Ludum Dare #42compo

Puzzled Parcels

by hammers

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.61

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.50

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.46

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.76

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.61

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.80

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.91

Deliver parcels as quick as you can! Get a combo bonus by making multiple drop offs in a row! Stack up the parcels as tight as you can!

Press E at the indicated buildings to pick up parcels by dragging them onto your truck. Drop them off at the indicated buildings by dragging them back off again.

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Controls
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WASD - Drive

E - Pick-up/Drop off parcels

Mouse - Drag to move parcels

Left Click - Rotate parcels

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Stuff not made by me:
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Font - Londrina - https://www.dafont.com/londrina.font?l[]=10&l[]=1

~~Music - SwingJeDing - RoccoW - http://freemusicarchive.org/music/RoccoW/_1035/RoccoW_-__-_04_SwingJeDing~~

(As pointed out below I probably shouldn't have included any 3rd party music so the build no longer has this in!)

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Slight confession: The car controller script is the example one from the Unity Standard Assets pack, which I had every intention of replacing with something of my own making! But alas the perils of jam time management got the better of me. I hope you can forgive me!

Tags: #arcade, #driving

Genres: action, puzzle

Tools: Unity

Comments22

jackou13 Aug 2018, 11:21

Cool entry! The car sometimes felt a little more drifty then I wanted to - probably a little fast for the street width. Overall really great job! I like the graphics and the main game mechanic.

HTMichaeL13 Aug 2018, 11:24

OMG I love it! Music is on point and the game play was great and frantic. Loved it!

TDog13 Aug 2018, 11:25

Cool little game

Fryderider13 Aug 2018, 11:45

Probably my favorite entry so far! The car is super hard to control, but that just makes it more fun to play :).

Good job!

Whismirk13 Aug 2018, 19:39

I don't think you're allowed to use third party music for the compo... (but I may be wrong)

Other than that, neat game ! The physics are very funny, and even the car control is hilarious.

Hammersauthor13 Aug 2018, 20:10

@whismirk Yeah I realise all compo stuff needs to be made by me in the weekend. But that's why I listed it as not being mine and excused myself from the audio voting. Added it in at the last minute as I figured it would be nicer than just an annoying exhaust noise for 3 mins XD

But you're right, I've gone and had a better look at the rules and it was probably a bit cheeky so I'm just putting up a build now without the music :)

Glad you enjoyed it anyway!

Hammersauthor13 Aug 2018, 20:12

@jackou @fryderider Yep would really have loved to have made the car controls just a bit more tight and arcady (though not too much as I feel the akwardness is half the fun!), but alas it's just another thing on the big list of stuff that didn't get done before the end as usual. Glad you both enjoyed!

Enver Arco14 Aug 2018, 20:11

Very very nice. Car controls were a little difficult. But the overall gameplay and idea was solid

Nam Nguyen15 Aug 2018, 00:30

The car is too hard to control, which is mainly because the camera is static while the control is map on the car, so player needs to constantly readjusting to the new angle of the control. It could be fun for a rage game, but I see that you are combining this with a puzzle, and the rage-like racing element dominates the puzzle. First, it makes your game less fit with the theme, or like its an after thought. Second, when you work on the puzzle, you actually lose time, which is said to be the ultimate goal. This might make the puzzle even less important. Maybe if you can load cargos on the truck without overlapping, you get extra time, that should be more than the time lost on arranging the items. Sorry I got carried away with the technical stuffs. Anyway, fun game, I got a bit frustrated but I guess thats the point right haha
Nice graphics btw!

Hammersauthor15 Aug 2018, 07:45

@nam-nguyen Thanks for all the thoughtful feedback. Yep as *everyone* has said, the car controls definitely needed improvement and it was on the big list of things to get done hehe.

Time going down while arranging items was a design decision as it's supposed to add to the frantic nature, and mean you're less likely to perfectly arrange things. It's a nice idea to give extra time for perfect arrangement though. Maybe I could give bonus time/points for creating certain shapes in your truck...

Anyway thanks for playing!

bemmu15 Aug 2018, 12:23

The best game out of the ~10 I've rated so far. Driving is always fun, and major innovation points for being able to rearrange the insides of the car. That's actually a big part of deliveries and I doubt any game has taken it into account yet.

OadT15 Aug 2018, 12:24

As already said the car is difficult to drive, but I saw it more as part of the game and thought the physics are funny. Overall cool entry, I like your idea.

Rs11s21n15 Aug 2018, 12:29

it's really cool but weird! XD i love the car physics and hate it! XD and your game have problems with hit boxes too +when i rotate figure in car it go out of car sometimes) anyway nice donne!

Hammersauthor15 Aug 2018, 12:45

@bemmu Aww thanks! Glad you enjoyed!

@oadt Cheers! Glad you saw the fun in the awful controls XD

@rs11s21n Haha thanks for coming to check mine out. Looks like we do share some issues >_

Rs11s21n15 Aug 2018, 12:57

@hammers XD but you more cool! you in 3d! >W

Alexey Akulovich15 Aug 2018, 13:27

As cool! An opportunity to break down lampposts - is fine. This is one of the best Compo games of this LD for me.

Hammersauthor15 Aug 2018, 13:33

@alexey-akulovich Thanks

Dave Grey15 Aug 2018, 14:32

Excellent, really cool concept, took me back to playing old Amiga driving games.

Red Pill17 Aug 2018, 08:33

Like the lamppost tipping over and the overall look of it, but it is quite hard to steer and pressing E did not work very well. Couldn't deliver more than 1 package because of this.

Willbl3pic19 Aug 2018, 12:47

This game has potential: the core gameplay is good and the graphics and sound are too. I also loved how the lampposts and traffic lights would fall over when you hit them. However, the controls are frustratingly difficult.

Rafael Endo21 Aug 2018, 12:36

Good game!

Have good fun time, only the control are too clumsy. If have more things to hit and see flying like a disastrous driver maybe I see more fun than frustratrion on drive the truckm but still need a little ajustament.

Beside that, no more complain or sugestion. Good Work!.

TheCrittersCove22 Aug 2018, 21:19

I liked the concept of this game, not so much the controls. A shame you didn't get around to making your own car controller script.

Otherwise, the aesthetics are simple, but effective. While the sound effects work, it sounds like I'm driving a derby car.

Other games by @hammers

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