Such silly, goofy fun. The art style and the mechanics are such a perfect fit for each other. I played this one for a long time yesterday. I really like the idea that you need to scrap only the minimum required in order to get a specific upgrade - it makes the crafting into its own challenge.
I think if the crafting recipes were incorporated into the user interface, rather than something I needed to switch back to a browser window to reference, it would be a really smooth experience.
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Scrapyard Magnate's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme interpretation | #2 | 4.389 | 4.533 |
| Audio | #6 | 3.357 | 3.467 |
| Overall | #6 | 3.692 | 3.813 |
| Graphics | #7 | 3.808 | 3.933 |
| Gameplay | #9 | 3.550 | 3.667 |
| Innovation | #11 | 3.357 | 3.467 |
Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Source code repository URL
https://github.com/mharv/scrapyard-charter
Comments
1 year ago(+1)
Thanks Hajime! yes, after we released it we thought to ourselves that the entire collection of materials being consumed in a single craft was an unnecessary penalty. However, the original reason we made that decision was to provide a benefit to not salvaging all the scrap the player had collected (If there was no benefit, salvaging scrap would just be an annoying, click-heavy step in the crafting process!). I think with better user feedback and prompts, the system could have worked quiet nicely.
I'm glad you enjoyed our game and caught the crafting bug! Congratulations on your golden magnet, magnate!
1 year ago(+2)
Hi Tinne, yep we made all the music using some of Simon's hardware synths and outputting to ableton where we could cut it up and get it to loop together. For the sound effects that happen when you pick up scrap objects, I recorded a bunch of random tools clunking together with my phone, threw that into ableton and grabbed all the samples that actually sounded like metal and rubber objects making contact.
1 year ago(+1)
Thanks elamre, yeah it does give that feeling. we had many other ideas that we wanted to add but we had to drastically reduce scope.
1 year ago(+1)
Thankyou!! I really like your game too, such a cool aesthetic with your visuals and audio. Its quite a challenge to get the robot setup correctly! :)
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