Ship It

Background

Pour a cup of coffee, put on your boots, and get ready to fulfill some orders! As a newly hired floor worker at The Company Fulfillment Center, it is your job to package and ship orders as fast as they come in! Since you're new, we'll start your shift off easy. We'll drop off a box with nothing in it, and all you have to do is sort it, praise it, and put it in the truck. We'll walk you through the steps.

At a Glance

1) Pick up boxes/products with LMB / E

2) Open and close boxes with F

3) Fill boxes with requested products on shipping label

4) Close the boxes once filled, put filled boxes into Sorter. Press colored button (with LMB / E) corresponding to color on shipping label

5) Put sorted boxes in their colors' Adulator, and follow the set of rules to determine the correct button

6) Ship the boxes in the truck!

Controls

WASD - Move

LMB/E - Pick up / drop box, press button

RMB - Open box

F - Open box

Packing

Boxes will arrive from the ceiling vent (it's super efficient!) Though your first few boxes will stay empty, eventually you'll get boxes with shipping labels that actually... you know, require you put products in them. For example, the following package requires a basketball, a coin, and a game controller:

Simply pick up the products (LMB or E key), open the box (F key), and drop them in:

Then you're good to go!

Sorting

Okay, so you've got a box filled with everything it demands. Now you've gotta sort it! Thankfully, this should be an easy process. Make sure the box is closed and fully packed, put it on the conveyor belt, and let the sorter suck that bad boy in! Then, you've just gotta press the big colored button (E key) that matches the color on the boxes' shipping label. In the following example, just hit the big green button:

Make any mistakes, and the sorter will shoot that rejected package out so fast the rest of your packing line might face collateral damage!

Adulating

These boxes aren't just any old boxes. They require praise and admiration before they will ship (needy, right?). After your boxes have been sorted, they'll gingerly convey their way over to their respective color's adulator. Here, you must follow a simple set of rules to properly praise the box!

In the example above, the blue box does not have an odd number of items, nor only 1 type of ball, nor multiple types of balls, so we tell the box it's doing "Awesome work!" and send it on its merry way!

Shipping

So you've packed, sorted, and adulated your box. Now it's finally ready to ship! Pick it up, shove it in the back of the truck, and run as fast as you can back to the rest of the boxes! We're not paying you to dilly-dally!

Notes

This game was developed and tested primarily on Windows. We have provided Linux and macOS builds, but they are not necessarily performant.

Audio Credits

We used some royalty free sound assets, so we removed ourselves from the audio category voting.

'Hectic Life' - OurMusicBox

Factory Manufacture Background ambience

Photocopy Machine - Daniel Simion

Emergency Alarm Siren