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.

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Updated 4 days ago
StatusIn development
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(129 total ratings)
AuthorFluffy Lotus
GenreSimulation, Strategy
Made withUnity, Aseprite
Tags2D, Black and White, City Builder, Idle, Incremental, Mouse only, Singleplayer
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
LanguagesEnglish
InputsMouse
AccessibilityColor-blind friendly, High-contrast
LinksSteam, Steam

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help i dropped one of my peon in the hole how to get back?!

If the peon wasn't sad, a new one should respawn automatically.

but the counter stayed down

Поздравления с выходом в Steam.

Grats on Steam release.

God f dammit so bait that it got launched to advertising to the streamers with the full game only to find out a demo is only available.  Good little game very fun management concept.  With the demo, even on [redacted] mode it still just ends abruptly once you start having the pieces moving.  Infuriating so can't wait for release.  

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I saw someone talking about minigames, but I didn't find them in the game. Can someone tell me where are they?

One of the coolest idle games I ever played btw!

It's supposed to be kind of a secret for now :)

They don't do much in the demo so they are hard to figure out (lack of feature).

is the game gonna be free on steam or how much will it cost on release

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It'll be 2.99 USD

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the game ends too early, its hard to satisfyingly explore different branches of the skill tree if gathering the resources you need just causes the final earthquake by then. 

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man I wish I could get the game for mac when it comes out

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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.

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I really like this game and I know it's a Demo but I wish there was endless.

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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.

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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"

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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!!!!

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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!

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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.

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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?

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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

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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

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