Ludum Dare #49compo

Karuno

by reheated

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.71

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.66

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.84

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.36

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.98

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.77

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.86

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.22

A 2D physics game where you have to build a structure that mines resources and returns them to your home base.

The original idea was to make a Factorio-style automation game with World of Goo style physics. Well, that's out of scope (pretty obvious in retrospect) but I managed to come away with some simple gameplay that sort of works. It's not at all within my comfort zone (first time making a physics game, or making an LD game with Godot), so expect more rough edges than usual.

Tools:
- Game engine + coding environment: Godot
- Graphics: Krita, Aseprite
- Fonts: Roboto (in-game text), Copperplate Gothic Bold and Trebuchet (for titles)
- Audio: Reaper, Surge, OrilRiver, Span, some drum samples from Ghosthack

Post-deadline changes:
- Added support for very high resolution screens

I am grateful to STOOGEBAG for toiling to my right. Observe his terrific submission at https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/filtered 😎

Tools: Aseprite, Godot, Krita

Comments19

Final Act4 Oct 2021, 14:09

Love this i would paly it if its gets more polished!

p-r4 Oct 2021, 14:16

Great music

LDJam user 2379134 Oct 2021, 14:24

Wow. Awesome job. At first I was looking for a "Rotate" button since they instantiate as vertical, but once you pick the pipes up again, you can fling them around anywhere :smile: And I discovered _after_ I built my tower of pipes that the `Miner` is very heavy ... Definitely enjoyable! And feeling a sense of accomplishment after making it to the Stars! Thanks for submitting!

Frankey3334 Oct 2021, 14:37

Had quite fun playing it. Couldn't figure out the purpose of tar balls( I guess for glueing stuff togheter? didn't work much that way ). Otherwise enjoyable quick game. Collected all stars :) .

Rendow5 Oct 2021, 18:31

Loved the concept, cool that you decided to step out of your comfort zone for this game jam! I would have liked to been able to rotate blocks with a button, but otherwise I enjoyed the game. Great job!

Nate9546 Oct 2021, 07:45

Really awesome game, I loved it! I was so excited every time I got a star wondering what it would unlock! It was incredibly satisfying getting a structure completed, I was sad that I had to tear part of it down to route to the next star. I was hoping for a sort of T-junction so that I could have more than 2 lines connected to the base, especially once I got multiple miners! Great job!

doomshmuck6 Oct 2021, 17:08

I assume here that the physics part is to cover the unstable part of the theme, however it made the game really frustrating to play. I felt like I was fighting the physics more than anything. It also took a bit to figure out how the miner worked, but the info pop-ups helped. It maybe would have helped for some more feedback on the miner being disconnected though. Otherwise, it's a unique idea and I like where it was going.

Boon8 Oct 2021, 00:37

This game is incredibly unique! I did find myself fighting with the physics a bit but once I got the hang of connecting the pipes and then not touching them things got a better. Thanks for the fun game! :)

Glen Chang8 Oct 2021, 02:07

It was interesting but I couldn't figure out how the miner worked exactly. I would build a pipeline to some clay and I would have expected that moving the miner to the clay square would have the pipeline suction the clay. But instead I seem that the pipeline didn't really do anything but just be close and I would have to drag the miner to touch the clay then drag it back to touch the base and then it would mine. I see the potential but I would like to see the controls and gameplay get a bit more intuitive.

jusw8510 Oct 2021, 20:13

I liked the graphics, and the music was great! Gameplay wise, trying to rotate and connect the pipes was kinda frustrating though. I did manage to collect the first level and some of the second level before giving up. Having an easier method to manipulate the blocks wouldve been ideal.

pdotjpg11 Oct 2021, 18:53

Surprisingly fun! Contrary to a lot of people giving feedback, I thought the physics-based block placement was pretty intuitive and fun. Compelling gameplay - I thought I'll just get the one star to see what this game is about, but ended up getting up to the infinite blocks. At that point my miner stopped working though. Pipes were all showing connected, miner was close to the blocks, but just wouldn't mine anymore.

And nice music track too!

reheatedauthor12 Oct 2021, 12:22

Thanks for your comments everyone!

@glen-chang Yeah, I realise now that the game doesn't actually explain how to get the miner to work. You have to use pipes to build a path from the bottom of the miner to one of the two sockets in the base. See the picture in the game description above.

@pdotjpg Oh no! Sorry you encountered a bug. Do you remember if you were using a crossover (X-shaped block)? This only crosses the two perpendicular paths, it doesn't join them together, but there's no visual indication of that. Otherwise, I have a block that isn't working properly. Either way I have something to fix after voting is over.

andopp13 Oct 2021, 15:39

A very cool concept, which could be fleshed into a great game with a bit more polish :D

SunnyRx15 Oct 2021, 16:16

I've collected all the stars! It's so much fun!

I can feel that this game play can be expanded to be more fun!

Cedric8615 Oct 2021, 16:17

Really enjoyed this one. Very fitting BGM. Took me a while to get tha hang of it. At first it was very frustrating but after a while as i became better at handling the blocks it started beeing fun. The popups definitely help to understand what to do at first. Overall a very solid entry. Keep it up.

BoroBoro15 Oct 2021, 16:38

Really good game. It fits the theme perfectly, and its really hard to quit once you really get going :laughing:

Fractale15 Oct 2021, 16:52

great game, I love the tutorial, the game is really intuitive. I enjoy the game. rotate 90 with the mouse click can be great to add

ValiantSugar19 Oct 2021, 06:57

Very strange, interesting idea, but need to develop it further, so far not so much. However, the potential is there!

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