Ludum Dare #50compo

Conveyor Belt Attack

by quasar098

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.46

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.42

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.54

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.88

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.83

Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.82

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.54

About

The goal is to keep your timer above 0 seconds.

You can "delay the inevitable" by putting high quality boxes on the conveyor belt.

In a nutshell, this is taking someone else's order at a revolving sushi restraunt and dumping in 3 pounds of soy sauce.

Images:

Change the difficulty to fit your skill level

Grab the boxes and combine them in specific ways to create higher quality boxes

Try to get a maximum quality box

Mess around with the textures for texture pack capabilities (unintended feature)

This is my second ludum dare and my first time in the compo so hopefully I did well.

Note that it is possible to compile source code to linux with pyinstaller.

Made with pygame

PLEASE KNOW THAT WINDOWS REALLY HATES MY GAME AND WILL TRY AS HARD AS IT CAN TO FLAG IT AS A VIRUS

Tools: pygame

Comments16

LDJam user 2796104 Apr 2022, 20:16

Windows Defender claims it has a virus and won't let me extract it. Due to the very real risk that you did upload I virus (sorry, I don't know you) I'm not going to proceed.

quasar098author4 Apr 2022, 22:27

@david-york I just fixed it and now you should be able to do it with no virus warning

quasar098author4 Apr 2022, 22:34

had to add `--clean` to compilation command

LDJam user 2796105 Apr 2022, 00:32

Haha this reminds me of a friend in school whose mom grounded him for giving the computer a virus because he was typing with "unclean hands". Man he was mad! I'll try again now.

LDJam user 2796105 Apr 2022, 00:34

Sorry buddy, still being blocked by Windows Defender

quasar098author5 Apr 2022, 22:16

@david-york probably your pc saw it once and will always recognize it as a virus... there goes i guess,,

Darylsteak5 Apr 2022, 23:47

Didn't get the warning, so I guess it does work now. It's honestly a pretty neat simple game that's quite intuitive.

1 slight knit pick I have is that turning on the music was a lil jarring, but it faded into the BG by the end. Nice work!

Benjamin Humes6 Apr 2022, 00:04

This was a fun game to play for a few minutes.

LDJam user 2874246 Apr 2022, 00:19

Fun little puzzle game. It does a good job of giving you a small set of limited choices and then forcing you to make those decisions quickly. I liked the pop-up that explained how to combine the boxes that would show up when you clicked the box. I didn't fully understand how the combination system worked (like which numbers to pair as they got higher. The pop up really helps with that, but you feel like you don't even have time to look at it as boxes are flying by and your time is running down. Nice menus, all the graphics are really clean, and the overall presentation was great. Thank you for adding a toggle for the background music!! Great work!

theheheo6 Apr 2022, 06:41

Good job! Was stressfull but fun!

quasar098author6 Apr 2022, 20:49

@theheheo - glad you enjoyed it! everyone I showed it too was very stressed as well
@the3rdhunter - I didn't intend for it to be a puzzle game, more an aim trainer / resource management game. I am still glad you enjoyed it and the popups do really help if you are stuck when trying to reach the next quality/tier level.

FulminDerek9 Apr 2022, 02:40

This game was stressful as hell but I enjoyed it lol.

I would maybe consider changing the way the boxes stack. Maybe make it more like 2048 or Threes where you can only combine like boxes, and then the score for that box doubles?

Also I feel like some sort of visual feedback for if you're actually hovering over a box or not would be helpful. There were a bunch of times when I was just a pixel or two off and got the banging metal sound instead of picking the box up

quasar098author10 Apr 2022, 21:05

@fulminderek I made the boxes not stack like 2048 on purpose, so you have to figure out how to make the better box es or use the recipes. I feel like 2+2=4,4+4=8 design would be repetitive and cliche

quasar098author10 Apr 2022, 21:05

@fulminderek I made the boxes not stack like 2048 on purpose, so you have to figure out how to make the better box es or use the recipes. I feel like 2+2=4,4+4=8 design would be repetitive and cliche

LDJam user 26711614 Apr 2022, 09:35

Nice game! You really captured the feeling of being behind on an assembly line. The arcane upgrade paths are a cool idea, they definitely make it more dynamic. If you expanded on this I would change from using numbers though, they're a bit misleading.

zimny1121 Apr 2022, 12:17

Cool game concept! I like that getting higher number of boxes is not based on simple addition or multiplication. It was fun trying to figure out how it works. Nice job!

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