The Trolley Problem by Ludovico
A puzzle game in which you must change trolley tracks in a futile attempt to feed a trolley's insatiable bloodlust.

Ratings
| Overall | 139th | 3.661⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 106th | 3.643⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 90th | 3.661⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 83th | 4⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 402th | 2.714⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 175th | 3.24⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 34th | 3.839⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 247th | 3.13⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 24🗳️ | 13🗨️ |
Certainly not a bad entry!
- The trolley moves really slowly, so on longer levels when you just wanna try out a path, it becomes tedious. Maybe a fast forward button could solve this?
- On bigger levels with lots of stuff going on, the simple "line-graphics" of the tracks blend together and makes them hard to make out. Making tracks on different layers have different colors might solve this.
Overall, nicely done!
Also nice ending.
You did a great job though! really enjoyed the puzzles
It took me some time to realize how to play - the click to change tracks command is missing from the first level's control instructions - so I just ran the trolley pointlessly a few times before I tried clicking in the right place. I feel like the graphics are a bit too simple that they get in the way of seeing where the tracks go. Using different colors for rails versus the ties would help scannability a lot. As others have said, there's no reason for the trolley to go so slowly since the player is just waiting :)
One of my favorites of the compo so far!
A well thought-out puzzle with just the right amount of levels for a jam. The complexity never gets out of hand as there are only so many levers in each level to pull.
I haven't seen a puzzle with this exact setup before and while novel and funny, thematically a sacrifice should be a choice and a hard one at that. I made a puzzle too and failed in this exact same way, so...
The audio visual are the weakest link. The low-resolution sprites are mushy and the musical instruments irritatingly low quality. It is sometimes hard to figure where the trolleytracks go.
Good work! The negatives don't detract from the overall score as the mechanics are solid.
Overall: *Good (4.0)*
Fun: *Good (4.0)*
Innovation: *Good (4.0)*
Theme: *Average (3.0)*
Graphics: *Below average (2.5)*
Audio: *Below average (2.5)*
Humor: *Good (4.0)*
Mood: *Above average (3.5)*