Clean this mess !

by diblow
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.98
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.74
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.64
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.21
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.28
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.90
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.81
"Clean this mess !" is a game we made for the 40th Ludum Dare as videogame students.

Our game is about feeding kids in time before they start throwing a tantrum, and keeping the cafetaria clean. The more kids, the worse it gets.



We were 7 students working on this game:

Louis Valet, Thomas Polfliet, Quentin Donnaint, Maxime Catel, Simon Prigent, Nathan Messin and Sullivan Devroede (aKa Soulimane ).

Current Best Time: 07:23
Try to beat it !

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Comments37

Nathaniel Tan4 Dec 2017, 17:17
Gameplay was fun and smooth. Was a little confusing at first so I wish there was a way to view the instructions at a click of a button.
tulipekoni
tulipekoni4 Dec 2017, 18:13
Somehow I experience a bug, the hand drags behind my mouse and isn't responsible at all. I'm not sure what causes it. Nice concept tho!
mess110
mess1104 Dec 2017, 18:19
Nice game! It took me the 2nd try to figure out what is happening but once you get the hang of it is fun. Those little people can stir quite a racket
Colisan
Colisan4 Dec 2017, 18:20
Wew, very nice and polished game. Was easier after putting all the useless stuff in a corner of the room, and making people eating on the oven x)

I love the little blizzard-esque touch with the ballon
Flubz
Flubz4 Dec 2017, 18:20
Absolutely awesome game, loved it :smiley:
devsaur4 Dec 2017, 18:21
Very cool game! Nice graphics and feels very polished. But I found out, that it is possible to just make a big stack of tables and chairs, so that it's less likely that visitors bump into them. Anyways, that's just a small bug ;)
4 Dec 2017, 18:42
Great game guys!
kerneltt
kerneltt4 Dec 2017, 18:47
nice game but the cursor feels kinda unresponsive while moving stuff arround
4 Dec 2017, 19:06
I love Overcooked !
UnlikelyNomad
UnlikelyNomad4 Dec 2017, 19:22
Love the concepts and mechanics. Had to knock off some points because the cursor control seemed pretty laggy and it made interacting with the objects difficult. If there's a mouse input smoothing option turned on I would turn it off. All of the graphics and mechanics were phenomenal.
Diblow
Diblowauthor4 Dec 2017, 20:20
Hey, glad you're all enjoying the game ! Concerning the issues with the mouse unfortunatly I've no idea where it comes from since none of us ever had this "bug" :/ Sorry
Bredera
Bredera4 Dec 2017, 20:51
Very good game, but also really stressfull! love the art style and good implementation of the theme!
MadreDeDios4 Dec 2017, 21:19
You could've opt-in for audio ratings! Music was spot on!
Chubby Stick5 Dec 2017, 07:07
That concept is SO good, can become more than a free game ! :)
Raiponz
Raiponz5 Dec 2017, 08:39
Very impressive , good job ! it's hard , my personal best score is 4:45 minutes
MattCane5 Dec 2017, 12:11
Pretty good! would love an end goal or something though :D
Drauthius
Drauthius5 Dec 2017, 14:06
Great game! Very enjoyable and hard :)
DBoot5 Dec 2017, 14:31
Excellent game for that ludum dare and with this amount of time
kakarotsan
kakarotsan5 Dec 2017, 14:48
Nice atmosphere.

Picking up and dropping things made my hand cramp up though.
harusame
harusame5 Dec 2017, 15:15
Really fun game with a strong concept.
I enjoy arts and animation, very polish.
Good job !
witylernn
witylernn5 Dec 2017, 18:10
Really reminds me of Overcooked, super fun!
BlueMirror5 Dec 2017, 21:20
I love how they just say "fuck this shit" and throw the tables around like a boss. Gameplay wise I didnt know to mcuh what was going on. I didnt see any UI telling me what happens or any way to understand what happens. They just threw stuff around and when it was red I placed it up again. Just before loosing I took a table away from 2 people sitting, and they got mad as it seems. Idk it was fun to play, but I never understood what I was doing or if I did anything "smart". In my opinion levels with a time that you have to survive for, would be more fun to play instead of a highscore game. The level or difficulty could increase nicely like that and would offer a better interest curve which you can design.
Steel_Dev
Steel_Dev5 Dec 2017, 22:31
I love this! so fun
Nammflow
Nammflow5 Dec 2017, 22:35
Haha what a fun game! You've taken great care at executing this game design. I'd love to see an improved version of this game in the future!

Also, it's always fun to throw tables, but now I know how not-fun it is to put them back...
gamesplusjames
gamesplusjames6 Dec 2017, 02:13
Lots of fun to be had with this one. It got very stressful very quickly but the physicality of everything you picked up made it feel great. Some of those kids were real brats! :D Great job!
muromets
muromets6 Dec 2017, 02:35
Great game, there where too many things to manage, but it never did get really frustrating or annoying
Diblow
Diblowauthor6 Dec 2017, 08:53
@bluemirror Hey, first thanks for playing our game ! :D
I'm sorry you didn't understand what was going on in our game, maybe we didn't make it clear enough ( especially the life bar on the blackboard ).
And maybe in the future we'll improve the game and make levels that you have to complete.
Linky439
Linky4396 Dec 2017, 15:05
Great game!
It starts a bit too slow but god damn it, chaos is sure to arrive rather sooner than later!

The graphics are good, the music is nice, the game is just pure fun with those damn little devils! Really really fun, congrats for making this game!

My score was 05:54, everything was under control until the 5:00 mark x)
Robert Newman
Robert Newman6 Dec 2017, 21:24
This looks a great game and fits the theme well. It just seemed there was too much to do. let alone too many people, and then even those you served well would knock stuff over on there way out the place. nice idea though maybe just a few too many mechanics in straight away.

Others have picked up on the lag on pointer and there being no real margin for error on where you dropped things.
tinykidtoo
tinykidtoo7 Dec 2017, 00:44
I really like how the people would go and flip the tables. The cute graphics really help this. I just wish there was a rage sound effect with the same atmosphere. Overall this is a really fun game.
Blizary
Blizary7 Dec 2017, 15:45
the game was pretty fun to play ended up replaying it quite a bit i did find some bugs where the kids would stay eating the same plate forever and ever...guess they were really freaking hungry xD but aside from that great jog wish there was a sound for then flip the tables or just get mad =P would be fun to listen to it
Bastienre4
Bastienre47 Dec 2017, 21:04
Wow, gorgeous game ! It's really polished ! Congrats !
HitchH1k3r
HitchH1k3r12 Dec 2017, 02:33
You had a nice take on the theme, and the graphics were awesome. I found the things in the room were a bit too small to click and move very accurately. The realistic physics on things like putting a chair back up right lead to more frustration, it would have been nice if the rotation was locked until the objects fell back to the floor or something. At first I was confused as to why I was getting "stinky plates" and that I could not wash them. In all good work team, this was a very polished game!

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