Return To Sender by hacktic

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made by hacktic for Ludum Dare 53 (COMPO)

Welcome to your first day as a mail sorter! Sort mail into the correct bag, and make sure to discard any letters that don't follow our stringent requirements!

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Controls: Mouse only. Click and drag to move notes and letters around!

The embedded web version above might not work on some browsers. If this is the case for you, try playing it on the itch.io page, or download the desktop version.

Source code/project download is available on the itch.io page.

Ratings

Overall 80th 3.893⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Fun 101th 3.75⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 167th 3.446⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Theme 48th 4.286⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 138th 3.804⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Audio 229th 3.13⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Humor 99th 3.423⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Mood 151th 3.482⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Given 18🗳️ 36🗨️

Feedback

jdah
01. May 2023 · 10:01 UTC
great game! very stress inducing. my final severance was $0.43 :(
MiniBetrayal
01. May 2023 · 10:10 UTC
Great game, though perhaps a bit UK-centric with the place name thing. I'm a british ex-pat and even I had trouble with some of them
Emily-TTG
01. May 2023 · 10:16 UTC
Awesome! Loved how it looked and quite addicting to play. Only complaint would be the difficulty with getting rid of the notices - I just ended up dragging them off the edge which I presume was the intended effect but a "close" button would have been nice. All in all a great job
Inesjebesje
01. May 2023 · 10:17 UTC
very fun game! the only downside is that not everyone knows all uk places
yellow attic
01. May 2023 · 10:20 UTC
It's a cool game that perfectly captures its theme. A suggestion would be to make the envelope pop to the front of the screen when clicked for easier reading. I like this fun and challenging game
haselkern
01. May 2023 · 10:22 UTC
Very fun game! I love the steady escalation, that kept the game very interesting. I got 70p 😎
Thinkofname
01. May 2023 · 10:45 UTC
Pretty fun! Got tripped up by the place names towards the end, font size is a bit small when playing on the embedded version. The pacing felt good for the increase of difficulty
Tul Games
01. May 2023 · 11:50 UTC
This is one of the, possibly the, most fun game I played during this game jam! :smile:
🎤 hacktic
01. May 2023 · 12:07 UTC
Thank you everyone for the feedback! I know the UK place name things is a bit unfair, I just found the concept of trying to decide if these insane place names are real or not really funny. And I will for sure take the other feedback on board and release a 1.0.2 patch at some point.
LDJam user 258850
01. May 2023 · 15:19 UTC
Awesome! ^^ every time I play I get a worse score.. haha

my best was 60 something
TasakaSama
01. May 2023 · 17:47 UTC
0.57 I was lost with UK cities, but it's very well done
robobarbie
02. May 2023 · 00:14 UTC
LOL like the other commenters i died in the actual uk places part, but i had a lot of fun with this! loved the simple graphics and the building ruleset -- very papers please, in a very good way!
LDJam user 234769
02. May 2023 · 00:38 UTC
Nice Papers Please vibes, had a fun time playing! The "messy office" feels were there xD
Final score $0.97 :sunglasses:
ConcurrentSquared
02. May 2023 · 00:58 UTC
Decently fun. The game definitely feels like Papers Please(in a good way). Final score $0.44.
causalpigeon
02. May 2023 · 01:48 UTC
Man im not cut out for this life style. I got .35. Games really fun love the visuals of it.
alec
03. May 2023 · 00:46 UTC
final severance was 0.62. Like others said the pacing of introducing new rules was great. Side note, it took me way too long to realize I could drag the instructions out of view haha
RNGames
03. May 2023 · 03:54 UTC
✔️ Simple and intuitive gameplay with non standard mechanics.

✔️ Good progression system.

➖ I got a bit confused when we were asked to find real UK place names :P

⭐ Overall: Nice little game!
PerfectSquare
03. May 2023 · 18:03 UTC
Great game! I thought I was doing so well until the UK place names part :joy: It would have been neat if there was a map of the UK on the desk or something to give you a reference for ones you didn't know.

Nice job on the graphics too. The fake stamps were hilarious and I actually laughed out loud the first time I got one
MercilessCult
03. May 2023 · 20:57 UTC
Almost perfect jam game in my opinion! Love the art, sound design is just right, difficulty seems perfectly balanced, the only downside is you guessed it the UK names, but it can easily be changed! Ended with 0.70$, and I would definitely be hyped to play it again!
arya-s
04. May 2023 · 16:37 UTC
Great game! Perfectly scoped, well executed. I wish it had a simple audiotrack but not a biggie.

I like how the pressure scaled, I also liked that the tutorials kept sticking around cluttering up your workspace. I thought I wouldn't like that at first but it worked out well.

Well done!
Proutymat
06. May 2023 · 03:22 UTC
Oh interesting we had the same idea!

But your game is much more polished than ours, it's funny you implemented all the features we didn't have time to do, urgent letters, wrong addresses, infinite incoming letters, etc. And even then we still have a few bugs, but we're still happy with the result considering we're just starting out in game dev (and unfortunately we're only programmers, graphics is an obscure skill for us haha)

Anyway, it's impressive that you were able to do this in only 12 hours, there is a very good sound design and pixel art. It's very polished and fun to play. I like the fact that we're literally on a desk (as we tried unsuccessfully to portray it too). It's also fun that takes place in a foreign country (at least for me), you get to see what the letters are like and learn about new cities (seriously I love England but Barton in the Beans, really?). Very good game :clap::clap:

By the way great devlog, I came here after watching it :)
grid96
07. May 2023 · 14:51 UTC
Very unique idea! I like the increase in difficulty. Determining what city actually exists in the UK kinda killed me though :D
LDJam user 283449
08. May 2023 · 14:42 UTC
Nice little game! The sound when a new mail arrives destroyed my ears at first but still fun to play :D
LDJam user 364744
17. May 2023 · 04:59 UTC
great polish on display here & perfect complexity ramping. UK one got me as others have pointed out but otherwise love all the increasing challenges
Roka Josh
17. May 2023 · 14:27 UTC
Really nice entry and fun spin on a papers please-like. Would like to see this be developed further as it could be a really fun and difficult game. Great job!
StormCat
17. May 2023 · 14:41 UTC
Great game! It was a lot of fun quickly checking everyone's letters. Plus I had a pretty hard test on the UK place names.

What do you think of my severance?
![Screenshot 2023-05-18 004005.png](///raw/064/b2/z/5bd1e.png)
kiv
19. May 2023 · 23:06 UTC
I hope you will push it at Steam at least