Holiday Rejects

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.93
Fun★★★★★★★★★★4.02
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.00
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.17
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.65
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.30
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.63
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.46
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★77%
Holiday Rejects is a simple arcade game that will challenge your memory as you sort through parcels containing contraband.

Using the Left or Right keys, players can sort through packages after they've viewed its contents within the Xray scanner.

Delivering or reject appropriate packages will increase your score. If you miscarry too many packages though, you'll be terminated.

Music
Carol of the Bells by EvilWezil

Known issues
• FIXED - Hydraulic audio gets stuck playing over and over. Looking into the code for the issue.

Genres: action

Comments40

Elenesski
Elenesski15 Dec 2015, 04:49
FIRED? Me. But but ... there were too many of them. Great game ... surprisingly hard to do. Throwing stars, grenades, omg, is it really like that. Good sound. I can imagine going postal if this was real life.
savethejets115 Dec 2015, 15:49
So good! This mechanic worked really well.
hoqjed
hoqjed15 Dec 2015, 16:56
Extremely well done! I loved having to keep track of the packages, very stressful but in a good way :)

Also having the pushing of packages as physically based was a really nice touch, it made skill a very important part of the game. Well done!
gene-z15 Dec 2015, 16:58
Very Nice game
Leuthil15 Dec 2015, 16:59
Really great game. The sound effect of the conveyer belt was a bit annoying but the mechanics were great. I even loved how the packages were pushed with physics and not just pre-canned animations. Nice tutorial as well :)
epicTCK15 Dec 2015, 17:01
Wow. Hard, but VERY WELL DONE. amazing.
epicTCK15 Dec 2015, 17:04
not sure if its my machine or your game, but the audio is looping the pushing sound over and over again while I was plan it for the 20th time..
Joe Williamson
Joe Williamson15 Dec 2015, 17:23
Nice game. It's a cool idea. The fact that the good and bad pushers are in different positions really helps increase the difficulty. You have to be thinking in two places at once.

Also, thanks for playing my game! :) I appreciate you might be skeptical that I did it entirely in the weekend. If you like you can check out my twitch channel, because I livestreamed almost the entire dev ^_^
Drury
Drury15 Dec 2015, 17:24
Score 125, Highest streak 71, I should be doing this for a living.

If they pay like 2000 for 3 minutes, that is.
Polith Games15 Dec 2015, 17:56
Haaaaaard game
I love the mechanic
Good job!
GetDoSed15 Dec 2015, 17:59
This game is the best one I've played so far! Such a simple concept, and yet done so well! 5/5
Dooskington
Dooskington15 Dec 2015, 18:04
Cool game! Liked the sound and graphics. What sicko is putting swords into christmas gifts! Some elves are gonna get fired...
Reccy15 Dec 2015, 18:04
Tough game, but I had a lot of fun playing it!
Great entry :D
DrFallos
DrFallos15 Dec 2015, 18:10
Gj well done guys. So interesting game for improving memory and not only.
kaotiklabs15 Dec 2015, 18:11
Good little game, really liked the mechanics.
brainstorm
brainstorm15 Dec 2015, 18:11
Really well done game!

I voted 5/5 on every category except two 4/5 in Fun and Theme.

Great game, maybe it starts getting difficult too late, but I can't find more defects. :)
Yvanor
Yvanor15 Dec 2015, 18:22
Nice little game, it looks easy but it's hard to keep an eye on the packages and the xray scanner. Well done ! ^^
Wukkopi15 Dec 2015, 18:55
Really good memory/reaction/observation game. I really love this kind of games which are easy to learn but hard to master; at least for me it gave very hard time when the machine continuously x-ray'd present after present while I was pushing misaligned packages so that they wouldn't go to where they belonged :D

I didn't last long enough to see if the game got gradually harder but if it didn't, i suggest that for more hardcore players the belt could get faster, and package interval could get smaller. And optional "hard mode" where the color code of items would be omitted?
TomenLuca
TomenLuca15 Dec 2015, 19:07
Great mechanic, simple yet addictive.
Aurel Bílý
Aurel Bílý15 Dec 2015, 20:22
Quite simple, but nice. I can imagine you could make it more interesting by adding levels with e.g. multiple belts, additional categories, different placement of the pistons - because that was what added the fun difficulty.
MrDave
MrDave15 Dec 2015, 20:37
This is a great game for something so simple! The spacing was perfect always being just a little too much to keep track of. Really enjoyed this.
TaylorAnderson15 Dec 2015, 22:20
great game. simple but challenging, funny, original...everything i want from a ludum dare game
psychomonster
psychomonster16 Dec 2015, 01:04
Wow this fun. Nice job looking into all x-mas presents :D With all the weapins iside the boxes it ,ight be dangerous for santa in the next year :D Good job. +1 humor +1 gameplay!
justinooncx16 Dec 2015, 01:33
Pretty challenging game! With the positioning of the pistons, it was hard to coordinate which should be pushed!
mike.cullingham16 Dec 2015, 02:58
Really like this one. Nice graphics, responsive, funny, and on theme.
fpwong16 Dec 2015, 04:10
Good stuff, really liking all the rhythm / timing games coming out of this jam. Wish it sped up a bit faster more though.
broknecho16 Dec 2015, 05:37
I'm not fired. I quit.

Great job! Fantastic entry!
GagaPete
GagaPete16 Dec 2015, 11:29
Very polished game with a lovely mechanic. The gameplay and graphics are well done, but I needed to lower the volume. The music sounds a bit to "aggressive" :)
Tuism
Tuism16 Dec 2015, 16:59
Solid :) A nice take on the old two button yes/no game - the simple yes no thing is different because of timing, and trying to remember that stuff gets hard when the queue gets longer than 3 parcels.

Good stuff :)
kebabskal16 Dec 2015, 17:43
Awesome. Surprisingly hard to manage queue up stuff in your head and push the buttons on the right time. Enjoyed that you actually used physics when pushing the presents. GJ!
ShaunJS
ShaunJS16 Dec 2015, 18:41
Good job! Has a good twist on this type of game =)
Manu & Wan
Manu & Wan16 Dec 2015, 20:50
Nice idea, perfectly executed. Props for using a physics engine to make things more lively (& hard?), plus the burning package animation is pretty well done.

(Side note: I didn't rate the audio since I understood that it wasn't made during the jam... ?)
SeaLeft Studios16 Dec 2015, 22:27
What do you mean I can't bring my katana through customs? ;-) Heh, good use of the two buttons. I thought when starting that up/down might be better than left/right but found left/right worked really well. First few waves of packages were pretty easy, but once you screw one package up things rapidly degenerate. Fun!
01010111
0101011118 Dec 2015, 02:41
Wow! I thought it was going to be easy, but keeping track of the offset between the two options really shook me up! Awesome idea for a game, very well executed! Great job!
scorched
scorched22 Dec 2015, 21:00
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Fun elegant game to improve the reaction and memory! Good job!
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