Sorted by Harmadillo

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made by Harmadillo for Ludum Dare 53 (COMPO)

​Our Bottomsworth office is now recruiting for the position of Junior Sorted. Start your journey in logistics today.

add_ld.jpg Controls:

Left click in tray for a new letter

Left click and hold to drag a letter into a destination slot

Right click a letter to enlarge.

Left click a letter to turn it over while enlarged.

Right click enlarged letter to return it to your desk to be sorted.

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Ratings

Overall 300th 3.18⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Fun 364th 2.68⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 292th 3.042⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Theme 124th 4.06⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 336th 2.896⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Audio 252th 2.958⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Humor 293th 2.37⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Mood 252th 3.083⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Given 29🗳️ 29🗨️

Feedback

ZenBreaker
01. May 2023 · 12:17 UTC
A nice idea for a game. Could need some help at the result screen what did go wrong and how it actually should have been. Showing how many letters are there to deliver could be nice.
KyleTheCoder
01. May 2023 · 13:06 UTC
Fun little game, think you have a solid idea, just need a little bit more oomph to it in order to get there.
🎤 Harmadillo
03. May 2023 · 16:27 UTC
@zenbreaker yes, the results screen is rather rudimentary.

@kylethecoder Thank you.
Zirrrus
03. May 2023 · 19:03 UTC
Nice, that was a really chill experience.
A bit embarassing how often I had to look up in what region countries are...

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I love these addresses with just the country switched out though, they are really funny to me. Great job!
ollie_d
04. May 2023 · 02:23 UTC
Impressive submission -- some of these fonts are really convincingly bad hand writing haha. It took me a bit to get into the groove, but once I got into the swing of things it was fun and relaxing. A nice take on the theme and a well executed game!
🎤 Harmadillo
04. May 2023 · 18:03 UTC
@zirrrus I did mean to put the country/regions in the Postal book but forgot, in case i had got any wrong. And customizing the names and addresses for different countries was too much like work :)
@ollie-d Thank you.
cheesepencil
05. May 2023 · 03:08 UTC
It reminded me of Papers Please but without the atmosphere of dread, so I liked it quite a lot
milq
06. May 2023 · 14:47 UTC
The concept is very interesting, it reminds me of what Paper Please said above. What I would see as essential is knowing how to play, it is very difficult for me at first how it is. Or maybe I am very clumsy. But in my opinion, it took me a long time to find out. Despite this, I can only congratulate you on this game, incredible for a compo, congrats!!
🎤 Harmadillo
06. May 2023 · 18:16 UTC
@cheesepencil @milq The one screen style of Paper Please is something I thought of while writing Sorted. If I do any future development of it I'll look at adding a tutorial.
Sibi
06. May 2023 · 20:27 UTC
Really relaxing game. I continued until day 10, wasn't sure if there was any more content after that. Also would've really liked to see what mistakes I made to learn from them.
I was struggling a bit to figure out which country belonged to which geographic reason but then noticed that it's just the first digit of the country code. By that point it became very easy to correctly sort.
Seems like you already had some great ideas to add on to this and I'm looking forward to the great parcel DLC
Richard Baltrusch
06. May 2023 · 21:48 UTC
Impressive entry! Really liked the graphics, the random generation and the bad handwriting. And the gameplay, although it was quite overwhelming at first (wall of text + wall of delivery boxes :smiley: ). I imagine in a more fleshed out release this stage could be worked up to with a small hands-on tutorial and slowly increasing level complexity as you go. Enjoyed this quite a bit :)
ThaProfesional
07. May 2023 · 10:09 UTC
Really chill dug how much was going on but how much help was given to figure it all out. Music was good and there was a lot of variety in the post to keep me engaged for a while.

Unfortunately I took too long to figure out postcards have the address on the back, so I palmed a LOT of them off to the dead letter office. But that ones on me.

Once I stopped playing I realised you basically tricked me into doing a job for a while and I didn't notice. So great work :D
🎤 Harmadillo
07. May 2023 · 18:09 UTC
@sibi There are 30 days you can play through but after day 6 you can get all varieties of letter/postcard available. There are 5 unique letters/postcards after day 10. I should have moved them earlier because 30 days(290 letters) is a lot to sort through.
🎤 Harmadillo
07. May 2023 · 19:24 UTC
@richard-baltrusch Glad you enjoyed it.
🎤 Harmadillo
07. May 2023 · 19:26 UTC
@thaprofesional Maybe a career in letter sorting is just what you're after.
island-jam-2-group-3
09. May 2023 · 20:55 UTC
At first I was lost even with the instructions (maybe it could have used some images instead of / along with text pages ^^U) but once I got it it kept me entertained for a while ;-)
zephyreds
15. May 2023 · 08:19 UTC
This was fun! I really liked the music and definitely got into the rhythm of the game with a decent amount of ease. Some of the letters were particularly difficult to read, which was amusing. I feel like some more prompts on what you did wrong could be nice? Great game though.
jkyd
15. May 2023 · 22:58 UTC
Really liked the concept of bad handwriting making the letter undeliverable and it was pretty fun to sort the mail into the slots!

Great job overall! We also did a papers-please-like game so it’s really cool to see other team’s take on the genre and some pretty creative solutions to the problems we were running into :)
Roka Josh
17. May 2023 · 13:03 UTC
Really cool concept, a very interesting take on a papers please-like. Would love to see this be developed further into a full game. Great job!
M2tias
17. May 2023 · 22:13 UTC
This seems very complicated for a compo game! Maybe you are good at UI stuff and it was a breeze. Pretty nice game!