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Disruptive Shipping Services by ConcurrentSquared

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made by ConcurrentSquared for Ludum Dare 53 (COMPO)

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Backstory:

Disruptive Shipping Services LLC is hiring you. Our company believes in extremely fast shipping is the key to solving the world's problems. With your help, we believe that parcels can be delivered any and everywhere quickly and reliably.

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Tutorial:

Place the brown boxes; using the left mouse button; into one of the areas indicated with a green box. For example, the image above shows one of these areas. You can use any physics object to break holes, including the boxes. Your only goal is to get all of the boxes into the green areas as fast as possible.

Note:

There is no escape menu; if you win a level you can escape by going back to the main menu, else you have use Alt-F4. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Made in Unreal Engine 5.

Choose the submission hour version; the original is broken. https://concurrentsquared.itch.io/dss
There may be some extra placeholder files - you can remove them https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HUeyXITaEzcLHNF2gLQHrWxGfuJeWJKM/view?usp=sharing
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/disruptive-shipping-services

Ratings

Overall 405th 2.194⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Fun 396th 2.333⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 359th 2.737⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 378th 2.806⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 356th 2.711⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 331th 1.972⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Humor 185th 2.917⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 374th 2.333⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 20🗳️ 16🗨️

Feedback

Cinterre
01. May 2023 · 02:52 UTC
Well that's one way to deliver a box. About didn't seem to work, and had to Alt-f4 to quit.
🎤 ConcurrentSquared
01. May 2023 · 02:58 UTC
@cinterre Yeah I did not have enough time to implement the escape menu. I am sorry for the inconvenience.
LDJam user 336676
01. May 2023 · 03:44 UTC
the box keeps disappearing on me :cry:
Chuckiee
01. May 2023 · 10:02 UTC
Cool idea, I wish there was more exploration on different mechanics.
LoopInteractive
01. May 2023 · 10:06 UTC
a tutorial will be nice. and a crosshair to see where i am facing. Really fun to break the environment around.
helekopeter
02. May 2023 · 01:58 UTC
My GPU is pinned at 100% and its just a simple house on a plane. Also, the box disappeared.
🎤 ConcurrentSquared
02. May 2023 · 02:13 UTC
@helekopeter This game uses Unreal Engine 5, and I did not have enough time to change the settings, so that is why it is laggy. I did not see any evidence of the box disappearing during testing, I will try to reproduce and fix that as soon as possible. I am sorry for any inconvenience.
BLumbye
02. May 2023 · 10:22 UTC
The premise sounds quite fun, and could be fun with a lot more polish. As mentioned by others, there is quite a bit of lag and whenever you walk into the boxes they fly away and disappear. Breaking stuff is always fun, so nice attempt :)
LDJam user 280624
02. May 2023 · 16:58 UTC
That was crazy! The fast-paced gameplay and explosive effects kept me on the edge of my seat.
Wahooney
02. May 2023 · 21:37 UTC
Took me a while to figure out that I had to hold the mouse button to hold the package :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: The sound of the boxes colliding got a little grating after a while. That said, it held me enough to see it through to the end so it was definitely entertaining :metal:
klausklapper
03. May 2023 · 10:53 UTC
As others have mentioned, this game would benefit heavily from some polishing. The frame drops are very noticeable even on high end systems. I also kept clicking the box instead of click-holding, which made it disappear and got me stuck in the level with no way out or anything to do.

I think the concept can work though, as you can tell where you were trying to go with the idea. I'd say stay at it, give it some polish and release a post LD version to address to frame drops and adding a menu :)
Corporation
03. May 2023 · 16:28 UTC
Well, destruction of the house was cool) other than that didn't really find the way this game should be played. Anyways nice start, maybe next time you will have more time for polishing.
binroot
04. May 2023 · 02:36 UTC
That was kinda hard, but I see what you were going for! Goodbye gpu.
Retrisma
06. May 2023 · 00:30 UTC
Unfortunately I could not play the game because it was too laggy. Also the box zoomed away from me when I tried to pick it up. The opening music and title screen were cool though!
Profugo Barbatus
06. May 2023 · 01:00 UTC
Didn't seem like the game worked for me. Pack seemed to vanish when I picked it up, but I couldn't go through the front door with or without it. Couldn't find another way in either. Not sure what the gameplay was supposed to be, but seems like it broke for me.
kaliuresis
06. May 2023 · 01:13 UTC
Neat idea, but fixing the lag and adding ability to restart when you fail are necessary to make it playable. I know you didn't have time to configure the graphics, but turning off motion blur or adding an option to do so would be nice.
tompudding
06. May 2023 · 09:23 UTC
The soft shading is beautiful. On my 5120x1440 screen the view is extremely zoomed in, but it looks great if I crane my neck backwards. In addition to what others have said, the colour-based gameplay may not be accessible to all; all the houses and boxes appeared to be the same colour to me.
simmo
09. May 2023 · 20:51 UTC
A really good concept!

Much like the others say, the box and house blended in together, and the ability to jump would have been really helpful as I often found myself getting stuck amongst the rubble aha!

That said, great work!
jk5000
10. May 2023 · 17:39 UTC
A weirdly funny little game, and I really love the weirdness. It is in many ways a bit broken, but this is what makes it fun to play. I also love the music, it fits very well to the games weirdness. Overall a fun little jam game. Well done.
LDJam user 279867
13. May 2023 · 04:01 UTC
The concept of this game is pretty funny! Maybe it was my machine, but while I was playing there was this constant jarring clicking sound like something was hitting the walls but I wasn't moving anything. Also the movement was really jumpy.

Took me a while to figure out what was going on and it was really difficult to know where I should put the boxes on the second level.

Thanks for making this and letting us play it!