Unstable Towers by adamk33n3r

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made by adamk33n3r for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

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NOTE: Please click the fullscreen button if playing on WebGL. The UI must not be scaled correctly and cannot be seen unless fullscreen. Sorry!

Our game is an endless stacking game where you have to keep a beam balanced while trying to drop and stack boxes to increase your score and earn money. There are Active Abilities and permanent upgrades that you can use to help keep things stable. If things get too out of hand and start to crumble the round is over. But don't fret! It gives you the opportunity to take a break and spend your money on upgrades.

Objective

Stack boxes as high as you can to get money and avoid losing too many to the void. You don't. You lose every time. But you get lots of money to spend on upgrades!

The Shop is where you can buy upgrades to help keep the (funny plank name) stable. There are Active Abilities with cool downs as well as Passive Unlocks for sale. Try them all!

Upgrades

Box Placer

Use this ability to drop boxes to stack higher and higher to gain more money.

Stabilizing Coolant

Ever wish you could just freeze those pesky boxes when they aren't cooperating? Well now you can!

Particle Incinerator

Not just your average tool. Use this ability to destroy some boxes you don't need. SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Incinerating may cause lung damage, increased heart rate, and may complicate stability.

Strengthen Torque

Upgrade the torque applied to the (funny plank name) permanently with this upgrade.

Auto Balance

For the ones who like to do things the laz... I mean efficient way.

Lengthen Plank

Running out of room? Spend some of that hard earned cash and get some more!

Controls

Rotate

Left arrow and Right arrow, or A and D, or Left and Right on the left joystick.

Ability Selection

Q and E, or Left and Right Bumpers

Use ability or Action

Left Click, or Space, or push in the Right joystick

Scrolling

Scroll wheel or click and drag on the scroll bar or W and S or Up and Down and the Left joystick

Move the cursor

Mouse Movement or Right joystick

Ratings

Overall 1200th 3.159⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1163th 3.023⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1404th 2.545⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 84th 4.318⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Humor 1193th 2⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1322th 2.69⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 13🗳️ 12🗨️

Feedback

chesschaser
05. Oct 2021 · 13:48 UTC
Cool little physics simulation!
KingOfNova
05. Oct 2021 · 14:02 UTC
Menu was a bit out of scale and white on blue is a bit hard to read though fun little game once i figured out what to do.
TMsimonW
05. Oct 2021 · 14:16 UTC
Great physics based game
LDJam user 261489
05. Oct 2021 · 14:26 UTC
nice simple game :smile:
Irina Nikulina
05. Oct 2021 · 14:26 UTC
Nice game, i liked it
Wbertrand
05. Oct 2021 · 14:28 UTC
Great game! Controls felt great and the upgrades were a really nice touch! I'd agree with some of the other feedback that some of the menu text was difficult to read, but other than that it was fun and smooth to play!
neputevshina
05. Oct 2021 · 14:29 UTC
a surprisingly effective time killer! would be great to see it on mobile devices. also with many boxes web version starts to lagging, and on my small resolution screen i didn't see play button at first without zooming out (sic!) and going fullscreen
Fonkin
05. Oct 2021 · 14:29 UTC
I agree with others, was pretty nice little physics simulation, just needed a little bit more 'game'-y
Alex-One
05. Oct 2021 · 14:31 UTC
Tip for testers: click fullscreen to see the menu. Neat too see other box related physics games
Beth
05. Oct 2021 · 14:32 UTC
A good upgrades game. I found the small blocks more fun to work with than the big blocks, would have liked a way to go back to them.
BjornStahl
05. Oct 2021 · 14:36 UTC
Worked nicely, I managed to build quite high but in the end I found the timer too long in between placing large boxes to grind money for all upgrades. The text in the help section was very difficult to read, both resolution but mostly the font. Gamewise, a nice little game :)
OneSmallBoy
05. Oct 2021 · 14:43 UTC
Liked the physics a lot and the upgrades were quite cool. A bit of sound and music would've added a bunch to the game though.
pepnou
05. Oct 2021 · 14:57 UTC
Nice physics based game. I was expecting to be able to place box quicker base and the small intro XD
suisou
05. Oct 2021 · 14:58 UTC
like this physics simple but great to play. auto balance is not that obvious
KuKuRammus
05. Oct 2021 · 15:14 UTC
Ok game, would agree with others that adding some gameplay elements would be cool. Good job
🎤 adamk33n3r
05. Oct 2021 · 16:01 UTC
@kukurammus thanks for the feedback! Do you (or others) have any suggestions on what would make it more "gamey" if we had more time?
mrnannings
06. Oct 2021 · 12:51 UTC
Cool game. The idea of balancing and getting more and more money to get upgrades like a clicker game.