Professor Package

by remco
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.37
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.42
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.77
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.75
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.62
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.17
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.29
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.83
Deliver the orders shown at the bottom, but be careful to not drop the ones not wanted at the moment (chart shown at the bottom).

Drop a package to the next belt by pressing Z or X when over the package.

It may not be what you got right now, so there are two ways to correct that:
- Combine some packages by dropping them on each other; which ones combine to others is shown up top.
- Wait until a new set of orders arrives (when the yellow bar in the bottom runs out).

Made within a single day (over about a single 15 to 16 hour stretch).
Tags: #pico-8
Tools: PICO-8

Comments15

Castitatis1 May 2023, 11:31
Such an original concept, it's pretty challenging :D
Bauke Regnerus
Bauke Regnerus2 May 2023, 15:05
Great effort in such a short amount of time. I was a bit confused at first, but it was fine once I got used to how the game plays out. At times challenging too. Great job!
jdah
jdah2 May 2023, 15:08
Easy to learn but hard to master! I feel like the skill ceiling is quite high. this is really well done, very fun to play - great job!
niterich
niterich2 May 2023, 15:17
I went into this completely blind and couldn't figure out what I was supposed to do. Once I stepped back and read the controls, the game is actually pretty fun and addictive! But I still think some of the information conveyance needs touching up. Like, I thought combining colours to make new ones was pretty neat, but why does red and green make blue? I think it would be more intuitive if you started with red, blue, and yellow and made complementary colours from there.
F1Krazy
F1Krazy2 May 2023, 16:47
It took me a moment to figure out what I was doing - it wasn't immediately obvious to me that the green symbols were meant to be ticks saying "Boxes with this symbol are okay". It could perhaps have used an in-game tutorial screen to act as a visual aid. Once I got the hang of it, though, it was a lot of fun. It's easy to miss when the change occurs and drop a box a second too late, but trying to keep track of the boxes *and* the objectives is where the difficulty stems from, so that's fine.

It's always great to see PICO-8 entries, and this is a very enjoyable one. Good job!
theguy3 May 2023, 17:22
The game is really not easy, but that doesn't mean it's bad. The idea is really nice and I like the graphics. After getting used to the mechanics it is made very clear what the goal is.

Nice job!
digital bacon
digital bacon5 May 2023, 12:16
Nice little puzzle game. Bit tricky getting things to combine sometimes, but entertaining. Well done!
arron-fowler
arron-fowler7 May 2023, 10:30
It was a bit confusing at first but I soon got the hang of it. It all seems to work as intended and feels quite well rounded. It was a bit of a struggle to manage everything so it was more intense than fun to play. Considering the time you had this is a great accomplishment.
Cinterre
Cinterre8 May 2023, 01:26
Nice to see another Pico-8 game! A neat idea, and I really like the sprite work. Well done!
vidarn
vidarn8 May 2023, 12:34
Loved this! Feels like a classic action puzzle, kind of like bubble bobble. It was a lot of fun, and felt really polished and nice. Impressive work for 15 hours! :grin:
cheesepencil
cheesepencil9 May 2023, 04:11
what an 5/5 INNOVATIVE pico puzzler! super cute game, i too made a pico-8 cart this time and i too didn't have time to make music for it.

great job awesome compo entry
LDJam user 259103
LDJam user 2591039 May 2023, 07:24
This is really fun! Simple but well-polished. I noticed that I didn't find myself doing the combining very often---I ended up finding it easier to just deliver the base colors really quickly to stack up points.
LDJam user 243193
LDJam user 2431939 May 2023, 15:12
Fun yet challenging game!
I was too busy delivering packages so I couldn't be bothered with combining. The only time I did is when all packages were forbidden so I spent my time combining to see how it works.
José Bonilla
José Bonilla14 May 2023, 02:44
Very good compo entry. It's REALLY confusing at first (at least was for me), struggled with understanding I could move the thing that selects which package to move. Also confused with difference between Z and X until I remembered this was PICO-8 and thus it doesn't matter which one you use (I think). Obviously could be more polished but given that this was a Compo entry I'd say good game.

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