Handle With Care by emanon

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made by emanon for Ludum Dare 53 (JAM)

Handle with Care is a physics-based platformer. Use your body to push and bounce boxes, basketballs, pizzas, and more to deliver them to their mailboxes!

There are 19 levels, ranging from easy to “interesting”.

Controls: - Arrow keys to move and jump (You can also use Z to jump) - R to reset the level.

Credits

Made in Unity.

Programming and Design

Colin Lu, Jon Schneider, and Anderson Wang

Art

Colin Lu and Jon Schneider

Music

Anderson Wang

Ratings

Overall 833th 3.342⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 582th 3.447⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 744th 3.158⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 901th 3.526⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 991th 2.816⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 687th 2.789⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 607th 3.029⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1008th 2.947⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 41🗳️ 1🗨️

Feedback

OmriLahav
03. May 2023 · 09:59 UTC
Very nice game, found the box's inertia a little frustrating while trying to carry it on my head, but still enjoyed this one. Well done!
LDJam user 166918
03. May 2023 · 12:21 UTC
Use your head LITERALLY. Not Bad game, pretty funny.
PartySquadMember
04. May 2023 · 00:08 UTC
Fun, simple game that works. The box slides frustrated me but once I got used to it, it played well!
Shiiro 10psi
04. May 2023 · 00:12 UTC
Neat little puzzle platformer. The levels where you had to keep the box on your head and jump over the gaps were cool.
Aivaxela
04. May 2023 · 00:22 UTC
very fun game!! it actually was very challenging, but not impossible. had a lot of fun!
jward
04. May 2023 · 00:38 UTC
At first I was like, ok, a little platformer. Low expectations. Then it just kept getting harder and better. I almost gave up at "use your head". Then 3X as hard?! Then this pizza and basketball show up!! When I got to the Piano, I totally Laurel and Hardy's that thing (rolling down more than a couple times!) The one with dozens of boxes was hard, and then I wasn't sure that "box jump" was even possible Spoiler alert: I spam-clicked it. But "great crossing" -- why would you do that to me? Apparently that was the end, because I never came out of that door? Had to take a screenshot to prove it. :laughing:

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Bravo!

Both our games are about quick-fingered physics - yours is definitely harder, but mine scores on time, so maybe we're even. ;) LMK how you like it: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/fedup
clue
04. May 2023 · 05:54 UTC
@jward Thanks for your feedback. Regarding the last level, it's intended to take you to a "congratulations" screen, but there was a bug in the build preventing that from happening :P
LDJam user 333527
06. May 2023 · 00:36 UTC
Quite a fun game, I enjoyed that I am pushing many different types of deliverables into mailboxes
ZMiner
09. May 2023 · 05:13 UTC
Nice game, gradually mastering the skills of keeping boxes on head is inspiring!
silvio
16. May 2023 · 10:26 UTC
haha nice Idea, puzzles are a good genre for gamejams since as soon as you set up the mechanics you can come up with levels and make a game out of that
ardorugus
18. May 2023 · 16:42 UTC
Loved using my head! Very cute little game with interesting mechanics. Even midi sounds nice).
Ava Skoog
18. May 2023 · 18:57 UTC
Fun! I couldn't beat the whole thing unfortunately but got stuck eventually. The first two trampoline levels were hard but eventually I got them. Pizza one tho… Wish it was easier to get it going diagonally. Music was fine and graphics conveyed what they needed altho the clouds felt a bit busy. The walking sound seemed to pop a bit? Thought it was decent but needs some polish and game feel C:
Sheepolution
19. May 2023 · 00:48 UTC
That was surprisingly fun! Based on the first few levels and the art style I assumed that it was going to be a simple game, but you really went all out with all these different type of levels. Really cool!
AceArcher
19. May 2023 · 02:57 UTC
I've always loved physics platformers, so this was a nice treat! I had to give up on the pizza level, getting it to actually move so that I could keep up with it was too hard for me. I wish I had a better sense of the player collider and how far to either side the pizza can go on your head before it slips off. Overall, I had fun! The introduction of new mechanics was done at a very nice pace.