Fill Up The Hole
Fill Up The Hole is a game where you help peons create as much garbage as possible and toss it into a hole. Watch your village grow and evolve as you unlock new upgrades and features.
Controls
- Left click to interact
- Right click\wasd to move camera
- Shift-wasd to move faster
- Mouse wheel or +\- to zoom
Thanks!
All feedback welcomed! There's a chance of losing your save game when there's an update.
A special thank you to those who support with a donation — it helps keep the caffeine flowing :)
Development log
- Relax Mode - Fill Up The Hole 0.2217 days ago
- Fill Up The Hole 0.2041 days ago
- Small Update – Fill Up The Hole v0.1949 days ago
- Update upgrade UI - Fill Up The Hole v0.1856 days ago
- Trash in the hole - Version 0.1762 days ago
- Fill Up The Hole 0.16 & Steam Demo68 days ago
- Fill Up The Hole 0.1581 days ago
- Fill Up The Hole 0.1491 days ago
Comments
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man I wish I could get the game for mac when it comes out
why cant you just allow us to just go on forever just with no more earthquakes
how are the red one different?
They open up hidden upgrades. Were you able to get one?
*red trash, not red crystals, i dont think you CAN get a red crystal in the demo.
I was a bit worried there :) the color of trash only indicate where it came from, it has no use expect for the look.
doesn't it indicate how much value it has? cause usually when i upgrade a building enough the trash changes color.
also i think the minigames are neat, even though they dont really do anything, so nice job on those.
The trash gets more colorful depending on it's value (how much money it gives). But the actual color only depends on where the trash was generated.
There's a lot of people that played the game and you're the first one that commented on the minigame! :) They'll have a more important use in the full version.
I really like this game and I know it's a Demo but I wish there was endless.
Me too, but I think endless will just be the full game when it's realeased
- The data/save is semi broken around the new train entry.
Train - discount seems to corrupt save and data is messed: when discount level is 0, it shows "payroll", when level > 0, it shows "discount", with most ui broken/malfunctions.
- Old bugs of bad peon execution is not yet fixed (e.g. some yellow yard or garbage is never collected, until game load).
I'll look into the "discount" bug, hopefully this could fix the save/load problem some people have. Thanks!
Hope I get the "not picking up" things fixed soon. I'm having a hard time reproducing.
For the "not picking up" bug, IMO you had better add some verbose tracing so user can send the log to you (maybe hard for unity webgl).
One wild guess is that there is a not-robust detection for garbage to be "static" before being picked up (maybe y speed/acc/movement != 0).
Or a workaround is to make the mouse pickup easier (first try default collision size, if nothing hit, try collision test with bigger size for a few times).
Currently having a problem with a yellow shard not being collected by peons
Cute incremental game :D
disposing trash to the smooth vibes of "gangstas paradise"
That was some solid hole work. 10/10 can't wait for this to release
i want to be able to play it here please it is such a fun game!!!!
Can you make it so you can play in endless after the last earthquake. Would be very nice.
I was a bit dubious at first, expecting a new Gnorp clone, but you've put your own spin here, so good job, looking forward to playing the full game :)
fun
Hi Fluffy Lotus
Played the game and loved it! I can't find a good way to contact you, but I would love to discuss a potential publishing deal for Asia. If that is relevant, let me know how I can get in touch, if not thank you for creating an really fun game! :)
-Sigrid
I'm happy you liked it :) I'm not interested in a publishing deal right now. I can also be contacted on X.
Cool! I think your account is closed for messaging on Twitter, I was checking there first. I've followed you there at least. Feel free to send a DM if you want. :)
I respect not wanting a publisher at the moment, but happy to connect either way and just share our experience with the Asian region if you're interested. Released 2 games myself, so always fun to connect with other devs!
Lets goo.... Sub... Hour... yippee... its 4am... my eyes are in agony right now... good night... cant wait for the full release only for me to not be able to get it because I cant download steam on Chromebook so that means I cant download the games, but I can use the Google page... and I just made my first steam account to wishlist this game...
Stop. Yapping.
Go to bed.
I love filling up holes!!!1!111!
Love it. can't wait for the full release
by the way is there a way to continue playing I'd like to flesh out the upgrade tree
It's not possible to continue at the moment.
Fun and addictive game. The look, even with only two colors, manages to be beautiful and interesting. The game is well polished and has an upgrade system that manages to keep you playing for good hours. Keep working on this game.
I destroyed my building a few times unintentionally. You could put up a confirmation screen before actually destroying the building.
I'll see what I can do.
Did you take away the ability to fling trash with the mouse?
It should still be there. The ability does disappear of the building are focus in the front (on the the top right icon)
The demo was great fun - wishlisted and am eagerly looking foward to the full release!
cool
Gameplay and Critique ;)
Is there any kind of invisible wall or braking force for the occasional small trash that picks up a huge amount of leftward momentum?
Am I understanding correctly that buildings gain max durability each time they are rebuilt?
There should be a wall or they get removed. I'll verify if this is still working.
You are correct, new buildings have full durability.
very satisfying, I just wished there would be more music instead of two songs coming up time to time
Can you add zoom in and zoom out to wasd/arrow keys, like ctrl and up/down. Also can you make 'F' fullscreen.
Good idea! I'll look into that.
This, mousewheel should never be a required control for a function; they tend to break fairly quickly.
- and = (+) buttons are a common one for zoom, of course.
This is amazing, are there plans for other worlds? like throwing into a volcano, or throwing crystals or plants instead etc. These games seem to be short lived, but this one appears to have more substance, would love if it had more worlds, even they were dlcs.
Amazing game btw, thanks. PS: don't forget about steam deck on steam.
There are no other worlds... It'll probably be the length of games like Nodebuster\Digseum. There will be two endings.
I love how when you throw a grumpy guy into the pit, they respawn happy, it's probably a bug but I think it should be a feature!
I think I preferred the Gnorps
Nice game! Minimal bugs (Only one was when one of the peons randomly stopped moving while he was carrying a orange crystal, fixed it by clicking on him)
Nice trash
This is a really fun game to sink some time into! I can't wait until this gets dropped, Day 1 purchase for me when you release on Steam. :)
I did have some thoughts for your consideration:
- Peon happiness could be shown as an overall percentage or just color the sprites a different color depending on happiness to get a feel for the overall happiness (i.e., light blue for happy, pinkish for unhappy, etc.) I'm not sure if independent happiness per peon is feasible given the lightweight nature of the game and the lag that can happen in incremental games of this kind (i.e., large populations with multiple things happening all at once) but I'm not a game dev so I'll leave that to you.
- I'm unsure if I just didn't get to these recommended skill tree/building upgrades or not so ignore it if I just didn't see them.
--- 1. blue shard power to convert trash to cash with 50% reduction from building/talent upgrades (essentially to clear up clogged buildings. 2. Add a function of the compressor to recycle a peon (or peons on future uses) into shards and/or convert yellow shards into cash. 3. an addon to the Catapult that lets you use the cannons to blast the clouds while they are hovering over the pit to automate the process, as the Compressor imo is just far more useful (from what I can see in the limited demo anyway) than the Catapult is.
I can't wait for this to get a full release!
Peon hapiness are only visible with their expression, but it's hard to see with the low pixel. Maybe I'll add some emotion bubbles or something.
You gave me some ideas, I'll keep those in mind.
really enjoyed the game!! :)
one small suggestion i noticed while playing
it would be great if there was a visual distinction in the upgrade tree between unable to purchase, able to purchase, and finished.
it was kind of annoying always having to hover to see if i can afford something or if i can upgrade one node multiple times
That would be a good idea! I'll see if I can do something.
Add a anti lag / mobile phone controll so you can reduce lag when playing with mobile.
When throwing a ball make it keep sailing not just falling when you let go
And put a button that when you press all of the workers teleport to the entrence because you can throw them out of bounds and they will get stuck
yes add achievements please and statistics.
-Times Buildings Exploded
-Trash Tossed by Player
-Number of Trash tossed by Peons
-Number of trash tossed overall
-Total Money made
-Orange Crystals collected
-Blue Crystals Collected
Good ideas, thanks!
The weird "Building Upgrade" (with incomprehensible description) reduces building upgrade cost to negative.
Thanks for that! I'll take a look at it.
I want to add quests\achievements. What type of achievements would you like to see?
Number of trash tossed?
Number of dead guys?
Number of trash you tossed yourself?
Number of smog clouds killed?
Threw away one of my small guys, he never came back 5/5