Alien Parcels

Made for Ludum Dare 53!

Take the role of an alien :alien: holding a Post Office, filtering parcels and managing to fit them into transport rockets.

The manual should cover how stamps should be used and what symbols are allowed to travel with which.

Be careful... you can only make three mistakes before getting fired!

Explanations

You role is split between two steps: checking stamps and organizing rockets.

For the first step, you have to verify that there's the correct amount of stamps (not less, not more). For that, the rules are simple: one stamp unit allows 3kg OR a journey between two planets. If you want to send 8.5kg and the destination is two planets away (your position is the red circle on the star map), you'll need 3 stamps units for the weight and 2 stamps unit for the distance traveled.

The green stamp is 1 unit, the blue one 2 units and the red one 3 units.

If the stamps are incorrect, use the red button with a cross to drop it, you'll hear and see if it was correct or not.

If the stamps are correct, use the green button with the checkmark. You then need to put the package in one of the available rockets - only 4 are available at the same time but there's an infinite resupply of rockets. Here the symbols on the parcels need to be taken into account. Indeed, the manual will tell you what associations cannot be made. Any mistake and the rocket will explode! For example, you cannot put packages with a star with anything else than other star packages. Once a rocket is filled with 3 packages, it will automatically launch.

Credits

Most assets, including sounds, are from Kenney but for the first time I made some of them myself! Not gonna lie, I'm pretty proud of that :smile: