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Crates of Hell

By dmaerzendorfer

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall6243.2821
Fun6143.1021
Innovation4853.1620
Theme7213.0221
Graphics6023.2821
Audio1
Humor1983.4720
Mood6133.2720

Comments

thisisspy 2025-04-07 16:13

Pretty fun, although I found it much easier to just push the crates yourself rather than trying to push them with the hammer. Also liked how the sprites moved to the beat of the song

sayeg 2025-04-07 16:34

I liked it! The game has heart in it!!!

ricesteam 2025-04-07 16:51

Love the vibe of this game! After some time, my clicks followed the beat and I was in a mediative state. Wild! Funny comments as well!

zatrit 2025-04-08 12:55

I never realized kicking crates could be so much fun.....

notexplosive 2025-04-08 15:01

The control scheme was very unique!

paul1379 2025-04-08 19:48

kicking the crates is super juicy, especially to the rhythm of the music

cammin 2025-04-09 05:36

Neat little game. - Appreciate the small file size, for what a unity game can. - I like the rhythmic feeling. I am curious how you did it without the audio potentially desyncing. - The juice is very good and helped push myself through the gameplay loop to finish to the end of the game, which I think is the looping of the messages. - It feels quite repetitive. The hammer is really good to use once it's use is fully understood, and saved me lots of time.

dmaerzendorfer 2025-04-09 13:19

@Cammin I used this tutorial by b3agz for the audio rhythm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIjajeyjRfE

The rhythm thingy is done with pure Unity. By knowing the BPM of the music and the sample rate of the Unity audio source you can calculate fairly accurately whenever a beat should be. I think WWise or fmod would give you a beat event out of the box.

Thanks for playing :hugging:

pythorogus 2025-04-09 16:23

Fun game, a bit repetitive, good graphics and juicyyyyy

doppler-affect 2025-04-09 16:32

Fun game! I liked how you synced the pulse of the sprites to the beat. I had more fun smacking the boxes with the hammer, even though pushing them was technically easier. Nice one!

3ssthejammer 2025-04-10 08:24

Really loved art and music. Humor and mood are definitely 5 stars. Yet, gameplay lacks just a little depth imo. *Also crates spawning right in green zone are rather convenient ;)

dmaerzendorfer 2025-04-10 19:11

@3ssthejammer yeah, crates in the green zone were actually a bug. But thought it was convenient every now and then and did not fix it^^ thanks for playing :hugging:

eugenik 2025-04-14 02:23

Very nice game! :D.

ava-skoog 2025-04-25 21:46

Oh, my *gosh*, does this game just keep giving you that nagging voice in your head going "just a few more, to see what happens next!". I was *stuck*. This game played me like a fiddle and reached out of the fourth wall to put me in the same purgatory as the little demon.

After I got enough looping messages I was finally able to break free and conclude that there probably isn't anything more to it, and the comments seem to confirm it, so I hope so!

The gameplay itself is a surprising amount of fun despite being so repetitive. Lots of polish and good feedback. Really generous hitboxes and I did wonder whether the crates actually gravitate towards the centre as long as your angle is close enough. Felt really good to get in that final hit and get all the goodness from the visuals as well as the audio. And what a beat!

The ongoing dialogue makes it feel almost like watching a video while doing chores. Addicting in a weird way.

I did have some issue that seemed like bugs. Sometimes crates wouldn't count and I even got a negative count one time. It seemed to stem from crates spawning within the green area at the start. I think maybe you should've avoided that in general since sometimes dialogue would disappear as soon as it started because the entire quota was filled before I even did anything.

Really cool! Hope I didn't miss anything.