Night Shift by TomekS
NightShift is a simple puzzle game, you drive a forklift and have to deliver cargo to the destination. In the process you compete against time, but mostly yourself. That's right, with every new delivery you have to avoid a ghost of yourself who delivers previous package. It's getting crowded quickly and so you run out of space. There is a lot of accidents on the night shift, so be aware of dead bodies everywhere (who doesn't like fun with ragdolls). Gameplay video of first three levels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szz1CzwGhyw
Timelapse making of can be found in the bottom.
Game includes 5 playable levels.

Controls:
turn left - left arrow or A
turn right - right arrow or D
Tools used: Unity, VS code, 3D max 2015, Blender 2.79, Photoshop CS5, Paint, Bosca Ceoil.
Total time 33 hours.
Known issues: - sometimes when finishing level in last seconds, game over popup appears (next level will be loaded anyway, so minor) - music is terrible (it's my Achilles heal) hence I set the volume on very low
Added timelapse video: https://youtu.be/nfOVJhlLzt8
| Windows | https://tomeks.itch.io/night-shift |
| Source code | https://gitlab.com/TomekSc/LudumDare42 |
| macOS | https://tomeks.itch.io/night-shift |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/night-shift |
Ratings
| Overall | 77th | 3.878⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 63th | 3.878⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 86th | 3.78⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 196th | 3.878⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 78th | 4.012⭐ | 43🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 370th | 2.85⭐ | 42🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 70th | 3.473⭐ | 39🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 107th | 3.538⭐ | 41🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 34🗳️ | 36🗨️ |
Also looks good, while the music was a bit annoying.
Loved the style and the mechanics that are really theme fitting.
One of the funniest and most enjoyable entry I played at moment.
Great work, have a nice day!
It could be great if we can redo each step of a level ;)
Very well done !
I wish I would have thought of this (Though I wouldn't have pulled it off as well anyhow).
Looking forward to seeing your next game!
don't hesitate to give my game a try!
A very nice touch keeping the bodys from the failed attempts.
Although sometimes they would all disappear and then all spawn on my next failure/crash.. which was hilarious!
Not sure if that was ment to be there, but it kept me playing for longer :D
I would've really appreciated a quick-level-restart button; if you screw up enough times in your first run, even if you still have 10 seconds left you already know it's not enough... and you have to slog through those 10 seconds anyway. I would've loved to see beyond level 2, but that frustration blocked me.
Also, while the music wasn't anything to write home about, the sound effects were *really* well done; the preparation, the movement and the crashing all felt great thanks to them.
It was quite fun to play, well done!
I think I would like to see a mode where you can sort of scrub through time and erase your mistakes, but that's probably because I wasn't very good at it!
gameplay at around 13 minutes: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/297339046
@lukel thanks for good review. The bodies are set to disappear after one minute for performance issues. The reappearing is a bug for sure :D.
@agecaf Thanks for thorough review. I had this restart button at first but my pause menu was bug, so I got rid of it. Again in last hours of development I made few mistakes like this one, that made my game a bit worse overall than it could be :(
@tetra Thanks for the review. Your video made me realize I screwed up the balance a bit, level 2 is way harder than it should be ... You did well non the less got to lvl 4 there was just one more left to complete the game with 9 deliveries.
@matt-tuttle Thanks for the review, at first I was thinking about it, but It felt too easy. On the other hand I might have just set the time limits badly :D. The goal of level if to drive accurately with each forklift, getting read of the time is kind of like giving you infinite amount of lives.
The graphics are quite good and the gameplay is really fun. Congratulations!
@bartosz the plan was to include both easy and hard level, and since I only have 5 levels the difficulty curve is quite steep ...
@raccoon-js I second that, for the next LD I promise to work on my music making skills :)
Fun fact: dead bodies are not cleared when you restart, so this happened when I got afk for a couple of minutes:

@jimdarkwind I am actually thinking about it, send it to few streamers to play, and got initial list of improvements to do.
@jima yes that was the plan, total carnage :D Thanks for good words.
here is a link to your video segment on my stream:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/299088812?t=02h45m04s
I was going to do a quick VR port of this haha, can't get to the source code though :(