Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD53 → Delivery Boy
By waptaincaffles, Skillpoint and TofuCat
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 105 | 4.12 | 105 | |
| Fun | 97 | 4.06 | 105 | |
| Innovation | 473 | 3.48 | 103 | |
| Theme | 33 | 4.52 | 104 | |
| Graphics | 192 | 4.28 | 105 | |
| Audio | 160 | 3.96 | 104 | |
| Humor | 150 | 3.88 | 103 | |
| Mood | 274 | 3.87 | 101 |
This was great guys! Such a simple concept, yet so well executed. I loved the little details you provided to the player. For example, the little arrow/gps pointing to the correct house.
Graphics and audio was an absolute blast. Love the positive vibes! As for me, this is a very solid entry indeed.
Definitely captures the feeling of being a Skip The Dishes driver and wanting to pick up deliveries as fast as possible! Was chaotic and fun.
The graphics and music were good. I think the one thing I'd like is when skipping dialogue it would be nice if the first press of a button revealed the rest of what the character was saying and the second press moved on to the next message.
Great work!
Funny game. Thank you. I would like to have compass)
So simple, but very thematic. I feel like there are some Grubhub drivers having Vietnam-style flashbacks while playing, or maybe just luxuriating in the rain of literal cash with each delivery and wishing for the same in real life. In any case, good work!
$1161! Great concept for a game and great environment art! I loved the little details included everywhere, from the businesses having names to the (A) being highlighted in (A)ccept order. My only complaint would be the camera was a bit too quick, and I ended up getting confused or disoriented once in a while. Other than that, a great entry!
Great work! Simple concept but done so well! I love the philip J Fry model
Great game, the graphics and music are really good, and the mechanics are simple but effective. Would love to see a harder level.
Wait, I know that guy! Great game, it feels very polished, I love the pseudo voices and amazing pixel art! The phone constantly ringing is very stressing, which is great for this type of game. I could clear the leaderboard at the end of the game, is that intentional or does it only affect my score?
@fluburbio yeah it was intentional, the scores are all local anyway, so don't worry about clearing it if you want to.
@alexander-tan @fluburbio haha! Any resemblance to a well-known character is purely coincidental ;) his name is 'Boy' he doesn't know anybody called Fry who may or may not also be a well known delivery boy.
We're very glad you enjoyed one of our little easter eggs :)
Great game, nicely polished. Only thing I would change is somehow indicating which delivery is "more pressing" in the game world (vs just on the phone.) Otherwise, very fun, feels like a 2d platformer version of Crazy Taxi.
Cool energic game! i really liked playing. it would (maybe) be cool to port game on phones and release on play market) I think a lot people will like to play it)
Really polished and lovely. No complaints, I had fun. Great work folks :)
Its Fray! Such a beautiful art!
That was really fun! I got $2080. It surprised me at first just how fast Boy moved, but I quickly put on my platformers hat and blitzed through it as fast as possible. That was great fun, just the right level of frantic intensity, and the time limit stopped it from dragging on too long. Great game!
All last minute updates have been made and uploaded to itch.io. We really hope you enjoy our game as much as we're enjoying playing all of yours! We are very tired now. This was a very fun first Ludum Dare!
Score 1796. Very hypnotising/addicting! Once I figured it out I was hooked! I would probably have jumping on s or something, but space was serviceable. The split brain multitasking + navigation activated some fun parts of my brain. These travelling salesman games are the best IMO. Best execution as well. Best game I played yet. Thank you.
Also the music and sound is on point. Graphics are serviceable, though a bit noisy between environment and game-specific content, but still, an exercise for the eyes isn't a bad thing.
Really fun, the graphics and audio were amazing. Found the game very hard to play using the arrow keys rather then W,A,S,D but was still fun. Very chaotic. A great game.
Impressive! Everything about this game is so polished. Amazing you pulled that off in such a short time.
A really good take on the theme. I like how "boy" is recognisable as a popular character too! I found the phone going off all of the time to be a bit anxiety inducing! Overall quite fun!
Just great! It was kind of hard for me to see the markers, maybe an outline could help. Great fun! And yes Futurama!
Very inovative idea, and a nice gameplay loop. Very polished! Well done ^^
Simple and efficient concept. Fit the theme. Well executed. Controls are great, very punchy, witch fit this kind of game. Not sure it is useful that we can die in hole... I would prefer some 'enemies' that make you loose money. Overall, neat game. Great job.
Fun take on the theme, loved the fry look a like! Gameplay reminded my of oldschool 2D sidescroller which I loved! Nice entry!
Awesome! Best of the 10 or so I've played so far - really clean presentation, fun movement, just enough going on to make you feel busy (answering the phone, jumping about) but not overwhelmed. Really solid, nice work!!
Well done, quite fun and the art is wonderful. Nice increment of difficulty
I had fun, the game pace and difficulty was just right, and I liked the little humor diddly at the beginning. But... I didn't want to mention this since no one else did but... maybe I was just unlucky but there's a bug where boy won't land on the platform. It's okay, Unity does that often...
@twowolf oh no! That's not good! It's definitely not something we have come across yet, we'll for sure look out for it. Thank you :)
Great game! It was a lot of fun (and stress). Well polished, tutorial was clean and simple with the right amount of info. Art style and music fit this type of game perfectly, I liked the little detail at the end when the music gets faster.
One of the best of the jam so far, good job! :)
Great game with a nice amount of polish for a game jam. Basically every aspect delivered, from sound to graphics to gameplay :smile:
Really fun game, as others have said the pace and difficulty were spot on. Loved the humour at the beginning and it had a satisfying gameplay loop. Highest I could get was 1864. I did find that once I realised falling off the platform was an instant game over I stopped taking my chances on the edge coins though. Great music and art too, all around an enjoyable game!
Grate one. I dont have any issues with this, so 5 stars, i liked visuals, sound design, and gameloop of course, good job.
Nicest-looking game I've played so far this jam, awesome job!
Great game! I liked the sound and graphics as well as mechanics implemented. The game looks really polished. Keep it up!
Fast, colorful, kinda funny and tight controls. Overall a really nice little simple game. Perfectly scoped, and I think 99% nailed.
I have some minor gripes about the camera being a bit of a headache inducer, and I think maybe the sounds were just a little over the top. But they are definitely minor gripes, really great job nailing the simple fast paced platformer concept.
Would love to see more juice next time! VFX! particles! explosions!
The art is amazing and the gameplay is fun.
Wow, it's so much fun to play. Solid work for a jam. Top marks.
Funny and cute game! I really love pixel art style^^ Dialogs are awesome!!! I really love BOSS character. He is gnarled xd
Mechanics are insane! It was really fun to deliver orders because every time i dead☠ Great job!
Fun game! The pixel art looks great!
1860$ in the bank, nice! very fun little game, the graphics and audio combined are adding a lot to the feel of it. i also really enjoyed the smooth controls. the gameplay itself doesn't have that much variety but nonetheless is pretty fun not gonna lie. btw i actually almost never looked and the phone and just accepted orders after the sound and because the map isn't that big just ran around and clicked D wherever i could
Had lots of fun. Graphics are great, love the pixelart.
This was really fun to play. I love the inspiration for boy's look. I like the arcade/platformer type take. The fact that you have to answer the phone while running around was a real nice touch to the overall gameplay. Well done
I like the story and the art style! It was pretty fun to play, especially with the phone.
1824 Dollars, I am RICH!!! I wish you could earn that in a day of deliveries haha
very fun game :)
great pixxelart and audio! simple mechanics but such an addictive gameloop :D
I don't know what the high score world record is, but I just might have it. $3239
Lovely game! The artwork is stellar. (and you play as good ol' fry from Futurama)
I recorded myself playing the game to *deliver* maximum feedback:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Msx3VNpQY2c
@100th-coin WOW I literally can't believe you managed that score hahaha, the best I got was $2630, and I thought that I'd never beat that, well done!
__Edit:__ Ok I can believe it, after watching your video, now it's processed, I love how you maximum use of the coins and taking the time to squeeze them in between deliveries, I think you might have found the best strat for the highest score :D
@100th-coin wow! I really enjoyed watching you play this and getting to see your reaction in real time. Also, you've scored wayyyy higher than we have and we basically have memorised the locations of the restaurants and houses... kudos! Delivery boy extraordinaire!
Great submission! This is a perfect scope for a game jam game and very well exececuted. For my tired eyes and hands the gameplay was a bit hectic, I had trouble following the camera with my eyes, but that's probably still from sleep deprevation due to the jam :)
@endocrine-bamsc I feel like it would be more strategic to make a relaxing game for all the exhausted jammers haha. Maybe next time 😅
Fantastic little game. The anxious pace and constant ringing of the phone really did nail the mood. Clever use of the theme without any glaring issues. I think I got fastest death record, but on the second attempt got $2100. Really nice work!
Great game! Love the graphics and the idea behind it. I had a lot of fun playing. Love it!
Great game! Simple and on-point for the theme. I like the way the delivery boy controls and how easily you can accept new deliveries - simple controls and a clear objective means you can really zone-out can get absorbed into the game.
OMG This game is so GOOD! The boss breaking the 4th wall just for the sake of the tutorial was really funny to me and the falling off scream was amazing! The gameplay is really good, it does get repetitive after a while but still for a one time experience its amazing! The art style was very cute too! The only bad thing i have to say is the tutorial just being walls of text. I think these type of tutorials are very lazy but concidering the quality of the game and the time limit it's acceptable. I wish luck for your future projects!
Really cool game, loved the art and the idea, i had a great time playing it
Fun little game, got quite challenging. At first I was not sure how to navigate the map, jumping on roofs of houses would have been fun. The colors are very saturated, which made the game a bit intense for me in full screen mode. Good job!
Funny nice game. I like this concept. Graphics is nice and fit with music and sounds. Good job with dialog system and tutorial with boss. When I read message I think "wow it can be hard to click this and do this", but later when I started play I think it is very good control system. Very easy but with nice gameplay. Good job :)
I really liked the game! very fun, well polished, didn't find any bugs, visually very beautiful, sound is good, gameplay very good.
Wow, this is really frantic and engaging! Very cool having to manage navigation and accepting orders. Gets quite challenging the further you go. I wish the tutorial wasn't just walls of text because it can be easy to skip through and forget what you have to do but once I got the hang of it it was really fun.
I loved the audio particularly; the first time I fell off the edge I lol'd
my only nitpick is that as a left handed gamer, I was a lil sad to have to use the arrow keys with my right hand :(
Ha, enjoyed this one quite a bit. It would be great to amp up the challenge over time, maybe, adding more distant locations or making you plan a bit to manage the timing instead of just running around sa fast as possible and completing the tasks.
Good job!
This game is absolutely amazing! We'll definitely come back and play again later.
Cool entry! nice art, mechanics and sounds, feels like a retro game, sometimes I have problems to find the places to deliver but I enjoy it, cool effects with the money and the sound when you fall is very funny lol, great job!
This was fun. Really hectic trying to get to the next order and juggle everything.
Fun game! I love the intro and the overall gameplay is very smooth. I wish the floor on the edge can be a bit longer as it's a bit too slippery to not fall. Love the visual too!
I have to say, this is a simple but really great game. I love the pressure of the ringing phone, even though I can't seem to get a very high score, haha. I can't believe those guys above can get higher than 2500 score, but there is still a lot of fun!"
Simple and addictive, I love it! Just add some form of player progression and i'll buy this game in a heartbeat!
Nicely done! A bit hectic at first, but easy to get the hang of after a couple tries. You definitely managed to capture the stressfulness of a crappy delivery job haha. My best was $2,563. The dialogue was funny and you introduced the game well, and the gameplay felt good. My one suggestion would be to move the navigation arrow closer to the player, because it was a bit inconvenient to try to look over at where to go while you're moving around. Overall great work!
This was a very well executed idea with adorable aesthetic and satisfying game-feel! I did notice a recurring bug where I get stuck, but it's so minor that my score is virtually unaffected (I just needed to click off screen and back). All-in-all, Awesome entry ^~^ Dash.PNG
@100th-coin I got 3240 lol
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@ausstein we have a new employee of the month! That's amazing!
and here is the video proof, took some time to render to youtube :)
Also in the first run in the video i get stuck for a while and can't move, I had that bug several times while playing, so you might want to look into that :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUsWYskjaYI
Hey @ausstein could you please provide some timestamps regarding your video so I can take a closer look? And maybe just a bit more detail about exactly happened? I can then try and take a look.
@waptaincaffles
0:15 Stuck Bug
2:30 High Score Run starts
@ausstein I SEE!! I've never encountered that in the whole time play testing, how strange, I can try and debug it, lets see... I have some ideas.
@waptaincaffles I was spamming A and D the whole time, not sure if that effected anything, also I might have hit jump before actually landing. so adding coyote time to the jump inputs might be a solution
@ausstein we already have coyote time, I think it's because we have a box collider on each of the tiles, rather than combining the colliders into one big one, so you may have fallen right between 2 tiles haha, that's my assumption, and should be easy enough to fix. __Thankyou for your feedback and help! :D__
Really great job, the art is awesome ! :v: The ringing phone made me panic at the end, love how accurate the pressure is transcribed ahah !
This game is really fun! I played a few times to try to get a good score. It's a very solid arcade-like experience. Your character bears a shocking resemblance to a pizza delivery boy in a certain franchise... what a coincidence! The gameplay is solid and hectic, I like how you have to hit A and D while you're trying to move around at full speed. Great job!
@aurailus thank you so much for playing our game on stream last night! You were very sweet! You did so well, too, I was worried it wouldn't be accessible for you because of the keyboard you were using. If we were to develop the game further, we would definitely bear that in mind. Also, thankyou for coming back to leave a comment, much appreciated <3
@tofucat All things considered, the keyboard layout actually worked well for me! It was definitely a bit cursed but it didn't impact my playing experience. And even if it did, I wouldn't hold it against you, it's not your fault that I interface with my computer weirdly :heart:
Wow! That's a great entry! I am amazed at all the details you have incorporated into your game: the graphics are beautiful, the tutorial is smart and funny, gameplay is really nice (although with stress i mixed up A and D a lot, or spammed both) and you even made the music speeds up at the end. I'm really impressed you managed to make all this in such a short time. Most important: it was really fun to play. Well done!
OMG! What an addictive game!
The pixel art is simply divine and I loved the little details: the money splash, the musical notes when the phone is rigging, the smartphone interface... Seriously, very nice.
Question: Your character was inspired in Fry, from Futurama? I found them very similar :point_down:
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@joao-marcello haha, yes! We're all big Futurama fans. When decided to name our game Delivery Boy, it was suggested that we give him the same colour features as Fry to show our appreciation for our favourite cartoon delivery boy. Then when I was designing him, I couldn't help but also giving him the hair flick at the front, too.
My name does not fit on the scoreboard :( bade game. Okay no, jokes aside the game is really fun the music is catchy the intro was fun and the pixelart is very charming. One small points though i quite often ran past the "collect" markers because they blend in very easaly with the background whene you are tryiong to go fast which can be a bit annoying. Other than that is was a very well polished expreience ^^
that was really fun to play! feels great and controls are nice! (bonus points for having every possible key for advancing dialog :D) art is cute and my god the UI is well made! incredible how you guys managed to make this! good work :3
Simple, fun and extremely polished - great entry! Bonus points because I also like Futurama 😄
Very simple and classic delivery type of game, but fast, snappy and intense. Felt good to move and the constant calls to deliver at different places made it always on the move like a real delivery job.
I did find that I could just spam A and D all the time to instantly pickup and then randomly run around the map delivering whatever was nearer.
But fun submission nonetheless!
@waptaincaffles Oh yeah there is coyote time :D part of the reason why the movement feels so good for sure :) I tried to reproduce the bug, got it a few more times, but I haven't found a consistent setup. I can say for sure it does not have to do with spamming any of the buttons as I managed to get it without that, so I think the collider thing is likely :)
Super fun and easy to play game. Great entry, I see you took time to implement all the stuff that make platformer controls so smooth. It's super fun nand juicy to play. Great job !
@ausstein I would like to patch this out, but I don't know if it's within the rules to do this? It's not entirely a game breaking bug, but is definitely something that would improve the experience I think. I'm conflicted!
The Rules say
"Certain Bug Fixes are allowed. You can’t add new features, but if something broke or didn’t work correctly as you were finishing up, you can fix this after the deadline. You are asked to highlight the changes you make in your submission (a short change log). You probably wont get a 2nd chance with some players, but at least it wont be a problem for future players."
so this is fine I think
My highest was $1632. I know I can do better. And the best part is I want to keep trying. But the phone ringing got me stressed out, so I need a break. :sweat_smile:
This is so FANTASTIC!!! The art, music, sound, game loop is so cohesive! It's super fun and addicting.
The controls are nice and snappy.
Originally, one of the ideas I thought about trying was along the lines of being an uber driver. Picking up orders etc. And this might be the closest thing I've played to that... but far exceeds it!!
You really nailed the frantic-ness of taking orders and delivering stuff at the same time. It's so great.
Also, falling to your death might be one of the most painful ways to fail. :grimacing: :rofl:
@ausstein / @pazzi HOPEFULLY you should no longer encounter the bug where you get stuck, just deployed a bug fix.
@waptaincaffles I regret to inform you that the fix doesn't seem to have worked, I just tried the game out and got stuck just to the left of the coffee shop. I saw you were conflicted about fixing it in the first place, but I'd say that getting stuck on the level geometry and being unable to move is pretty game-breaking. (Another note: what I usually do wrt. bug fixes is keep the unpatched version up on a separate site, so if players want to play and rate the original jam submission, they have that option, or they can play the patched version if they prefer.)
I still really loved this game, though. It's so simple, yet ends up being so frantic as the orders keep coming in and you're dashing back and forth trying to fulfil them in time. The art, music, and sound effects all have a perfect retro charm to them that really helps tie the whole thing together. And the delivery boy looks awfully familiar... :thinking:
Good job!
Awesome game, wasnt sure about the controls at first but they were actually very intuitive
Best game i've seen so far here. Everything is great. Good job, guys!
Fast, funny, a little bit crazy, but overall so good! Can't imagine how people beating 3k or something per day, I was a bit sick beating 1700, but people like challenges, and this one is pretty challenging.
The art style is adorable as well, so here is my :thumbsup: for the result, guys!
Really fun! Thoughts on making the delivery/collection automatic (no need for pressing the 'A', just need to walk by the location)? Additional feature that could be fun would be an live opponent :) could also be fun to code a bot!
@avi we had discussions about this actually :D the auto collect and delivery. I think we settled with the controls because we wanted to create more of a challenge and make things more hectic, it also plays on the feedback response with the button press and the sfx/vfx, which we thought was satisfying. We are seriously considering developing this game further after the jam ends, and make a full game of it, these sorta things could be within a options / difficulty setting I suppose.
Overall great game, I'm glad I've found it. My only problem was that the hitboxes are a bit weird, and for this, the punishing when falling down is a bit too harsh in my opinion. The conrols are smooth otherwise, and it's a nice touch to make the sound of the characters like in Celeste. Great entry, nicely done
Great entry! I found it a super fun and interesting game, art is undoubtedly a strong point. I really found the sound effect of the incoming order annoying, I think that a simple buzzing sound or maybe an incoming message would be enough, since the sound of the order is playing constantly covering even the music and the rest of the effects. Good job! Congratulations! xD
Cool game and great pixel art! If you decide to push this game further, my only suggestion would be to edit or replace the phone ringing sound effect. As someone who's sensitive to high-pitched noises, I found it a bit grating after a while.
I like the graphics! The pixel based graphics look really good in this type of game. One minor issue though is I'm so used to the WASD controls in games so having arrow keys only feels a little strange. Maybe you could add support for WASD as well and change the "Accept Order" and "Collect / Deliver" to something else? Other than that small thing the game is really nice, great job!
Fun game! The graphics are cute, I like the music as well. The controls and the movement feel good and the quests are plentiful. Good job, pretty good game overall!
Awesome art, love the Philip J. Fry inspired player character! Lots of polish in the game; the cell phone menu is super juicy and it looks amazing
appreciate the Futurama reference! this gam works so well, it doesn't reinvents the wheel, but very polished and has great game feel. nice job! the art is super nice as well
Very juicy gameplay. A little stress inducing though haha. There's not much I found to critique. Graphics and sound effects work together well. I suppose the ringtone could be something less annoying but it works in the spirit of the game :D.