You begin your career as a Trainee, retrieving the boring bags of coach ticket holders when their luggage goes amiss. But before long you will work your way to being a highly ranked member off staff retrieving important missing luggage for the likes of the Natural History Museum, NASA and even the FBI!

Gameplay

Story Mode - Complete 50 puzzles as you rank up and learn what it truly means to be a Luggage Retrieval Officer

Arcade Mode - 500 extra puzzles, challenge yourself to beat your own best move count and get graded against the best possible for each puzzle.

Controls

A - Select / Deselect Luggage

Up/Down/Left/Right - Move Cursor


A game for the Gameboy Advance (playable with emulators on most platforms). Made for Winter GBA Jam 21 using Butano.

Credits

Source code available here.

Check out more my games and blog posts at jonoshields.com

StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
AuthorsJono Shields, tempest
GenrePuzzle
Tags2D, airtravel, Difficult, Game Boy Advance, Open Source, Retro
Average sessionA few minutes
LanguagesEnglish
AccessibilityColor-blind friendly

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Comments

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Love this game so much. I keep recommending it on Reddit whenever someone asks for a "hidden gem" or "unknown GBA game". Not only are the puzzles decent (and the amount incredible), it's also just a very well crafted game with great graphics, smooth mechanics and a calm soundtrack.

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Thanks so much for the kind words, it means a lot. I really enjoyed working on this game too. I hope to make more GBA games down the line.

You should, you are very talented!

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I found the theme song in themodarchive before the game

Both are awesome!

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Your game got featured on the arcane cache, a blog for well done underground games.

All in all, the game plays and feels very complete and furbished – much more so than any other console homebrew game that I can remember, and it incited me to burn much more time than I would want to admit.

https://thunderperfectwitchcraft.org/arcane_cache/2023/05/01/luggage-retrieval-o...

Well done!




Old Concept... but a damn nice execution! Congrats!

fun chill game, but there seems to be a save issue when played on an everdrive x5 mini

what's the correct save type? SRAM seems to be the right choice, but the game won't boot when it's selected

Hey thanks so much for the comment. The game does assume SRAM, unfortunately I don’t have an everdrive to test with though.

The first thing you could try would be deleting the save and trying again.

Otherwise I believe Everdrive defaults to SRAM, do you happen to know which version of the firmware you are on?

I’m keen to try and get this working for you if you don’t mind troubleshooting with me. Feel free to get in touch on Discord (Jono#0378).

figured it out!

it's an issue with the Everdrive's quickboot mode (skips the bios after selecting a game), when quickboot is turned off it works perfectly

(for reference, Everdrive x5 Mini GBA, firmware: 1.16)

thank you!

Great game!

Love this. Really cool aesthetic and vibe

Really nice game!