Ludum Dare #51compo

ADHDroids

by snakemuho

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.24

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.74

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.52

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.93

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.74

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.69

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.75

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.14

![logo2.png](https://snakemuho.itch.io/adhdroids)

Playable on web and downloable for Windows

The ship has crashed and so did its AI.

Most of the control units are dead and have to be repaired.
The problem is, the AI is glitching out and switches the controllable unit every 10 seconds.

Gather resources, bring them to the central control station and craft other units to gather other resources to bring them to the central control station to escape.

Collect 10 of each resource at the central control station to escape.

////The ADHDroids are:

Chris, specializes in crystals:
![Cris.gif](https://snakemuho.itch.io/adhdroids)

Mel, specializes in metals:
![Mel.gif](https://snakemuho.itch.io/adhdroids)

Walt, very fast, specializes in water:
![Walt.gif](https://snakemuho.itch.io/adhdroids)

Grace, digs dirt very fast, specializes in grass:
![Grace.gif](https://snakemuho.itch.io/adhdroids)

Matt, can take a few hits, specializes in meat gathering:
![Matt.gif](https://snakemuho.itch.io/adhdroids)

////Control station:

Located in the middle of the map

Stores resources and heals the unit (on Right Click)

Crafts Droids (on E)

Can be launched into space with 10 of each resources collected

////Controls:

WASD to move

Left Click to gather and attack

Right Click near control station to store resources and heal

E to open and close crafting menu near control station

////World Map:

bugs fixed after deadline: particles spawning with wrong colors, screen switch not playing static animation, music not switching in sync

October the 5th fixes: restart button on death, characters sometimes not moving after others dying, screenshake not working sometimes

Tags: #2d, #aliens, #crafting, #pixel art, #robots, #sci-fi, #short, #time attack

Genres: survival

Tools: Unity

Comments15

Frib3 Oct 2022, 18:06

Neat mechanic! Love the theme changes on each robot. Good stuff! I missed an in-game map, but saw it on the itch page so it was all good.

snakemuhoauthor3 Oct 2022, 22:10

@frib thanks! I was planning on adding the map, but ran out of time before I could implement it

AnxiousGameDev4 Oct 2022, 07:15

Interesting idea for switching the characters, I like that you had to remember what each was doing. It was a bit buggy for me - I guess my robots died (but there wasn't much indication) so every time it "switched" back to the same one. Then there seemed to be no ending when the last one died (think you failed to account how bad I am at the game :smile: ). But you did a great job on the sprites. One of the best looking games I've seen in the Comp.

snakemuhoauthor4 Oct 2022, 11:59

@anxiousgamedev Yeah, when a character dies, the game plays a sound and tries to switch to another character, and if just one remains, you still get a chance to collect some resources and rebuild broken ones at the station.

:sweat: I completely forgot about the restart button, I guess the workaround would be to pause the game (on Esc), go back to menu and start again, then pause and unpause again.

Castitatis4 Oct 2022, 15:58

I could only play 2 robots, was that normal?

snakemuhoauthor4 Oct 2022, 19:48

@castitatis yes, you have to craft other ones at the station

CodSalmon5 Oct 2022, 08:06

I believe I encountered a bug where Mel could no longer mine Metal after the Red droid (Chris?) died. Other than that, I like the idea of switching between Droids every 10 seconds. I'm not a huge fan of the crafting gameplay, but it was engaging to try to figure out how to get things done quickly and remember what my plans were for each droid when switching back. It seems like the optimal strategy is just to have a droid mine enough resources to escape the planet and build the other droids, build the next droid, then have the droid who has mined everything get killed so you don't have to worry about them anymore.

StesProject5 Oct 2022, 09:43

Interesting concept and fun game! 😁

LDJam user 2788275 Oct 2022, 10:22

Cool concept and fun!! I love collecting resource games, and it was a great version of it. The robots were cute as hell and using the same melody with different vsts was genius in general, but also as a time saver for the jam. On the negatives, I had absolutely no idea why my little guys were getting hurt, just sometimes they would suddenly die seemingly from nothing. Also the end game can drag since you mostly have all teh other resources you need, and are waiting for it to cycle to meat or whatever to finish it off
Overall I loved the entry though!

snakemuhoauthor5 Oct 2022, 12:05

@codsalmon thanks! You're right, I missed the bug where characters sometimes can stop moving when others die, I'll try to fix it. Your optimal strategy is pretty much intended :full_moon_with_face:

@stesproject appreciate it :smile:

@bosco thank you! My camshake is very glitchy and doesn't trigger most of the time (including when you get hurt), I'll look into it. The endgame can be speed up by the strategy @codsalmon mentioned :new_moon_with_face:

Rs11s21n6 Oct 2022, 21:33

Interesting idea. But i feel like 10 sec is not right option for this game. Any way nice entri!

confusedsoph9 Oct 2022, 01:18

The control station seemingly stopped working when I tried to put in resources?

Ben Barsdell9 Oct 2022, 01:36

This is an interesting resource gathering game. I got up to a green robot, but it became very tedious after that waiting for the other characters' turns (which I didn't need) and then desperately trying to collect grass in 10 secs before waiting again. I also kept getting lost, and had some robots randomly die, so I didn't end up finishing it unfortunately. But it's an interesting concept and I like the art and music. Nice work!

LDJam user 25983111 Oct 2022, 16:35

Nice game! I like the idea of switching between the characters every 10 seconds but I did end up finding it a little tedious to just have to wait to cycle back to the character I need.