art and animation is amazing! I love how you brought a tetris-sorting game to life with the narrative!
This ame is amazing! It's so well thought-out and polished, and it was made in just a couple days?! I'd happily buy this on Steam! Please make this into a pull game, wow! The pixel art is cute and I like how disappointed they are when then return after you failed them hehe!
Impressive amount of work done on the art, and I like the two-layer puzzle of figuring out what you need and then figuring out how to fit it in. Only criticism is that the first layer of the puzzle was too obvious most of the time. I would have liked to see more deduction and less spelling out what you need. Very solid game though!
Really impressive artwork! Love the idea, keep up the good work guys!
I really liked the puzzles in this one. Clicking the green text to learn more was kind of hard as an interface to use, would up losing my place a lot. Putting the helper text in a separate / hierarchical panel would help with it I think. Great art and vibe here!
Very nice art! Game feels great, polished overall
This is awesome, congratulations!!
I'd love this kind of packing service at my local grocery store for sure!
The graphics are really good, and the sound and music set the mood perfectly.
I loved when Goldie came back shot full of arrows! HAHA! Amazing attention to details!
Game is very polished. sometimes the tips are a bit vague, but since the defeat Screen gives you more tips, it gets pretty easy to find your way around the challenges!
A very well-crafted piece of work. I love its art style and music, and even each character has their own background music! It's truly impressive! The puzzles that require certain items sometimes necessitate a failure before receiving hints.
I really love this, I remember hearing about a game like this where you had limited inventory space you had to organize just like this and I'm guessing that's what inspired you guys to make this, the art and music are so incredibly nice and the game is so incredibly challenging I love it, although I couldn't enjoy the full game because I got stuck on the second level with the 5 swords, my tiny brain couldn't find a way but I understood how the game works and I really love the idea and the take on the theme, really polished and well made game, truly an amazing submission!
That was incredibly well presented. The art is beautiful. And the little map and the travelling added so much charm and immersion. Gameplay is pretty fun and intuitive. The one thing that bothers me was how sometimes you did not have enough information on what to pack. You would get it wrong, and then you would see the correct information once you failed. That felt very pointless and a waste of time. Guessing correctly seems impossible, so it just seems like you wasted time packing things for no reason. For example the guy that wants to protect his hair says he prefers shields, but then it turns out he actually wanted three breastplates. Why? What's the point of deceiving the player like this?
Anyway, it's a really solid entry with a fun gameplay and appealing art. Great atmosphere and mood. Well done!
So beautiful art style. I love the little map and the topic about travelling. Nice work!
Really solid, polished package. Very rare to see this quality of a game in a jam!
There is not much to critizise about the game. The base loop works really well and fiction is wrapped nicely around it. My only major nitpick is that the instructions sometimes do not feel fair to the player. There probably should be extra tips after a failed delivery so the player does not have to keep trying and trying if they are not getting the requirement of the mission.
But other than that, very solid game!
Great art combined with simple and fun puzzles. Not much else to say, it was quite enjoyable. Great work!
This game is absolutely addictive and incredibly fun. The graphics are stunning, and the music is fantastic. The levels contain some puzzle elements, so you have to use your brain to figure out what exactly is needed based on the mission description. It's challenging, but that's what makes it so great. Well done!
Solid level design! Let player guess what the npc needs is also a clever way to do narratives.
Fantastic visuals and polish, I learned that I suck at managing inventory so I didn't get very far, but what i've seen is great!
This is a great game! I really enjoyed the art, and I liked the kinda old school, MSX style music. The puzzles had great difficulty scaling, and I really enjoyed trying to find out what each character needed. I hope you all continue to work on this, its a great concept!
The levels are well designed and characters are unique as well. Dunno why the 1st shopkeeper was so shy tho. The music could use some upgrades since that'd bring a whole lot of depth to the game. Right now it feels a bit bland/static/repetitive(?) which is not what the gameplay and art is!
Great entry, puzzles are good balanced and challenger, congrats!
Amazing sprite work, good idea, and great implementation.
sweet art style. congrats!
fun and difficult !! i could tell the music was made in a beepbox type software because i used to use it so that made me smile lol
so cute game,very nice game art, the pakage system wooks very nice ,good game, nice work
Wow this was an extremely complete jam game. The team did excellent. Everything was perfectly well executed down to the transitions!
Amazing entry!
I got stuck in the second phase, I'm so terrible. good graphics, sounds and theme. A very good entry
I really love how you can screw up those characters days! Love the art style, reminds me a lot of the snowdin shop and the interactions of the tammy shop in undertale. I couldnt make the karate dudes happy though :( Well done!
Nice jam entry, hehe it's funny we did a fairly similar game. Your graphics are really good and I like the puzzles you put up. A very nice game ! Well done !
I've seen a few inventory management games this time around but man the polish here is lovely, I know it's a minor detail but the sop background in particular is such a feast for the eyes, I think some sound effects when you place something down could help with the gameplay feeling responsive? But that may as well be my only complaint, I adored the writing, the difficulity, and especially the art
Beautiful artwork, I love the story-driven nature of the gameplay. I had a great time :smile: Couple thoughts: - I would have liked to hear some more sound effects aside from the background music - Sometimes I felt the items did not follow my cursor in the way I would expect. Led to a lot of missed clicks
Very simple solution of the theme and nice art!
Beautiful game! Only complaint I've got is I'd liked to have had a stronger more visual snapping of where a piece was going to go when I let go, it often wasn't clear unless I was really watching the background. I loved all of the detailed art, and having different artwork for when they fail!
This was fun, but very difficult. Still, doable. I like much how you tell the story through the puzzles. The idea to guess the content is a very nice and innovative one. Somethimes i just filled the backpack though, to get to the hints, since i wasn't sure or just didn't know what was expectet of me. This killed kinda this great idea. I'd prefer then that even close guesses would be accepted and right, too, resulting in changes in the story told, like he*she killed the demon, but with much difficulty, as too communicate, it was right in the general approach, but it could be even better. Then i could know, that 10 of one kind, is not enough, and i have to find a way to put an 11th in there, too, so to get to the "perfect" result. Other than this (which i judge as an minor issue regarding the amount of content you present!): very very well done. And as others pointed out repeatedly: The pixel art is just awesome, funny and charming! :heart:
Love the art and the concept is simple yet works perfectly!