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Moving Out dev blog shares a look at truck sizes
The Moving Out dev team is back with another development blog, and this time they detail the different sized trucks available in the game. Check out an excerpt from the blog below, then click over for the full piece.
Each Moving Out level can be played with up to four players, and this makes for some real considerations when designing the levels themselves. From the number of objectives to the ratio of heavy to single mover items, there’s a lot to consider. One huge factor is that the number of items changes as the player takes on bigger jobs, so as the game progressed, we noticed a real problem that needed to be solved.
How did we solve that? Well, it seems pretty obvious now, but… different sized trucks! This solution was super elegant and scalable, as controlling how finicky it is to fill the truck with items changes the level difficulty itself! Different truck sizes also had the added benefit of adding a mini game inside the core level design and gives all our wonderful players the freedom to be creative in their stacking.