Processed Goods by Ervin

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made by Ervin for LD30 (COMPO)
Process goods - processing levels connected into a chain of workers. Replace human workers with robots - no matter where you work, what you work on, robots will do it more efficiently.

Arrow key or wasd to move around, '1' to upgrade human worker to a robot for a cost of $100. Initially, you should just try to get some goods to the end to be able to afford some robots. Nothing is perfect though, when goods are dropped to ground, you'll pay for it.

I used Unity3d as game engine, Gimp for the few sprites, Reason+Renoise for sounds. Unfortunately no music. And the game could use a few tuning passes :).

Ratings

Coolness 48% 1265
Overall 3.93 45
Audio 3.42 170
Fun 3.93 37
Graphics 3.00 615
Humor 3.35 100
Innovation 4.30 12
Mood 3.56 141
Theme 2.38 1040

Feedback

r0x0r
25. Aug 2014 · 05:35 UTC
Can you make a linux build, please?
gwa
25. Aug 2014 · 05:35 UTC
Really cool Game. But i didnt get why i got game over?
BloodJohn
25. Aug 2014 · 05:36 UTC
WOW. Momy, i'm woking at factory! :)
Really funny game.
Roknsk
25. Aug 2014 · 05:36 UTC
Hard to win. But great concept and gameplay.
Jaloko
25. Aug 2014 · 05:37 UTC
I loved the gameplay. Nice.
foolmoron
25. Aug 2014 · 05:40 UTC
Surprisingly interesting gameplay, it kept me hooked for a few minutes. I wish the boxes weren't so physics based though, it makes the gameplay kinda frustrating.
NickFrushour
25. Aug 2014 · 05:42 UTC
Like the sounds and the idea of a kind of time management thing you have goin on. Pretty hard though. Any tips? I couldn't get far enough in to see the theme.
🎤 Ervin
25. Aug 2014 · 05:43 UTC
You get game over when you run out of money - every action costs money, eventually you run out. Could be make a lot clearer though, some visual indications. And it's not really tuned right, maybe too difficult. Physics->Frustration is supposed to be the random element there, but some of the "machines" are getting stuck a bit too much :).
sharpcoder
25. Aug 2014 · 05:43 UTC
OMG This game is amazing. I love how you the music is worked into the gameplay. Very clever. Very well done.
superzac
25. Aug 2014 · 05:44 UTC
I love the way the sound you make when you move almost makes a beat. Very difficult game, but a cool idea.
🎤 Ervin
25. Aug 2014 · 05:44 UTC
Tips - get just 3 boxes to the end before putting more through, then you'll have enough money to upgrade a bot or two. But it's pretty hard :/.
Piscythe
25. Aug 2014 · 05:53 UTC
I've tried this a bunch of times and never made it past 1 robot. I don't even feel as if I'm improving. I think either I'm missing something, I'm not good enough at time management, or this game is just too hard.
Lyszie
25. Aug 2014 · 05:56 UTC
Oh my this is so much fun! Totally bookmarked it haha was having a blast while playing!!
Super Hamster
25. Aug 2014 · 06:00 UTC
Cool concept and it took a long time for me to figure out how the game worked. Good job!
GAFBlizzard
25. Aug 2014 · 06:02 UTC
Excellent sound design! It was almost like a rhythm game when things got going.

Boxes sometimes seem to glitch out or be missed by robots even when you replace all the factory workers, however.

Overall very clever idea.
GAFBlizzard
25. Aug 2014 · 06:30 UTC
Excellent sound design! It was almost like a rhythm game when things got going.

Boxes sometimes seem to glitch out or be missed by robots even when you replace all the factory workers, however.

Overall very clever idea.

(commenting again in case this replaces the earlier comment): I managed to beat it once, but trying to beat it again, glitches make it very frustrating. Otherwise it would be awesome! In particular, the vertical green lines are the worst offenders. Sometimes you can be standing at them, not even a robot, and yet the boxes will spin and hit the ground.

Another big issue is that sometimes the SAME box seems like it can repeatly trigger the floor hit, ending the game very quickly.

If the robots were good at carrying boxes and the boxes did not randomly drop out of the machines, it would be super satisfying, kind of like a playable blue-ball machine.
shimage
25. Aug 2014 · 20:12 UTC
Nice game! I thought a classical mini game first. Actually, it uses physics engine! I was surprised.
GAFBlizzard
26. Aug 2014 · 03:26 UTC
One more comment, I thought you might be amused by this, developer: http://abload.de/img/boxeskkkqa.png

Having probably lost a few times because of glitches before, it's only fair that I won because of a glitch that stopped boxes from hitting the ground. :D
Robber
26. Aug 2014 · 03:32 UTC
it's awesome!
🎤 Ervin
26. Aug 2014 · 05:10 UTC
@GAFBlizzard, heh yep it does glitch quite a bit. I was kinda thinking that it's "machines are not perfect" type of system, but perhaps it's just more frustrating than fun. Still, can result in some funny scenarios.
LuisDC
27. Aug 2014 · 11:45 UTC
Difficult game. Very difficult, but I liked the idea :)
Perjoka
27. Aug 2014 · 11:50 UTC
Really interesting concept, maybe a bit too difficult.
magmaCrab
27. Aug 2014 · 11:59 UTC
This entry was really fun to play! I took me some time to figure out a good strategy, but I managed to beat it once.
Pent
28. Aug 2014 · 19:28 UTC
This was really fun and once I got the hang of it I beat it! Short game but good concept