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MoveMasters Limited by WilloXs

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made by WilloXs for Ludum Dare 54 (JAM)

Welcome at MoveMasters Limited

You're the new guy at our company. We organize all our clients' needs and wishes regarding their move into a new apartment. Your first job involves a challenging customer, a flat that's way to small, and tons and tons of furniture. It is up to you to organize this mess!

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Gameplay:

Try to satisfy the customer's increasingly doubious demands. Place the furniture into the apartment by dragging and dropping it from the inventory. You can delete unwanted stuff by right clicking it. You can (and should!) scroll the inventory and growing list of demands by using the mousewheel over either the one or the other.

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Developement:

I wanted to use this jam to get more familiar with Godot. But after the first day i realized that time would be to short to catch up with all the necessary fundamentals of the editor - so i switched to good old gamemaker.

All the sprites were drawn during the jam in aseprite, and all sounds and music with bosca ceoil.

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Hints (Spoilers):

Many objects can fill multiple roles. Use that to your advantage.

Demands like "i don't want to look at x from y" mean that there should be a view blocking object between the two. Bigger objects like the wardrobe etc. have this view-blocking property.

The gaming chair. I hope that given the lack of real gaming chairs you will figure out the (stupid) solution: Place the toilet next to the pc.

Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/limited-movers

Ratings

Overall 160th 4⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Fun 182th 3.917⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 250th 3.75⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Theme 38th 4.521⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 317th 4.042⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Audio 226th 3.75⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Humor 260th 3.543⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Mood 561th 3.543⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Given 14🗳️ 23🗨️

Feedback

Marti Mayolas
03. Oct 2023 · 11:09 UTC
Cool idea, overall was awesome, polish controls and good themed, congratulations !!
Gorglomux
03. Oct 2023 · 11:15 UTC
Very nice concept, reminds me of the password game a little bit, with the fact that each time you add a new condition all the other ones must be met.
Also the game is very intuitive. The ui is very nice and not confusing at all, which really adds up to the experience !
LDJam user 4312
03. Oct 2023 · 11:58 UTC
Was a very fun little puzzle game, was stuck a bit at the end with the last task but in the end I figured out what I had duplicates of.
Ekke
03. Oct 2023 · 12:02 UTC
I really liked this game. Perfect theming, fulfilling all the conditions was a fun puzzle. Until the end where i needed to both have and not have a plant :sweat_smile:. I assume that was intended if so then it was very funny. I got the game really fast, great tutorialization. overall 5 stars. :grin:
kuggenhoffen
03. Oct 2023 · 12:46 UTC
Really nice game. I like how you gradually add stuff and have to move stuff around and replace them to fulfill all the requirements. Managed to get to the end, I thought first it wasn't possible to finish but did figure it out in the end. Good job!
Catakun
04. Oct 2023 · 09:52 UTC
Nice Game
Margoovian
04. Oct 2023 · 10:07 UTC
Nice graphics, sadly i could play much of it because of glitch resolution. nice cozy game, I rate
c42
04. Oct 2023 · 10:08 UTC
Nice and polished pixel art game, I liked the concept. However, I couldn't finish it because nothing I put in front of the pc desk counted as a "gaming chair" :(
okshirl
05. Oct 2023 · 01:56 UTC
I think this was a good idea and it was funny too. it reminded me of the password game but this was way less annoying and I thoroughly enjoyed it! nice pixel art too, though I would suggest to put a black overlay behind the instructions bc the white text on the tiles was a bit hard to read. I wish there was some sort of instruction on which ones were the "bigger furniture" and when it counts as seeing or not seeing directly. I'm almost figuring out the last demand and I will continue to try!
somewan
05. Oct 2023 · 15:46 UTC
Help! I just can't find the gaming chair anywhere. The idea is great, but there are some minor issues that need to be addressed. Also, currently, all furniture occupies 4 grid spaces. It might be more enjoyable if they could have different shapes according to their actual size.
🎤 WilloXs
05. Oct 2023 · 18:41 UTC
A bit late of a response but i had PC fatigue the last day.

@margoovian That sucks to hear. I guess you didnt have a screenshot for me to figure things out? Or perhaps your screen resolution/setup?

@gorglomux @okshirl Yes, the password game was part of the inspiration. It's the first time i really had time for some sort of tutorial/instruction part for any of my jam games so there is of course way to improve - but im glad that it overall seems to be well received. Funnily i removed some of the hints at later demands as i thought they really disturbed the gameflow. For example with the sightlines - they just check a direct line and i think part of the fun is figuring those out.

@c42 @somewan I have a section on hints above, where you can look if you're getting stuck. Essentially the gaming chair is a mean puzzle as you should place the toilet next to the pc. Now i get that many people probably think it's just a bug... Mhh - perhaps better communicating that.

But anyway - thanks for playing everybody.
Jadener
06. Oct 2023 · 19:31 UTC
I really enjoyed playing this game ^^ It was a nice puzzle and when I needed to remove items at part, I was anxious about removing anything to not ruin my setup :D Good job ^^
MatthewStott99
07. Oct 2023 · 11:45 UTC
Great game, I loved the puzzle but couldn't progress due to bug with gaming chair. Maybe think about allowing rotation if not for mechanics at least for aesthetic.
🎤 WilloXs
07. Oct 2023 · 12:49 UTC
@matthewstott99 Not a bug! Ahhhhrgh - trust the devs a bit more xD

No it‘s ok - the feedback makes it pretty clear that the gaming chair puzzle was a bit too weird. As for the rotation suggestion that would of course be great but requires double the number of spritework for just asthetics. Not feasible during the limited time i think.

thanks for the feedback
dhargan
07. Oct 2023 · 16:03 UTC
I couldn't find the gaming chair! Would like to play a bit more :cry:
Also I've used bookcases to hide the toilet.
"Wall" might be a good addition to the game :smile_cat:

Nice entry!
Profugo Barbatus
08. Oct 2023 · 00:15 UTC
That was pretty good! I didn't actually go through the trial and error of solving the four free tiles, but I enjoyed myself enough up to that point. Great use of the theme, even if I struggled with the gaming chair lol. Well done!
dxk2294
08. Oct 2023 · 01:47 UTC
I don't understand what gaming chair is :frowning:
Rincs
08. Oct 2023 · 02:31 UTC
Hrm, nice concept, had a bit of fun! Are the prompts randomly generated? I got a bit stuck with "I want to read on the toilet"/"light on the bed" as neither TV nor the PC counted for reading, and neither pc, stove nor TV counted for light on the bed and you couldn't really put the rug under the bed to make room for a light.

The toilet = gamer chair was obtuse too, the only reason I got it is that I briefly spotted that hint on the game description.

I did also wish that the prompts scrolled to the new one when they appear. Reason being was that I had placed a bookshelf next to the toiled, counting for a prompt that I didn't realize spawned. Later on, I thought I was done, but was confused as to why the game didn't end. Scrolling up I saw a red prompt and upon reading it got confused as to why a "new" prompt spawned in the middle of the list.

*shrug*

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Hawkin
08. Oct 2023 · 03:51 UTC
You never fail to impress with your game design! This one looks simple, but the increasingly specific requests really made this challenging! It was fun to finally get to the end and decide what I could get rid of -- wow, maybe that's a life lesson :D

That was great fun! No spoilers in my screenshot :)

![Screenshot 2023-10-07 225029.png](///raw/319/53/z/5ffe7.png)
Skel3ton
08. Oct 2023 · 12:04 UTC
an unexpectedly complex game

I enjoyed it a lot... well done
shiny Elster
08. Oct 2023 · 18:06 UTC
What a cool game! Really like the art, the music is simple and don't distract you from the game. Love the puzzle and the humor, seems like i' too much of a gamer as i understood the 'gamer chair' promptly xD

Could not finish my first run as as didn't understand what the last prompt mean but got it on the second one.
Great game!
Padlynn
08. Oct 2023 · 22:09 UTC
We also did our game wile learning godot and other tools, so we know it's an uneasy task to do haha! You did great with your game, i really enjoyed playing it! i've seen that it was due of a lack of time creating assets but I had a big laugh discovering that the toilet were the gaming chair haha
🎤 WilloXs
10. Oct 2023 · 10:43 UTC
@rincs Scrolling to new demands would indeed be a good addition - didn't think about this. Some problems arise when you solve several demands before they occure as then you don't see them as new if you later one fail to meet them. It's not generated and the order is fixed to generally have that not be the case but it can and probably did happen.

@hawkin Thanks for beating it! And even choosing it for the appreciation post - that's very nice.

@shiny-elster I'm happy you felt that the music was fitting - there wasn't any feedback on audio yet.
LDJam user 372635
17. Oct 2023 · 20:30 UTC
Nice entry, I liked the overall concept! :) the idea of getting prompts and decorating the room goes really well together and i found it to be a curious take on the genre! The music was really nice, gave the game a really cozy vibe! I found a little hard to play, since the game uses the mouse wheel and I don't really use one normal mouse, so maybe you could have made it possible to scroll by clicking or having a little sidebar, but thats a minor thing :) I couldn't find what the gaming chair should be, unfortunately. But really nice work! :)