Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD38 → BUS DRIVER
By rombus
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 365 | 3.10 | 31 | |
| Fun | 279 | 3.13 | 31 | |
| Innovation | 447 | 2.57 | 30 | |
| Theme | 368 | 3.10 | 30 | |
| Graphics | 273 | 3.25 | 30 | |
| Audio | 245 | 2.96 | 30 | |
| Humor | 95 | 3.34 | 28 | |
| Mood | 2.33 | 5 |
I really solid little game. Clear win/loose conditions. I really liked the in-game art. It'd be interesting to see more of that art style. Maybe on the main screen with the mans face tell the user to push any key to continue. I was waiting for a minute because I thought it was loading (In case you wanted feedback on things like that).
Good job! :D
Thanks a lot @binaryferret!
You're right, the play button is a little buggy I'll have to fix that (I mean come on, stupid framework should make a button that's clickable :P)
The main menu screen did came out more blank that it should be, but I just run out of energy :P I like the idea of the making "Johnny Cocaine" tell you to press any key xD
Thanks for playing :D
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Being a quantum bus driver is hard work
WOW @drury! I don't know how you did that xD I'm guessing you found out that running into the world borders stops your bus, so you can breathe a little :P
Thanks a lot for playing and beating my high score!!
I love this game! The graphics are very cute and the music is fitting. It is kind of a snake game, but the new theme is very refreshing!
Good Game ! It is simple but graphics are cool. The only problem is collisions, because of perspective. I don't find them very intuitive.
Thanks for playing @frodewin!
@matoux42 I hear you, I wanted to make the buildings collidable only on the base, and make the top of the buildings transluscent somehow, but couldn't made it due to a mixture of time constraint and not knowing exactly how to do it :P
Good game, nice graphics! It gets too hard after 40 though, 41 is all I could reach :P. Collisions are a bit counter-intuitive, as @matoux42 pointed out, but overall great work. Keep it up!
Cute little game and a lot more fun than I was expecting. I found it to be just hilarious I don't know why. Maybe the fact that I just was murdering a bunch of kids the whole time haha
Art was great I loved the colored pencil graphics, although the pixel font didn't really go too well with it Driving felt tight and easy, I basically just held down the boost the whole time though the houses seemed like their collision boxes were a bit too big you also could have benefited from some particles or some sort of effect when the you picked up the kids
I didn't get past ~~level 9~~ level 5, geez don't know why I wrote level 9
All in all I would definitely consider it a successful gamejam game. Good job!
@anayk thanks for playing man!
@technonugget thanks for playing! I agree with the font used doesn't fit the overall art style. The reason I went with that is simply becouse it's the deafult font on flixelgdx :P I have to learn how to create a bitmapfont out of images, but It would have made the overall feel a lot better. BTW: Reaching level 5 is impressive!
Ahaha nice. Fun take on the 'snake' style of game, and the art style was very charming!
There were a few collision issues where I *know* I didn't run into that building (just scraped by it :p).
Either way, you made an enjoyable game- very good for a first submission. Congrats! :)
Haha, cute little game. Becomes very difficult as the speed increases. I like the hand drawn sprites! :D
Maybe the collider of the bus could be slightly smaller?
Ha, It's like snake, but whit a bus driver. Neat
I really like how this game looks, the graphics look great :) The explosion of bones made me chuckle.
What a fun little game!
I didn't quite expect the bus to control the way it did, so it took me a few seconds to figure out exactly what I was doing. After that, though, the controls feel good and are responsive, there's just that initial bump.
The art and sound works really well for the game, even though the font sticks out a little. The overall experience feels cohesive.
There's a very sharp difficulty spike at 30 and 40 passangers, which was quite jarring for me the first time.
Good first game. Interesting art style.
Sweet :D I totally dig the art style, it feels super oldschoolish/90s-like. The gameplay is well done :) Good job man!!
Good first game submission! I really like the graphics :)
Hey, I didn't beat your score, I only got to 40. Really neat game though, I really like the hand drawn art style, that's something you rarely see.
The music was cool, it was high tempo, and fit well with the fast (hectic) gameplay.
The collisions felt a bit odd, because i think people generally expect more 'give' behind the houses, because they are drawn as though they are upright, so people expect to be able to go 'behind' them, although you quickly get the hang of it ;).
Overall really nice game.
Ned
Realy good first game and entry!
This game is pretty cool. I'm a sucker for games with time limits that force me to make risk versus reward decisions. You could have just made the bus go fast all of the time, but having the boost bound to a button press forces me to make a choice: do I want to risk crashing in order to get to a passenger before they disappear, or do I play it safe at the cost of missing a passenger? That being said, there really isn't any penalty for playing it safe and never boosting. Sure, one passenger might disappear, but the number of passengers that will spawn is seemingly infinite. Boosting is then really only a matter speeding things up as opposed to something I need to do. This game would benefit greatly from having a penalty for missing a passenger or having a limited number of passengers. That way, there would be more pressure for me to play it risky and boost. That being said, this game is really fun. The audio is good and the visuals are charming. Good job!
As a side note, if you ever wanted to expand this game, it might be a cool idea to add in bus stops to drop these people off at. You pick people up, but they just sorta stay in the bus forever. Maybe you would only have a certain amount of room in your bus, so you have to unload every once in a while. This would add a lot to the time pressure of the game. Just a stray thought I had.
Cool game! Music was fun, gameplay was fun, and the graphics fit the style of the game. The font didn't, but that's just me. As a side note, it should be 'You Crashed The Bus :D'
Nice game but it was a bit too similar to snake. The music was nice and the graphic style fit well with the game. No bugs either (that i could find). It would have been nice if the map would have changed somehow, maybe different levels or something. But otherwise pretty good.
haha this is pretty cool. the graphics really stood out, it's a unique style, I might have to remember it for future ludum dares ;P. Best score I could get was around 30, it gets crazy. I also noticed (I think? it was very subtle) that you speed up the bus noises/sound effects when you press space, which was an awesome touch and similar to the audio mixing I did on my entry. Our entries actualy have a few similarities, they're both somewhat like snake. Good entry overall! :D
I like the snake-like controls, although they were a bit clunky. Also, since there is no penalty to using the boost I just pressed it all the time in the beginning (until I got bored of driving into buildings). Still congrats on making a fun and polished game!
Haha! That was a lot of fun. Love what happens when you crash! I don't know how @drury got 62! :-) Nice Work!
That was simple and fun.... The title picture gives the game a lot of additional flair in my opinion :) Using the turbo all the time should maybe be somehow limited and as a next step mayb different kind of stages or new obstacles :)
Cute graphics! I included it in my Ludum Dare 38 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnxqXCwu79k
Hey @superpokeunicorn thanks a lot for the feedback, you're trhowing very cool ideas there. I really like about droping the passengers elsewhere.
thanks everyone for playing and comenting!