Reaching Under by Incredible Potato Kids

[EDIT] Since this seems to be confusing a few people, here is how the gameplay on the bottom works: the hand automatically goes forward and stops everytime you find an object (usually some trash). To go past it, press and HOLD the keypress shown. When the hand stops at the next object, press and hold that keypress IN ADDITION to the previous ones. Once you finally find something valuable, and you press its key in addition to the previous ones, you'll get points and the hand will go back automatically. That's when you can release all the keys you've been pressing so far.

Have you lost something under the seat of your car? Have you ever tried reaching it while driving? You shouldn't. Unless you're playing this game. Avoid cars while doing finger-twister on the keyboard in "Reaching Under"!

Ratings

Overall 1058th 3.444⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Fun 906th 3.352⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 18th 4.426⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Theme 431th 3.981⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1183th 3.426⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Audio 833th 3.296⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Humor 129th 3.944⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1237th 3.25⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Given 20🗳️ 29🗨️

Feedback

CaioLima
26. Apr 2021 · 22:58 UTC
Aprreciated the pixel art graphics! o/
citsua
26. Apr 2021 · 23:16 UTC
Wow, that's definitely a unique idea. No idea how you came up with this. I may be stupid, but it took me an embarrassingly long time to understand what I had to do on the bottom screen. Once I got it, it was pretty fun! I also enjoyed the visual style.
Elektroney
27. Apr 2021 · 17:42 UTC
I just cant mutitask im sorry
chriiis88
27. Apr 2021 · 17:47 UTC
Very innovative idea, however the execution lacks quite a bit, unfortunately. It's not clear at all when a key has to be pressed to be successfully. There is no feedback for the player. Sometimes the items go to the left, which apparently is good, other times I press the key and they just stay in the middle.
Dzefris
27. Apr 2021 · 17:49 UTC
Very funny!
dude_the_hero
27. Apr 2021 · 18:09 UTC
Great concept! Reminds me a bit of Envirobear!
🎤 Incredible Potato Kids
27. Apr 2021 · 18:20 UTC
Thanks for the feedback everybody! We probably should have done a much better work at tutorialisation, as it seems a few people didn't get how the gameplay below works.

To at least make it a bit more enjoyable, we just added an extra bit of description in the page, hopefully that'll help a few people
LDJam user 236404
28. Apr 2021 · 11:04 UTC
Is it just me or is the reaction time for this game extremely short? Anyway nice game, I could only get to 100 though.
Cresceda
28. Apr 2021 · 14:50 UTC
I thought I was good at multi tasking until I played this game. Like it ;)
bubbadubc
28. Apr 2021 · 14:53 UTC
Simple, and excellent.
Kevin Meissner
28. Apr 2021 · 14:55 UTC
really funny idea and a big plus for the theme idea. :-) just a bit too hard. Also there was no indicator when to exactly push the button.
Raeino
28. Apr 2021 · 15:01 UTC
Really cool and unique idea and the game was fun to play, though it took me some time to understand how the down part worked (also had a bug on a few runs where while holding more tha one key I couldn't steer)
Martinek
29. Apr 2021 · 17:01 UTC
Really fun and interesting game. Great art.
.fpeg
01. May 2021 · 11:10 UTC
Best take on the theme so far! :D Very relatable too! It's kinda hard, but in the right kind of way, easy to understand, but hard to keep attention on the road while reaching for the stuff. I think this is a far more accurate simulation of multitasking behind the wheel than one would think at first glance xD
Mog13
01. May 2021 · 12:08 UTC
Great idea, it tied my hands in knots. I really like the musical riff when you lose :joy: great idea and great execution!
ditam
01. May 2021 · 12:43 UTC
Hilarious, and a great take on the theme. The music track you composed is very cool too, a great example of how audio can boost the mood of a game immensely. (Makes me all the more disappointed that I'm yet to ever find the time to make the audio during a jam...) Kudos!
TigerMouse
01. May 2021 · 18:35 UTC
Really funny take on the theme - very innovative.
LDJam user 238552
02. May 2021 · 10:09 UTC
First of all the art style and the sfx are on point. Really enjoy them both. The two layer of gameplay are neat--but challenging. Each time I focused on driving I couldn't manage to grab items, but if I focused on items I plowed into a car. Overall really great entry, this is a neat game.
Kszaku
02. May 2021 · 10:25 UTC
a fun challenge idea - [play this while drunk or high](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MzabFEpP4o).

But seriously, really fun experience, I love how this requires to split attention between tasks. Every element just works greatly in tandem with anything else.
Neowedge
02. May 2021 · 16:57 UTC
Original idea! Congrats!
Rob Parker
02. May 2021 · 18:41 UTC
Feels like i'm playing twister with my fingers!
Really tough game with trying to multitask avoiding things and grabbing stuff under the seat!
Heremeus
02. May 2021 · 20:14 UTC
What a fun and unique idea. The graphics were looking good as well. I encountered two pretty big problem while playing though. The first was not being able to read what key I have to press. The upper half of the key was cut off sometimes making it a wild guess what to press next. The other issue was not being able to press more than 4-5 keys simultaneously. As soon as I had to hold a few more keys, the arrow keys stopped responding and I crashed. This is probably a technical limitation on my side but stopped me from getting past 200 points.