Ludum Dare #53compo

Infant Interceptor

by voidraizer

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.45

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.83

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.17

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.17

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.83

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.60

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.71

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.45

Objective

Patrol as an ambulance with the sole objective of delivering new moms to the hospital before new moms deliver their babies.

Controls

W/S - Forward/Reverse

A/D - Left/Right

Spacebar - Brake

F - Toggle Siren

I recommend expanding the full screen when playing. That's how it was originally intended. I did shrink the UI elements a bunch to make them fit on the smaller WebGL5 player. As a result, they may be a bit small in fullscreen.

Instructions

Follow the baby icons to locate the building where their soon-to-be mother is housed. If you can't find any babies, scan the edges of the screen for little icons.

If you can't find the red loading zone, the floating yellow arrows should indicate where it is (back side of the building).

Enjoy delivering babies

Tools: Unity

Comments15

jakeblake1 May 2023, 03:47

The slurp sound effect on pickup was 10/10. I enjoyed the isometric art style as well.

Wahooney1 May 2023, 09:43

I can't play the game, before it can load I get this error message in the brower: Unable to parse Build/Build.framework.js.gz! This can happen if build compression was enabled but web server hosting the content was misconfigured to not serve the file with HTTP Response Header "Content-Encoding: gzip" present. Check browser Console and Devtools Network tab to debug.

Tried reinstalling multiple times, tested in the Itch.io app and Firefox.

LDJam user 2374131 May 2023, 10:46

Cool game with neat graphics and sound effects.
I found the ambulance a bit of a pain to drive and I think I lost some babies on the way back to the hospital? oops. Great work

Castitatis1 May 2023, 14:09

Really nice graphics and the audio is awesome haha

theguy2 May 2023, 22:57

The interpretation of the theme is quite unique, if you think about "Delivering a baby" in its double meaning here.
The interface is well designed and makes it clear what to do.

My only criticism would be that it is very easy to get caught on a tree, would be fun to drive through them and destroy them.

Other than that, good job!

Krash3 May 2023, 01:09

This game was hilarious and super cute. The first time I turned on the siren I actually laughed out loud. the graphics were really nice but the controls were a little funky.

ThaProfesional6 May 2023, 13:36

Really cool graphics I really liked how buildings disappeared (leaving their foundations) when I drove behind them.

Liked the scoring system and enjoyed trying to work out the best path to get around.

Music and sound effects were phenomenal. Realised there was a siren after my first play-through so did another run just to listed to it as I drove around.

Driving felt a tiny bit stiff - and so did crashing into stuff. I liked that it added to the challenge but with a bit of tuning I think it could be really slick.

Oh and I'm really happy someone made a "delivering babies" themed game. I know there's probably more but I haven't found them yet.

voidraizerauthor17 May 2023, 03:55

Thanks for all the feedback!

quadtree17 May 2023, 08:46

Pretty nice graphics. I did end up running into a lot of stuff, and I was never sure what the siren did, though.

bentglasstube18 May 2023, 00:27

This was my favorite entry so far. I love the graphics which remind me of those old city play mats from my childhood. The sound effects and music were also very fun, and went well with the aesthetic of the game. The controls were a bit challenging and sometimes I couldn't really see what I was hitting. These are just minor gripes with an overall excellent game.

Gardenovena18 May 2023, 01:26

Hilarious and fun! While this somewhat a straight-forward driving game at its base, a lot of good choices were made to make it super enjoyable. Obviously the humor is great (audio especially). I was really grateful for additions like the buildings disappearing, arrows, floating directional symbols, these types of things are often low priority for jam games but really decrease frustration and improve enjoyment. Cheers!

ardorugus18 May 2023, 02:56

I actually liked this one very much. It's soft and mellow and have a good mood to it despite the hospital thing. Cool tune, and the F-siren reminds me a bit of Pink Floyd's line "we don't need no education", which feels quite appropriate here. Great concept, thanks for the entry!