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Ambulance Drifter

By strange-nebula, BriceGraulier and Puddy

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall10173.5730
Fun4573.7229
Innovation7373.5330
Theme564.3330
Graphics11023.7130
Audio5353.6427
Humor4113.5928
Mood8273.6030

Comments

donitz 2020-04-21 10:44

I like the GTA physics. Like a micro-GTA.

megaqueijo 2020-04-21 17:52

We tried the two player mode it was really hard to keep the patients alive but we had fun! Great job!

sndsgood 2020-04-21 18:07

I loved this! Great idea, controls are super fun - had fun playing the objectives, and a couple of runs just drifting about the streets. Music was enjoyable too!

rikitaner 2020-04-21 21:48

I love the pixelated graphics (always a fan of those) and the physics are fun. It takes a while to get used to the controls, but when you do it's fun!

ohfiddlediddle 2020-04-22 08:03

Very fun, and cool concept. :) I got 20 on my first try and 31 on my second try. My only suggestion would be that it would have been great if it popped up with what I had to do for each patient, because it's hard to remember. So if I picked up a yellow patient it would say "DRIVE SAFE" or something like that.

Anyway, well done, and keep up the great work. :D

owen-rees 2020-04-22 08:11

I manange to get a score of 8 on my first try. This game is great, I love the "arcadey" car physics and the music and pixel is good too. Overall a great entry! Good job!

snarkusius 2020-04-22 08:13

love the old school game design and fel

strange-nebula 2020-04-22 08:21

Thank you all for your comments :D During playtests many friends told us the game was too hard and we thought about adding "easy", "normal" and "hard" modes. We'll make an update for this and some other minor stuff. Btw @ohfiddlediddle I really like your suggestion, maybe we'll add it ;)

helen 2020-04-22 08:36

Funny idea :) nice graphics and music. At first I had some difficulties driving but then I rescued some people :)

kriss 2020-04-22 14:48

Cool old style graphic / gameplay!

chocolat-endive 2020-04-22 15:11

Always love some pico8! Graphics and controls/physics are great, it'f fun (I did'nt try multiplayer, but multiplayer only means more fun in this kind of game).

I would have love if patients location was more random.

I agree with @ohfiddlediddle suggestion.

puddy 2020-04-22 16:53

Hey, thanks everyone for the kind words! I'm glad everyone seems to be having a decent time with what we put out there. Working on the music was fun, it's good to hear that it doesn't seem to sound too busy or distracting!

izokia 2020-04-23 01:42

This game really works and feels great! I Love circling the map drifting rather than playing the game XD. Doesnt mean the main game isn't fun though. Fits the theme well and adds to it with great art work. Love what you guys did!

Problems: Sometimes the controls don't register (arrow keys... this may be due to my laptop being old, but I'm not too sure). Not enough time to save patients. NEEDS a baby mode for me

yy404 2020-04-23 14:46

Do love the art design! Had such fun although it is hard to drive the ambulance:)

bricegraulier 2020-04-25 09:49

@izokia You got your baby mode ;)

number6406 2020-04-26 18:32

I'm very bad at this game, but it's great :grin:

I like the low-pixel style (is it correct to say that? :thinking: ), but I think it's reaaaally hard to drive this saopy ambulance... I killed like half my patients :rofl:

Nice entry anyway, it respects the theme and the overall is great!

rojola 2020-04-28 09:56

I am lousy driver so I had some hard time to keep the ambulance going into right direction. Simple game but there was some deep mechanics about how to drive depending of different sorts of injuries being delivered. Some more sounds effects would have been fun too :)

amkingtrp 2020-04-28 12:33

In two minds about the graphics; on one hand it's a nice chunky pixel design like I grew up with decades ago, on the other hand I found it difficult to see the patients. Maybe some flagging of some description might help (e.g. a pulsing green circle). Gameplay-wise; it's like a lowres 2d Crazy Taxi, which is brilliant. I ended up ignoring what I was supposed to be doing and just speeding around the map.