Losing Your Sheet by rickylee

Your will lose your sheet...
Mouse only, game about a sheet, a boat, and an angry man.
Bailing:
Soak up water, and release it off the boat!

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| Link | https://rickylee.itch.io/losing-your-sheet |
| Link | https://rickylee.itch.io/losing-your-sheet |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/losing-your-sheet |
Ratings
| Overall | 105th | 3.812⭐ | 79🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 181th | 3.623⭐ | 79🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 16th | 4.283⭐ | 78🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 264th | 3.721⭐ | 79🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 132th | 3.923⭐ | 80🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 43th | 3.942⭐ | 79🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 24th | 4.182⭐ | 79🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 110th | 3.712⭐ | 75🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 98🗳️ | 120🗨️ |
But this bucket mate,... either give it at least a fun useless interaction or remove it, i tried sooo long to get this bucket to do stuff X')

The instructions were confusing. I think they actually made the game harder. But I did kinda enjoy trying to figure it out, it's a big part of the fun as the main game loop here is quite repetitive and gets quite boring fast. Oh and the help texts getting masked by the clouds didn't help either.

Looked quite good, pretty pleasing colors and so on. The pixel art looked nice but the pixel size was all over the place. Nice water physics too! But could have used more particles (to make it look nicer) and a more consistent pixelated style for those too for consistencies sake.
Aight, went for some more tries and I'm calling this good enough...

Sadly the best strategy seems to be the most boring one. Just sit there doing nothing for a good 2 minutes. Ie. ~125 distance so good job @thoastbot for achieving on getting less than what you do by doing nothing. :wink: Then just clear the boat whacking the dude and repeat as long as is needed for the boat to be empty. Then just rinse and repeat until you get bored and fail on purpose.
It seems like the difficulty (dude splashing and boat splashing increase) ramps up fast around 120 to 130 but it doesn't get any more difficult after that.
The dude slapping was annoyingly finicky. Even a fraction of a second of him splashing will mean tenfold that time emptying the boat again. And I tried all the things from wildly waving the sail in the sweet spot to slowly and accurately trying to time a slap when he gets on but found no good rhyme or reason on how to do it with minimal (or no) splashes.
So yeah, that's about it. Good job! :thumbsup:
Cool Art style, Fun mechanics (although confusing), and a smooth difficulty curve.
Love it!
The difficulty feels a bit unfair after 120 meters though. You have to stop every few meters to empty the boat again and the sail doesn't absorb much (something like a bucket would be much more handy ;))
Overall I enjoyed playing it. There is something about the boat just going there own way alone that is very funny to me :D

Pros:
- Clean and warm color palette
- Overall a great and simple design
- Clear mechanics and indications on what's going on
- Music pleasant to your ears
- Crips controls and feel!
Cons:
- Quite tricky to understand at first
- I just don't like loosing my sheeeet
A great entry with a small humorous twists. Great Job!
Nice entry!
Really fun game! I stopped at 200 because i felt like i could have gone forever, just very very slowly. and at some point it became a bit tedious.
I really liked the concept about using the sheet for everything, also very fun to se that poor guy swimming after the boat! :P
Really good job!
If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1450167991?t=0h59m00s
Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D
💜 Elysia Griffin AKA Button Feedback Lady
https://www.twitch.tv/elysiagriffin
Overall I think it is a very good game.
My record was 154.
My only complain is that I needed like 10min to even understand what I was supposed to do :D
Fun game, impressive compo entry for sure. Good sound and graphics with original gameplay!
At first I thought the music was dynamic and reacting to what I was doing. Maybe that's not the case, but maybe it is :-)
I played only once, and because I saw that reaching 150 meant smashing it, I tried my best to get past that point. After around 100 I experienced quite an increase in difficulty. ;)
In the end the game became somewhat tedious, so I decided to stop after 167. ;)
Great entry! :D

-edit-
I just had another look at it while giving ratings, and I noticed that if you just immediately hang the sail, the boat just speeds away and you never see the angry man again. My ship then crashed around 127, without doing anything. ;)
Oh, and I really like how the particles of water worked! Well done!
However it got real hard when reaching a 100 distance, and I couldn't bear repeating the same task forever with this annoying little man, that I though I was supposed to save at first haha! Great plot twist on that :)

Loved the music, very good pixel arts graphics and good mood, thanks!