Doorman by jtpup0

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made by jtpup0 for LD32 (JAM)
Play as a bellhop/door man and use your enchanted door as your weapon! Place the door to gain access to other rooms and obtain secret technology cubes. Collect them all and you win! Avoid the security guards or its game over!

Instructions:
WASD – Move
Left Click – Place Door
Right Click – Pickup Door

Notes:
Try not to walk off the level, or you’ll have to start all over again… sorry!

Credits:
Nick Mudry (@Nick_Mudry) – Programming & Level Design
Jacob Peltola (@jtpup0) – Art, Design, Programming

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Ratings

Coolness 67% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.54 255
Audio(Jam) 2.91 457
Fun(Jam) 3.54 191
Graphics(Jam) 3.06 627
Humor(Jam) 2.95 473
Innovation(Jam) 4.15 25
Mood(Jam) 2.93 609
Theme(Jam) 3.90 135

Feedback

jk5000
21. Apr 2015 · 11:16 UTC
Great idea, and fun to play. Especially the animation and the AI need a bit extra love.
rzfmzn
21. Apr 2015 · 16:17 UTC
nice use of the unconventional weapon :D
(is there an ending screen or something? the game just ended on a black screen)
mantis
21. Apr 2015 · 16:29 UTC
I played it and really was getting into the groove, but suddenly screen went black and 'trial version' was displayed. What gives! :(
🎤 jtpup0
21. Apr 2015 · 17:28 UTC
@jk5000 - Thanks! yeah this was my first time playing with Unity3D's "navmesh" system

@rzfmzn - Thank you!, And no we were not able to make win and lose screens in time, there were only four levels.

@mantis - Aww man sorry to hear that, our WebGL build was untested so it is very hit or miss.. if this happened on the PC or MAC build I'd like to know what happened when it turned black.
Nick Mudry
21. Apr 2015 · 18:55 UTC
@mantis - We also only have a few levels, so once you get the last cube, it either:

- Does nothing!
- Goes to a black screen!
- Might crash, who knows...

Totally a thing we'd fix if we had a bit more time or if we do work on this more in the future. :)
JohnGalt
21. Apr 2015 · 20:03 UTC
Really amazing concept. I keep playing it a lot of times even though I always get caught in some bugs. However, still love it very much! Extremely intuitive idea with a very interesting strategy in it.
monkeedude1212
21. Apr 2015 · 20:10 UTC
Graphics and audio were good, gameplay idea was good. It all started to unravel though when I glitched out and fell through the floor. But otherwise, neat game!
TailyILoveYou
22. Apr 2015 · 00:14 UTC
Neat little game, I loved the mechanic!
diiq
22. Apr 2015 · 00:15 UTC
Very cool idea! I like the way you walk around with a door having on your back -- it's like the opposite of a turtle!

I think I'd have enjoyed it more with more "how do I get *there*?" puzzles and less "avoid the enemy" -- just something thematically about door seems like it should lend itself to exploration.
dcRfj15
22. Apr 2015 · 00:37 UTC
Awesome concept, I really liked the mood that this game created with its slightly sad background music and its simple graphics. This idea is awesome, sneaking past the bot was fun.

As mentioned in other comments, there are a few bugs. One of them that I found was that one of the rooms in the fourth level had no floor.
reiknight
23. Apr 2015 · 14:49 UTC
Nice concept, the bug of the end of the map is annoying but the game in general is good. Good work guys!
eddynardo
23. Apr 2015 · 14:53 UTC
loved it, if it had a few more content i would still play it :)
eemmbbeerr
23. Apr 2015 · 14:56 UTC
The theme usage is so, so deliciously well done!
C.Lodwick
23. Apr 2015 · 15:12 UTC
Pretty nice mechanic and puzzle solving. I liked the physics on the door and the AI movement was creepy. I think it could be expanded upon in a fun way!
Tatsu Studio
23. Apr 2015 · 16:21 UTC
Its a fun game and its a really unconventional weapon . good work ^^
jrserjeant
23. Apr 2015 · 18:30 UTC
This is a great game. I think it could be a really good puzzle game.
Foxarya
23. Apr 2015 · 20:59 UTC
Great. Original and entertaining.
lizard455
04. May 2015 · 19:10 UTC
Neat idea, and it was pretty fun too!
justthestudio
04. May 2015 · 19:24 UTC
Wow! I was really surprised. At first look it seemed awkward, maybe beacuse of poor graphic design. Despite that, gameplay and idea was fantastic, and I seriously enjoyed playing it. Well done!
alex31016
04. May 2015 · 20:31 UTC
Woow this game is simple but it is really fun, great idea and gameplay. Congrats! BTW, the game crashed in the level 4 (I played the webgl version)
Fabraz
04. May 2015 · 20:34 UTC
Great, fun idea. Pathfinding is frustrating since the office dudes don't need LOS to know where you are, but time is a limiting thing, I know.

Love the idea and I think it's a cool puzzle solving mechanic. It's like an analog Portal.

4/5 overall.
Cheshyr
04. May 2015 · 20:38 UTC
that was a really clever idea. it looks like navmeshing is quite burdensome. I had a good time. :-)
Xanjos
04. May 2015 · 22:07 UTC
AI needs some working on (It always seem to move to my position even when we're between walls) but other than that, I absolutely loved the main gameplay mechanic.
Marcos Rodrigues
04. May 2015 · 23:46 UTC
Loved the mood! I love puzzles! :D
Unfortunately, the controls are a bit buggy, I was trying to put a door and ended up dying because it wouldn't work :/
Tuism
05. May 2015 · 05:56 UTC
Are there only 4 levels? I picked up 4/4 green cubes on the 4th and the game didn't go anywhere.

The game idea is there - using a portable door sounds like fun.

But it suffers from some basic flow issues: going from level to level I had no idea what was happening - getting "caught" and moving into the next level looked exactly the same.

The picking up control feels superfluous - every time you walk past a door you want to pick it up, and every time you try you misclick... Either make it easier (and for there to be a reason to leave a door behind) or take away the need to manually pick it up. The dexterity barrier to dropping/picking up the door shouldn't be the game - the game should be working out the route to take.

In fact with the mechanics as they are you should walk up to a wall, the door should be there, walk through, door picked up. It's like you have the power to walk through walls, that's it.

If you had multiple doors, that would make the pickup/drop make sense.

Good start! :) I can see it was a lot of work :)
hexdie
06. May 2015 · 00:01 UTC
This is a pretty nice game but it's rough around the edges. I like the gameplay mechanics and there is some pretty good level design. The audio and visuals need work though. And when I got hit, I got sent all the way back to the beginning of the game instead of starting a level over.
FeniX
07. May 2015 · 19:24 UTC
Nice idea! I would love to see more complicated levels. :)

It would be good to add restarting the game when player leaves room with a floor and starts falling.
Mr. Jif
08. May 2015 · 02:25 UTC
Fantastic idea. Great use of the theme!
Mathias Olsson
09. May 2015 · 05:44 UTC
Nice idea and great graphics
leffe108
09. May 2015 · 06:29 UTC
Great original game idea. Appears your enemies uses path finding to find their way and around walls as soon as you enter their room which is great and add some further challenge to the game.
rojo
11. May 2015 · 19:01 UTC
Really cool concept! It was pretty fun running around and outsmarting the guards. Some sound effects would have been a nice addition. I also encountered a bug that made me fall through the floor while I was in a room. Don't remember exactly what happened there, sorry. A restart button for the current level would have helped there. Overall great job!