Take out the Trash in Space

by ult
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.31
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.46
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.09
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.60
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.09
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.71
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.62
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.90
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★60%
It's a long long time in the future and space has been polluted. As a mere garbage ship, you must match 3 garbage blocks of the same color in a row before they overrun and destroy you! You are humanity's last hope probably! Go do something!

Move with mouse, shoot with left click, pause with right click.

Overall there are a few glitches still abound (mostly of the "was that block supposed to disappear?" variety), but it's essentially still playable.

I did the code, gfx, and sfx, while KFaraday did the various tunes.

To have seen the development of this game in action, check out http://ultdev.tumblr.com/ and http://the-ult.tumblr.com/

and check out KFaraday at https://soundcloud.com/kayfaraday

UPDATE: Fixed a couple things people were complaining about.

screenshot
Genres: puzzle

Comments19

acidave8 Dec 2014, 06:56
Felt like back in 1988, great music + graphics!
CornflowerBlue
CornflowerBlue9 Dec 2014, 04:47
This was cute. It's like sideways tetris or columns.
IN SPACE.
MurmuringDepths9 Dec 2014, 12:15
Hey fellow dev, very fun game!
It might have been more "smoother" visually if the ship also snapped to a grid like the blocks.
Empyrealhell11 Dec 2014, 07:31
That was bizarre. It was definitely the strangest match-three game I think I've played. It could have used a bit more refinement on the gameplay, the movement was a little clunky to line up with the tiles and there seemed to me something triggering sound effects that I couldn't see. The sound effects were good though, and the music was a perfect fit.
pjimmy
pjimmy13 Dec 2014, 21:26
cool, love it, love the retro style, very creative tetris style game, well done
torcado194
torcado19413 Dec 2014, 21:30
pretty interesting. i loved the music, but the gameplay was pretty bland. good job though!
EthanWebster
EthanWebster13 Dec 2014, 21:33
I enjoyed the retro style graphics and sound. Nicely done.
khahem
khahem13 Dec 2014, 21:35
I liked the graphics and audio but I think there's a problem with the balance, most of it is too easy to play, except for the instadeath when touching a block, which is very brutal.

Still fun to play though :)
Valeour
Valeour13 Dec 2014, 21:50
Very fun, excellent assets and game idea. Did enjoy, maybe an option to go faster would be nice!
Ultauthor13 Dec 2014, 22:52
This just in: the game now speeds up over time, adding much more of a challenge.
sprawl13 Dec 2014, 23:11
The game feels great ! I'd be nice if the ship had a better visually represented hitbox howevere. The music is spot on and the sounds effects works well.

Good job !
masterhyjinx14 Dec 2014, 01:32
The ad before your game never loaded so I didn't play it. Bummer.
HotBoxGames
HotBoxGames14 Dec 2014, 02:16
Loved "You are humanity's last hope probably!" - hilarious! Great little tetris game, first time I've moved along the vertical axis on this style of game :D Great little compo entry - good job!
ianh
ianh15 Dec 2014, 18:37
Fun game, but I wish there were something more to the mechanics, like a way to combo or something. As it is, there's no real strategy -- you just match with the closest available tile.
DonovanWu
DonovanWu15 Dec 2014, 18:50
Nice topic, in that space trash IS some kind of problem that is attracting more and more attention nowadays.
The audio is awesome. The background music somewhat reminds me of Touhou game series' music... I don't know if you have heard of them?
Ultauthor15 Dec 2014, 19:12
@DonovanWu actually, the background music was originally composed as a parody of ZUN's style known as "Fantastical Brain Injury: Writing the same song for 15 years"
fancypants
fancypants23 Dec 2014, 16:20
Fun game, I think it would be better if the blocks self destroy after they detach from the group.

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