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This Game Is Trash

By kalgynirae, Itisthelaw, sucratre and thismercury

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall4223.4722
Fun4113.3022
Innovation1913.6022
Theme2783.8522
Graphics5293.3522
Audio2543.5022
Humor703.9721
Mood4013.5221

Comments

pixel-studios 2025-10-07 01:22

Good job! I loved the music, and the graphics were pretty good too. I'm not quite sure what to do to get the final piece of garbage though. Other than that, well done!

kalgynirae 2025-10-07 02:21

@pixel-studios Thanks so much for playing and leaving a comment! If you'd like to see the full ending and hear the "space version" of the theme music, I wrote down a hint as well as a full solution to the puzzle here: https://gist.github.com/kalgynirae/1d190c6d99b0853e835e525ca3d6b5e7. Probably we should have done a better job at nudging toward this in the game itself! Oh well :)

pixel-studios 2025-10-07 02:25

No worries. Thanks for the hint, I probably should've figured that out. Well done though

breadstick 2025-10-08 18:52

I finally managed to do what all trash collectors aspire to do: launch a dumpster into orbit :)

The music was great, and the art style was nice and cohesive... a good start to a mouse-based treasure (trash) hunt!

pegasys 2025-10-08 19:03

Cute little game. I had a bit of trouble starting the game (took about 10 attempts to click before anything happened) but once it worked it was all good. Managed to get all 19 without the hint too, very clever little puzzle. Wish the game was longer

planetary 2025-10-08 19:07

As a tiny puzzle game, it's quite nice! The pixel-art and the music are very good! Well done!

About the secret puzzle: I made the right things (I won't describe more because there may be more people that want to solve it), but I still can't see the 19th piece. This is a bug or something? I hover the whole area with the mouse and nothing happened. I followed the solution as well. :(

apdt 2025-10-08 19:45

I collect 18 out of 19 and the game ends. Is this a bug?

kalgynirae 2025-10-08 20:17

@planetary Not sure if you're wanting another hint, but in case you are: The "Trash" you're looking for is *outside* of the area you likely hovered over. Thank you for playing!

@apdt It is intentional, but we agree that it ended up being confusing! You need to do something specific during that level to unlock the ability to collect the last item; if you don't do this, the game ends after 18 because collecting 19th would be impossible. If you're interested in trying to get the 19th, there is a hint linked in the "How to play" above. Thanks for playing regardless!

kalgynirae 2025-10-08 20:20

@pegasys I'm sorry you had to suffer from my poorly-written code! :laughing: The game loads the music and sound effects one at a time in the background (with no visual feedback), and the game won't start until they've all loaded. Thanks for playing!

gaverion 2025-10-10 23:46

The ending was pretty cute! I would have loved to see more 4th wall stuff!

jelch 2025-10-12 05:51

Great jorb! Love the 19th trash.

quinn 2025-10-12 05:52

This game is not trash. It rules. It makes me so happy. So good, jeez.

gowie 2025-10-16 00:10

I also couldn't find the final piece of garbage! I love the old school vibe though. Great sound effects

miku 2025-10-17 00:43

That was pretty hilarious when the start button fell, and I also somehow managed to figure out the hidden trash without reading the guide!

artur-hawkwing 2025-10-20 05:52

Loved the startup screen with the start button -- that was super creative. Cool concept, and the music and sound effects really fit!

marudziik 2025-10-20 10:05

Coming from your post-mortem of sorts blog post.

I had to do couple of replays and then I also read the comments to understand how to finish the game. That would be a bad thing, but I really liked how the final idea is handled, that includes the joint usage of things, the spillage. Even after reading your blog post I didn't fully expect it and enjoyed the surprise.

There were couple of games like this (i.e. using more than the initial game area) in earlier LDs and this idea always comes off to me as quite innovative - maybe because it's rare and not really expected. And it's fun.

Congrats on the entry, it's nice to see participants do experiments like that!

lectvs 2025-10-20 22:58

Fun little game! Love the creative start screen, great stuff :smile:

baturinsky 2025-10-21 00:13

Funny game. Only nitpick is it could have some visual que that item is picked and draggable. Even if it's just lifting it a couple of pixels up when clicked. I nearly skipped the game without realising I was supposed to drag.

stefan-b 2025-10-21 08:29

Great idea integrating the menu in the gameplay. I think i collected *everything*Bildschirmfoto 2025-10-21 um 10.29.24.png