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Henry the Electrician by Neweichgames

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made by Neweichgames for LD 39 (COMPO)

Henry the Electrician is a game evolved around a simple concept: Don't let the city run out of power. You do so by keeping the wires connected. Every time a wire drops you have to quick pick it up and reconnect it to avoid loss of power. Henry is doing the job as a week internship with a boss that he soon starts to dislike.

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Controls: A and D to move left and right W to jump Left mouse button to click and drag wires to reconnect

Game created in 48 hours with: Unity Bfxr Bosca Ceoil Gimp

macOS https://www.dropbox.com/s/7n70s7ydzlnawk2/Henry%20the%20Electrician.zip?dl=0
Windows https://www.dropbox.com/s/qw6ty4fpn9opcqx/Henry%20the%20Electrician%20Windows.zip?dl=0
HTML5 (web) http://www.kongregate.com/games/minineweichgames/henry-the-electrician
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/henry-the-electrician

Ratings

Overall 198th 3.526⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 202th 3.421⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 48th 3.947⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 69th 4⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 390th 3.053⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 68th 3.474⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 285th 3.053⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 16🗳️ 13🗨️

Feedback

corporatedinc
31. Jul 2017 · 09:25 UTC
Why would they have the cables so high up on the charger / battery? because its LD. I like the simplicity
Sputnik3D
01. Aug 2017 · 02:24 UTC
That was very cool! Simple, frantic, fun. Great job introducing the player to the mechanics and then ramping up the difficulty. Also the story/dialog was a great touch. Only complaint was the music (loud and repetitive). Otherwise, this is the best entry I've played yet! Great job!
Vija02
01. Aug 2017 · 06:36 UTC
Concept was nice. Controls are ok. Decent game. My biggest issue with the game is the music. I think the game will be better without it. The dialogue was a bit annoying and the fonts are hard to read. I think a serious setting will be better. Overall, could be better
Surovyi
01. Aug 2017 · 06:37 UTC
Great job! Cool mechanic and I like your story - it's just simple. Cool.
Eric Florio
01. Aug 2017 · 06:53 UTC
The gameplay is really fun. Simple and fun. Congratulations!
But the music is completely annoying
Tiberiusuciu
10. Aug 2017 · 05:15 UTC
The game is hilarious, the concept is funny.

My only problem I had is that actually grabbing the cable is quite difficult and it feels it's maybe because the accuracy required to grab is too high.

I'm not sure if it's a bug but in the first level, you can actually jump on the sides from invisible platforms.

Great game otherwise!
EdwinGameDev
10. Aug 2017 · 14:47 UTC
Great game! But day 4 is very unfair, everything comes apart. Your music is really annoying, maybe if the game loop have a longer duration it could be better. Good job!
loveapplegames
14. Aug 2017 · 19:47 UTC
Wow. This is a very unusual game. Quite a bit of attention to detail too. I really appreciate what you tried to do here. I found grabbing cables a bit frustrating though.
OddballDave
16. Aug 2017 · 12:24 UTC
Great little fun game. But boy did that music make me want to rip my ears off.
TheMonsterFromTheDeep
16. Aug 2017 · 21:14 UTC
Pretty good; a simple little game. There are a few problems that I found while playing:
- The stool simply gets in the way and makes it hard to plug wires back in.
- It can be very difficult to pick wires up off the ground, especially when they're moving.
- The green wire had a blue end..? I'm not sure if this is intentional.
sampointoh
17. Aug 2017 · 03:24 UTC
I found the simple gameplay to be good. Was hard to pick up the wires sometimes. Thought the story was pretty good but didn't make it all the way to the end. Music was repetitive. I liked how you scaled the difficulty
Odd1In
17. Aug 2017 · 11:49 UTC
The music was fun and it fit well with the game but the game was quite difficult to get past day 2.