Gird's Grueling Gig

Made in 48 hours for the 2024 GMTK Jam, with the theme "Built To Scale".

You're the only who showed up today - but your boss says the show must go on. All you have are the raw materials on site and an architectural sketch posted near the construction zone. It'd be nice to have some machines (or even just some help), but it can't be too hard to put up a house frame all by yourself, right?

...You really need this job.

Objective:

Try and build a house frame before your shift ends in 10 minutes! The thing is, though: your references are all front, side, and back view sketches, so you'll need to translate that to a 3D space and figure out what block goes where. And if you forget, well, you'll have to run over to the job docket again to take another look!

The scaffolds with an image of a door on them represent where the door will end up going. You'll have to place everything else!

Stray blocks left in the build zone will negatively affect your completion percentage, except scaffolds. The game ends when you perfectly complete the build. (You're encouraged to complete the game before the timer runs out, but you can keep going if you run out).

Controls:

• WASD (or arrow keys) to move. You can move up a single block height at a time.
• E (or Space) to pick up blocks. You can carry up to 2 blocks at a time.
• F (or Z) to drop blocks. You always drop the last block you picked up, and can drop blocks onto walls higher than you can reach.
• W (or Up) while standing in front of the billboard shows the job instructions.
• You can't build on the edges of the grid!

Credits:

All code, art, music created within 48 hour timeframe by jakefriend. (25 work hours logged!)

* I made one tweak right after submitting because the layout plan image was incorrect, making the game unwinnable because players didn't know what to actually build 🫠 The only post-submission change was adjusting that image file's colours. I submitted with 5 min to spare and the change + reupload took under 5 min, but still, disclosing FWIW!

TrashHand font by Luce Avérous.

Lonely Cake font by Khurasan.

SFX attribution:

FemaleGrunt3.wav by BranndyBottle -- https://freesound.org/s/464673/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

FemaleGrunt1.wav by BranndyBottle -- https://freesound.org/s/464675/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

Male_Grunt_1.wav by D001447733 -- https://freesound.org/s/464620/ -- License: Attribution 3.0

UI_POP_UP.mp3 by Marevnik -- https://freesound.org/s/708605/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

UI Button Click by benzix2 -- https://freesound.org/s/467951/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

cabinet_door_thump.wav by joedeshon -- https://freesound.org/s/632535/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

Menu Scroll/ Selection Sound by CS279 -- https://freesound.org/s/198536/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

gluckD.wav by mamamucodes -- https://freesound.org/s/396285/ -- License: Creative Commons 0