Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD54 → Package Express
By spicymarcus, Shmi and Rusty2117
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 519 | 3.62 | 92 | |
| Fun | 349 | 3.70 | 92 | |
| Innovation | 759 | 3.12 | 92 | |
| Theme | 170 | 4.22 | 92 | |
| Graphics | 708 | 3.36 | 92 | |
| Humor | 518 | 2.99 | 87 | |
| Mood | 779 | 3.26 | 88 |
I spent a lot of time on the game because it's addictive)) sometimes boxes fall from the sky, and it's even funny!! In the last playthrough there was a moment when the boxes did not spawn for about 15 seconds, apparently it was due to the spawn parameters It would also be cool to be able to spin boxes with the RMB. However, you did a good job anyway!!! The game also has a nice color palette
Great mechanics which are easy to understand and play, good job!
Game was really fun! Kept playing longer than expected! I would have liked the truck to auto leave when I filled it perfectly! Plus for being playable in the browser!
Very fun game!
Very Fun.
I don't seem to be able to get it working unfortunately - it stalls after clicking start game 🤔
Addictive!
You have a really addictive game loop here! Do you gain points for placing packages right side up?
I like your idea, It's fun, it has potential, but... I think it's not well balanced because just by pressing a button to change the truck if a piece gets stuck you can go on, maybe with faster pieces and slower trucks you would have to juggle on the conveyor in the meantime.
On the other hand, I have found a bug, if you throw a piece under the conveyor it doesn't fall on it and therefore it doesn't burn.
Despite all the criticism, I liked the idea a lot and I think it could be interesting with more time of development.
I managed to get it to hang after I simultaneously rotated and placed a piece. At least, I think it was that. I had also just grabbed a package and moved it backwards so it wouldn't fall into the fire XD
This really works well though, good controls, I thought it was fun.
Really fun game, it gets quite hard towards the end. I found myself a bit frustrated that the grid you were placing the packages on was being overflowed by the many many packages I had on my conveyor belt. Well done nonetheless!
Very interesting game! When I was young, my father was a truck driver, and later he started his own transportation company. When playing this game, I always think, fortunately, the end of the conveyor belt in the customers' warehouse is not a big furnace.
Great game. It was fun to play. I also liked the music. At first I thought I could rotate the stuff after it's placed in the truck. Maybe that would have made it easier to play.
Pretty fun game! I really liked the absolute panic when the conveyor gets flooded with packages and smart decisions get thrown out the window in favor of "just ship it" XD.
My one bit of feedback is to have a slightly smoother ramp between "I can get every package" to "This wall of packages are getting burned" so you're encouraged to juggle packages on the conveyor.
Nice job!
very addictive, and its frustrating enough for you to want to keep playing and arrange everything in order, nice implementation of the theme!
It initially confused me that once a box is in the truck it's not movable anymore, once I got that concept it was quite fun! Good job!
Super fun and nice difficulty progression. The 3rd day definitely had me break into a sweat while juggling around those masses of packages as they block my view on the remaining truck space. Hits the theme in multiple ways! Very nice entry.
I liked the pacing, starts off quite easy but then as you understand what to do things quickly ramp up to keep you sweating 😅 tha ka for the fun experience
a funny game to play
i liked the idea. I think it would be nice if you had a limited amount of trucks though, to actually make you want to stack them as well as possible. Also it would be nice to be able to control the orientation of the boxes somehow. overall i liked it. well done! :D
Very addictive and replayable game! Personally, I found the increase in difficulty from level 1 to level 2 quite drastic.
really nice game, I think so far the best on overall categories =)
Nice! Got pretty frantic after a while which was pretty great. Started dragging packages away from the fire, but then not even that was enogh.
The game has it's strengths, the gameplay loop is really fun and trying to find the optimal shape to fit the whole box is really cool. The graphics are simple yet very efficient! It's pretty addicting
One thing that does weight the game a bit down is the balancing, since you will inevitably get overwhelmed as early as level 2 and it's basically impossible to not burn packages, so the difficulty probably needs to be reworked. It could also be nicer if the boxes were easier to grab!
But overall a nice entry that leaves me wanting for more box-fitting inside trucks, great job!
Nice game, the random bouncing of packages makes it funnier.
I could not play it in Firefox (Godot complained about missing Cross Origin Isolation SharedArrayBuffer), but it worked in Chromium.
Well that escalated quickly... Got a bit peeved when i managed to drop a package in the truck tilted and i could not place anything else in the truck :D
Fun, addictive, maybe a little rough on the pixel font but, great game overall!!
Fun game! I think a fun added mechanic would to just lean into the tetris and start giving line clears. Nice game!
Well that was a fun interpretation of tetris. I enjoyed it. About half way through the packages stopped falling when you put them in the truck, they just hung mid air. I wasn;t sure if that was supposed to happen or not. But it's all good, I still got through all the trucks without loosing a package.
I had a lot of fun playing 'Package Express'! The feeling of rushing to deliver orders to the conveyor belt and the need to quickly decide where to place each package make the game engaging. The ability to rotate packages adds an extra layer of strategy. I loved the minimalist design and the colors used. If I had a suggestion it would be to maybe introduce more challenges or levels as you go. Great job and I hope to see more of your games in the future!
Very nice! Sometimes stuff would bounce out of screen to the left but I was glad to see that the conveyor was also offscreen! I'm not sure if having packages burn would impact my score though, so when the packages started piling up I just started putting them in as fast as possible, which is when the game froze as I attempted to put a package on another one. I liked the music as well, good fun game!
It's a well known mechanic (filling the squares with the shapes) but adding the fact that you have to fill the trucks quickly one after another is a good Idea. And you made it well, it's responding perfectly. The shapes are sticking quickly so it goes well fast. Maybe the graphics could be more stylish, but it's clean and clear. Well done.
Smooth game! Who wrote the music? They're all such bangers!
Interesting game, the theme idea really came through. But sometimes I was just watiing for packages to show up, I feel like it would've been better if more packages appeared more quickly to create more a rushed feeling.
The mechanic is easy to understand and it plays smoothly. Also, the music is wonderful!
This game is an addiction! Awesome reinterpretation of Tetris games, and the music is perfect. Great job!
This is great. I'm going to give you bonus points for not just fitting this dares theme but also delivery from LD53.
It's a simple concept but surprisingly satisfying and addictive. I legitimately lost track of time and played this longer than I should have. Really great entry.
I really like how you've reworked the classic Tetris mechanics! I hope the project will develop further!
Great stuff! I really enjoy the mechanics and the difficulty progression seems to be well-thought-out. The music is superb - it adds tempo and energy, complimenting the gameplay very well.
Sadly, I have a bug. I tried four times on two different browsers (Firefox and Chrome) and the same thing happens - the game just hangs around the second truck on day two and refuses to proceed. Everything freezes and does not unfreeze.
Pretty fun game and the art is really good. I encountered a glitch where the packages kept spawning even after the timer was up until the screen was overflowing with packages lol.
The game is nice, the idea is simple, but it works really well. Nicely done ! Warning for everyone, don't play it with a trackpad, it makes those game 10 times harder. XD
Fun game but I wasn't totally sure if the fast paced nature of the game fit the gameplay. At some point too many boxes come so you have no way of placing all of them inside the trucks so then you just start picking random boxes and shove them in quickly to press the button for the next car. I just think that the game becomes way more about speed rather than clever box placement which isn't what I find the most fun in the game. Great job anyways the game was very fun
This was fun to play. I was thinking about how in Tetris the (bottom) line disappears if you fill it with blocks, to relieve the player a bit. Maybe you can do something like that too, where if you combine packages really space-efficiently you get bonus points which result in the packages shrinking. This gives the player a way of buying more time/space.
It took me a moment to fully comprehend what is happening :D I truly wish this is not how they actually sort our packages, but at the same time it wouldn't surprise me at all. This deserves 10/10 from humour honestly. Sorting boxes was also fun since they had so many different shapes, I tried to be as optimal as possible even though it didn't feel like the best strategy in this case
Very fun game, I like how you can juggle the boxes on the conveyor belt! For me day 1 and 2 were fine, but it quickly became way too hard on day 3 where I couldn't even see the truck behind all the packages and ended up burning 20 of them.
Hahaha I love this so much. I love how you can throw around the packages on the conveyor belt before they fall off, very funny. Gets hard as heck! I wish I could move stuff around once it was on the truck, but maybe the way you have it is better for the game design. Nice work!
cool game idea, but no challenge at all,but still a good hame,nice job
Loved the chaos of all of the packages pilling up! This was fun and challenging. Could have used some 1x1 grid packages to help compensate for my sub-optimal packaging. ;-)
Pretty fun and well executed idea! I like a simple mechanic that's intuitive to pick up. The rate at which new packages comes around becomes unmanageable after a while. That's probably the typical problem with increasing things linearly. Splitting the gameplay into different days also seemed a bit artificial. Nothing changed between days so it wasn't sure what the purpose of that decision was. It just feels like a way to restart the game three times. Anyway, aside for those minor issues, a very well made game!
Very cool game, but in day 3 it became really impossible. Also scoring was not really intuitive for making choices of crates, was most of the time just stuffing things without much thought.
Fun game! Interesting take on Tetris
nice entry... the game is fun and already pleasantly hectic on the second day
I would like to be able to retroactively change the location of the package in the car if I find that I have placed it wrong.
good work:)
Fun game, the first time I tried it something went wrong and the first day wasn't ending so my whole screen filled with packages to a point that started to lag. Other than that the game was fun, needs a little bit of balancing
It’s very interesting. In the later period, the blocks appeared a bit frequently, and my hand speed couldn’t keep up.
Funny game, congrats!
I would rather burn society to the ground than let a single one of my packages burn :imp:
Really fun (and funny) game, and a great take on the theme as well! I too liked how fast it turns from "I'm gonna carefully stack all the boxes" into "Whatever, we just need to ship it or it burns! D:"
Thanks you for the game and wish you even better future projects! :)
Really good game, very well polished. Loved the music and the art! Not sure whether the fact that I could drag the packages back on the assembly line was intentional or not, but in any case it contributed to the frenetic experience :D
Nice idea, and I'm sure it's lots of fun for some people! A bit too frantic for me, and near the end of day two it was so fast that I kind of stopped caring, which isn't really what you want. I know that's just me though :)
Really fun. I like how tight the placement of the packages in the truck feels, very snappy and satisfying.
This reminded me of Puzzle express and Ocean express! I liked that you could move onto another truck once one was full, it was a nice moment of relief after I realized I had messed up a bit lol. I wish that there was even more urgency communicated through the game to push me to really fill them up as fast as possible! Another big thing is I that I was able to play the game without much onboarding, which is great because a lot of the LD54 games I'm playing seem to have longer tutorials.
Your game truly nails the theme)e. The simple and fun mechanic, along with a well-paced progression, is a strong suit. However, it's unfortunate that there's a bug causing infinite level( i got stuck in it. Keep up the good work while addressing the bug!
I thought it would be as easy as it was at first, but then the treadmill was a mess lol. Well done