The More the Merrier by Tuomo

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made by Tuomo for LD 40 (JAM)

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You have a new job at river boat company. Your task is to arrange passengers on the boat. The more there is harder the job is. Maintain the balance or the boat might get damaged!


Controls:

Mouse to move characters

Left click to place

Right click to rotate

Esc to exit

Näyttökuva (308).png


Opt-out from audio as only sounds in game are some last hour Kevin Macleod songs.

EDIT:

Added untested Linux build

Added post-jam holiday edition.

Ratings

Overall 147th 3.891⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Fun 54th 4.022⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 55th 4.023⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 64th 4.196⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 297th 3.955⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Humor 56th 4.068⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Mood 192th 3.773⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Given 28🗳️ 18🗨️

Feedback

klekky
05. Dec 2017 · 23:57 UTC
Great game with solid mechanics. I had fun playing this, so good job!

Here's a couple of things to take note of:
- The levels became pretty challenging because although you show the number of passengers left, you don't show what type they are. This can lead to some pretty difficult situations, which in my opinion, feels a bit unfair.
- Stacking the characters poorly can lead to impossible scenarios where the player gets stuck in the placement screen. Maybe you could force failure if this happens?

Overall, it's a fun little game with stable mechanics. Good job on this one.

(Here's what I mean by an impossible situation, where the last character I had to place was the grouchy one):
![example.jpg](///raw/5bb/2/z/dc46.jpg)
louis-denizet
09. Dec 2017 · 10:10 UTC
This is really a so great idea! One of the best use of the theme so far, really well done =)
Decipator
09. Dec 2017 · 11:57 UTC
The game is really fun and acomplishes the theme on a interesting level. Good entry.
SaraMartins
09. Dec 2017 · 20:50 UTC
This was a really fun game! Had a blast trying to pile the passengers, and laughed too much when the boat sank or got damaged. What I missed was some way to check the next passengers, not all of them but maybe the next 2 our 3 while putting one. Just guessing where to put the passengers is fun at first but then gets way too simple.

But overall I had so much fun and the game does fit the theme really nicely! Congratulations :)
CaylebLucas
12. Dec 2017 · 12:09 UTC
Really nice game, Love the visual style too :)
Ballin
12. Dec 2017 · 12:49 UTC
Nice visuals and a cool take on the theme, fun game
Wakka2
12. Dec 2017 · 23:51 UTC
Loved this one. Amazing art and music is great too.
Unluckily you have to start completely over when you crash your boat, that threw away all my motivation to retry :(
But in total extremely polished and well made. top entry!
chriiis88
17. Dec 2017 · 12:26 UTC
I think it's a bit unfair that you cannot see which passengers are still coming (or even just the next one as in tetris). Other than that the game is fun, funny and fits the theme. Well done!
nekoballs
17. Dec 2017 · 18:50 UTC
Great game! Would be nice if you could see all passengers before you placed them, so you can plan your placement. Great art!
FrozenFractal
18. Dec 2017 · 11:39 UTC
Beautiful graphics, great font choice, and polished looks all around. It's really funny how you can stack these humans. Would be a bit better if they didn't keep walking all the time though ;)

The music does help spice things up, well chosen even if you didn't make it yourself.

Fun and interesting mechanic. I disagree with those who say that you should see the queue of passengers: much of the fun (like in Tetris) comes from having to take into account all possible future scenarios.

Maybe you could explicitly point out the Skip button in the tutorial, because some people seem to have overlooked it :) It's a bit bugged though: sometimes it makes the next passenger show up with red Xs through their body, or intersecting with another passenger.

Got 3400 points by the way. Would be nice if there was a way to retry a level from the beginning, rather than having to start all over again.
Mars
19. Dec 2017 · 14:07 UTC
Very interesting take on the classic tetris mechanic. I loved the little personality quirks of some of the passengers. The graphics look great as well.
jk5000
21. Dec 2017 · 09:55 UTC
A very fun and super well made puzzle game. For me one of the best games for this LD. Well done.
ayame9joe
26. Dec 2017 · 01:43 UTC
Very clever and interesting.
sgadrat
26. Dec 2017 · 15:46 UTC
I loved this game, the idea is simple, placing passengers this way is hilarious, and the game is really well made. I would have loved if there was some kind of detection of "impossible to place" passengers as a last polish touch (instead of letting the player try everything before hitting a button), but the already present polish is still incredible.

Oh, and by the way, your Linux build worked flawlessly here (Archlinux, Nvidia card and drivers)