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This Game Is Trash by kalgynirae

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made by kalgynirae for Ludum Dare 58 (JAM)

Collect some trash while enjoying the scenery!

How to play

Play here: https://www.lumeh.org/games/trash/

  • Collect the trash!
  • You'll have to solve a puzzle to be able to collect the final piece.
  • A hint and a full solution to the puzzle are available here: https://gist.github.com/kalgynirae/1d190c6d99b0853e835e525ca3d6b5e7

Technical details

The game is built with HTML, CSS, and TypeScript. I'm not sure that I would generally recommend this stack as a game engine, but it was a fun experiment and allowed us to do a couple of surprising gameplay things (but I won't spoil them!).

Music was composed and rendered using MuseScore with its built-in sounds.
Sound effects were created with jsfxr.

LevelTitle.png Level2.png

Link https://github.com/kalgynirae/ld58
Link https://www.lumeh.org/games/trash/
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/58/this-game-is-trash

Ratings

Overall 422th 3.475⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Fun 411th 3.3⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 191th 3.6⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Theme 278th 3.85⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 529th 3.35⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Audio 254th 3.5⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Humor 70th 3.974⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 401th 3.526⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 15🗳️ 3🗨️

Feedback

LDJam user 384829
Oct 07th · 01:22 UTC
Good job! I loved the music, and the graphics were pretty good too. I'm not quite sure what to do to get the final piece of garbage though. Other than that, well done!
🎤 kalgynirae
Oct 07th · 02:21 UTC
@pixel-studios Thanks so much for playing and leaving a comment! If you'd like to see the full ending and hear the "space version" of the theme music, I wrote down a hint as well as a full solution to the puzzle here: https://gist.github.com/kalgynirae/1d190c6d99b0853e835e525ca3d6b5e7. Probably we should have done a better job at nudging toward this in the game itself! Oh well :)
LDJam user 384829
Oct 07th · 02:25 UTC
No worries. Thanks for the hint, I probably should've figured that out. Well done though
breadstick
Oct 08th · 18:52 UTC
I finally managed to do what all trash collectors aspire to do: launch a dumpster into orbit :)

The music was great, and the art style was nice and cohesive... a good start to a mouse-based treasure (trash) hunt!
Pegasus
Oct 08th · 19:03 UTC
Cute little game. I had a bit of trouble starting the game (took about 10 attempts to click before anything happened) but once it worked it was all good. Managed to get all 19 without the hint too, very clever little puzzle. Wish the game was longer
Planetary
Oct 08th · 19:07 UTC
As a tiny puzzle game, it's quite nice! The pixel-art and the music are very good! Well done!

About the secret puzzle: I made the right things (I won't describe more because there may be more people that want to solve it), but I still can't see the 19th piece. This is a bug or something? I hover the whole area with the mouse and nothing happened. I followed the solution as well. :(
APDT
Oct 08th · 19:45 UTC
I collect 18 out of 19 and the game ends. Is this a bug?
🎤 kalgynirae
Oct 08th · 20:17 UTC
@planetary Not sure if you're wanting another hint, but in case you are: The "Trash" you're looking for is *outside* of the area you likely hovered over. Thank you for playing!

@apdt It is intentional, but we agree that it ended up being confusing! You need to do something specific during that level to unlock the ability to collect the last item; if you don't do this, the game ends after 18 because collecting 19th would be impossible. If you're interested in trying to get the 19th, there is a hint linked in the "How to play" above. Thanks for playing regardless!
🎤 kalgynirae
Oct 08th · 20:20 UTC
@pegasys I'm sorry you had to suffer from my poorly-written code! :laughing: The game loads the music and sound effects one at a time in the background (with no visual feedback), and the game won't start until they've all loaded. Thanks for playing!
Gaverion
Oct 10th · 23:46 UTC
The ending was pretty cute! I would have loved to see more 4th wall stuff!
jelch
Oct 12th · 05:51 UTC
Great jorb! Love the 19th trash.
Quinn
Oct 12th · 05:52 UTC
This game is not trash. It rules. It makes me so happy. So good, jeez.
Gowie
Oct 16th · 00:10 UTC
I also couldn't find the final piece of garbage! I love the old school vibe though. Great sound effects
Miku
Oct 17th · 00:43 UTC
That was pretty hilarious when the start button fell, and I also somehow managed to figure out the hidden trash without reading the guide!
Artur Hawkwing
Oct 20th · 05:52 UTC
Loved the startup screen with the start button -- that was super creative. Cool concept, and the music and sound effects really fit!
marudziik
Oct 20th · 10:05 UTC
Coming from your post-mortem of sorts blog post.

I had to do couple of replays and then I also read the comments to understand how to finish the game. That would be a bad thing, but I really liked how the final idea is handled, that includes the joint usage of things, the spillage. Even after reading your blog post I didn't fully expect it and enjoyed the surprise.

There were couple of games like this (i.e. using more than the initial game area) in earlier LDs and this idea always comes off to me as quite innovative - maybe because it's rare and not really expected. And it's fun.

Congrats on the entry, it's nice to see participants do experiments like that!
lectvs
Oct 20th · 22:58 UTC
Fun little game! Love the creative start screen, great stuff :smile:
Baturinsky
Oct 21st · 00:13 UTC
Funny game. Only nitpick is it could have some visual que that item is picked and draggable. Even if it's just lifting it a couple of pixels up when clicked. I nearly skipped the game without realising I was supposed to drag.
Stefan B.
Oct 21st · 08:29 UTC
Great idea integrating the menu in the gameplay. I think i collected *everything*![Bildschirmfoto 2025-10-21 um 10.29.24.png](///raw/786/53/z/6f849.png)