Darby's Delivery Service by tvyas
Hey you! Darby here!

Welcome to Darby's Delivery Service, where you'll deliver all sorts of mail! The best part of our service is that we don’t follow the rules! Who knows what’ll happen if we deliver it somewhere else! We are the bringers of blessings! Or…. The harbingers of DOOM!
Controls:
Pickup/Drop off Mail: Left Mouse Click
Music:
"Cottages" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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"Farm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
"With Regards" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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Ratings
| Overall | 607th | 3.568⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 728th | 3.284⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 740th | 3.163⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 449th | 4.045⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 253th | 4.182⭐ | 46🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 278th | 3.616⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 458th | 3.674⭐ | 45🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 37🗳️ | 74🗨️ |
Anyways, pretty cute game. Decently fun for a little bit.
Really pleasant game feel - grabbing letters in quick succession sometimes resulted in an awkward hold, or they wouldn't land well in the mailbox you were aiming for, but overall a pretty smooth experience!
Congrats !
The art in game is excellent too and the game-loop is easy to understand and satisfying! Well done here!
I wish there was a way to re-organize the letters by dragging them to the side (without putting them all the way in the back of the stack) and to be able to select letters in the background. I feel like that would make the player experience smoother.
That being said though, I really like the messages that pop up and you've done a very good job here!
Graphics are nice and coherent, and work well with the audio, creating a very cozy atmosphere.
Like some people above I struggled a bit with determining which letter goes where. Also I think it'd be great if there was a visual indication of which mailbox I'm currently hovering over, it's sometimes hard to tell when they're overlapping. Anyway, very nice game and a job well done :cat:
The fact that there's no end goal to shoot for, or even a loss condition, is kind of a bummer - it's chill, to be sure, but the fact that there's no winning and no losing leaves things feeling kind of pointless. I also don't like the double-RNG at play - the mailboxes *and* mail both being random, with no way to select any letter than the one at the top of the stack, means I'm often stuck hanging around waiting for the right mailbox to show up before I can deliver anything. (All the more annoying if the next letter in the pile goes to a mailbox I just had to let slip offscreen!)
The art is amazing, you should be proud of that.
Gameplay-wise, it's simple and relaxing in a good way, like some of those flash games back in the days. If I had to give advice on how to improve it, I'd say either add some challenge or more mechanics to the game, or just crank up the juice with cool visual/sound effects to make delivering mail extra satisfying.
All in all this is a good entry, good job!