We Suck At Deliveries

by blo
co-authored: @thimmythimble
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.19
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.04
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.11
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.65
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.58
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.08
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.26

We Suck At Deliveries!


Suck up and catapult your parcels to higher scores!


This is our first ever Ludum Dare and we are very excited to show you our game!

Objective

You are a duo of parcel couriers, suck up and shoot parcels to deliver your packages to the correct homes!

Houses will display which product they need

Each successful delivery gives you a point! Wrongly delivered parcels deduct them!

Controls

WASD - movement

Q+E - Rotate Camera

Left Click - Shoot Parcel

Right Click - Suck Parcel

Map



Key:

White - House

Black - Road

Icon - Shop

Comments26

thimmythimble2 May 2023, 01:01
if you want to play this in your browser you can do so at thomas-chernaik.github.io/delv

We couldn't get it working as an embed on time :/
professor
professor2 May 2023, 01:26
The graphics in this are great! It is really fun to drive the van and just explore the bright terrain (The smiley faces on the trees was a nice touch).
PixelPocket2 May 2023, 01:30
Absolutely love the art, super cute!
8c4o2 May 2023, 16:15
quirky and with lots of potential
Game-mon2 May 2023, 17:23
Nice game! The art is really nice. I'd suggest having regular 3PS controls for this game (i'd rather rotate the view with the mouse than with Q&E), but that's a minor problem. Overall good job!
Space_Games
Space_Games2 May 2023, 17:51
I love the style of the game! Amazing work to all who made this!
Rakowu
Rakowu2 May 2023, 18:13
I really liked the idea,the art style and the game. Driving the car was fun. Would have been nice if you could turn the camera. It also took me a while to realise that it's not the position of the car with the pipe to the palette that matters, but the mouse cursor (to suck things in).
fidrik
fidrik2 May 2023, 19:09
I like how the bushes have smiley faces, couldnt figure out how to deliver the packages
Shawn Beck
Shawn Beck2 May 2023, 19:20
Super cute and charming. Makes me want to draw smiley faces on everything. The driving mechanic is fun.
MrBamboo
MrBamboo3 May 2023, 03:48
Fun to drive the little car ! Hard to get items. Great try
LDJam user 259103
LDJam user 2591033 May 2023, 04:16
I like the art style, very charming. I found the camera a little awkward; a standard mouse-controlled camera would have worked better in my opinion. I think there should also be a timer of sorts so the game ends after a while and you can try to get a high score.

Nice work :)
ROBOWARRIOR1982
ROBOWARRIOR19823 May 2023, 06:59
First, congrats for your first LD game !

I played several minute and i like the graphics, cute and simple.

I'm surprise the camera is locked into this angle and don't follow the direction where the player go, it's disapointing first.
The map could be help but i didn't see indicator with my position on it, fortunatelly the area is small but this two points are not very "friendly".

Sound is good but no music ? Next time just add cute music free copyright and opting out "audio category". Than can add more mood in your game.

For the rest collect the package and distribute them is not really difficult when you manage with this 2 points (camera,map). If you work on it it can be awesome, for sure.
Meta-link
Meta-link3 May 2023, 15:37
Cool looking game ! It does fit the theme well, but the gameplay is a bit hard to get, especially with the camera. I really loved the atmosphere, good job :slight_smile:
Cheesecube3 May 2023, 22:58
Love the art style! The smiling bushes are especially cute. The controls overall felt nice, even with the weird but surprisingly usable q+e to rotate the camera. The only real issue I have is that it was very finicky sucking in packages. I did not realize it was based on mouse position and not the sucking tube's position until I read someone's comment. Overall though, very good for your first time participating in ludum!
zgragselus4 May 2023, 00:12
The painted art style is neat. I enjoyed driving around and delivered few packages.

Technically - camera is stuck at single angle, while that's not necessarily a bad thing - BUT - there is a map and indicators where the packages are, yet there are no indicators about recipients unless you literally drive to have their house in camera view (note. some of the houses had their request bubble too low, and it wasn't clear what they want). Had to always search for a bit.

Otherwise it was quite nice gameplay.

Congratulations on making a game!
Chris Chen4 May 2023, 01:35
With some more polish this would be really fun! the camera and driving controls were a bit finicky, but otherwise it's a cute and fun game. well done!
alec
alec4 May 2023, 01:56
10/10 game title lol. Like others said the controls were a little finicky. I could see this game design really shining with a more varied environment. For some reason I'm thinking of the city from the old "simpson hit and run" game haha.

Congrats on the first jam submission, great job!
Dongle
Dongle4 May 2023, 02:29
Impressive! You were able to accomplish a substantial amount of work in such a short period of time. Congratulations on your entry, it's certainly something to be proud of. I particularly enjoyed the art direction - it's playful and engaging.

The way you gather and shoot items reminds me of Slime Rancher.
Kitira
Kitira4 May 2023, 17:13
Nice idea and driving around is really fun! I like the smiling bushes soooooo much, they are so cute! I also like the idea of "suck up and shoot parcels". Unfortunately, I could not select what item to shoot, so I were only able to deliver meat... Think I must have overlooked something. But nevertheless it was fun! :)
Erlioniel
Erlioniel4 May 2023, 18:04
Hey guys,

Took a look and overall can't say that I don't like the idea, it's pretty smart and funny. Overall look & feel makes me happy just by fact of having such bushes :smile:

It might require some balance and some time limit / score would be nice to feel it more like a challenging game or something. Also I'm not that sure about that low camera for such game - from time to time driving felt a little bit odd. However I did like to play it, so here is my :thumbsup: for you!
LDJam user 279507
LDJam user 2795077 May 2023, 13:54
Loved the little truck and the ideas there. I also struggled with the camera and controls a fair bit, would have liked to get some solid long-shots on the delivery too but mostly drove up close.
Nice little entry
Doraemon
Doraemon17 May 2023, 02:22
Fantastic game. Love the title, and I had fun driving around :-)
MowPea20 May 2023, 00:17
The game kept crashing Web Player (Mac), but the graphics looked nice and driving felt good too.

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