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I liked it, but I wished I could tell which carrier was which.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":942473,"author_name":"Tim Sims","author_uid":"tim-sims","epoch":1683004167,"text":"Wow, that was a cool game! I got up to $180 my first game before I started getting too many fines. Great work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":951304,"author_name":"LDJam user 337828","author_uid":"337828","epoch":1683060602,"text":"Neat game, the environment visuals definitely grabbed my attention! The rest of the art compliments it well, even the ui. Nice job getting a nice cohesive design all done in the jam time frame! Looking forward to beating my previous time soon, 3.44 mins! :smiley: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":951325,"author_name":"dprings7","author_uid":"dprings7","epoch":1683060703,"text":"Great concept and execution! Thought it was going to be quite easy, then I suddenly got slapped with a bunch of fines and the challenge kicked in. Enjoyed it!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":951593,"author_name":"sbeif","author_uid":"sbeif","epoch":1683061980,"text":"135 dollars and 6.08 minutes. Nice game, works well, although I would have liked more couriers since most of the time I was just waiting for them to come back and losing money. Perhaps you could consider making them a maintainance cost instead of a one time purchase so that the more courier I have, the harder it is to manage them and the higher the cost, for a possible higher gain. Anyway nice game and good execution","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":951886,"author_name":"RaMoNVicious","author_uid":"ramonvicious","epoch":1683063595,"text":"Super nice game! As for me - want to have more time to chouse packages in same direction. Graphics and sound are amazing! :)","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":957137,"author_name":"JDeeDubs","author_uid":"jdeedubs","epoch":1683125058,"text":"Cute game! The vibes are great, especially the buildings; you really hit the retro game nostalgia right on the head with those. Expanding the map as you play is nice. I would have liked to hire couriers at my own pace (with some drawback) because it felt like I was drowned in deliveries right after I hired the 3rd guy. \nAnyways, lovely game. Thanks for publishing it!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":965903,"author_name":"zgragselus","author_uid":"zgragselus","epoch":1683247435,"text":"The game is nice and enjoyable.\n\nOne of the main obstacles in finishing it is that it's I guess heavily reliant on RNG - once you get a 3rd guy, the deliveries come faster than you can clear them - therefore you will drown in packages. You have to be lucky with what packages come in and how close their delivery is (which is also random).\n\nAnyways, as for jam game - it's quite polished and plays nice.\n\nKeep up the good work","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":977802,"author_name":"Demuss","author_uid":"demuss","epoch":1683838799,"text":"I love the esthetics!\n\nGameplay is very chill and cool for few minutes... I wish it would be more strategic by giving the player information where given packed goes, it would allow planning the routes for the drivers.\n\nOther small things: I liked the dynamic of running out of space and size of boxes, i would like to see the \"buy driver\" button to be grayed out and display amount needed instead of just pooping when it's ready (unless i didn't understand something)\n\nThe game also needs some smarter RNG and balance... The player was just flooded with packages and because there is not much player can do it felt unfair ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":979161,"author_name":"ardorugus","author_uid":"ardorugus","epoch":1684038176,"text":"Feels chill, but don't let yawning here. Liked the concept, when figured it out. Can be polished and balanced, of course, but it's nice overall.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":979282,"author_name":"f3rri88","author_uid":"f3rri88","epoch":1684057521,"text":"I felt it complicated to understand at first but then I catched up quite fast.\nNice game, original and fun.\nI was getting fined constantly for getting out of space.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":979449,"author_name":"elFlashor","author_uid":"elflashor","epoch":1684081161,"text":"I liked this one! Start chill but quickly becomes complex where you have to plan your routes to not get bankrupt...! Pretty good, congrats!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":979555,"author_name":"Zyrconium","author_uid":"zyrconium","epoch":1684093585,"text":"There's some interesting strategies that emerge from the design here.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ldjam-media\/sha256\/06\/06ab03207e16c4f329a087a779325663f25bee5c76d58fb4a119c8be68e46018.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/matstevenson.itch.io\/packagesplease","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/AndyGates\/LD53","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"88235","g_author":"1219261","g_event":"LD53","g_eventkey":"118","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"418152","g_title":"Parcels, Please","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"663","g_commentcount":"16","g_site2_node_id":"351339","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"351339","n_urlkey":"418152","n_parent":"332127","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/53\/packages-please","n_slug":"packages-please","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"219261","n_created":"1682615695","n_modified":"1763890683","n_version":"1124369","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD53","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":1,"author":219261,"body":"# About\nPackages, please is a parcel delivery game. 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