Unstababel by ubershmekel

In Unstababel there are many odd shapes, but only one direction - up. Earn money by building a tall tower. Can you reach god?
- Play on a wide screen (landscape on phones/tablets)
- Purchase blocks
- Build a tower
- Taller towers earn WAY more money
- Zoom in (+/- button, or scroll wheel), and pan (tap-drag the blue sky)
- Cash out when your tower is ready
- Repeat. At least until you find god
If you need help, click the black rectangle for pro tips
!> Even if your tower is unstable, you can still quickly cash out
!> Grab blocks from their top edge, they will spin less
!> Be gentle, make a plan
!> It might be easier for you to zoom in
!> When you're zoomed in, you might have to nudge whatever you're dragging to keep moving the view to where you need to go.
If you're still stuck, or want the spoilers
!> The most expensive blocks cost $500
!> God is on the left side of the $729 "cash out" button (9th white horizontal bar from the bottom)
!> There is another easter egg to do with 'mariobait'. Just saying.
| Link | https://github.com/ubershmekel/ld49 |
| Link | https://ubershmekel.github.io/ld49/ |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/unstababel |
Ratings
| Overall | 322th | 3.383⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 287th | 3.328⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 293th | 3.276⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 98th | 4.086⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 464th | 2.776⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 304th | 3⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 209th | 2.964⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 322th | 3.103⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 31🗳️ | 38🗨️ |
Half the time I am trying to figure out the center of mass for the blocks and the other half is there holding my breath. Good implementation
Honestly think that the audio do more harm than good, but that's just me
I don't know if my screen just isn't wide enough, but when I had bought all of the blocks, the building area became so crowded that I'd sometimes lose pieces off the side of the screen!
Whatever the case, I quite liked this game!
I didn't think the controls were too fiddly at all.
The shapes available make it very challenging ! Nice work
**EPIK ** and God was umm...
I saw a lot of people try to stack pieces on the black bars, which is odd to me. In hindsight, I shouldn't have left those bars there. When I went to delete them, I realized that you can buy the little red square and then can't cash out without putting it on the black bar. So I either had to fix the UI, or live with the black bars for the jam.
Interesting that a lot of folks have a different experience with how fiddly or broken controlling the blocks is. I think this is caused by folks either being too zoomed out, not grabbing objects from their top, accidentally pushing objects into each other, and just their level of patience to gently drop objects instead of trying to exactly manipulate them onto each other. I also noticed that some folks choose to use the hardest blocks to stack, and sometimes they even succeed.
@squimmy I didn't really know what to do with the endgame where you have a ton of blocks. In a way I hoped it made you feel like Scrooge McDuck, swimming in all your blocky riches.
@doomshmuck - I played the game and beat it on mobile and on PC. Most of the dev was on a PC with a mouse. I wonder if folks falling in love with balancing on the black bar is my fault or just something that makes the game hard. Once you purchase the big blocks, I hope it becomes clear that you have a much wider base to use.
@zwodahs - sorry I capped the game at that height. I didn't know how to make it so the view was limited, to prevent newbs from getting lost, and still allow pros to go even higher. I even originally planned for a leaderboard, but couldn't make it in time.
@zarkonnen - that is indeed a spring. You can see a few anti-fiddle techniques: Here's a video of me speed running the game, I can currently reach god in just under 3 minutes: https://youtu.be/h_yXaXWugsc
Thank you @cirno @the-jahn @nebiros @binroot @ollieoa @weenie-walker-games