Trainwreck by Zac Arnold
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Trainwreck is a chaotic arcade style puzzle game.
Your goal is simple, use your crane to load up the train car with various cargo before the contract time runs out. You're more than up to the task, right?
Controls: Your crane follows the mouse, left click picks up and places cargo and right click rotates cargo.

Gameplay Trailer: https://youtu.be/cCnFBFT7D0k?si=rq19CYO9R7GBSEtJ!
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/trainwreck |
Ratings
| Overall | 35th | 4.28⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 14th | 4.34⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 110th | 4.02⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 99th | 4.36⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 143th | 4.3⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 51th | 4.16⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 443th | 3.159⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 489th | 3.63⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 23🗳️ | 27🗨️ |
Could potentially be made smaller with less space, for a more faster-paced and frantic gameplay loop. At first I was racing as fast as I could, but then two levels found the time limit to be very forgiving, so I slowed down and tried playing more intelligently. It does feel a bit tiring to fill up the whole train, so maybe a smaller one would help with that.
Blocks could be placed in the same position as they sprite rather than green box, but that just a little thing.

Pros:
- Great music, it speeding up as the timer ran out definitely amped up the pressure
- Fun Mechanic
- Cute art
Possible improvements:
- Placing the Crate at it's sprite, This caused me to misplace a couple times
- A way to restart level once you know you've lost it based on the remaining pieces.
I loved how it started out real simple to get you used to it, but quickly it became a game of planning ahead and dexterity! Very well done all around. Bravo