Salvage Dogs

winter2277 2025-10-07 00:39

Some very fun chaos in there. It was quite hard but I managed to get to a point where I defeated all other enemies, except one who kept spinning in the air. I'm not sure how to get to build mode though, do we need to wait 4 minutes for the timer to run out? The concept of modular vehicles where you can break off chunks of each other in a PvP setting is quite interesting though. I'd love to revisit this game if I had more info on what to do to get to build mode. Cheers!

cameron-dunlap 2025-10-07 00:47

@winter2277 Yeah, you enter a test zone after the 5 minute round (or all other cabins are destroyed). Press X while in the test zone to build. You will have some of the components you've destroyed directly, and all components which have detached from the cabin by extension.

triggthediscovery 2025-10-07 00:50

It's really cool vehicle building tech, but the game doesn't really show it off as well as it could. The 5 minute level timer is kinda killer since the enemy AI gets lost and you just have to wait the timer out. I liked that it was a more experimental concept, jams are a great place for those.

jver422 2025-10-07 01:50

could really use some feedback for scoring hits and being hit

optimatica 2025-10-07 07:40

Building your own battle vehicle is quite a cool concept. To make it feel better, the turning radius of your car should be decreased quite a bit, and the timer shortened.

cisco 2025-10-07 15:39

Amazing graphics and great music! The gameplay is a bit hard, but I’m sure with some tweaking it could improve a lot. Thanks for the game!

tardis2snej 2025-10-07 22:15

Enemmies are too agressive for me haha or maybe I didn't get how to defeat them. I believe I was shooting but it's hard to figure out your progress without any indication if the enemy is hit and how much HP left. Interesting movement though, I like the way cars collide. Cool idea to take away pieces of car, but once you lose your wheels there's nothing else you can do really and have to watch your car being eaten by the others.

cameron-dunlap 2025-10-07 23:14

@cisco Unfortunately, a lot of time was spent on getting fundamental systems like building and car controls to work-- a lot of which made it implausible to nail down the AI, given the state of flux. Half of us were unavailable to do testing and development on Monday, so unfortunately how things are now are how they will be. There's definitely a lot of tweaks that could have been made, and likely would have if more of us were available to work through balance tweaks.

Thank you for trying our game! I thought yours was pretty neat as well (and it also has amazing graphics).

gamesplusjames 2025-10-08 01:48

Wow, there's a lot going on here but it's a really cool idea. Building the vehicle was a lot of fun. I really liked the whole artstyle vibe too. Great job!

ciphereo 2025-10-08 06:42

The model is very detailed. The game is a bit challenging for me, but building the car is a very interesting part.

myezko 2025-10-08 14:57

the camera can go out of bound and getting softlocked is pretty easy. Other than that, pretty good ig

hank-ather 2025-10-09 20:50

This was a super ambitious project, great job on getting it together!

Definitely challenging, it would have been nice to have a 'give up' button or something when you get totally wrecked, rather than just have to wait out the timer unable to do anything.

The art style's great, really dig the low poly low res textures aesthetic!

acartlidge 2025-10-09 23:43

Really cool idea! I love the graphics and the ambition of the game! And the music totally slaps that was awesome. I really I think the round timer was rough, at some point I was just a cabin of the car and I was balanced on an enemy and had to just wait there for 3 minutes lol. Nice work!

dumchevdev 2025-10-10 11:57

Well done! Amazing graphics and great music <3

oxbuddulaj 2025-10-10 13:08

When it's a first round with simple opponents, 5 min is too long because AI are easy to be disassembled or bugged. I had to wait for 3+ min before reaching the next level.

I understood only from the comments how to reach build mode and design my own vehicle. It's not obvious at all neither from the page description, nor from the in-game interface. Looks like you made really cool mechanic - build mode - but hid it behind the lack of UI and the round timer.

Nice vehicle unit design and landscape textures, those are really eye-candy!

Thanks for the game

eugenik 2025-10-10 15:10

groovy game! thanks!.

anthony-dunlap 2025-10-10 15:48

@hank-ather Thanks for the feedback. A lot of ideas were scrapped due to time constraints. Many of the annoyances, such as having to slowly wait for your inevitable demise, were due to a lack of playtesting, as we only had an hour to do so with a feature complete game.

@oxbuddulaj The game is supposed to skip to the next level if all enemies are completely destroyed, but we underestimated how hard it was to actually accomplish that task. In early development, we considered letting the player build at any time, and spawning enemies in waves, but had to stick to a build phase due to how abusable it would be to build during combat.

liu-qinying 2025-10-11 03:21

great！

ryusui 2025-10-11 04:45

Feels really unfinished? Mostly I found myself driving around and shooting at enemies to no effect (enemies kept shooting at me, too, but they didn't really do anything either).

Eventually I got stuck on a piece of terrain and had to wait out the timer which...took me to a desert with a "press ESC to skip" prompt? And then another level started, and I realized the game doesn't have an in-game menu or anything so I had to Alt+F4 to exit.

The vehicle controls are likewise frustrating. It's impossible to effectively give chase because it handles like a block of granite pushed around on an icy surface: acceleration and deceleration take forever, and your turning radius is less reminiscent of some kind of speedy post-apocalyptic death kart and more of the RMS Titanic.

If there was a collecting/building game in here, I didn't see it, and I've got no idea where it would've been.

samuli 2025-10-13 20:47

I was not able to kill any enemies. I shot them as much as they shot me, but just I kept getting destroyed. :(

yibirabbit007 2025-10-15 13:48

Bug report

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It seems the map has a lot of these pits. I just accidentally fell into one, and then a car came after me. I couldn't save myself through any actions, which is frustrating.