Drone Delivery

by kimau

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.07

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.57

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.64

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.98

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.61

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.97

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.12

How to Play

1. Select Drone with arrow keys and press CTRL
2. Type "load" to go into loading mode (not failed commands will show all possible commands)
3. In the loading screen select a parcel with CTRL
4. Place package with arrow keys then press CTRL to load
5. Repeat until happy then type "deploy" to send out the drone

RINSE AND REPEAT until al packages are delivered
* Drones will break if they run out of battery
* Pay attention to package weight, size and target pos

Dev Notes

This is a simple drone dispatch game which was going to be more graphical but I was coding without a mouse while selling books at a convention so I peeled back to a text interface and I really like the vibe I got with it. It's not balanced but the game does have an end, how fast can you deliver the packages. I also finished logic to make sure it is always possible to finish the random deliveries with the drones generated.

All controls are with arrow keys + ctrl and some text commands.
Defo an idea I want to explore more in the future but not with a text interface. Still love the text ui vibe.

Comments3

LDJam user 2997573 May 2023, 01:19

Love the terminal style games and having to put in command codes, so much fun and makes me feel so badass! Great game!

LDJam user 2874245 May 2023, 02:32

Very cool game! I love the terminal style with ascii art. It was a bit confusing at first, but with the instructions on the jam page and some poking around I was able to get the hang of it. Except for unselecting a package. It seemed like once I had chosen one to try to load onto the drone, I was kinda stuck with it. Maybe I just couldn't find the 'de-select' key. Other than that small issue I thought this was awesome! Great work!!!

LDJam user 3368519 May 2023, 18:24

I really enjoyed it once figured out i felt like a hacker but with drones