Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD53 → Lame Duck Delivery Service!
By zxeno
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Hi! I tried playing your game on my monitor (4k, 200% windows zoom) but the intro text and the space stations UI was really tiny and barely usable at this resolution unfortunately... I couldn't get very far but your game looks nice, the controls work well, and I loved your presentation <3 Congratulations, welcome back ;)
Game looks nice and mechanics mostly on point, BUUUUT...
You can load your cargo on the first station, pass it there right away... get 300 double dollars. Repeat for how many times you want. Basically without any issue :(
Things to improve other than that are showing that you actually need to load some cargo at the start and showing ingame how much updates cost. And maybe distance to bases (optional?) so we can pick furthest ones by knowing where to fly. Maybe some color coding for distance would do.
Really nice implementation of thrust mechanic by the way. A bit hard to learn at first, but good once you get hang of it. (btw, not sure you did it on purpose - can't rate your game!)
cool little game, the controls feel good, and the upgrade mechanic works fine. The cargo bug was mentioned already, but at least they run out of cargo, so you need to get to another station at some point ;)
Thanks for the feedback! @batisdark I did do a casual entry, which disables the voting. I wasn't concerned all that much about the score, just participation and feedback. :smile: Most of those were things I wanted to get implemented, but just ran out of time.
This is nice! As others have said, it's easy to drop off cargo where you got it, rinse and repeat - but I actually found that that has its own merits, sort of like a clicker/idle game. The space physics are cool, it's nice that you have a marker that shows you your velocity, helps a lot.
It's a cute little game! The graphics are simple but effective, and it is quite amusing to drift around a station trying to get in.
One small bit of feedback that I do have is that when you are in a region without asteroids, because the background doesn't move you can't actually tell whether you're moving. At one point I was holding the brakes to test them out, and almost slammed into an asteroid because I didn't realise they were moving me backwards! :D
I like the vibe of the game and the controls are totally fine with me, but yeah - you can farm on one station endlessly, which kind of kills the enjoyment 'cause there's nothing for you to really do. But a very promising concept, with some polish it could be really fun!
Controlling with one hand feels a bit weird. I wasn't sure what I needed to do exactly. Flying through all the stations or something like that? Graphics are cohesive. Appart from the one hand control that I find frustrating the ship steering (even if challenging) is fun. Good job!
game is really cool but the stations are too far apart with nothing between them
I like the ship controls but it would be nice to get a little more direction or have space be a little more populated. I liked the graphics as well and the sounds. Nice work
It was not that clear what to do in the beginning and the ship's rotation was a bit too slow...
Liked the graphics and the care you had to add some SFX.
PS: I cannot read the in-game tutorial cause it keeps outside of the screen (my PC resolution is 1366x768)
I think this is a good basis for a game. There's not a ton here right now, but what there is is polished and pretty fun. The asteroids ended up not being much of a threat, since they're pretty sparse. The endless farming bug has already been brought up several times but I found it by accident within only a couple minutes of playing.
LD won't let me actually give star ratings. I'm not sure why, but I'll check back later to see if it fixes itself.