A Clean Getaway by notanimposter

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made by notanimposter for Ludum Dare 47 (COMPO)

Play as a Vacuumba™ robot vacuum. Your job is to clean the floor but you have aspirations beyond that...

getaway_1.png

(If you get stuck, clean the floor for a few days. You might find something interesting to interact with.)

Made with LÖVE

Ratings

Overall 280th 3.474⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 313th 3.263⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 268th 3.395⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 197th 3.842⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 294th 3.447⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 260th 3.235⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Humor 61th 3.676⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Mood 115th 3.656⭐ 18🧑‍⚖️
Given 24🗳️ 4🗨️

Feedback

doomerismo
05. Oct 2020 · 03:40 UTC
Looks like some conceptual piece. Mantained me entertained at least. The simple gameplay stile, raw as it is, fit very well tith the game too. I would make the text slower. Is hard to read. Also you used Love engine, me too used a lua based platform(Tic80).
Diego Escalante
05. Oct 2020 · 04:54 UTC
It's a neat take on the theme. There's some repetition in there that normally might be unpleasant but I think it really drives home the Vacummba experience and solidifies this game for the stuck in a loop theme. Well done!
andrew-marsh
09. Oct 2020 · 11:02 UTC
I was not expecting ending. A nice simple story based game.
Inferture
09. Oct 2020 · 23:36 UTC
Cool little experience ^^

There is a little bug if you try to continue up instead of jumping when on the desk (it made me restart from the beginning twice):

Error

map.lua:15: attempt to index a nil value

Traceback

map.lua:15: in function 'isWalkableAt'
main.lua:222: in function <main.lua:221>
main.lua:265: in function <main.lua:218>
[C]: in function 'xpcall'

Just a little glitch, but I thought you should know :)
Apples_mmmmmmmm
10. Oct 2020 · 05:57 UTC
Neat game. The way the text scrolls is a bit weird.
Endurion
11. Oct 2020 · 18:05 UTC
Aaaww, poor Vacuumba! :(
🎤 notanimposter
12. Oct 2020 · 15:19 UTC
@inferture good catch!
Capt.Theo
12. Oct 2020 · 23:23 UTC
Very good written story, I almost immediately felt where it going, and it become sad, but there is a hope (not for humanity, tho). As for game, it is very simple, I'd say its VN genre. Art is simple but pleasant, and robot has great personality. Good work.
sop the turtle
12. Oct 2020 · 23:27 UTC
This was a funny game. I always love games with a story and an ending. Tough to do in a game jam time frame. All in all this was great work and I was glad to help Roo....errr.Vacuumba(tm) fly! Great work!
Bot12313
18. Oct 2020 · 12:54 UTC
Simple and fun! But the story is a little bit sad :(