Reaching Under

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.44
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.35
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.43
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.98
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.43
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.30
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.94
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.25
[EDIT] Since this seems to be confusing a few people, here is how the gameplay on the bottom works: the hand automatically goes forward and stops everytime you find an object (usually some trash). To go past it, press and HOLD the keypress shown. When the hand stops at the next object, press and hold that keypress IN ADDITION to the previous ones.
Once you finally find something valuable, and you press its key in addition to the previous ones, you'll get points and the hand will go back automatically. That's when you can release all the keys you've been pressing so far.

Have you lost something under the seat of your car? Have you ever tried reaching it while driving?
You shouldn't.
Unless you're playing this game.
Avoid cars while doing finger-twister on the keyboard in "Reaching Under"!

Comments22

CaioLima
CaioLima26 Apr 2021, 22:58
Aprreciated the pixel art graphics! o/
citsua
citsua26 Apr 2021, 23:16
Wow, that's definitely a unique idea. No idea how you came up with this. I may be stupid, but it took me an embarrassingly long time to understand what I had to do on the bottom screen. Once I got it, it was pretty fun! I also enjoyed the visual style.
Elektroney
Elektroney27 Apr 2021, 17:42
I just cant mutitask im sorry
chriiis88
chriiis8827 Apr 2021, 17:47
Very innovative idea, however the execution lacks quite a bit, unfortunately. It's not clear at all when a key has to be pressed to be successfully. There is no feedback for the player. Sometimes the items go to the left, which apparently is good, other times I press the key and they just stay in the middle.
Dzefris27 Apr 2021, 17:49
Very funny!
dude_the_hero27 Apr 2021, 18:09
Great concept! Reminds me a bit of Envirobear!
Incredible Potato Kids
Incredible Potato Kidsauthor27 Apr 2021, 18:20
Thanks for the feedback everybody! We probably should have done a much better work at tutorialisation, as it seems a few people didn't get how the gameplay below works.

To at least make it a bit more enjoyable, we just added an extra bit of description in the page, hopefully that'll help a few people
LDJam user 236404
LDJam user 23640428 Apr 2021, 11:04
Is it just me or is the reaction time for this game extremely short? Anyway nice game, I could only get to 100 though.
Cresceda
Cresceda28 Apr 2021, 14:50
I thought I was good at multi tasking until I played this game. Like it ;)
bubbadubc
bubbadubc28 Apr 2021, 14:53
Simple, and excellent.
Kevin Meissner
Kevin Meissner28 Apr 2021, 14:55
really funny idea and a big plus for the theme idea. :-) just a bit too hard. Also there was no indicator when to exactly push the button.
Raeino28 Apr 2021, 15:01
Really cool and unique idea and the game was fun to play, though it took me some time to understand how the down part worked (also had a bug on a few runs where while holding more tha one key I couldn't steer)
Martinek29 Apr 2021, 17:01
Really fun and interesting game. Great art.
.fpeg
.fpeg1 May 2021, 11:10
Best take on the theme so far! :D Very relatable too! It's kinda hard, but in the right kind of way, easy to understand, but hard to keep attention on the road while reaching for the stuff. I think this is a far more accurate simulation of multitasking behind the wheel than one would think at first glance xD
Mog131 May 2021, 12:08
Great idea, it tied my hands in knots. I really like the musical riff when you lose :joy: great idea and great execution!
ditam1 May 2021, 12:43
Hilarious, and a great take on the theme. The music track you composed is very cool too, a great example of how audio can boost the mood of a game immensely. (Makes me all the more disappointed that I'm yet to ever find the time to make the audio during a jam...) Kudos!
TigerMouse1 May 2021, 18:35
Really funny take on the theme - very innovative.
LDJam user 238552
LDJam user 2385522 May 2021, 10:09
First of all the art style and the sfx are on point. Really enjoy them both. The two layer of gameplay are neat--but challenging. Each time I focused on driving I couldn't manage to grab items, but if I focused on items I plowed into a car. Overall really great entry, this is a neat game.
Kszaku
Kszaku2 May 2021, 10:25
a fun challenge idea - play this while drunk or high.

But seriously, really fun experience, I love how this requires to split attention between tasks. Every element just works greatly in tandem with anything else.
Neowedge
Neowedge2 May 2021, 16:57
Original idea! Congrats!
Rob Parker
Rob Parker2 May 2021, 18:41
Feels like i'm playing twister with my fingers!
Really tough game with trying to multitask avoiding things and grabbing stuff under the seat!
Heremeus
Heremeus2 May 2021, 20:14
What a fun and unique idea. The graphics were looking good as well. I encountered two pretty big problem while playing though. The first was not being able to read what key I have to press. The upper half of the key was cut off sometimes making it a wild guess what to press next. The other issue was not being able to press more than 4-5 keys simultaneously. As soon as I had to hold a few more keys, the arrow keys stopped responding and I crashed. This is probably a technical limitation on my side but stopped me from getting past 200 points.
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