Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD38 → Planet04
By geck0
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 523 | 3.13 | 40 | |
| Fun | 460 | 3.00 | 41 | |
| Innovation | 460 | 2.97 | 40 | |
| Theme | 232 | 3.71 | 41 | |
| Graphics | 427 | 3.38 | 41 | |
| Audio | 1 | |||
| Humor | 327 | 2.75 | 38 | |
| Mood | 501 | 3.00 | 40 |
The game is fun and challenging. Only two observations: - The way to turn the truck is hard some times. - I think I don't understand how deliveries work exactly. I only pick all the possible materials and I let them in the bases as fast as I can, but the deliveries don't dissapear in that moment. Maybe a better explanation would be nice.
Challenging game. The controls are a bit screwed up, specially the way the truck turns left and right. Maybe the time is too short to deliver for someone who is learning how to play the game, and the different delivery zones should be better explained, in my opinion.
But overall, good game, and good job!
First things first: very cool visuals! The lighting and overall consistency can be improved, but the planet and trees were pretty nice.
The biggest flaw for me was the controls, sometimes I couldn't turn around properly and I ended up losing orders in the last second. Talking about this, I think the game can benefit massively from some color indicators for the direction of the delivery zones (or maybe something more subtle can work too?).
Nice models and environment. A pretty cool concept too, it was quite frantic trying to rush around to fulful all the orders.
As others have mentioned, the controls can behave a bit strangely, especially at slow speeds but they are ok once you get used to them. I think the orders stay on the screen after they have been completed though. It'd be nice if they disappeared once you have delivered the parts so you can see which orders you still need to do.
Good job for a weekend's work! :)
Thanks for comments guys!!
Added info about issues in the description.
About the hard control for some people: This is a FEATURE, because you can’t turn immediatly with a truck/car in real life, you need to make a certain curve while you go forward/back. BUT this movement is really better in editor, I don’t know why the hell this is fucked when I package the game :(
And the other thing, orders who don't disappear, I can't reproduce this bug, my orders always do that :S :(
Wow man why didn't you upload the game on itch.io or gamejolt or whatever? Mega was not the best option. But I wanted to play it very hard so I downloaded it even from that website. Music is great. What about controls... Hm, it could be a good feature in racing game. But when you try to turn your car in panic 5 seconds before the end of the game - it feels really frustrating to me. But still it's a good job - I felt a joy when I moved really fast. It could be a good racing game.
I like the idea and the graphics. The music was also very pleasant. Added to the sense of urgency but wasn't overwhelming. I am also having the same problem with orders not disappearing when filled (Window 7 x64). On the upside, I can fill and order multiple times. On the downside, I always get hit with the penalty. Makes for a pretty hard game! Driving controls were a bit of a mess, but, ya know, welcome to LD, lol.
Good looking and enjoyable game! The visuals look beautiful and are consitent (Have seen a lot games already which mixed up so many styles) The gameplay also worked out well besides that car turning. This sometimes didn't work so well and I messed up my deliveries :D I know you already mentioned that the controls some how get fucked up when you build the game. Pretty weird but I think you can fix this and hey this is Ludum Dare, every game has some issues :) For 72 Hours it's a pretty good result! Be satisfied mate :)
Cheers
i like the graphics so much! reminds me of the small planet in dragon ball xD gameplay could go deeper if u have time for further development!
Loved the graphics. Navigating to the resources and zones was tricky. Constantly got lost, but that just added to the mayhem. When my inventory was full, I wasn't able to gather rock and just kept losing contracts :( Controls were fine :P Nice music!
Nice job, my main issues are its a little laggy and a tad difficult to control but its still an interesting approach! The theme is also spot on!
Cool game, and incredible graphics that add nice mood to the game. Good job.
The execution is quite solid, although the game is somewhat extremely frustrating to me as a player (at least from the beginning). Without any idea where to search for resources and time going out - you basically end up having few dozens of loses before you are able to deliver something (e.g. before you are able to play the game).
The timers should be a lot more forgiving from the start, otherwise a lot of players will instantly quit, as no one likes to lose multiple times in a row. Once you get your hands on controls and around the map it gets a lot better and game gets really enjoyable.
Controls of the car are somewhat strange - it doesn't behave as a car to me (steering, etc.), but it suits arcade nature of the game.
The graphics look good for a jam version, and the innovation is there. Good entry, although with very steep starting curve.
Nice concept and environment execution. Truck was hard to control, particularly for me it seemed to slide to the sides, and very limited time on quickly stacking up orders didn't help much. After some rebalancing could definitely see it working - maybe some expansion upon basic idea, with selectable orders, upgrades for your vehicle, some sim elements like buying fuel, etc?
good job I liked how challenging the game was.
I played this on Livestream Today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr-ZBj_dJa4
The controls were a bit wonky, and it might have messed up my stream a little bit. (Not necessarily your fault, Jam games aren't really intended to be streamed). I think the Camera and controls could use some work, they're a bit rigid and difficult to maneuver.
To drive a truck for a little ball - that's what I love!
Solid nice explore and drive game. Good smooth curve for, and at the end I had a good feel for where everything was. The curving world was pretty cool to. Improvement points: nicer handling in corners, some things to avoid maybe.
Nice, fun little game with solid gameplay and mechanics. It was really cool to go around exploring the world, racing around in the car.
It was at first kind of wierd the way you handled turning, but I got used to it fast and it wasn't really a problem.
Graphics were good, it was pleasant just driving around, thought the lighting seemed a bit wierd at first.
Also, the camera could have been made better by making it not stick with the car so much.
Other than that, all in all a nice fun little game.
The game was really fun, but the controls were a bit weird.
That was fun and really challenging. It might have been a good idea to make the timer slower. It was kind of laggy. It looked nice and the truck was cute.
It's a bit difficult for what it is. It's really, really hard to steer. It probably would be funner if it was easier to navigate around and complete the orders. Also, there's so little time to finish the orders. I could only finish one order, and that was after a lot of practice, and starting at the spawning area for the ore, and lining myself up with the wood spawning area, and even then, it was a close call.