Crank Shot - A Playdate game!

by affinitychris

co-authored: @ezaudio, @geekarious-tony, @kilthorne

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.30

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.07

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.41

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.71

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.39

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.05

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.81

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.07

Howdy, welcome to Crank Shot!

In this gallery shooter for the Playdate, you will help your small town out by delivering the package to the big city. Watch out for the rough n' tumblers or they'll send ya to the bone orchard.

Hop on that train, and get to the city lickety split. It should prove to be a hog-killin' time.

Controls

- D Pad | Aim
- Crank | Fire

Creators

- Chris Weiss
- Eddie Zak
- Nathan Kilthorne!
- Tony Leyva

To play Crank Shot follow the link and download the Playdate SDK here: https://play.date/dev/
Inside you'll find the Playdate simulator (in "PlaydateSDK\bin\PlaydateSimulator.exe")! Just unzip the .zip file and drag and drop the .PDX file onto the simulator app for it to play!

(For simulator players, we recommend setting the "auto-crank" control, just so you don't have to fuss with the lack of a crank :smile:)

Yee-Haw! :cowboy:

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Comments19

SquidGod1 May 2023, 23:22

Wow a Playdate game for Ludum Dare! I knew I had to try it when I saw this. Played it on device and it was pretty fun. I did find that cranking while using the d-pad at the same time was a bit tough on my hands (wondering how using accelerometer to control movement might work instead) and that there wasn't much consequence to continuously cranking, but overall nice work!

Sevla2 May 2023, 00:04

i didn't rate it, but when i tried to install the playdate, the windows try to block it, so i didn't go foward.

Geekarious Tony2 May 2023, 00:07

Thank you @squidgod ! So glad you got a chance to play our game. Thank you for the kind words!

We definitely want to add an overheat mechanic to the game. Hopefully we can toss that in down the line.

Hora-Timer2 May 2023, 00:22

Very good! I love the nostalgia of old games

AffinityChrisauthor2 May 2023, 04:04

Hey, thanks @squidgod! We owe you a ton for helping us learn the ways of developing with the Playdate SDK :) Really appreciate the kind words!

uNclear Physicist2 May 2023, 17:52

Great to see a Playdate game here, good job guys!

LDJam user 2574385 May 2023, 04:47

Great thing man! A game for playdate
But you can't expect everyone to have a playdate and for me the SDK didn't work!!!

Try a windows port and I will try!

AffinityChrisauthor5 May 2023, 04:53

Ah, thanks for the feedback @random-ideation-studios - we'll have to check the SDK again, they _just_ put out a new update, so it's possible that something wasn't compatible :worried: - Oh, just to make sure, you _do_ need to unzip the file before dropping it into the Playdate simulator (figured I'd mention it in case that step was missed!)

Poppy Entertainment5 May 2023, 07:31

i love the playdate as a "game engine" or whatever. the game is fun and even tho is kinda hard to play on the simulator, i still enjoyed it

Mastoast5 May 2023, 10:49

First time ever playing a playddate game, it was really good ! looks like a great tool to work on for a game jam scope.
I think the game could be more interesting if the difficulty increased over time (i'm not sure if that's already the case or not). I stopped after 100 , and i didn't felt any progression in the level.
Otherwise, nice music and graphics

RenardGames5 May 2023, 11:13

Unfortunately couldn't figure out how to put it on the simulator

Codexzier5 May 2023, 18:21

Too bad I don't have one of those. I would load it immediately. :thumbsup:

Phoenix Fireflower5 May 2023, 21:00

Didn't except to play a game on a Game Boy-esque simulator this game jam, but this was pretty fun. The music was great, too.

ardorugus7 May 2023, 05:17

Cool style!

YurisCat7 May 2023, 05:45

I really like this retro art style. It reminds me of the memories when I used to play those monochrome game consoles long, long ago.

Ryder the First7 May 2023, 23:20

I think this game is very cute, though it's very difficult from a pure PC player... If I had a playdate I'd love to give this a real shot!

NicMagnier8 May 2023, 19:57

Cool entry. I tried it on device and for 173.
As SquidGo said, this is a bit difficult to control the aim, hold the console and turn the crank at the same time.
The difficulty curve takes also a bit too long to pick up and suddenly multiple enemies can appear at the same time.
But overall this is really cool. The art is neat and easy to read. The scale animation when enemies appear works really well.

WilliamSoares12 May 2023, 18:53

The game is very beautiful, but I downloaded the zip and I didn't find the game.

Brigart14 May 2023, 20:04

I love this art, reminds me retro games from my childhood