This game was developed for My First Game Jam (Summer 2020)


Theme: Change

The character you control changes as you shapeshift and morph to solve puzzles.


Overview

In The Last Postman, you play as a gelatinous blob of goo intent on reaching the human hideout to deliver an important letter. A war is raging between humans and monsters, and you've intercepted a letter that could turn the tide! 

On your way, you'll be trying to save lots of humans by taking control of humans and monsters alike. The Last Postman is a top-down, 2D, turn-based puzzler where you try to get as many humans as possible to reach the exit of each level.


Gameplay

Monsters will chase the nearest human in any cardinal direction around them, eating them if they reach them, and humans will run away from the nearest monster in any cardinal direction around them. (This includes you!) Morph, scare, and run the humans to safety!


Controls

Use WASD or the ARROW KEYS to move your character around

Press SPACE to return to goo form, destroying whatever organism you are currently in control of

Press R to restart a level

(Menus can be navigated with the mouse)

Thank you for playing, and we hope you enjoy it!


Team:

Xychara and Burgervan

Download

Download
the-last-postman-win.zip 28 MB
Version 1 Jul 29, 2020
Download
the-last-postman-mac.zip 28 MB
Version 1 Jul 29, 2020

Install instructions

Download the executable in Windows or Mac version to play, or play in the browser by pressing Run Game.

Development log

Comments

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I really like this creative puzzle structure. The music is very nice and fitting, and I like the mechanic you went with for "change". I do have to agree with Mom0, level 6 does seem like quite the difficulty spike lol But it's great work! Do you plan on updating it post-jam?

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'm not really planning on messing with it much, I might reorder the levels or something real quick though. I feel like making a totally different game would help improve my skills more than sticking to this one, if that makes any sense.  Thanks for playing!

i love this game, i rly had so much fun playing this game great work.

Only Level 6 is way to difficult.

Awesome music/art/gameplay

Yea, we really messed up the difficulty curve, thanks for letting me know. I'm glad you enjoyed it!

It seems like you cannot move!

I'm so sorry, I'm not sure why that's happening. If you wouldn't mind, was it the WASD or arrow keys that did not work?

Bothe of them did not work in my case!

Huh...It seems to be working in the Windows and WebGL versions... are you trying it on Mac?