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Rocket Fast Delivery

By garlic and mrHelo

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall7553.4222
Fun3943.6222
Innovation8803.0021
Theme1424.3421
Graphics9343.0222
Audio6982.7222
Humor6762.9420
Mood10042.9720

Comments

maxigianetti 2023-05-02 19:07

Cool game, i had fun playing it. don“t know if you made it on purpose for the pace of the game or not, but jump gives you a massive speed boost

obe-dot 2023-05-02 19:09

This is surprisingly fun!

remi-v 2023-05-02 19:09

Hello, I tried your game, but it said to "push the button to start the first wave", but no button seem to start this first wave.

joaopbax 2023-05-02 19:10

The idea, vfx and feel are all great. Just needed lil more polish.

valyn-tyler 2023-05-02 19:11

Your HTML build seems to not be working at the moment. Don't worry, you can fix it by zipping add of your files instead of just the root file (Meaning have the index.html file be directly in the .zip folder)

carkh 2023-05-02 19:11

3d Game... It works, theme is followed. Bit of a negative with player movement, I had a hard time walking on the planks. Walls are blocking movement instead of "sliding". I'm not quite sure why there are several doors of the same color.

cosmogonicfrog 2023-05-02 19:26

Love the rocket jumping! I'm glad there's time between waves to just jump around because that was the most fun for me. As others have said I found that there were a couple of weird collision issues including getting stuck between a plank and a wall. I also noticed you lose all upwards momentum when you hit a horizontal wall. That may be intended but it took away a bit of the satisfaction of the movement in my opinion. It also started to slow down when the number of robots got high.

I had fun with it though and managed to make it to the top of the big building by rocket jumping up the side of it :grin:. We need more dedicated rocket jumping games!

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generalflunder 2023-05-02 19:32

Nice and simple game loop. The rocket jump mechanic was a lot of fun! I feel like the robots were too fast and blocked me every time I tried to rocket jump away.

Good job!

anguium 2023-05-02 20:37

Always fun using a rocket jump, especially when paired with pizza. Definitely needs some balance and visual tweaks but those are hard to nail fully in a jam! Overall loved zooming around in the sky delivering some zaaa. :smiley:

garlic 2023-05-03 09:24

@remi-v Hey, there's a button in front of you right when you start. You need to walk up to it and press `E` while aiming at it.

garlic 2023-05-03 09:26

@valyn-tyler Hello, yes I left a note at the top of the description. You can download a Windows build provided in the downloads section.

valyn-tyler 2023-05-03 11:51

@garlic Hi, I just meant that (at least in my case) I was able to solve the HTML error by correctly zipping the folder. Sorry if your issue is not as easy to fix :/

garlic 2023-05-03 13:04

@valyn-tyler Ohh I get it now. Even if we would be able to solve the issue this way, the HTML export actually causes the robots to lag even more than usual, so we'd prefer people to download it anyway.

greenphox 2023-05-03 13:47

very nice one! I enjoyed it very much, especially being way faster than the robots, was quite satisfying. Nice mechanics, and simple. Well done!

mpk90 2023-05-04 20:27

I played until wave 21 and then chose suicide. At the end it was said that I killed 0 robots, which is not true. It was a very fun experience and I played the game longer than almost any other Ludum Dare game. Please name your zip folder better next time: same name.png

island-jam-2-group-3 2023-05-12 19:53

At first it seems easy but then you are surrounded by lots of hungry robots and no rockets :-/ xDD Cool entry, had a lot of fun jumping around! Congrats!

shp 2023-05-12 20:04

rocket jumping around was really fun, kind of wish i didn't have to search for all the doors but there was some sign posting where they are, but otherwise I had a great time

jozef 2023-05-13 14:34

Cool game! It was fun moving around in the world while dodging the robots, although it was a little clunky getting up to the green door on a tiny ledge with walls preventing you from moving. Shooting mechanics were very satisfying though!

tommo120 2023-05-13 17:12

Very fun movement mechanics! Had a lot of fun with this one :) Made it to round 17. Counters at the end are broken though, said I only made 125 coins and killed 0 robots?

I feel like the later stages had too many robots; nothing to do with it being too hard, but being too easy. They all sort of started to break down when there were over a certain amount. Not sure if it was the pathfinding that was buggered or something else, but it got to a point where I could stand still and not worry because pretty much all of them were stuck.

Really great game though!

patatenouille 2023-05-13 20:50

The first few attempts were difficult to get into, forgot to pickup the boxes, took my time to turn around and look for doors until I was stuck between robots, basically that a few times.

But then... I started mastering the rocket jump and it started to be pretty fun !

Zipping around the level, finding alternate doors and better/easier routes, timing the jumps perfectly to get to each door directly, etc.

Although the enemies were only a danger if I stopped in the same place for a while at that point, as I was able to move to anywhere very quickly. And that only became easier as the number of enemies increased throughout the waves, which turns out makes the pathfinding much slower, so by wave 10-15 the enemies found their paths after I had already left, it also felt like they took more time to attack me when I was nearby.

It also made a dent in the framerate, although it wasn't too bad it was still harder to nail the tight timing jumps, like from the ground to the overpass highway or the building top green door. I was going for those for style points but started going for the ground alternatives then.

Reached wave 30, by that point the lag was quite bad though, I had a lot of pizza boxes lying around, as wave 23 repeats and you can't pickup the boxes anymore, but they still spawn for every wave.

Lastly, I'm not sure if the regen health option in the shop is broken or has special condition, but I could not buy it.

To close it off I climbed to the top of the gigantic building by rocket boosting on the side multiple times and was thinking "hey there must be an easter egg up there !", there wasn't, thought I at least had a cool screenshot to share, but saw someone posted nearly the exact same above, oh well :joy: except mine is from wave 30 with a mess of boxes on the ground so still posting it haha Capture.PNG

kanity 2023-05-15 13:11

Didn't realize at first what to do and just spent all my ammo jumping around and finding doors, then read the comments and found the button to start the waves. Time limit makes it stressful but I like the mechanics of jumping around, and the colour of doors is very vivid so you can't miss them, that's really nice ^^ You sure put a lot of work into constructing this room with all the passages and the rocket jump mechanic as well :)