Mail Room

by lazinix

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.75

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.56

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.31

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.19

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.31

The Game

A short little arcade game, made for Ludum Dare 42.

In Mail Room, you play as a mail room worker in a shrinking mail room, which is quickly filling up with mail. You must use the three mail chutes to send the mail to their corresponding recipients, matching the colour of the mail to the colour of the chutes.

Try to avoid the clutter.

Throughout the game there are various power-ups which will affect the gameplay in a variety of ways, giving you the potential to accumulate a much higher score. The game also has a built-in leaderboard, though this is file-based, and thus is not global. See if you can beat your own high score, or compete with your friends to achieve the highest score!

A Little Information

This is my first real project outside of school, and my first Ludum Dare game. I made it by myself, creating all of the assets, scripts, and sounds during the game jam, and, while it's not a particularly impressive game, I enjoyed making it, and hope you enjoy playing it!

I finished making the game a few hours before the end of the comp, but I was satisfied with the status of the game and have some other stuff to do today, so here it is!

The source files are also available, but they are *incredibly messy*! and very cluttered with unnecessary or poorly formatted files. Proceed with caution. If you make any changes to the game, please let me know! It would be great to see what changes and improvements people have made on this project.

Tags: #2d, #arcade, #pixel art, #programmer-art, #short, #singleplayer, #unity

Comments7

EvanM12 Aug 2018, 17:52

This game was really fun!, I wish the mail guy could move just a little bit faster though

Ghen12 Aug 2018, 23:21

interesting game, i love pixelated graphic, but i think it can be improved a bit tho, for example allow player to pick multiple small item, and only 1 big item, so there will be micro management on space efficiency, but other than that, well done !

Quorusa12 Aug 2018, 23:35

Ahahahah !
It's colorful and it's fit perfectly with the theme.

Simply to understand, and very fun !
First I didn't notice that room become small. Fiou ! :D

Florian van Strien12 Aug 2018, 23:38

Nice idea and the game was fun to play! The powerups really helped to make it more fun. It did become a bit repetitive after a few play sessions, but I don't think that's a big problem for a jam game. I didn't notice the mail room shrinking the first time I played, but it does actually seem to affect the game, so the theme has been used nicely. One time I did end up under a big pile of mail and couldn't really do anything anymore:

While this was quite fun to see, especially as the room shrunk further, it was a bit less fun that I could no longer do anything useful in the level. But maybe that was my punishment for playing badly.

I liked the graphics; nice and colorful!

While I agree with EvanM that the movement speed could have been a bit higher, I really liked the detail that you move slower when you carry something.