Shipping Schrödinger's Cat

by hjalte

co-authored: @skovtrolden

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.86

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.85

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.94

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.30

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.65

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.30

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.39

Schrödinger has ordered a cat online. He's not sure if it's alive or dead. It's your job to make sure it stays that way.

CONTROLS

Click on colored machinery to trigger all machinery of that type.

- Conveyor belts will reverse.
- Pistons will push once.
- Flippers will toggle between open and closed.

Camera: wasd & space

GAMEPLAY

Make sure the cat package makes it to the delivery truck unharmed.

MADE BY

https://twitter.com/hjaltetagmose

https://twitter.com/AsgerGotved

ATTRIBUTION

Realizer by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5047-realizer
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Funk Game Loop by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3787-funk-game-loop
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The FontStruction “SD Auto Pilot”
(http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/86016) by “SD Fontz” is
licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).

Comments34

alessia-ip21 Apr 2020, 00:35

This is super cute! I saw cats and I had to play! The mechanic is neat, and the puzzles are rewarding to solve!

Listonos21 Apr 2020, 00:37

Great picks for music, got me all pumped up. Nice puzzle/action game and I love the concept.

c4221 Apr 2020, 00:39

Very cool game design. I liked that you synced it with the music, very catchy. I found it a bit hard to understand, especially because I had difficulties identifying different levels of conveyor belts. Small tips with new mechanics would help. Overall great effort!

Iñaki roque21 Apr 2020, 01:08

always its hard when you have to find the controls. but nice job! really cute

Frozedon21 Apr 2020, 05:37

Game looked cool. Though some of the level design didn't lend itself tot he isometric view and I got super confused by how things moved and fell. But it was a very interesting puzzle game.

vulgaris21 Apr 2020, 13:15

schrödinger is super fitting to this theme, and the design of the levels was very good, keep it up :)

munmungames22 Apr 2020, 16:23

I loved it! Clever puzzle game with a good difficulty. The graphics are cute and the musics are funny sometimes. I think I would exploit a bit more the shrodingger paradox in the gameplay somehow. But anyway, great job ! :smiley:

PonyPen22 Apr 2020, 17:00

Cats! in colourful boxes!? Great game! I really enjoyed the puzzles and they weren't too hard. I liked the music too :)

PatrickRMC22 Apr 2020, 19:52

I love that everything is synced to the beat, it made it easier to follow the rhythm in my head. Also the art is really cute and I love the little bounce the boxes and the truck had each beat. Really nice! I completed the game and the puzzles felt a bit challenging but really rewarding! :D Very good overall! Congrats on completing a game.

xlekai22 Apr 2020, 21:33

Great idea for gameplay. With the clean and 3d angles! Good work. But the sound a little bit repetitive. And the graphics are basic.. Not original design!

Skovtrolden22 Apr 2020, 21:40

Hi @xlekai, thank you so much for your feedback!

I was wondering what you meant by "not original design". As far as I know, it's a unique concept, and we made everything but the music and font ourselves :)

MateusBoga22 Apr 2020, 22:28

Awesome game! Love this kind of stuff, made me suffer that last level xD
Here's my playthrough: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/599709059

Skovtrolden22 Apr 2020, 22:33

THank you for leaving the video @mateusboga! Will definitely help when we continue the development!

skitzogamer22 Apr 2020, 22:59

Awesome game, took a bit for my brain to catch up to the mechanics.
I especially love the rhythm based element in there.

mao23 Apr 2020, 03:25

Pretty fun! The later levels get a bit overwhelming, especially since the box spawners don't give you very much time to think. I love how everything is synchronized with the music.

zzox23 Apr 2020, 13:22

Loved the house music levels! Nice work, I really liked it.

notnullnotvoid23 Apr 2020, 19:02

Great puzzler! The graphics may be simple, but they're cute and easy to read, so in my opinion they're pretty good. I loved seeing everything bop to the music! I suffered a bit on some of the more heavily timing-based sections, and there were a couple early bits that I think I solved by accident without fully understanding what I did, but on the whole it was a solid and original puzzle game, which I know isn't easy in a game jam setting. I'd definitely like to play more of this if you decide to continue working on it after the jam.

Hjalteauthor23 Apr 2020, 20:53

@notnullnotvoid Thank you for your kind feedback. We are thinking of turning it into a real game, so it's very useful :).

In case you have notifications on: Do you think the game works better with or without time-based sections?

I think it kinda fits sometimes, but I'm not sure where the balance lies..

notnullnotvoid23 Apr 2020, 22:09

It definitely seems like if you remove the timing-based sections, the game would lose a bit of its personality or identity. And they add some depth for sure, so I'd be sad to see them removed entirely. I think being under time pressure while also trying to figure out a new mechanic may have been what was tripping me up. And on the very last level, I think it would be nice be given time to survey the level and come up with a plan at first, instead of being thrown right into the action each time the level resets.

erebus24 Apr 2020, 00:47

Very interesting puzzle mechanics! Great submission! Thanks for bringing it by the stream!

Hjalteauthor24 Apr 2020, 08:45

@notnullnotvoid you can sit still and wait after you get off the first conveyor, but yeah, that level turned out a bit mean..

Thank you for the notes, we really appreciate it :).

Hjalteauthor24 Apr 2020, 08:45

@erebus Thank *you* for playing it :)

gagapete24 Apr 2020, 14:58

That was hilarius. I love the overall feel of the game, it's fun. The music fits the game but gets a bit repetitive after a while.

I played on Android and would've prefered some colored buttons to trigger the actions instead of touching the objects as I sometimes hit the wrong object.

Hjalteauthor25 Apr 2020, 09:11

@gagapete Wow, so cool that you played on mobile. I definitely see how it could get difficult to hit the right color..

Thanks for playing :).

JUSTCAMH26 Apr 2020, 08:16

Woah, what an awesome game! I love the movement with the beat, the timing of it all, and the introduction of extra boxes at the end. The thing that I struggled with was the height of the level, it often wasn't obvious which parts of the stage were elevated, and it wasn't clear what tile a box would land on if it fell. Otherwise, this game was awesome, it felt great moving with the beat, and that last level was quite the doozy! Congrats! :heart: :heart: :heart:

emmyoop26 Apr 2020, 20:57

Great game! Love the music with the game. I couldn't figure out how to quit out once the game was playing though - mac download.

Hjalteauthor27 Apr 2020, 08:16

@emmyoop Thanks for playing! You're right there's no way to quit when you're in a level, but there's a quit button on the start/end screen. Did that one not work on mac?

Skovtrolden27 Apr 2020, 09:19

Alternatively, you should be able to quit with cmd-q on a mac - but not sure if that works

Notan Lemon3 May 2020, 08:42

This is cool! The mechanic is simple, but has much potential to make various levels. Also I love the art style. It is funny to see the boxes and the truck vibing to the music. Good job!

DDRKirbyISQ3 May 2020, 23:41

Good idea! I think you're onto something here, though the current execution is a little rough around the edges as noted by previous commenters. I think the design could be cleaned up and pared down a little, made more focused because right now there are a ton of different moving parts (pardon the pun).

akitl5 May 2020, 15:02

realy fun little puzzle game moite

fabula_rasa7 May 2020, 23:06

Very nice little game! Gameplay is simple but the puzzles are quite fun, if not very complicated.

I liked the graphic style and the general vibe of the game. Thumbs up!

However, are we really keeping the cat alive if his actual state is a superposition of both death and life untill we open the box? Or are we just keeping him in a state of uncertainty :wink:

JUSTCAMH13 May 2020, 01:18

I really don’t understand some people, how did the game score so low in graphics? Personally I loved the style of the game, and it was heaps of fun too! I’d say you deserved a better rating, but regardless, best of luck for your future projects!

Hjalteauthor13 May 2020, 08:35

@justcamh Aw thanks for saying that, that means a lot :). We wanna continue developing the game once exams are over, so it's good to know we're on the right track haha.

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