for egg in basket

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.59
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.80
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.66
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.60
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.55
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.25
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.25
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.97
release1.png
you are tasked with quality assurance for an premium egg manufacturer. for each egg, please, carefully carry out all of the required assessments. if an egg's tasks are not completed, unfortunately, that egg must be disposed of.

a game kinda like Simon Says, where you have to complete a bunch of mini tasks. your company requires increasingly complicated QA processes as you clear more baskets of eggs, as well as higher throughput. it's very frantic and probably almost impossible to beat...

NOTE: the ^v symbols are up/down arrows, not the ^ or v keys.

language: Lua

engine: Love2D

editor: notepad++

graphics: photoshop

sounds: sfxr

music: FL studio

known bug: the "click any n eggs" task sometimes doesn't work properly, although I think this is almost always beneficial (i.e. you can get it just by clicking one egg)

screenshot
Genres: action

Comments32

TheVideoGamester
TheVideoGamester5 Oct 2020, 07:55
Don't think I can beat it. But it is so much fun. It gets frantic fast. lol. Got lucky and got two button mash quests in a row. Swear I almost broke my keyboard. This is probably the most solid entry I have played to this point.
FatEagleGames
FatEagleGames5 Oct 2020, 08:13
Pretty cool idea. By the way, if you mash the arrow keys and spam click eggs it suddenly becomes very easy :) Maybe needs some kind of punishment for failing a task too often in a row. But overall a quite enjoyable game.
tpsy5 Oct 2020, 13:18
Agree with the comment that punishing for failure would make be good, to discourage spamming the keys. But it's a challenging game regardless. Enjoyed playing it for a few loops. Sound effects were well done as well.
IndieQuest5 Oct 2020, 13:23
It was very fun, I played several times before I gave up.
The UI is very good and it was clear very quickly without any explanation what should you do which is a very hard task to complete. Great job had a lot of fun playing, thank you!
dreamscale5 Oct 2020, 14:20
Fun, I love this kind of frantic multitasking stuff! Love the art and music as well.
indivicivet
indivicivetauthor6 Oct 2020, 01:17
thanks for the comments :)

@fateaglegames have you beaten it?! even with a lot of arrow mashing, spam clicking, and being quite lucky with the tasks, the best I've done is a couple of eggs into the last basket (basket 12) ^^
seurimas6 Oct 2020, 02:32
It's a very silly game, but it really strikes a mood and uses the theme well. I eventually resorted to random clicking and arrow mashing, but I was ultimately too slow and lost, lol.
KeithSwanger
KeithSwanger6 Oct 2020, 02:37
Really nice idea. My fingers couldn't keep up with the mashing xD

Perfect scope for the jam, nice job! I like how you handled not having to click on a specific egg color when there are none left.
UkuleleFury
UkuleleFury6 Oct 2020, 05:43
:) Very fun! The art is simple, but good. So's the music. I like the idea a lot, and it's pretty fun to play! My brain is struggling to keep track of what to do, and the "egg timer" is ticking! Oh no!
Neonalig
Neonalig6 Oct 2020, 07:35
Loved the game! Simple and fun. Apart from me sucking at it, I did find that as the tasks got more complicated I had to recheck the screen more often; the screen of which is in a hard place to see from the conveyor belt. Maybe if the screen was more centred and a tad lower it would help? Unless, of course, you like your game being hard ;)

Looking again, I think it's the text alignment. That's the normal alignment for code, assuming that screen is trying to emulate some sort of basic computer, but it means your eyes have to travel a further distance from the tasks to the eggs and back, losing valuable time when you could be clicking MORE EGGS!
FatEagleGames
FatEagleGames6 Oct 2020, 08:28
@indivicivet i stopped button mashing after ~25 eggs because I didn't want to cheat^^ don't know if it's actually possible to beat the game with this method
zacharieg
zacharieg6 Oct 2020, 11:19
So fun ! So innovative ! I love this concept, even if this is very hard...
Nate Wert6 Oct 2020, 13:32
I really enjoyed that the game was fun and simple, but yet offered a challenge. As the game progressed it became more frantic to collect an egg keeping me engaged and happy. Nice job!
MikoziQ
MikoziQ6 Oct 2020, 20:25
Definitely humorous game! Had to sweat a bit during late levels. Would improve graphics just a tiny bit but it's not a big deal at all anyway. Great job!
11thPenguin6 Oct 2020, 23:45
Perfect scope for a 48hr jam, manages to pack a lot of fun into a small space. One of the very rare jam type games that doesn't have the feeling, "ooh, with a little more time could have been so much better!" Very elegant solution for running out of certain egg colors. Excellent work!
indivicivet
indivicivetauthor7 Oct 2020, 01:20
thanks for all the comments :)

@neonalig I don't think it was much of a conscious design decision, but I quite like the fact you can't easily look at both at once, because it gives more incentive to try to memorize the sequence :) I like the game being hard, although I think it should've been a little easier. I think it's also based on a lot on how unlucky you get with certain tasks. some are very hard to memorize, very hard to play when you've memorized them, and also very hard to get just by random mashing. I think some of the directional sequences that don't have a clear pattern are particularly bad for this (although I really like ones like v because they feel satisfying to memorize) ^^

@fateaglegames (and @tpsy) I think instinctively slipping into button mash mode is part of the fun :) if I had more time maybe a "sudden death" mode where you lose a life for a wrong input would appeal to some players, although I never really considered it because I think I prefer the lack of punishment.

some tasks are really good at punishing button mashing, like the
indivicivet
indivicivetauthor7 Oct 2020, 01:34
score to beat :)

I was helped a lot by lucky tasks + the bug ^^
SH807 Oct 2020, 01:44
One of my favorite games of the Jam so far! I will be returning to this one. :)
Eugenik
Eugenik7 Oct 2020, 03:41
i like this game
JudgeZedd
JudgeZedd7 Oct 2020, 15:09
Had a really fun time with this. Very polished given it was made in such a short timeframe, and I think you've got the scope and scale of it down perfectly. Well done.
RIBOUT Horace
RIBOUT Horace7 Oct 2020, 20:22
It was some button mashing, but it was really fun. Like, some sort of routine start beginning but the pressure of time and this automatic press is so freacking intense, it pace the game perfectly !

It's an awesome mini game who also is good visually and musically (and thanks to let the option to cut the music ! I didn"t do it, but i'm glad you add that option )
enderr42
enderr428 Oct 2020, 13:25
frantic egg clicking ftw! Graphics are just enough, same with sounds, and a nice task progression (which gates rage-inducing after a while). I vote yes)
Nailuj29 Gaming8 Oct 2020, 14:35
Wow. This gets very frantic very fast. It took me a little while to figure out that v and ^ are the up and down arrow keys. Maybe try using Unicode characters like ↑ and ↓?
Coding4rtist
Coding4rtist8 Oct 2020, 15:14
Simple game but funny to play. Graphics and sound effects are nice. Great job!
indivicivet
indivicivetauthor8 Oct 2020, 16:38
@nailuj29-gaming yeah, I have heard this complaint from others too. fun fact: they are those unicode characters! but in the font I used, they're not very clear. I think by the time I added those tasks, I was already too attached to that font >
Overlook Studios
Overlook Studios8 Oct 2020, 21:20
Cool concept and take on the theme. I enjoyed the different types of "tasks" you came up with. I will say though that the game does get exponentially harder to impossible (as you have stated). Could possibly add some mechanics to delay the conveyor belt for a bit or slow down time, just to at least extend the games life. Nice job!
Itskdog
Itskdog10 Oct 2020, 10:38
Nice simple game. Cute graphics too.
mvasko211 Oct 2020, 12:54
Wow, this was hard!

I, too, resorted to spamming clicks and buttons, although I didn't get far that way anyway :sweat_smile:. It would make sense to punish the player for performing the wrong action, but then I fear the only person who could play this game would be Chuck Norris. At least you would avoid spamming the buttons. Maybe you could then balance it out by making it slower or something?

Solid entry, anyway - nice idea, graphics and sounds. Fun to play as well :slight_smile:
11 Oct 2020, 14:58
Honestly I can't believe how good this was for how simple it was. It definitely starts easy but then gets super frantic! It is a lot of fun and honestly kind of addicting. It forces the player to think a little bit and not just go crazy mashing buttons (it doesn't work, I found out the hard way). Good job on this one!
marvalgames
marvalgames13 Oct 2020, 03:18
Fun game. The mashing only takes you so far too. So the balance seems fine. Really no complaints. Maybe not the most exciting game for many but very polished and easy to understand. Would be fun on mobile with tweaks also.
Leora14 Oct 2020, 14:51
Good idea, love the style
Jack Lance18 Oct 2020, 21:00
Simple idea but gets fun & frantic very fast! I enjoyed it a lot :)

Other games by @indivicivet

Found a bug?
Tell us on Discord