Planet of the Forklift Kid

Ahhh, so frustrating! I just spent a ton of time trying to get the blocks where I need them, and the forklift fell off a lift and is upside down, and I'm screwed. This is like the third or fourth time now that I've had to restart this level because I lost my forklift.

Wow, another fun little game. I got gold medals (which, judging by my times, is probably the lowest rating) for all the levels except the first. I got unicorn power for that one!

I agree that it could use some more levels. There is definitely a lot of potential there--that was way too much fun for eight brief levels.

best ranking so far:

The Internet

magic unicorn

gold medal

From the review I though this was yet another crate-stacking game (ooh, fun) but I was actually quite pleasantly surprised with the game. Every level is unique and requires you more to play around with the physics then to actually solve a certain "puzzle".

However, the physics are too fiddly to work on larger-scale levels and I think the game would quickly become frustrating. This 8 bite-sized levels are just perfect, in my opinion.

fun game.
FYI, this was made for TIGsource's video game name generator competition.
other entries can be found here: http://www.tigsource.com/features/vgng/

Heh, the names of the games in that competition sound quite hillarious, and the screenshots look promising, but are there on-line versions of the game somewhere (like the Forklift Kid one)?

I'm not a big fan of downloading and setuping if I don't really have to, no matter how amusing the game's screenshot and title is...

Cool! I like this one a lot. I agree that the physics are a tad touchy, but it's something I can live with.

I thought his other game, Snakeball was fun too.

Damn you, zxo. I just lost an hour playing that Snakeball thingy. :)

Level 23 is fun.

I'm fairly sure that electric guitar is better than gold medal.

Playing through and having a great time.
I can confirm the ranks I've encountered are in the following order:

• Gold medal


• Electric guitar


• The Internet


• Unicorn power

Finished all but the last with Unicorn Power. Great find. Thanks :)

how the heck do you beat level 8's switch section? i feel like i've tried all the combinations and can't get up to the door.

Ha
On that name generator thing I found this Jack Thompson's Combat Desperadoes

bob

The very first switch you come to... leave it be. Or go reset it if you've already monkeyed with it. It is pure evil!

I love that the best score is "Unicorn Power"!

Really cool game. Does anyone have any pointers for level 6 and 8? Here's what I do:

Level 6 in ~38s (gold medal)

Get into the forklift, lift the big crate the highest possible, drive to the right until the crate falls behind the forklift, back up to push the crate to the left, lower the lift (3 buttons remaining), walk to the right, push the 4 cubes onto the elevator, activate the elevator, push the cubes to the left and pray they'll land on the remaining buttons

Jump to the right into the forklift, back up to the elevator. Near the elevator, I press right in order to slow down. Once on the elevator I press Space then immediately Up to activate the elevator (due to inertia, the character gets right back into the forklift). Go right, once the fork gets under the crate I raise it so that the crate gets projected to the other side. I immediately get out of the forklift while it falls off the platform. Go to the right, activate the switch, go to the upper right, activate the switch above the first one (a platform pops up at the right), then work my way to the top. For each platform I activate the switch in mid-air and lands on the platform as it comes out. List of switches to activate, x = activate, o = don't activate
ox
x
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xo
ox
xx
o

Jakob

Level 6
Get in the forklift and get the big box behind you. Then push it so it covers 3 buttons leaving the two to the leftmost unpushed, then use the forklift to push the last three. Now you can run over the last two buttons and squeeze behind the bar while it drops, it takes a few tries to work but I've managed to get to 19.68s doing that. Only got the electric guitar though.

Great technique Johan, thanks! I've just tried it and I managed to get the Internet with 18.57s on the fourth try! (edit: 16.14s on sixth! :))

Squeezing behind the bar took a bit a practice but I think I got it. I start from the crate and fall onto the second button from the left, it seems it creates more momemtum, either to the door or to the character. Also, I start by jumping as far left as possible so that buttons don't slow me down. Finally, with a bit of luck you can get the crate to fall right into place: once I'm inside the forklift, I go right until I bump into the wall. The truck backs up a little bit while I raise the fork. Once it's at its highest, I bump into the wall once more and the crate falls right to the good spot about half the time.

Can anyone identify the music used in this game? Some of it I really like.

Howdy! Creator of the game here. Thank you for all the kind comments! ^_^ And I'm happy to see people are figuring out how to get those Unicorn Powers!

The songs I used were:
Frozen Star (Title)
AhDah (Level 1)
Cool Blast (Level 2)
How It Begins (Level 3)
Aitech (Level 4)
And the rest of the levels reuse songs from the first four.

:(
i want more...