Please don't litter by KenForest
PLEASE DON'T LITTER

A PS1 style game where you have to collect garbage.
In one of the cities, a certain anomaly has appeared, which every 10 seconds will spawn tons of garbage. * *Because of what the city turned into a dump.
You work as a garbage collector, your task is to collect garbage and recycle it.
CONTROLS - Move - WASD - Run - Shift - Interact - LMB - Grab object - Hold LMB - Throw object - RMB - Rotate object - Q,E - Zoom object - Mouse scroll



| Link | https://kenforest.itch.io/please-dont-litter |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/please-dont-litter |
Ratings
| Overall | 41th | 4.22⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 351th | 3.634⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 224th | 3.75⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 467th | 3.775⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 43th | 4.525⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 4th | 4.732⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 28🗳️ | 5🗨️ |
I managed to escape the bounds and run around a little, was hoping there would be a secret out there :spy:
The baskets were a bit janky to use, would have been nice if they automatically self-righted when you picked them up or something, any way to make them a bit more useful
Loved the graphics, the audio and the whole style, the mood was excellent here. I also really liked the story. The amount of content here is also very big.
I agree with @tommo120 that the movement felt a bit too "slidey" and I also agree with @galaxybat that there could have been some variation on the background noise. I'll also add that picking up all that garbage got a little bit too tedious at times, even though the story bits in between evened it out somewhat.
Really great game overall, impressive work!
Good atmosphere, good controls, good mechanics... well done.
Goes without saying, wonderful atmosphere and mood, you absolutely deserve to win at least in that category! The ruined buildings in the background, the rain, the sound effects... everything is perfect!
Graphics might not be everyone's jam, but I have a strange fondness for these distorted PS1 style graphics which you recreate falwlessly. The textures and modells are lovely and your characters look great too! Your work is really really inspiring!
But as a negative I also have to mention, while this monotone garbage collecting fits the theme and the mood of the game well, it's drawn out a bit too much. The set pieces you have are great looking, the story works; and I really think it all would work better without the constant mundane picking up and putting down items, which you have to do a lot of times in this game. Maybe you can introduce a different mechanic instead of just taking these out of the game. The garbage truck boss is a really great example, it breaks up the pace where you have to do something else, similar things to that would help a lot I feel! I also don't think it works thematically when the point is it that you try to escape your garbage collecting job, and you have to collect more garbage to get help from someone who seemingly has no real reason to keep you doing that. But maybe I missed some clue about that.
But that is really not a big flaw, I loved the whole experience, congrats on the game!
1) Shifting the opening credits to the top, maybe I should have centered them
2) Pivot for rotation on interactive objects is done on the pickup point, maybe should have been done on the center of the model
3) On the first playthrough, looked for the flying ship and did not notice the arrival of the second, and ended up hanging out in a dumpster without giving a friend the opportunity to help me

4) The part of the game where you have to sort the trash into 4 garbage cans. Maybe you should close them when you fill 7 out of 7.
My English is terrible and I hope it's clear from the text above that the game turned out very cool, and the points above are little things to consider when you decide to make a full game out of it. I sincerely hope to see your project on the steem after a while. Good luck!
Then I came here and saw people discussing a boss and points, so I reloaded and tried to play basketball with the football/garbage.
It took me awhile to get to the area I needed to be.
And then, and THEN.
Wow.
It's hard to believe one person did so much in so little time.
This felt like a full feature game, not a game jam game.
The level design, intro confusion aside, is amazing.
There are actual characters.
The gameplay is satisfying.
Everything about this was really enjoyable.
Thank you for the experience!
I didn't expect this to be more than a garbage collection simulator (which wasn't bad as its own) but then the entire story unveiled... I played to the very end! I liked how the garbage collection and throwing skills is what saved you at the end against the truck-o-boss.
Great story, cool post-apocalyptic atmosphere!
Played on my stream: https://www.twitch.tv/zedkraze