Pack It In by adam-gould
Get ready to pack a load of items into a van! If that doesn't sound exciting, I don't know what will!
There's a tutorial in the game, but just in case you need a reference... you can move items with WASD or the arrows, and press enter to drop them. If you ever get stuck, hold R for one second (or press the button at the top middle of the screen) to restart the current level.
Most importantly... have fun!
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Ratings
| Overall | 36th | 4.1⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 68th | 3.9⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 169th | 3.475⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 21th | 4.4⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 167th | 3.55⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 61th | 3.8⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 201th | 2.5⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 180th | 3.325⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 11🗳️ | 13🗨️ |
The HTML5 (web) link leads to a page that contains only windows/mac/linux desktop builds download.
Thank you in advance.
Supert extra bonus point for the voice over tutorial. It sounded like a professional video game tutorial, absolutely loved it. Music was great too and the effects were spot on.
Very polished and nice to play. It gets pretty challenging at times and I am currently stuck at level 15 but will hopefully figure it out soon.
The variety in the items is nice and it's very satisfying to pack it all in and see the truck go.
Music felt fitting, giving it a mood reminiscent of moving to a different flat.
Nice intro, great fit with the theme, good amount of different things to pack. Perhaps it would have been easier to play with a mouse?
Interactions felt satisfying, basic idea was simple but well executed. I could definitely see the basic idea being expanded with more mechanics (rotation, items with special rules (e.g. fragile, no items on top, etc) and more novel scenes/visual storytelling with the items getting packed up.
@robbobin There is a big hint that shows only if you've placed everything and haven't won - I could have tried to get some logic in to detect if you have no valid moves but I suspect that may have taken a lot more time than I had! There's also a reset button in the top middle, and the level 2 tutorial tells you about the reset (which is the first level it's possible to fail).
Everything looks and feels good. Solid compo entry
but as-is it's quality work don't get me wrong.
There are many little details I like about this game:
* The voiced tutorial
* The fact that labels are random every time (their color)
* The objects are also randomized in their graphics
* The later levels require you to think; I stuck for a couple of minutes more than one time
* The music is cool; I wouldn't even dream about creating a track like that during the LD
This is a very well made game.
One addition I thought about is that glass-like objects we have could be fragile, so you would have to place them above heavy stuff. Some objects can be considered to be light (can be placed on top of the fragile item) while other items are heavy (can't be placed above the fragile object).
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The music is a little loud by default but at least we can change it to ~50% easily. :D
I thought the game would become repetitive after a while, but it doesn't thanks to the new shapes and new mechanisms.
It took me a while to understand we need to _hold_ R to restart, because my brain kinda skipped that word and was like "yeah I need to _press_ R to restart, understood".
One gripe I have is that I don't want to hold down the R button for a second to restart the level. If I get stuck in a level I want to retry as quickly as I can and just have the restart to be instant instead.
The main thing I was missing was a rotate key. This might be deliberate for the challenge, but I really wish I could have rotated the 1x2 to fit the space in the top.
It might also be good to give a preview of the list items to be packed (beyond the few that are coming), as I kept getting stuck when the last few were a specific share or group.
https://youtu.be/341jrnPoUuc