The Bellhop

Great game! very fun and Innovative :)

This is excellent, it manages to be relatively engaging while staying incredibly simple. I didn't pick up that the sound effects and red/green light were tied to when the elevator was allowed to move again until my second game, but when I did it gained a rhythm-game like element that was very satisfying.

At first glance this looked not so interesting BUT after just few seconds of gameplay it clicked. This was quite addictive with more of pattern recognition exercise.

Simple music added to the gameplay quite nicely and constant pressure to find next floor to go was good.

Small changes that would help. Use little larger icons for the guests and put the tutorial after start button. I just pressed start without noticing the How to play button...

Good job!

Excellent and very innovating for me! I really enjoyed playing your game. My hight score was 65! Dont know if it is good... :smile:
Good job, i really like it!
Just onr thing: the music isn't repeated so after un game, we have no more audio :wink:

Continue like that, congrats!

@flying-butter-studio Ah shoot, I knew I forgot to test something :). 65 is really good! I'm usually only able to get in the 40s or so.

really fun idea, It reminds me of mini metro :D

Smart, smart, smart. Small scope, great execution, that's how to do it, good job!

Fun game, really enjoyed it.
Great idea well executed :)

This game is great - reminds me of Mini Metro (in a good way). I enjoyed sending passengers to all the different floor destinations.

- Simple, neat, effective, enjoyable experience
- It felt like the passengers were spawning in real time, which means it would be best to smash buttons to get as many passengers off before you get swarmed. If you want it to be more of a puzzle game you could make the passengers spawn when the elevator moves.
- The main motivation here was getting a higher score, but not knowing when the elevator will break (capacity/load), and not seeing the exact amount of passengers going to each floor (since they obstructed each other), made it hard to enjoy making decisions, since it was almost random.

Fun puzzle game! All runs were ended when I had no choice but to move to some overcrowded floor I've been abandoning for a long time. I call it a "death floor".
Great submission!

This was really fun! Reminded me of mini metro like some other people have said. A simple idea executed really nicely.

I'll second the comment that this felt like Mini Metro's spiritual predecessor. I like the gameplay. However, I didn't understand what caused me to fail. Is it too many people waiting on a floor, or too many people in the elevator, or too many people getting into the elevator at once? If there was some kind of hinting at which it was, I missed it. However, the audio was nicely rhythmic.

@defrag It's caused by too many people on at one time. Ideally I would have added some effects to better show how close you are to the limit, but I only had the time to put it in the hud.

This was a quick one for me! I like the concepts, it was simple and easy to understand. I would advise to try and maybe put some sort of story in it? I personally like levels more then a 'topscore', so I know if I did well [enough]. Indeed it would be nice to have more indicators on how close you were to 'too heavy'.

This one is probably the most unique game I've seen so far this ludum dare, maybe a little bit more work on graphics and this game would be peak! One slight bug I noticed was when you failed, after failing the music suddenly stops, not the sfx only the music.

this was nice! i think this music and sound is real nice. i'd almost want this to be turn based? i think some balancing and polishing would be worth it here!

Cool idea, and a good take on the them. I like the music and simplicity of the mechanics. As someone else said, I think it could be cool to make it turned based, so that you really have time to think about your decision and it becomes more of a puzzle game than a twitch game. On the other hand, in that case it might need some twist to the mechanics, because right now I guess the winning strategy is just to go to the floor where you have the most people currently in the elevator, until you get stuck? Great job!