Ludum Dare #46compo

UnArchive

by mitjmcc

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.92

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.48

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.42

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.76

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.73

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.79

Have you ever had a sense of regret when looking at ruins of cities and civilizations in ruin?

In UnArchive, you can put several ruins back together again, and capture the way the architecture was meant to be, if in a silly, physics based way.

Controls

Action	Input
Pickup Object	Left Click
Rotate Object	Right Click and Drag
Drop Object	Left Click
Raise or Lower Object	Scroll Wheel
Reset Puzzle	Space

Screenshots

Gotcha's

- Base pieces need to go on the white floor tiles, but the hit box is sometimes too low, so you may have to scroll down on the mouse wheel to jam it into place
- Order matters, even for identical pieces

Comments10

Evolving20 Apr 2020, 07:47

A pretty fun and difficult game) I'd lice to see more variativity

agegorin20 Apr 2020, 08:32

Thank you for showing me that I am a bad architect :joy:

NEKORUMA21 Apr 2020, 01:06

very difficultbut is interesting!!!

Endurion3 May 2020, 08:29

A really fun idea! Unfortunately the controls are cumbersome; also, when I finish it doesn't register. So obviously I did something wrong, but I have no idea, what.
Also, what settings did you use? This already feels sluggish in the first stage, which shouldn't tax any PC made in the last 20 years.

A hint regarding what's wrong would be a real head start too ;)

This has potential though.

Finn_Tr3 May 2020, 09:27

Really cool idea! I think using the shadow as hint is a really nice touch. The music is very relaxing and enjoyable. The control is a little bit difficult to get used to and frustrated sometimes, especially the rotating, but I think this has a really unique mechanic and great potential to be a really interesting puzzle game! Good job!

Teabag3 May 2020, 09:37

Really fun idea! Would be better if the final image of the building lasts for a few secs so player could admire it XD. However, the control is a bit disturbing, using one single mouse to control the rotation for all 3 axes, how about change it to control each of the axis by a pair of keys instead? Anyway, great work!

fatPenguin5 May 2020, 20:31

Interesting little game with a promising premise :)
Like others said, it's kind of hard when you're doing the right/wrong thing.
Maybe if you're really close, make the things snap together. I also felt the value of the "scrolls" (movement in the y axis) too extreme/big, I would tone that down, and maybe add a timer to the whole thing (which then would make players still let things fall down and hope for the best gravity-wise because they wanna beat the level, or get 3 stars or whatever)
Cool entry for a gamejam for one person! good job :)

Nivamdjo8 May 2020, 08:19

very complexe

jk50008 May 2020, 13:25

The game idea and the music is really good. The controls is overall okay, but it can sometime be a bit difficult to control the objects the way I would like. Especial the rotation can be a bit tricky. But overall is this a fun and interesting little jam game.