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Cosmic Cargo Chaos

By surfa, Tommo120 and mistagiggles

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1284.0527
Fun1793.9227
Innovation3153.6627
Theme554.4427
Graphics5123.7027
Audio2103.7827
Humor1083.9326
Mood2373.9227

Comments

alpie 2023-10-02 22:55

I really wanted for the ship to take me on a journey ;D Nice idea and implementation. The voiceover felt right in place too

maste 2023-10-03 16:16

Really great game! Good idea that is really well executed. The controls were the perfect amount of responsive and slightly janky that I'd expect from running a forklift in outer space. My favorite part was when I accidentally got bounced onto the depart button having unloaded just one crate. Great work!

jozgames 2023-10-03 16:16

O jogo capitou totalmente o tema, só achei que o sprite da empilhadeira parece descentralizado :/ Tirando isso ta bem divertido, parabéns!

tentacledream 2023-10-03 16:16

It was wonderful! Especially Easter eggs with inscriptions on trash cans. I'm really looking forward to this game on Steam with additional features, upgrades and the same humor!

jasuse 2023-10-03 16:23

Liked the physics of crates. It was really fun to navigate through clumped cargo

huesamai 2023-10-03 16:28

Very fun game! Controls are a bit difficult, but I assume that is intentional. Played into the theme perfectly. This can definitely be a full game! Love the intro and ending lol. Only thing is that I only realised there were objectives on my second play through...I think I'm just dumb though.........

lastuck 2023-10-03 16:30

Thanks for showing me how bad I am at space management lol, nice game!

soul-grinder 2023-10-03 16:30

So that's what happened to Barry lol. Really fun forklift game and the voice over was great too. I've added this one to my itch collection and will probably play this again. Nice work!

nozomu57 2023-10-03 16:34

Don't have really anything to add to comments above. Nice meditative game, after a while you just get in the flow :) Really feels like being a forklift.

jmartinez-gamedev 2023-10-03 16:37

Well rounded game, my highlights were the mood you achieved and a surprsing and funny sequence at the end. Good job!

frib 2023-10-03 16:39

It's a pretty solid and complete game with some nice humor sprinkled on top of it, good job! I did find the gameplay to become a bit tedious and uninteresting over time, but I can see the appeal. In any case, good job on a very nice entry!

lalordmikey 2023-10-03 16:40

solid concept that meshed really well with the theme.

firellon 2023-10-03 16:42

Haha, your typical employee workday, moving stuff from A to B while trying to satisfy ever increasing management demands... Well done!

baturinsky 2023-10-03 17:17

Very good. Gives SS13 vibes - are you playing it? I especially like the balance - just enough to be challenging, but doable. And even requires some strategy, such as dumping several big boxes in the airlock or shuttle in one day, to get only one strike and free up the cargo.

Minor issues in tutorial wording: Tutorial says you should not dispose the cargo "not relevant to your current objective", while disposing all non-black cargo is penalised.

Also, it would be probably better to have the clipboard on screen at all times. It starts lowered, so I was confused of what to do with cargo for the first minute or too.

evilmurlock 2023-10-03 17:27

Fun game, ncie voice acting. I think there might have been a bug where sometimes the score I earened in a day wasnt added to my total. And at the end score screen the number of my strices was not displayed.

geronimo 2023-10-03 19:31

beautiful game :D, the voice acting is a nice touch, the intro sequence overall was good. I like the way the game made me manage space and how infuriating it was blocking the cargo that i needed to deliver with my own boxes. Graphics were good and the music wasnt in your face and felt very fit for space. overall, nice job, i hope you make more games like these :D

floralvikings 2023-10-03 20:46

This was a fun take on the theme, voice acting was great, really fun little animation in the intro!

tomknocker44 2023-10-04 19:22

Great game! Feels a lot like a flash game I could have played years ago. The intro was a nice touch. One possible suggestion would be to make the objectives update based on your progress loading/unloading, and maybe make it always visible too.

tommo120 2023-10-04 19:55

Thank you for all of the feedback! It's nice to see so many positive comments :)

@frib I agree that the gameplay can become quite monotonous sometimes. I think its due to the random generation as it can make things too easy sometimes. Other times it can become incredibly frantic, which I feel is a lot more engaging and fun.

@baturinsky I've never played SS13 but I have seen quite a few videos in the past. I can see why it gives you those vibes! As for the tutorial, I threw it together in half an hour, and it was an hour before the deadline 😅 Definitely could have been worded better, but the gist of it is supposed to be that you will get a strike for disposing of cargo relevant to your current mission, but not other cargo or junk. You still lose wages for getting rid of other cargo though.

@tomknocker44 I like that it doesn't update, makes sure you're paying attention and not just playing on auto-pilot. I'm not sure if @surfa intended to make it update and just didn't get around to it. We didn't feel it was necessary for it to always be visible as you can see the objectives on the signs too.

weefairyfabi 2023-10-04 20:10

This is so nostalgic, I really love the art and so much love and attention to detail, especially the voice acting!

baturinsky 2023-10-04 20:33

@tommo120 Ohm right, tutorial is correct then. I was just seeing red in debrief when ditched the unrelevent color boxes, and assumed it was a strike, while actually it wasn't (as I later noticed).

vr-corry 2023-10-04 21:06

This is an interesting game, without knowing where the Load/Unload buttons were - or that they were changing colors I was terminated on my 5th ship :grimace:

On the second run it was much better, but ultimately I think I'll seek a career with a longer life expectancy... like a dropship pilot in the space marines.

sibi 2023-10-15 13:41

This was so much fun! The controls were on point and the story hilarious. When I realized that I would be getting my final strike, I just ejected myself out of the airlock :D Btw great name for the game, always happy to see more people appreciating alliterations.

very-dark-lord 2023-10-18 17:37

Loved the intro. :D And I was so engrossed in the game I didn't even notice my girlfriend brought me a hot chocolate! Overall one of the funniest games I've playes this time around, both the writing and the forklift gameplay, great job. :ok_hand: