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A Self-Driving Vacuum Cleaner's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Simplicity | #42 | 4.364 | 4.364 |
| Fun | #113 | 3.673 | 3.673 |
| Creativity | #186 | 3.745 | 3.745 |
| On Topic | #251 | 3.600 | 3.600 |
| WOWIE! | #272 | 3.255 | 3.255 |
| Visuals | #342 | 3.327 | 3.327 |
| Sound | #571 | 2.382 | 2.382 |
Ranked from 55 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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There is no music, but the sfx are from online, link in the description of game.
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TheUnknown1050
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Nice little puzzler! I like the 8-bitty style :) The sound could be a bit more subtle
Thank you so much for playing and giving feedback :) Sorry about the vacuum noise haha!
Great game! I loved the puzzles and it was fun to plan out solving the stage.
I really enjoyed it!
Thank you! If I make a post-jam version (which I do plan to do when I have time) I'll add more levels, make the tutorial more intuitive, make the vacuum movement faster and smoother, and maybe even add in a new mechanic, but I'm not sure what the mechanic would be. Maybe an obstacle that can be moved by one vacuum but blocks another vacuum, I think that would be cool to mess around with.
I really like the game! I wish you could speed up the vacuums a bit and that the animations were a bit more smooth (like having the vacuum move rather than teleporting block by block), but you have a very good puzzle mechanic! Given more time, this definitely has a lot of potential!
The vacuums are pretty slow, if I make a post-jam version I'll speed them up, or as someone else suggested, add a speed slider so people can play at their own pace. If someone's tryna speed run the game (I'm not sure why someone would haha) it might be useful. I also was thinking of having the vacuums smoothly interpolate to the next position, but I ran out of time. Thanks for playing and giving feedback!
Holy cow is the vacuum sound loud! ^-^
Jokes aside, the game is really solid and fun! The concept is simple yet appealing and so is the artwork. The puzzles are really interesting and I love how some of them even allow multiple solutions: maybe you could implement a rating system that gives the player a discrete score depending (for ex., 1 to 3 stars) on how much blocks they placed and how much moves they needed to reach the solution.
Really a great job, would absolutely like to see more! :)
Sorry about the vacuum sound haha!
Thank you so much for the feedback! I was thinking of making a leaderboard actually so you could compare your scores to other players and get a general understanding of how good they did, but I ran out of time. The stars idea is actually really good too, I should have tried doing that instead.
Thanks for playing!
Nice game. I liked it but there are few areas where you can improve it even more
1. Vacuum sound was irritating for me, so maybe lower the volume for it or use different sound
2. Although there were arrows, to indicate how it will turn, the actual sprites that were used were bit confusing for me to know in which direction it will move. although that didn't impact my gameplay but still it would have been nice. (But I can understand that considering the time limit)
Overall nice game. I enjoyed playing it :)
Thank you for playing :p
The vacuum sound was very annoying I know sorry :/
The tutorial I heard was pretty confusing yeah, Yän played my game on stream and he was so confused at first on what to do, because the turn arrows are pretty confusing, and also, just reading a whole block of text is not the most intuitive thing ever.
Thank you for giving the feedback by the way, I appreciate that you took the time to rate and give a detailed comment!
One of my favorite games that I've played! The vacuum sound is a little annoying, and I think the vacuum should have moved a little faster. Other then that I liked the puzzles a lot! Great job!
Unrelated, but on your store page you apologize for not having many levels, you don't have to apologize for that its a jam game people don't expect a ton of content.
Thank you so much! Makes my day to here that this was somebody's favorite game! As for the vacuum noises, sorry about that, I know they are annoying but I realized after the jam because I didn't really have time to test the game. I actually had an original version without any noises but since we had an extra hour for submissions, I decided to quickly add some noises but didn't get any time to test to see if the noises were actually good or not. And yeah the vacuum should've also been faster, it can feel slow and boring sometimes waiting for the vacuums to do their thing and get to where they need to be.
Thanks for playing though!
This game is awesome! It fits the theme perfectly and it's a unique concept that is executed very well. The graphics look great and the puzzles are fun. My biggest complaint is that the puzzles are pretty short and easy, but that's much better than being too long and hard. Beyond that, I really wish the game had some more audio, and it would be really cool if the vacuums lerped between squares and paused after each move, instead of just snapping. But still an excellent submission that was a lot of fun!
Thanks so much for playing and giving detailed feedback/
I wish there was som background music or any other sound effects, cause now as I write this comment I can't stop hearing the vacuum cleaners. I like the pixel art and I think some of the puzzles were very interesting, especially those you can complete in unintentional way. Good job.
Thanks for playing! Yeah, other comments too talk about the terrible vacuum noises haha, and yeah, I should've left some time for adding some music. Thanks for the rest of the feedback too!
Well Done! I really liked the concept and gameplay. The only thing that I would change is the font to fit the theme but all in all well Done!
Thank you for playing the game! Yeah, the font should've been pixel art like it is on the game thumbnail.
You’re welcome!
This is a really solid, well thought-out puzzle game!
I laughed when the vacuum fell off the cliff, I'd forgotten it could do that lol.
The ramp up in difficulty is really nice, I didn't feel overwhelmed at all but it was still fun and challenging.
I think what could really help is having a speed setting for the vacuum, but maybe that's just my fried attention span :/
And also the good old polish that so often doesn't get the love it deserves in a short jam
I love the realistic vacuum cleaner sounds
Really good game!
I appreciate that you took the time to try out my game and give feedback! The speed of the vacuum is really slow actually, not your attention span haha, if I ever make a post-jam version, I will either make the speed faster or just have a speed setting as you said. I do wish I had time to polish also, I would've made the vacuum cleaner sounds not cut every few seconds like they currently do, and of course added some sound effects like a win sound or something.
Hi there! I really liked your game! We had a similar idea of blocking the AI path with obstacles and I'm really happy that I could try your game!
The only little problem I found is that once I placed the rocks, there was no way to remove them, neither clicking nor resetting the level (don't know if it's like this for all levels, it happened only in one of the levels with two vacuum cleaners).
Plus I don't know if it's intentional but some level could be solved in a different way and with less blocks that the one it looks it is supposed to be resolved, but maybe it's good that there are different solutions:
Anyway these are minor things, I had a lot of fun!! Great job!
Thank you for playing!
I'm not sure why that bug is happening for you where you can't remove blocks, are you sure you were right clicking? Because to remove a block you have to right-click on the block you want to remove. I tested it myself and it should be working... Note, to remove blocks you also have to not be in play mode, you can press space to reset the vacuums to their original starting positions and then you can place or remove blocks.
As for the other way of solving the levels, that's actually intentional, nice job finding that way
Ok I gave it another try and now it works, maybe I did something wrong the previous time!
Interesting puzzle using a vacuum. Cute concept. The grass should be very clean now!
Interesting puzzle using a vacuum. Cute concept. The grass should be very clean now!
Thank you! Your teams stream was fun to watch also!
It was really interesting! Good job!
Thank you for playing :p
Cool puzzles!
Thank you :)
Love the level design, would really enjoy some more after the jam :)
Thank you for playing!
I like games where you somehow program the AI. nice job!
Thanks for playing :p
Unique idea
Thank you!
Nice idea
Thank you!
Pretty solid entry! I like the puzzles and the art is nice, but the sounds do get quite annoying. They clip quite a bit and are too loud, but if that is fixed, I see no other big issues! Nice work!
Thanks for playing :) And for the suggestions!