Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD54 → Garbage Stack
By casualnothing and beanboi
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 926 | 3.13 | 20 | |
| Fun | 801 | 3.13 | 20 | |
| Innovation | 806 | 3.05 | 20 | |
| Theme | 655 | 3.50 | 20 | |
| Graphics | 847 | 3.05 | 20 | |
| Audio | 630 | 2.86 | 20 | |
| Humor | 620 | 2.77 | 20 | |
| Mood | 929 | 2.97 | 20 |
Quite relaxing game. It's easy to just waste minutes stacking the trash. My first intuition was to place them at the bottom of the truck instead of top of it. Proper player feedback for game over, not just freezing the game, would have been great. I was uncertain what the color box indicated. Something score related, perhaps?
Good job!
@coderaurus you're definitely right about feedback we didn't end up having time to implement proper mechanisms for that. We ended up making this game in about 12-15 hours because of our schedules not allowing us to use the full time. Your score is (number of items) * (height of highest point in the stack). The colored box indicates whether the game judges your stack as stable or not. Red is not stable, yellow is currently stable, and green is currently stable and has been for 3 seconds, which is the point in time where your score is recalculated.
This was really fun to see how high I could get it. I like that each object has it's own shape and will gradually cause you a problem for future stacking (unless they are all refrigerators). It took me a second to figure what I was doing, so if you could improve the UI a little to show in game how to play, I think that would help players get going faster. You could track the score by the weight of the shipment or the height or both!
Could use a tutorial, even just in-game controls that show when you start a new one. Took me a while to figure out that WASD works, but only after spawning an item and before releasing it. failed a few times dropping trash willy-nilly on my cabin to bounce off and instafail
This game feeds my tetris addiction lol. Had a lot of fun stacking idly and trying to build stable builds given the trash I was given. There is sometimes a bug that happens when you stack too many small objects together? I think on of the objects clips into another and a huge explosion happens, ending the run I had. Good work though!
It's a fun concept and stacking can get really tricky!
Could really use some end-screen with score to incentivize the player to tray again. Right now, it seems it just goes back to the main menu abruptly, and sometimes you're not really even sure why you failed.
Nice job!
Got a score of 3059, nice little game. I think different difficulty options would be nice, as it's really easy to be able to swing your selected item all the way down and neatly stack it before a piece even shows up.
Very fun and addictive game! I really love how simple it is yet interesting with the different shapes of objects. Great job! Got a score of 1900
My first instincts were to drag the items with my mouse and put them *inside* the truck, not on top of it, but once I got the hang of it, I had an enjoyable moment stacking trash. Now off to clean my room...
As others have said, clearer feedback for most things (what nets you score, why the game ended, etc.) would be nice.
Oh, the bg music was pleasant as well.
Nice simple-to-play physics game, with some really relaxing backing music and some nice art. Felt quite complete, and I had fun going through a few attempts. I wonder if it would have been possible to polish the mechanic a bit more, like have the items start falling before you move them (like tetris). Some more feedback would have been nice too, to make the game feel jucier.
Nice entry!