Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD54 → H.amazon E.mployee L.earning L.ab
By aevek, bongard22, floppynub, rhoka, WaylandTheSmith, drsnowdude and Boobsonthemoon
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 311 | 3.83 | 52 | |
| Fun | 421 | 3.61 | 52 | |
| Innovation | 577 | 3.34 | 52 | |
| Theme | 653 | 3.51 | 52 | |
| Graphics | 353 | 3.98 | 52 | |
| Audio | 199 | 3.80 | 51 | |
| Humor | 37 | 4.30 | 52 | |
| Mood | 385 | 3.74 | 52 |
A nice silly entry! Movement felt cool and the piling up of boxes/things gave this game an almost Overcooked vibe. Though, it got to the point where so many boxes piled up I splashed into them and 6 fell into the incinerator, giving me a game over. I'm not mad though it was funny!
Loved the idea for this game! The art and sound design are great, and I liked how much the boxes piled up as the game went on, it really sold the idea of being rushed (or maybe I'm just bad). I also liked the skill ceiling of the game, using momentum to carefully aim the boxes vs just walking with them.
Hilarious game, with lots of clever details in the voice lines, posters on the wall... even in gameplay concepts like how you have to de-possess some boxes _and_ deliver the ghost to the correct place too. It feels inspired by games like Overcooked without being outright derivative.
Unfortunately I ran into a few bugs (as is typical for these kinds of things) including one which ended two of my games. I think I fell into a pit while holding a box and after that I couldn't pick anything up (I could still hold the button to do the throw animation but couldn't hold anything to throw). Also, when I tried to play again without restarting the game, the second run was rude and probably bugged—I was stuck on nothing but blue packages forever and the floor tiles disappearing immediately.
I'm honestly blown away by how much you managed to get done—3D gameplay with physics, music and sound effects, social commentary, all consistent with each other... really good stuff.
incredible game, it really gives off strong overcooked vibes and was frankly just hilarious from start to finish, great respect of the theme, great artwork, music, everything, i hope more people find this game and i wish you the best of luck :)
This is a really fun game. I agree with the overcooked vibes. I got very overwhelmed with the boxes but that just added to the mood! Felt the movement was a little "icy" but props for producing a Linux!
Amazing game, same vibe that everyone else is feeling its very overcooked style and I love overcooked so this is perfect for me! Hilarious art work as well, music matches it all incredibly.
I really like the progression on this on: you can start without any instructions, the goals are pretty straightforward, and then you gradually introduce new mechanics and after 5 minutes you're almost in a state of flow juggling with all the packages. Cool entry!
Thanks for letting me play this on stream, it was awesome!
Here's the VOD with Timestamps so you can click to your game! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NVsG7UOyfw
HILARIOUS.
Great game, very funny and innovative.
Fun game! It really makes you feel like an overworked amazon employee.
I do love a good sorting game. The main failure condition seems to be when the boxes spill over into the incinerator, since they come in much faster than they can be processed. Love the visuals and sounds.
I booted into Windows to try this game but got a long error message that starts: Your video card drivers seem not to support the required Vulcan version. I've gotten this message on some other games too, so I don't know if anything can be done about it, likely my Mac. I'll try the Mac version later.
So funny, testing the limited space of my CPU with all those boxes :smile:
I got a good laugh out of the voices and de-motivational-posters! I have a friend who once worked for Amazon, I should ask how accurate this is.
To provide some more critical feedback, this type of game has been done many times before, with little changes to the gameplay. The "Hamazon" environment with the crumbling floor is a nice touch, but I've played dozens of sorting games over the past Ludum Dares, and they all feel about the same to me.
With the negatives behind me, let's talk about everything I loved. I enjoyed the humor that could be found in tossing the packages over an incinerator, surely damaging the contents of the package beyond repair *every time*. The 3D models for the pigs and the environment are fantastic! I love that you added a leaderboard! The "I have read the tutorial" checkboxes are a pretty clever way to make sure the player actually has read them.
I recorded myself playing to provide even more feedback! Cheers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_w0CzLiZTI
Nice game :)
Good job. I like the touch of the music getting sped up. The whole vibe gets hectic and fits the theme of hell. Also the gameplay was good. There were moments were boxes shot crazily around but otherwise it was fun.
verrry fun, would be an amazing multiplayer party game too, but maybe with more optimised physics tho ^^ hehe
interesting take on the theme. was throwing the boxes in portalfor 2min & becomes harder after after a while. I see a potential on this game. u should keep working on this game even after the jam is over.
Lovely theme, graphics, overall vibe is fantastic, hard not to smile while playing this
Gameplay-wise, I found the controls to be really floaty, stiff, and not always responsive. The package throwing mechanic feels a bit unfair in the sense that you always throw it too close or two far, without much in-between. Maybe some timing-based system where I can move a cursor around and point where I want to throw it, something with more visual indication. Or even make the player move faster and snappier, get rid of throwing entirely, and increase the overall pace of the game for a more hectic feel? something like that
A small thing: as a gamepad lover, I'd also have appreciated if the "I have read the terms" checkbox was also gamepad-friendly
I didn't know they have it this hard in Hamazon. No wonder my packages take so long to arrive. I loved the tutorial windows and your humours in general. For some reason it was suuper hard to collect boxes, idk if it was a feature but it felt more like a bug to me. I honestly respect your idea tho
I highly recommend scanning that QR code to anyone.
Really fun and gets real chaotic (and laggy D:) when the packages pile up :D Well done overall!
It was fun (and funny) to play (and to watch others playing on streams). I just had one problem that I can only guess it may be related to my 21:9 resolution: moving up/down was way, way too slow compared to moving sideways; it seemed to have not only way lower speed but even acceleration (I almost thought it was something with my keyboard not sending inputs)
A very nice and salty game. I loved it! The theme was to the point and the music and the graphics were very polished. Of course after some time when the boxes are everywhere it becomes really messy and almost unplayable from the lag, but it is normal, because all the times that I got to that place after some seconds I lost because boxes started get into the pit and the boss was starting getting mad :tongue: Anyway, beautiful entry! Keep up!
[Thanks for submitting your game to stream!](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1944529420?t=01h29m58s)
I feel like I barely managed to scratch the surface of mastery in this game, lol. Once I figure out how to properly throw boxes, I will be unstoppable!
I always look forward to trying Vaguely Damp's entry. For real, always something unexpected and captivating! This time is no different, and it's obvious that so much creativity went into this.
I loved how much I hated working at Hamazon. The feedback you worked into the systems, all the sounds and other indicators, was really appreciated. That's something that's hard to spend a lot of time on. And as the room filled with boxes and the floor disappeared, I really felt the application of the theme.
I played for a good bit until I hit the bug where you can't pick up more boxes after you die holding one. I did play version 1.01.
ya its fun alright xD i tried a bunch of strats to get the top box on the leaderboard, my favorite was pushing extra boxes into the lava since you don't get penalty for it and also picking up boxes and dropping them outside of the room lmao
it wasnt effective because they kept coming faster than i could get rid of them and i wasnt getting points while doing it, but still fun theory crafting. what my score came down to was just getting good at throwing for the early part and then going only for ghosties/peeg middle to late, and also ignoring mystery boxes completely
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