Cleaner! by Nakami

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made by Nakami for Ludum Dare 45 (COMPO)

You are in charge of the local dump and you have to clear it ! For hat you'll need the political support. Because you don't have any material to accomplish your task yet...

This is a mini management game where you can build chain of builds to create resources from trash.

How to play : - click to select and assign tractor to trash - click to select and assign transporter to building (e.g. assign transporter to the "steel workshop" so he will go take metal shards in the "sorting center") - if you have select on building you can move it by drag and drop - by default builds automatically sell their production, so you can use it for production chain. You can tell the building to stock is production by unchecking "sell production".

Control: left click->select | right click->unselect | escape->quit game

edit: build updated with bug fix

Ratings

Overall 333th 3.222⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Fun 318th 3.074⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 311th 3.056⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Theme 371th 3⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 171th 3.556⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Humor 226th 2.604⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Mood 378th 2.84⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Given 32🗳️ 24🗨️

Feedback

NachtWitch
07. Oct 2019 · 17:15 UTC
The game is great man, but no one can see it if you don't rate other games, please leave comments or rate games bro
TheoG
08. Oct 2019 · 00:58 UTC
Cute little game, the graphics are great. It took me some time to understand the mechanism, but after that it was very addictive! Well done.
AmigoPadilha
08. Oct 2019 · 01:00 UTC
Cool game and well made. It took me some time to understand what I needed to do, and I think it was missing some info on the production of the buildings (like how much it was producing and how much material it had)
Congratz for the entry, really nice!
eugsun
08. Oct 2019 · 01:03 UTC
Hmm not sure if I was going about this wrong, but I didn't see any vehicles to assign any tasks.
Noshiz
08. Oct 2019 · 01:03 UTC
Very interesting game but a little bit confusing in the beggining. Wasn't sure what I was supposed to do, maybe have some sort of missions or something? Good game however I liked it.
Shigor
08. Oct 2019 · 01:19 UTC
Got pretty confused at start - it needs better feedback for selecting and moving objects. It took me a while to realize I have to click first on the item in the prebuild area and only then I can drag it away...
🎤 Nakami
08. Oct 2019 · 01:46 UTC
Thank you for your feedback !

@eugsun I updated the description when you have selected a tractor you can then click on a square o trash and the tractor will go take some of it and bring it to the sorting center.

@noshiz to win you have to clear the dump from all the trash.

@shigor yes it must have visual feedback but I didn't have the time. For the drag and drop at start I want to support android too so the control are not the best for mouse input.
TopperVideoGames
08. Oct 2019 · 03:01 UTC
Interesting concept, though the transport truck mechanic confused me. I was unable to figure out how to get the production chain working as I kept losing money trying to get gears made. With some more polish this feels like it could be a pretty cool base building kind of game, a different take on a city simulator even. I liked being able to move buildings, and the trucks moved in their paths well.
Odeyalko
08. Oct 2019 · 12:57 UTC
I liked the idea, style, music, a good game. I did not fully understand how to use other factories and a truck.
Corentin SABIAUX
08. Oct 2019 · 14:06 UTC
Your game is a good one, the concept have a great message in background, you fits on the theme and the graphics are your strong points ! Now, this need some improvements on two important point : we don't understand immediately what we have to do and the colliders for drag & drop or giving the actions of our stuff are too tiny - it's getting quickly confusing and frustrating when you played ... but for your next project, you can add a tutorial and an intro text message for giving to the player all the mechanics and the context he have to affront before he played. Also try to enlarge the colliders :) Good luck for the future :muscle:
daria-toni
09. Oct 2019 · 13:32 UTC
I like the way you approach the theme. Great idea! Nice design, but the mechanics of the game is not immediately understood. But I could imagine a full big game like this.
jk5000
09. Oct 2019 · 17:44 UTC
The game idea is pretty good, but it really needs a tutorial.
Firebender
09. Oct 2019 · 17:55 UTC
I spent the last ten minutes trying to have a truck move in vain. Anyway, I kinda got to see where you were going with this and I quite liked the overall look of the game !
Piturnah
09. Oct 2019 · 18:01 UTC
Cool graphics and idea, but too difficult to figure out how to play (as others have already said)
NoobException
09. Oct 2019 · 18:39 UTC
It took me some while to understand how to play, but ended up enjoying and clearing everything :smile:
Great game idea with nice graphics. Except, UI is the key part that user sees, so next time try to make it looking better, since this one was a little bit rough. :smiley:
shrapx
10. Oct 2019 · 01:26 UTC
(similarly i had a few troubles getting started.) It was fun working on the pipeline of recycled things , and seeing all the vehicles moving. I got quite far but suddenly run out of money after 1 or 2 purchases in a row. Too harsh! Its a fun compo game! I streamed it here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/492370802?t=02h23m21s
🎤 Nakami
10. Oct 2019 · 11:02 UTC
@shrapx Thanks for the vid it will help me to improve the clarity of the gameplay for the post jam version.
Coldsanwdich189
11. Oct 2019 · 13:07 UTC
nice game
Daitse
12. Oct 2019 · 17:24 UTC
I was wondering why the trucks were not working ! I needed to take the building out of the prebuild area >< Cool idea ! It was fun once I got the hang of it, well done ! grapics are nice, some bg music would be nice but it's a great game, especially for compo ! Congrats !
vincentvincent
13. Oct 2019 · 13:06 UTC
Very addictive game and very nice idea about the theme :)
Franciszek Pyrć
13. Oct 2019 · 15:01 UTC
I got confused. The graphics where very good. The game is only missing some music.