I've had an idea for creating a box stacking game ever since I worked for a logistics company part-time. There were tons of boxes I had to lift and stack. Once I had to work overtime without any notice beforehand, and the manager refused to pay for the overtime work. Got fed up and quit the job.

I first thought of this game to expose the crappy working condition of the place(while doing legal actions). Coincidentally, I was also interested in and studying physics for games. On top of that, I wanted to learn the multi-threaded ECS experience. I thought the concepts were quite achievable. Since most of the art would just need to be in boxes. While physics-driven with ECS could give that stable performance.

I planned it would be easy since this is(at least for now) a casual game. But doing other paid work and having to learn and develop with ECS, learn physics, and having to write shader code, it took me a lot longer for the current version of the game.

The game is quite simple. Stack boxes, collect boxes, get high score, and repeat. I think it would have been much faster to develop with monobehaviors since I already knew that well, but I always value learning new technologies. Besides, the game runs way faster than it should, so I'd say I made an okay choice.

Creating the controls for the boxes was the most time-consuming effort that went into developing this game. Since the game is controlled by physics, I had to think and test out different controls so that the player can have the feel of moving a box, but won't get frustrated.

Now I have released the game on itch.io(free). I'd love it if you could give it a chance and tell me what you think.