Space Jack by neurobomber
Drag and drop items on a spaceship crew while your inventory slowly runs out of space!

Synopsis
You’re a hacker who has snuck onto the USS Perspicacious. You must download as much sensitive data to your flash drive as possible without getting caught. In order to do that, you had to disable the ship’s replicator, which means you'll have to deliver all the required objects that the crew requests before they get frustrated and report you to security!
Items will come in the pipeline and you'll need to add them to the cargo hold before the handing out items to the crew. Be careful, though, you have limited space so you'll need to make sure all the items you need fit in the cargo hold!
How to play
Click on the items coming down the conveyor belt on the right to put them into your cargo hold
Drag and Drop items in your cargo hold on the left on to any crew members that have the matching item pop up in their word bubbles.
If you get it right, they respond with a heart and your stealth level (HP) goes up. Get it wrong or don’t get the correct item to them in time and they get angry and you lose stealth level!
Stay alive until the timer runs out and you beat the level! Go below 0 stealth and you’re found by the crew and lose the game.
Survive all three levels and you win the game!
| Source Code | https://github.com/PDXLudumDare/Space-Jack |
| HTML5 (web) | https://neurobomber.itch.io/space-jack |
| Source code | https://github.com/PDXLudumDare/Space-Jack |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/insufficient-phasers |
Ratings
| Overall | 526th | 3.444⭐ | 47🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 687th | 3.14⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 499th | 3.267⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 504th | 3.602⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 604th | 3.443⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 341th | 3.341⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 451th | 2.847⭐ | 38🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 535th | 3.195⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 47🗳️ | 25🗨️ |
The mechanic is fun, though. I love inventory management (things like resident evil and the sorts)
I wasn't sure what was happening sometimes when I would drag an item over to a worker and it would disappear, but I didn't get a heart. Turns out I wasn't quite hovering over them, so the item got lost. Some feedback on there would be good.
But overall I liked it, nice job!
@bitdecay Yeah, that is very fair feedback. If we had more time we would have had different-sized bubbles for the items that weren't 1x1 because, yeah, they do get stretched out. :( Thanks for your critiques and nice words, they're appreciated!
@beanslasher Thanks so much for your comment! I'm glad the controls felt natural to you. :)
@alien Yeah, that's fair. What's happening is that you're allowed to drag items out of the cargo hold to make more room. So if the item isn't hovered over the crew member, it will be thrown out of your inventory instead. So while it's intentional, I think making that more clear would have been a good addition to the game.
@doctormozart Awesome, thank you so much! Yeah, FTL was given to me by a team member to help me visualize the look we were going for - so you are spot on!
@synfoniz I have to give the music & SFX to our team members Noah & Lurinym. I have no idea how to do that stuff so it's very much like magic to me. They're awesome and I'm so grateful they lent their skills to this project!
@roronoacherry Thank you so much! I appreciate you giving our game a try! :)
@gord10ahmet Thank you, thanks for playing!!
@fivenamefivesocks Wow, thanks for your kind comment! It means a lot!
@dalton5000 Ooh, I like that idea! Maybe in version 2.0. I've played this game SO MANY times over the past few days and I will admit that it's sometimes frustrating to have like, 3 crew members demanding a tribble and all you get from the conveyor belt is friggin' fidget spinners. Lol. But it's still fun, I think! Thanks so much for playing and your good feedback!
@mandarad Yeah, I understand what you mean. Like I mentioned above, while it is intentional, I think making that clearer would have been a good addition to the game. :) Thanks so much for playing and your honest feedback, it's very much appreciated!!
Congratulation!
Good luck, Don't forget to take a look at ours if you don't mind and see what it's like when we just focused on graphics in this game jam!
Game Link: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/spacelab-42a