pretty difficult. really fun. banger music.
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This Place Sucks: A Vacuum Story's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #123 | 3.836 | 3.836 |
| Originality | #148 | 3.803 | 3.803 |
| Fun | #185 | 3.393 | 3.393 |
| Presentation | #204 | 3.721 | 3.721 |
Ranked from 62 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game represent "Power"?
Suck up junk to grow big, then take over the world!
Your character, a vacuum gone rogue, has to manage its power levels in order to complete each level. Suck up junk to level up. Be quick! Your power can run out.
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28 days ago(+1)
88% is a dang good score! A re-balance is on its way after the gamejam is over. thanks for playing :)
28 days ago(+1)
I had to go look up Tasty Planet, it's like if Spore was a flash game. Very similar vibe! Thanks for playing. I will definitely keep working on it before I move to my next project :)
If you still don't understand collisions enough, here's a quick rundown: there are layers and masks. Masks detect layers of the same value.
1. Mask of 1 will collide with layer 1, but not anything else.
2. An object with a mask but with no layers will get easily stopped and pushed around by other objects with a layer the same value as mask
So for your game, you could have the vacuum be all 5 masks at the start (from small to big) and different objects to be different masks AND the same value layer, depending on size as well. Once the vacuum grows, change the smallest mask into a layer of the same value.
If im not completely insane, this should make that vacuum pushes objects smaller than it is, but also get stopped by objects bigger.
The first person to get all 6 stars, congrats! Thank you for playing it until the end. The collisions annoy me too...
My intended idea was having the smallest objects have no collision with the player, that way you could run right over them. When you get big it gets really difficult to see the small objects, and unrealistic that they'd stop you.
When I disabled collision layers and masks though, it'd make running into small objects fly all over the place. I really couldn't figure out how to make no-collision happen. This was tricky because the player's nozzle needs to still interact. On top of that I had certain objects like tables and counters that needed to let other objects sit on top, exit, then not return, all while colliding with the player.
On my last attempt to get it all working I nearly broke the whole damn game and decided to leave it and move on.
28 days ago(+1)
Thanks for playing, and sorry about the difficulty! That's my biggest regret so far. I plan to fix that and release an update soon with more content.
29 days ago(+1)
I spent WAY too much time trying to make the little dust bunnies something that you don't collide with. But still do in the sense that you can suck them up.
I'm new to godot and this was my first substantial project, and holy smokes the collisions stuff still doesn't make much sense to me.
Glad you enjoyed it though. Thanks so much for playing!
29 days ago(+1)
You do! Eventually you can suck up everything. Level 2 has you sucking up cars and houses :)
29 days ago(+1)
That’s exactly it. At first you are sucking up lint and cigarette butts, level 2 you can suck up glasses and cans, and so on. Eventually you have to move a bookshelf to find the exit.
Sadly I set the difficulty too high and some people are struggling to reach the exit. After the jam I plan to tweak the difficulty and add a third level.
29 days ago(+1)
Thanks for noticing! I used the same synth to make the vacuum sound as the music, and having their sounds work together was intentional :)
29 days ago(+1)
Thank you for the feedback! I had lined out this perfect timeline to get everything done before the deadline. The programming aspect really put me behind schedule. I'm guessing that's pretty common, haha!
29 days ago(+1)
tysm :) It's my first project in Godot too. I'm quite new to game dev so this is encouraging to hear!
29 days ago(+1)
thanks! I've been waiting my whole life for someone to ask me for more jungle. im on it
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