Garbage collector's minion

Garbage collector's minion

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overall: 2.98
fun: 2.73
innovation: 3.63
theme: 3.38
graphics: 2.48
humor: 2.44
mood: 2.44
A small game where you are an allocator and the garbage collector asks you to perform some tasks. Made for the Ludum Dare 58 (jam category).

I had way less time this time as I nearly forgot the Ludum Dare! I noticed it at 1pm on Saturday!

~~A Linux build is here, and web and Windows builds are coming soon.~~

EDIT: I just made a Windows build on my school laptop, it's crazy how many DLLs the SDL requires.

EDIT2: The web build is here!

~~A timelapse is also coming soon, I just need to find the time to put it together… Which isn't easy…~~

EDIT3: It's finally done!

I opted out of audio as my game simply has no audio at all.

How to play


(this help can also be seen in-game)

# Known bugs

Resizing the window is kinda broken on X.Org (however it works on Wayland and on Windows), so it's probably SDL's fault.

Changes


11th October 2025: Made a web build of the game (required fixing the size of some textures to make them power of two sized and square). I didn't updated the other builds.

Timelapse


https://youtu.be/yUBdYKr2OOI
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