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Before The Trip

By nilan and somewan

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3413.8098
Fun5553.4698
Innovation6323.2797
Theme2004.1698
Graphics1554.2898
Humor3853.2681
Mood2463.9097

Comments

nicolasjl9 2023-10-03 01:39

Looks greats! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

stvup 2023-10-03 02:07

Well that was fun, fits the theme pretty well!

pinky-toast 2023-10-03 02:51

I love the art, and so many assets! Looks super polished, love the idea too. Was impressed I could actually interact to fold items, even more assets considering those different versions :o

fireslash 2023-10-03 03:50

Tons of assets here, and they all look quite nice and coherent.

The amount of options here for packing is nuts. A ton of work clearly went into making all of these options and features.

Music is simple and charming, didn't hit any obvious bugs, and absolutely packed some stuff I shouldn't have just to fill in those last few slots and fulfill my OCD.

You might want to have an off-site link though, seems like the LD embed player is cropping the edges of the screen a bit. Not enough to make it impossible to play, but it does make the edges feel cramped.

Overall Nice work!

jadener 2023-10-04 11:08

Pretty cool with a very nice mood ^^ I like the amount of stuff thats there for packing, and it all fits really well with the charming music!

aripize 2023-10-04 11:10

Oh my God! I am very funny and pleased to see a game with such a vital interpretation of the topic! Literally me Х))

nadia-pixel 2023-10-04 14:05

Cute little game! I would definitely like to play it more with more amount of necessary items, since the space in bag is not so limited. I really liked your art and music! Hope you'll continue working on it!

bloham 2023-10-05 07:02

Cute game you made! So many assets! And everything looks really well together. I also like that you can have different bags where you can put in different things. Music wise, a great score, its dreamy and lets you think about your next holiday. I use a HDR screen and I noted that the embeded player does not like that. I guess thats a Ludum Dare website problem though :)

n-feofentov 2023-10-05 08:43

Fun cozy game. Un-Unpacking. Has a potential to become something bigger. Love nice micromechanics like folding clothes, using bags and combining pairs. Great job!

isaac 2023-10-05 11:39

The graphics are adorable and the music and sound effects are chill as heck! Gameplay is very simple but thats the nature of gamejams. Nice job on this one!

tal28 2023-10-05 11:45

Great sounds and graphics! very fun to play :smile:

antarian 2023-10-05 12:11

The game is nice! I really enjoyed this relaxing puzzle with a vacation vides – simple, but somehow satisfying :)

Here's a bit of honest review: - Music and SFX are great! - Items sorting layers could use some work so the most recent moved item would always display on top of the other (some king of dynamic sorting) - Art is amazing! Can be improved further for the full game, but very pretty as is for the game jam entry - Items names on hover would've been a nice addition, I wasn't able to determine what some items are ':D - More levels, more items, more rules variety, more everything for the full game! (I would like to play the full one for sure) - I was kind of missing additional bags not overlaying the main bag items

Overall: 10 out of 5, great entry!

antarian 2023-10-05 12:22

Oh, one more thing! Same Unity specific thing that we overlooked in our game too – the sounds are crazy loud. If someone has their headphones on 100% volume it is at least will be an unpleasant (if not harmful in any way) surprise. I would suggest to at least leave a warning in the description, or even better to patch it, since the rules allow small important fixes :)

nilan 2023-10-05 12:49

@antarian Thank you very much for your comment. I will respond to the points one by one: - the hover tooltip: yes, It was originally planned but had to be cancelled due to time constraints. I am also unsure would be appropriate to add it for now, since the jam is ongoing, I don't know will it create unfair. - full version of game: If the feedback we receive is positive, we'll definitely consider it, why not xD. But I think should wait until the jam is finished. - volume issue: will verify this as soon as possible and consider adding a settings menu to change volume.

Thank you again <3

antarian 2023-10-05 15:39

@nilan personally I do not think that adding tooltips is something that rules allow. Sound fix on the other hand should be allowed. Also, I would suggest to consider lowering default volume too, as lowering volume on device is not a problem, the issue is that on the start of the game unprepared user may have their device volume set to 100%. Best of luck :)

fosf0 2023-10-05 15:48

Cute idea! I like it

nekusoul 2023-10-05 16:10

Nice twists on this type of game with the folding, bags and choosing the items to pack.

irinam 2023-10-05 17:39

Good idea and enjoyable implementation. Unfortunately, the levels are too small - there are no problems fitting things into the bag. Nevertheless, I played a few times.

minjutin 2023-10-05 18:20

I like all the details, every item is really nice-looking. I especially enjoyed how you are capable of folding your clothes and combining items, a mechanic you don't usually see in this kind of games. Made me feel like I'm some kind of genius mastermind

bia-julian 2023-10-05 19:20

Really liked the art! I loved the idea of folding clothes and combining items that have pairs. So cool and fun!

spider-the-second 2023-10-05 19:37

Loved the artsyle

game-dev-with-michael 2023-10-05 19:38

Solid graphics and music. There were definitely some items that I simply didn't know what they were.

jinbu 2023-10-05 19:39

Nice art

skel3ton 2023-10-05 20:16

nice relaxing game. I love the idea that you can fold the clothes :D great graphics and music

rumiaobsessed 2023-10-06 00:42

Awesome graphics and I like the folding/ combining mechanics. Love the idea of an organizing game, but you might want to add longer lists for a challenge.

0x746564 2023-10-06 02:01

I liked how you can fold some of the clothes, stack items and fit items inside of bags. The first time I tried to play the Snowy Mountain level didn't load any of the items, but a refresh fixed it.

Here is my best score so far:

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xcarl 2023-10-06 04:01

Very fun! The graphics are really cool, and I liked being able to fold the clothes and combine items. Great work!

quoclon 2023-10-06 07:08

When trying out a few ideas for the Jam, I had come up with a prototype of packing a storage facility. Even if I had pursued that idea, I would never have come up with something as cute and engaging as this. The controls are fantastic and intuitive, as is the feedback of where you can place things. It's really solid. Well done team!

thibaud 2023-10-06 07:17

Calm and relaxing game! Really liked that you could transform items

snekofspice 2023-10-06 08:53

Very cute game; lovely sfx, music, bouncy animations, lots of items with unique art, etc.

From a game design perspective, this feels fairly unfocused however. The game provides a very short list of items to pack, but actually you don't have to pack anything. Which is fine btw, allowing the player to just do whatever is fun and meshes well with the freedom of creating your own travel case. But it creates this weird dynamic where you get all this space, but it's unclear what you should do with it. At least I just packed 3 items and went for it lmao

I thought the game loop would become more complex, and combining different items would then lead to having to fulfill more and more requirements over time (a bit like Password Game that made the rounds recently)

I could also deffo see this being even more chill and going the Unpacking route, I think the vibes would totally be there.

Lastly, you mentioned having to cut it already, but yea, any sort of info on what an item actually is would've been great, just because I spent like 3 minutes looking for makeup remover, just bc I'm used to mine looking blue lmfao

Overall tho, very cozy vibes!!

laserpanzerwal 2023-10-06 11:27

Solid entry with good graphics. Not the most outstanding idea of course, but that doesn't matter. I like that there is a bunch of assets to give some variation to the items you can pack. The music gets repetitive pretty soon, but my game has the same issue so I cannot complain :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: Bonus points for being able to combine and stack items to save space :thumbsup:

phillip-scott 2023-10-06 11:30

Nice chill game, a little label for what the item was would be useful. loved the charming graphics the audio loops was nice too! good job

ottos 2023-10-06 13:35

Really nice game! But I wish it had a name of objects displayed somewhere near controls - figuring out what is cream and was is lotion or something was a huuuge pain, deffinetly took out some fun from this game. Also I wish it hap more empty space around bag just so I could organize stuff before putting them in the bag. There so many objects, after all, and having hard time picking up the desired ones makes it frustrating. I also maybe would have wanted to have more tasks for filling up the bag? There so many items but for some reason only 3 of them are needed. Feels somewhat weird, I think you can expand on that.

Other than that game is really nice! I really love this kind of games and I really hope you enjoyed making this and could improve it in ove way or another! I wish you the best!!

knightgames 2023-10-06 15:33

Nice game! Gameplay is smooth and graphics are very nice. It would be great if challenging modes can be added. Well done!

polyforma42 2023-10-06 15:35

I like the game! Very chill and cute. I was surprised when opened first bag amd combined pair of shoes which are nice touches.

cawfee-art 2023-10-06 15:45

Love the game! The assets and music are really nice and the moving of the items feels quite nice! Well done :D

chitoyuu 2023-10-06 16:31

Wow, that's a lot of different stuff! I can tell a lot of effort went into depicting them all in such detail, but given the sheer number it's sometimes still a bit hard to tell what is supposed to be what. I was stuck on "sunscreen" for quite a while. I guess that captures the intended mood pretty faithfully though. Nice game!

eroxxie 2023-10-06 16:48

Love the take on the theme! A fun and adorable game! I like it!

drumgadget-433 2023-10-06 17:46

Really nice artwork and consistency between items! You've clearly put in a lot of work on the programming and art fronts. You also had some really satisfying features, such as stacking sandals and other items, rotating objects, and sorting the appropriate apparel based on the selected theme.

You've created a cute and enjoyable inventory management game! I honestly don't have a lot of critique, the game plays really well for a jam build. Nice work!

allie-vera 2023-10-06 17:48

This was so fun, with a lot of unexpected depth! I quickly went from trying to fulfill the checklist to seeing what could be combined or collapsed and jamming as much as I could into the available space (just like real life...>_>;;)

vary 2023-10-06 18:12

Neat game! I like the theming of it, and being able to fold items was fun. When I accidentally put two boots together and they clicked, it gave me such joy! It was fun to find other items that click together. As others have said, it was a little hard to tell what items were what, especially with the smaller creams, which I assume are different types of skin care? Hover text might be a little too hand-holdy when you're required to pack certain items to win, so maybe just a slightly different variety of items so the sprites don't look too similar? Not sure. Either way, good job!

phoenixstroh 2023-10-06 18:14

your game is fantastic! it takes the simple idea of stacking items within a grid space, but extends it so far! it also is super pretty and the music/sounds are really pleasant! really awesome submission :)

miles-w 2023-10-06 18:20

Super cute game with a really nice art style! I like how there are different places to travel, and different things you need for each of them. The music is also really nice and fits with the mood :) I think having a label for what things are what, especially the small things, would be helpful but I managed just fine without.

lain94 2023-10-06 18:40

Congratulations!!! It has been a very nice game about how to prepare the luggage to go to the mountain or to the beach with your boyfriend/girlfriend, in fact my future girlfriend can also be grateful to the creators of this game as I have learned some tricks to make things fit easily in the luggage. my next trip to the mountain will be a success! Music relaxing with the vibe of the game. Pixels 10/10, and the mood completely fits with the gamejam theme and the style. 10/10!

amberfall92 2023-10-07 03:15

cute art and it was fun to discover that things like flip flops stack.

anirbas 2023-10-07 12:12

Relaxing game! I love the graphics and the music. Nice job!

nyxkn 2023-10-07 14:53

Omg such a cute game! The atmosphere is so immersive. The music is very well chosen. The art is just beautiful. Packing the inventory was surprisingly engaging. Discovering that items could be combined was also a really rewarding moment. I think the game lives well enough on its art and mood, but maybe there might be ways of making gameplay more engaging, as now it gets stale quite soon. Overall impressive entry. Thanks for this experience!

fabula-rasa 2023-10-07 17:55

Neat! You create a pleasant and relaxing atmosphere with clean graphics, smooth colors and delicate music. The game invites one to just chill :smile:

Everything works well and I didn't notice any bugs. Seems polished. I only wish the cosmetic items had labels, as I had no idea what many of them actually were :sweat_smile:

Very well done!

cheesepencil 2023-10-07 19:19

When I started the itch web version the first time, none of the clothes spawned and I was forced to "complete" with nothing in my suitcase... but it only happened that one time and I cannot reproduce the error.

This is cute! I like the look and there's lots of little interactive things.

strato 2023-10-07 21:35

Very nice art and simple concept that plays smoothly. Folding / combining things to save on space is a cool idea.

zee-yuen 2023-10-08 06:30

This is a very simple idea executed fairy well. As others have mentioned, the amount of assests you all created in such a short amount of time is a true feat onto its own. Like, holy crap there were so many things. Also, I loved the little hidden interactions some items had with each other that let them be packed together?? (the only one I found was the toothbrush/paste). One idea I had that could add some more variety was maybe have different storage places with different items allowed in them? (for examples, maybe you have a tolietry bag, that only allows tolitries into it? I did also have a lot of trouble finding in the mission list, so maybe have them be highlighted when you put your cursor over their name in the list?

neowedge 2023-10-08 15:26

Nice entry, simple but very well executed, congrats!

2thegamechanger 2023-10-08 16:15

Reminds me a lot of how i felt in the original Dungeon Siege! Very cool graphics!

polite-stories 2023-10-08 18:29

Lovely little entry, something I could see myself playing on the way to work on my phone! The art is charming and works so well for what it is, my only little request would be maybe it could tell you what the item is specifically when you highlight over it? I was looking for certain kinds of makeup completely puzzled to which ones were right or not and having to try tossing them in to see if it would flag, I think it could be cute to not only have different types of holiday but maybe different lugagge types if you continued forward and made this a full title :) thanks for uploading

ginxel 2023-10-08 19:47

The game is amazing!

ayxs 2023-10-08 20:46

Great graphics, but for me the gameplay is a bit lacking. The amount of items is great but there is no real indication for how the items look ik game. For example Eye Shadow took me forever to find. Then you get some score based on what you packed, but there is no limitation for packing something or not which is usable. On my first play, I packed everything I could for 'Snowy Mountain' which was approximately useful, had no real challenge of getting them in my suitcase and got perfect score I guess.

Anyway, the music is great and the graphics are really good! Well done overall!!

siberpunk01 2023-10-10 02:43

I like the idea. Some of the small items I wasn't sure what they were. Maybe in the UI somewhere it could say what the item you picked up is. I think adding a little bit of challenge to the game would add a lot to the experience. I think it could still be a relaxing game, but adding just a little bit of a challenge would go a long way. Music and art are both great!

somewan 2023-10-10 03:46

Thank you all for trying it out and providing suggestions.:smile:

dsk 2023-10-12 12:49

The "luggage organizing" gameplay mechanic is very interesting, and the pixel art style is also very cute,nice job:)

cataclysmicknight 2023-10-16 21:32

I wasn't sure what a few things were, but figured my way through it as they were all optional anyway :D And hurray! I got a good score, too 🥳 ​

Also, I'm so glad that the sunhat was a requirement for the sunny beach getaway, I never go anywhere without my hat 🧡

This was really chill and cozy and I liked how different items combined, folded up, and even re-shaped when combined (like toothpaste & toothbrush). When "limited space" won as the theme I was hyped for some inventory management games, and this delivered that perfectly!

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jonathan-lorenz 2023-10-17 14:09

It's funny because it is supposed to be a relaxing game, but for me it is my nightmare. Having to fill everything in a suitcase, not knowing where you put those god damn glasses, removing everything from your suitcase and restarting again... That being said, the game is pretty well done. Only complaint I have is that the music loop was too short and it was like making fun of me for taking so long to pack my stuffs. Good work overall!

strega 2023-10-19 03:43

Great packing game! Loved the art, music, sounds, and interaction feel. Really cool how you could combine and fold things. I totally tried to just fit everything I could. I think the only thing I would add would be a little display that showed you the item's name while you were holding it to help you understand what everything was, and maybe a little description to help tell a light story through the objects themselves. Great job!

roroto-sic 2023-10-19 14:39

A fun idea, a charming mood ! Capture d’écran 2023-10-19 d.jpg

lelulagames 2023-10-20 01:34

I had fun playing, and had to play both sections just because I liked it so much. Love that I could open purses and duffles to put stuff inside of other stuff. Then I figured out I could put toothbrushes in a cup, which was nifty. The only thing I think I would like is a name for things because I still have no idea what the little round black things are. Hockey pucks maybe?