Ancient Mechanic

by sn0uk
Hi, this is my game for Ludum Dare.

Hopefully you enjoy it and give me some feedback. I uploaded it 4 hours early because of time.

This game is a sandbox ancient vehicle builder, for then to work you need to have a chasis, a motor, and atleast one of the parts.

You can have fun playing around in the Q menu, or maybe experience ragdoll physics in sliw motion? Who knows? Who will ever know? Hmmm. Myseries....

To play the sandbox you need to have atleast these three components in the scene: A chasis, a motor and a seat/wheel.

To place thrusters you need: A motor

Controls:
Q - More Options
Space - Pause
Z - Hover over the object and press Z to delete it
+ - Make time move faster
- - Make time move slower
Right Click - Rotate
Left Click - Place

Enjoy?

Music Update! Pushed an update invluding music, It's a shortish loop but it's not bad: I don't know ANY music theory.

Comments17

Kalibrated29 Aug 2016, 08:00
Couldn't figure out how to start. Would love to try again because the graphics look interesting. Could you give a small text tutorial?
sn0uk
sn0ukauthor29 Aug 2016, 11:42
Kalibrated, you need to click on things like the chasis on the right side and then click in the viewport
JK5000
JK500029 Aug 2016, 12:33
I have pressed all the buttons and all kinds of places on the screen and there doesn't seem to happen anything.
sn0uk
sn0ukauthor29 Aug 2016, 12:46
@JK5000 You've got to click play while you have a motor, seat or wheel, and a chasis.
JK5000
JK500029 Aug 2016, 12:52
How do I get a motor, seat/wheel and a chasis?
DiegoCTorguet
DiegoCTorguet29 Aug 2016, 14:36
It's hard to know how to play correctly at first. But after a while a manage to build my own vehicle and have some fun with the advanced options.
I would make it brighter and the main thing you should work with is finding how the player must learn to play your game.
Anyway, good job and keep working!
onyon
onyon29 Aug 2016, 17:16
Neat art, cool game. Thumbs up!
sn0uk
sn0ukauthor29 Aug 2016, 18:47
@JK500 on the right with the UI.
sn0uk
sn0ukauthor29 Aug 2016, 18:48
@DiegoCTorguet Thanks! I'll keep this in mind for next LD. I thought people would find it easy to learn, but I guess not :D
asteryz29 Aug 2016, 19:23
Nice! I was thinking of making a game about Leonardo Da Vinci's flying machines! But I went another route because I thought it would be to hard! I'm glad you made something similar to what I was thinking about!
A little more info on how to play in the description would be helpfull though.
lordvorath29 Aug 2016, 19:33
Extremely ambitious, probably too much for a 48 hour long game jam, although i admire the hard work. Seriously, i do.
The game is too dark, it's very hard to see and understand what you're doing in my opinion. The mouse also really needs to be of a lighter color.
In general there is a certain lack of feedback to the player as to what is happening.
Also: typos (just kidding)
Amine Tcherak
Amine Tcherak29 Aug 2016, 22:05
Very Nice i love your Game Good Works )=
sn0uk
sn0ukauthor29 Aug 2016, 22:11
@asteryz Thanks for the feedback! I probably should have made a tutorial
sn0uk
sn0ukauthor29 Aug 2016, 22:14
@lordvorath Thank you for the feedback, Im glad you like ghe idea, and this was technicially my first publicly released game so it means a lot for you to give such detail, I will definately make sure I cover things next jam, and as for darkness, I have a different colour vibrance to other people, and I completely forgot to testt the game without it. However there is a headlight in the props tab which you can place (incase you didnt see it!)
sn0uk
sn0ukauthor29 Aug 2016, 22:15
@Amine Tcherak Thanks for the feedback!

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