Serial Cleaner by 6Knowledge
:warning: Itch.io version recommended :warning: The webGL player is much better there.
Clean your way through multiple levels of filth left by ungrateful employees of a financing company.
Controls
- WASD - Move
- E - Interact
- Space - Unclog vacuum
- Q - Results
| Link | https://6knowledge.itch.io/serial-cleaner |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/58/serial-cleaner |
Ratings
| Overall | 776th | 2.449⭐ | 81🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 774th | 2.186⭐ | 80🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 708th | 2.565⭐ | 79🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 765th | 2.526⭐ | 79🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 497th | 1.928⭐ | 78🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 521th | 2.669⭐ | 79🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 764th | 2.349⭐ | 78🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 161🗳️ | 218🗨️ |
The online one is very laggy for me :(
I think it would have been nice to have the mopping and vacuuming be limited to specific spots, with solid visual cues rather than the whole floor.
I could not figure out how I was supposed to mop underneath the tables? If that was what I was supposed to do. So I ended up with c rank.
Playing the game about cleaning: yes please
The desk cleaning mini-game would be okay once, but doing it so many times is kinda repetitive.
I think for this kind of game visuals are very important because they're meant to provide feedback to the player and make cleaning satisfying.
Minor problems: there are some camera-related ones and sometimes the character gets stuck, and controls don't really help there.
However, I did spend unusual amount of time on cleaning my own monitor (because of windows in game), so there was some real impact on my quality of life there. 👍
I think it would be nice with some tracking on what you've done, so maybe that the desks could change color when done and some UI 8/10 desk clean. Also I thought it was a little bit hard to steer the character. I think it might have been good to have S for example always moving the character towards the camera even if you rotate the camera.
That said well done!
First of all - you might to give more feedback for a player on every action. Change the color on the washed floor, camerashake when you bump something, etc.
You can add sound for a feedback too. If it was not created by you - just opt out in this category, but overall game feeling will be batter.
Camera and control a little bit annoying. You need to make it more responsive.
Overall its a great submition and I like it!
A little advice for the future - try to create a game using the Unreal Engine. It's a great practice. For example, I try to try something new for myself every jam. It can be an engine, a genre, a control, anything!
And, of course, thanks for the idea to make the game not as similar as all the other games on Unreal Engine! I trying to add Lo-Fi mode. I hope you will enjoy =)

I also like the game's name; it's a funny play on words.