ShipIt by cbenoit
From your crappy shipping company, you daydream about somewhere you'd rather be....like a cruise. Time to make it happen. Save up enough cash to buy the essentials you need for your dream cruise, all while actually improving the shipping company that you work at. Though be mindful of the screenspace, there's only so much to go around, and the UI seems...stubborn.
All controlled from your mouse, use the 2 panels (bottom and right side) to both create income and spend it on upgrades/cruise items while dealing with the fact that each item hogs the screen, causing things to need to be moved around in order to get things done. Also note that any cruise items you buy, while getting you more upgrades and closer to the end, are on the screen until the end of the game. You gotta longingly stare at all that sunscreen you bulk purchased, right?
| Windows | https://www.dropbox.com/s/lht3u086poovmia/ShipIt.zip?dl=0 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/shipit |
Ratings
| Overall | 769th | 3.225⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 996th | 2.8⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 517th | 3.25⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 464th | 3.65⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 861th | 3.025⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 467th | 2.825⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1043th | 2.421⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 21🗳️ | 18🗨️ |

Clicking doesn't seem to make anything happen, I've tried at multiple different desktop resolutions, as well as trying to force fullscreen, but no luck :( Any advice?
Also, very accurate. I work as a shipper/receiver for a living, and you portray the job almost spot-on. You perfectly captured the utter frustration of boxes just BARELY not being the same size and leaving OCD-aggrivating holes and alcoves, and I love the sarcasm in the line "Everyone loves packing peanuts!" F*** those things. They cling and make a big mess.
I got to the end after about half an hour, and I enjoyed my time. If I were to offer any criticism, it's that a time wait isn't really a huge decentive to using bigger packages. I just filled the screen with them, checked Discord for a minute, and came back to claim oodles of cash. It was more a clicker game than anything, which isn't all that bad, I guess.
@sauski You've got to click and drag one of those bars on the screen, specifically the one on the bottom. It took me a minute to figure out, too, so don't feel stupid or anything.