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Three Miles High by avareii

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made by avareii for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

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An all-expenses-paid company trip to the tropics? Sign me up!

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But of course, there's always a catch. This prime real estate has been acquired by the higher-ups and scouted as the ideal location for a new renewable energy initiative, and you are just the person for the job of overseer!

Make sure to respect the environment, meet your quotas, and treat your team well. And, look. If you have to slip a reactor or two into your project to meet those unreasonable targets, well - nobody has to know.

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Controls: - Click and drag to move objects. - Click an object to place a rope, then click another object to connect it. - A/D, Z/X, space, arrow keys - rotate held object. - Ctrl+R to restart the game.

Post-deadline fixes: - Fixed a (weirdly rare) bug triggered by attaching a rope to a piece as it falls in the sea. - Fixed a typo that caused a tech message to not display. - Fixed three grammatical errors in tech messages. - Removed packaged MacOS version due an unknown crash. The .love file is available to run with a standalone Love install.

Link https://github.com/NeptunianAxolotl/LD49/releases/download/release-bugfix/Three.Miles.High-win32.zip
.love (Linux/MacOS with LOVE install) https://github.com/NeptunianAxolotl/LD49/releases/download/release-bugfix/Three.Miles.High.love.zip
Source and Releases https://github.com/NeptunianAxolotl/LD49/releases
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/three-miles-high

Ratings

Overall 132th 4.042⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Fun 53th 4.167⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 80th 4.063⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Theme 78th 4.333⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 573th 3.792⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Audio 165th 3.938⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Humor 224th 3.792⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Mood 374th 3.75⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Given 41🗳️ 24🗨️

Feedback

Yamzho
05. Oct 2021 · 06:55 UTC
Really nice game. I just wished the music would loop better, but overall, this is a pretty good entry! Well done!
SayuriNyooko
05. Oct 2021 · 06:58 UTC
I like this one! It's so simple and realistic ^_^
Mac Dragoness
05. Oct 2021 · 07:04 UTC
I really like the music! I like the puzzle mechanic with the gravity but I felt the physics is a bit too wonky. Anyways this is pretty solid puzzle game!
PetTurtle
05. Oct 2021 · 15:54 UTC
Great game, placing nuclear power plants to chill music is always appreciated. I accidently pushed my tower over a couple of times.
D3kryption
06. Oct 2021 · 06:59 UTC
Solid solid game. I really enjoyed this. I played multiple times over. I loved balancing them trying to create my perfect tower power thingi!
Nice work! I enjoyed this one :D
huckleberryjen
08. Oct 2021 · 23:22 UTC
I *really* enjoyed this game! The commentary on the side: great. The chill music: great. The pace at which new mechanics were introduced: great. This is definitely a game I'd play on my phone to relax c: Good job!
LDJam user 271014
10. Oct 2021 · 03:17 UTC
One of the few games where I lost track of time simply due to how much fun it was - very well done! It's very well polished overall, and a great take on the theme. The mechanics are very well designed; I constantly found myself debating over which item to take as the quota rose higher and higher. The randomization of the shapes and types definitely made it a challenge to keep building the tower. I ended up getting to a quota of 5.5k before I accidentally knocked my tower over, triggering every loss dialogue all at once, which was really funny. Really well done; one of my favorites!
SimonL
10. Oct 2021 · 11:05 UTC
Very interesting idea!

Combining a stacking game with balancing all the necessary parts was fun. The music was fitting, and I love the jab at Three mile island in the title.

To improve
- Accidentally touching your pile with a new tile made the whole thing collapse and ends always in a catastrophe. Maybe that's part of the fun, though :D
- The text was not really readable, since there was soo much stuff going on at the same time.

Great submission!
fabula_rasa
11. Oct 2021 · 00:56 UTC
Brilliant! I positively loved playing this game. It's polished, and the mechanics are super fun.
Graphics are alright, and the music fits well. The text is also great - amusing and adds a lot of flavor to the game.

I built some crazy towers and knocked them over by accident, having to watch most of it topple into the ocean as I frantically tried to stabilize something (making things worse in the process ;)). Fun times!

Here's one of my better attempts, score-wise, after I totally wrecked it and poisoned all the fishes.

![Screenshot_2.jpg](///raw/732/a2/z/48063.jpg)
Sceef
11. Oct 2021 · 04:16 UTC
cool concept
zapdos2
14. Oct 2021 · 20:31 UTC
Pretty fun. I just wish the pieces were a bit heavier. I kept accidentally launching a bunch of pieces I had already placed off the island, because I got caught on a corner with a new piece or something like that.
lovetocode999
15. Oct 2021 · 00:31 UTC
Nice, a fellow LÖVE user!

Good background music and sfx, and I liked the art style as well. Gameplay was hard but fun, although I think a slightly bigger island would probably be good to make things a bit easier to start. Overall nice entry!
Tannimun
17. Oct 2021 · 08:11 UTC
The last try I got a really big and stable one, unfortunately I didn't screenshot it. It felt a lot like modern take on Tetris. You have to plan how to fit each piece in to the puzzle. Ofcourse I love the rope idea, makes it possible to create some crazy structures. Congratz, very fun game!
thefatgalaboo
20. Oct 2021 · 03:20 UTC
Great game! Very difficult, but it was fun to play. I liked the graphics and sound effects. Great use of the theme.
lilkrit
20. Oct 2021 · 03:49 UTC
A lot of fun. Fits the theme so well too. The music is relaxing, I like it :)