Perse Auki Aavikolla

co-authored: @jormarysky
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.53
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.08
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.63
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.76
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.61
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.22
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.27

CONTROLS:

TURN: _left/right arrows_

SHOOT: _down arrow_

BOOST: _up arrow_

Instructions


General Knowledge

KLEINTANK: Your trusty ride.

EXHAUST SMOKE: Colour of smoke is indication of your FUEL LEVEL. Fuel level goes down constantly, also taking hits decreases fuel level

SPIKES: Causes ramming damage to enemies

PETE-MONSTER: Your enemy. Drops random loot when destroyed

Pickups

JERRY CAN: Fuel level up

ENGINE: Speed up

NOS BOTTLES: Boost power up

CARBURETOR: Boost cooldown down

COIN: Coin

SHOTGUN: Shotgun

MACHINE-GUN: Machine-gun

GAMEPLAY

You are stuck in a car moving forward constantly, try to kill enemies to get fuel and survive as long as possible! Pickups give upgrades to your car! You can kill enemies by ramming them with your spikes, or by getting a weapon and shooting them.

Our first game with Godot. It was a good learning experience for the workflow of this engine.
ps. restart button has a bug that crashes the game (sometimes)

Comments34

Franciszek Pyrć3 Oct 2023, 05:44
Good entry. One thing I found is that after you get the "gas low" message it's quite difficult to get the fuel to it's previous level. It would also be quite good if you had some sort of visual indicator for it
JormaRysky
JormaRysky3 Oct 2023, 06:46
@dock-frankenstein There is indication of fuel level, it is colour of the exhaust smoke. I will update this page to lessen confusion. I guess we should have put instructions in game though.
LDJam user 268934
LDJam user 2689343 Oct 2023, 08:30
I just had to play when I saw your cover! I really like the idea of the smoke indicator instead of a UI element.
MetaGen3 Oct 2023, 08:36
Yey! Post-Apocalypse bulldozer battle!
This must have been number one if there was In-Game UI. That is the only defect. All other is near perfect.
JormaRysky
JormaRysky3 Oct 2023, 09:57
@senso @metagen Always nice to have two complete opposite comments about our design decisions. Glad you both like the game though.

Interfaceless design is likely to stay though, even if it is bit controversial move. Prefer to keep my screen uncluttered.
Eliyud
Eliyud3 Oct 2023, 14:06
Good game! I just had some issue with controls, but it's not a problem at all. Loved the graphics.
Savolae
Savolae3 Oct 2023, 17:45
Nice one, the style reminds me a lot of some older PC games.
Also to take part on the UI discussion, I also like the interfaceless design.

PS. Hyvän nimen keksitte
minjutin
minjutin3 Oct 2023, 20:42
Has same vibes than Earn to Die -games, which I played a lot as a child for reasons unknown. Good job, I'm proud of you
BinayaS
BinayaS4 Oct 2023, 00:30
Love the style and art you've gone for. Reminds me of metal slug. Only thing I found annoying was the camera. It's a bit too snappy and disorientating for my liking.
Dorren
Dorren4 Oct 2023, 00:39
The crunchy sounds and Snes micromachines style is really sick. Gameplay feels really responsive and overall i really enjoyed it. great job! I did feel a bit disorientated sometimes with how snappy the camera was but I might just be to close to the screen lol.
bucharlardy4 Oct 2023, 10:39
这个美术风格我超喜欢的,就是镜头有点混乱
merdeboi4 Oct 2023, 11:06
Cool retro visuals, had a bit of hard time understanding what going on as there's no health/fuel bars, just voiceovers. Really liked the feel however, fun game.

I'm not sure how well I did :smile:

Edit: right should've read `EXHAUST SMOKE: Colour of smoke is indication of your FUEL LEVEL.`
JormaRysky
JormaRysky4 Oct 2023, 11:18
@merdeboi Little bit above average what I have seen. My personal best is bit under 300, Tutti-Ankka claims he can play it endlessly.
Tutti Ankkaauthor4 Oct 2023, 12:52
Here is a run I did if anyone wants to try and beat it. Don't ask how I managed to get that exact number..
zanagi
zanagi4 Oct 2023, 19:43
I wasn't very good at this game (best score 81) but enjoyed it nonetheless. Nice visuals too. Personally, would've liked that the pickups were more noticable (maybe something like an outline or flashing?). I didn't even realize on my first few playthroughs that the white stick-like things were guns that could be picked up.
All-in-all, great job on the game and congrats on submission!
Harksa
Harksa4 Oct 2023, 20:03
I enjoyed the game but it feels like you can have a game over too quickly and you can't really enjoy it.
The music is nice and the sfx and voice lines are too. I like the art as well, I always enjoy some 16 bits graphics !

At first I wasn't really sure what was the link with the theme but I realised the limited space was the fuel space in the tank (I guess that's it, at least).

Keep up the good work :smile:
oller1254 Oct 2023, 20:12
Quite a fun game. As others have pointed out, it would have been good to see a visual indicator of how much gas is left.
LDJam user 206001
LDJam user 2060014 Oct 2023, 20:15
Very fun. I gave full marks to the sound because the bass melody is fantastic and the sounds are ok. Fun scored high too. But regarding the theme, I didn't find the space limited enough. Overall I gave high marks here, although I didn't make much progress, I shot and ran over some cars insanely for a while, it was fun
Unbugged4 Oct 2023, 20:18
Soundscape is okay. The gas seemed to be quite rare find. Good entry in general. Keep up improving this! Thumbs up for the game title! :thumbsup_tone1: :grin:
Alpie4 Oct 2023, 20:18
This is a very fun one!
Got only to a hundred score

Loved the stylish vehicle designs!
kankje
kankje4 Oct 2023, 20:20
Fun game, though I felt it ended a bit too quickly. Bonus points for excellent name
LDJam user 314224
LDJam user 3142244 Oct 2023, 20:26
Good game, very interested the idea of the smoke
i like the visual of vehicle

Make the camera a little calmer, it's a little too angry
Good job team
Dorren
Dorren4 Oct 2023, 20:32
@jormarysky in reply to what makes the camera feel weird, I think it needs a lerp or some kind of smoothing so its not to snappy. just something to soften it when quickly turning.
Khelian
Khelian5 Oct 2023, 00:26
Very cool mood and graphics, the sound and gameplay act well together too to create this retro, mad maxy vibe!
bucharlardy5 Oct 2023, 05:41
因为你镜头旋转的支点不在车身上,游戏中又需要频繁转动方向,而我的视觉焦点容易放在我自己的车上,这样就导致眼球要随着镜头不断的转动,很不舒服
JormaRysky
JormaRysky5 Oct 2023, 09:51
@dorren @bucharlardy Thank you for your feedback. We will try to implement some kind of camera smoothing, so we can keep slight camera offset but lessen snappy feeling it causes.

In the end it is still very 16-bitty game by design, so modern smoothness is not even target. Some happy medium rather would be nice to find.
Camden Obertop6 Oct 2023, 01:28
I love the pixel art in this game! So beautiful
LDJam user 235915
LDJam user 2359157 Oct 2023, 14:06
Very dynamic retro style game, I like that kind of thing!)
Hawkin
Hawkin10 Oct 2023, 12:14
Super crunchy and retro! I loved the "Mad Max" vibes it gave me. The sound effects you recorded were hilarious. I imagine you put them in as placeholders, which is smart to have something rather than nothing, and never got around to replacing them. Or maybe that was the vibe you were going for! Either way, they were great.

It was a lot of fun driving around the barren landscape, punting enemies, collecting parts and gas, and then finally getting a gun and pummeling them. Something that could have helped the great gameplay was an indication of your current stats: how much fuel remaining, at least. I had to guess by the audio cues, but it made it harder to be prepared (and hunt for gas versus enemies, for example).

Thanks for a great submission!
pkenney
pkenney18 Oct 2023, 05:24
NAILED the aesthetic, great job. The cover art, the slapping music, and those beautiful in-game sprites and backgrounds are all really nice.

Gameplay controls felt solid, and it was nice that I could kill by either ramming or shooting. I think I must have missed how to loop into enough gas to keep the game going. My games often felt like they ended suddenly... even the game where I thought, wow, I am getting so much gas this time, I will live forev-GAMEOVER?!

It didn't matter that much though, because I could just hop back into the fray and keep fighting. I really did wish that I could just restart with the keyboard, and not have to switch over to use the mouse to click through multiple menu screens in this keyboard-only game. I probably would have played twice as long if I could just hit R to restart a new round instantly after viewing my gameover/score. It sounds like a small thing, but I was dying a LOT so I guess that restart loop really impacted me a lot more than the dev getting 666 points! ;)

Overall very nice job. Super impressed by the polish and variety of features here.
JormaRysky
JormaRysky18 Oct 2023, 09:27
@pkenney I think those abruptly ending runs were because we dont have enough feedback for getting hit. Those bullets cause some serious fuel leaks, compared to normal fuel consumption which is not that high. We will implement some damage flash to post jam version and make fuel indicator smoke bigger and more readable.

Faster reload is good suggestions, I agree it needs that (I can't survive too long either)
kuggenhoffen
kuggenhoffen20 Oct 2023, 18:56
Awesome retro feel to the game. Love the voice acting and the game overall is great. Only thing I hoped for was more bullets.. Upea peli :thumbsup:

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