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.

Comments17

epic_zeta1 May 2023, 21:54

Very Confusing, hard to understand controls and game. A tutorial could be useful :/

cireneikual2224642 May 2023, 04:01

This definitely needs a tutorial or something, I didn't really know what I was doing at all!

kimauauthor2 May 2023, 09:46

hehe yeah fair, I had no time to balance let alone write an in game tutorial I'll add some text to the description. I thought the side bar text was enough clearly not.

peterfiftyfour2 May 2023, 11:08

This is sick! Love terminal based games and ascii art. I wish there was more to discover and little stories and stuff! Nice entry :)

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!

Triangle Point3 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!

DWink3 May 2023, 01:21

It took me a minute to figure out, but it was so cool! I love the packing mechanic and visual, and something about typing commands to control an army of delivery drones is just so satisfying.

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!!!

the3rdHunter5 May 2023, 02:32

José Bonilla9 May 2023, 04:14

Definitely not my cup of tea, but well done.

LDJam user 3368519 May 2023, 18:24

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

LarsieVL9 May 2023, 18:24

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

kimauauthor9 May 2023, 19:16

Woot! I'm so glad you enjoyed it an managed to deliver all of them

kaliuresis11 May 2023, 04:04

I really like the style of this game. I'm assuming the upgrade and next day commands are planned features that aren't implemented?

DenKa12 May 2023, 03:21

The game is not intuitive at all, and I couldn't figure out what I needed to do. Moreover, I wouldn't say that the gameplay was particularly engaging...

Ixniyevonn13 May 2023, 21:00

Great game! Ranked humour for those 20 minutes of struggling before I read any instructions

Savidiy13 May 2023, 22:31

I didn't immediately understand what to do. But as soon as I figured it out, I liked it. I didn't understand what to do if you try to stuff more packages into the drone than it climbs into, how to cancel?

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