ROLLiE and the Desert Drive
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ROLLiE and the Desert Drive is a tactical battle game about robots in the wasteland, fighting for access to the last good pieces of hardware.
Your limited hard drive space will force you to make hard decisions about which programs to keep, making each loadout and playthrough unique. The enemies you encounter will test your strategic thinking as you deploy chosen programs to counteract theirs and smack 'em.
Can you survive, finish your quest and get the coveted prize?
- 🖰 LMB: Select/pickup/drop a program on a drive 🖴.
- ⌨ SPACE | 🖰 RMB: Rotate program.
Between battles
- 🖰 Left-click to move programs between 🖴 drives. ⌨ SPACE (🖰 RMB) to rotate them.
- Only programs on your hard drive will be available in battle.
- You have many programs and limited space. Chose carefully. With less than 10 programs on the hard drive, you'll also get random basic programs loaded into your RAM.
- Drag a program to the Shredder to get rid of it FOREVER. No refunds!
In battle
- 🖰 Left-click programs to put them from your RAM to an action bar (cache). They will be executed this round.
- Press Play to start the round.
- You will get a new selection of programs each round. If you don't like it, use the Refresh button to get a new selection.
- Defeat your enemy!
Console
- Console will provide you with information about each program when you mouse over it. It will also display feedback in battle.
- Affinity Designer
- Audacity
Everything made from scratch for the jam by the two of us, except for the music track and some of the sound sources (which are from GDC - Game Audio Bundles).
Music: “Oortsche Wolke (ID 80) ” by Lobo Loco under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. Check out Lobo Loco here.
- Included an in-game tutorial.
- Improved program descriptions and tooltips.
- Added missing feedback to some programs.
- Added floating text feedback.
- Added "Fast Combat" switch.
- Added Breach & ZIP programs (cut content).
- Rebalanced some enemies and loot.
- Polished animations.
- Squashed bugs.
- Prettier main menu.
- Fixed .exe icon.
Your limited hard drive space will force you to make hard decisions about which programs to keep, making each loadout and playthrough unique. The enemies you encounter will test your strategic thinking as you deploy chosen programs to counteract theirs and smack 'em.
Can you survive, finish your quest and get the coveted prize?
The Missing Manual
- 🖰 LMB: Select/pickup/drop a program on a drive 🖴.
- ⌨ SPACE | 🖰 RMB: Rotate program.
How to Play
>🛈 Available in game.Between battles
- 🖰 Left-click to move programs between 🖴 drives. ⌨ SPACE (🖰 RMB) to rotate them.
- Only programs on your hard drive will be available in battle.
- You have many programs and limited space. Chose carefully. With less than 10 programs on the hard drive, you'll also get random basic programs loaded into your RAM.
- Drag a program to the Shredder to get rid of it FOREVER. No refunds!
In battle
- 🖰 Left-click programs to put them from your RAM to an action bar (cache). They will be executed this round.
- Press Play to start the round.
- You will get a new selection of programs each round. If you don't like it, use the Refresh button to get a new selection.
- Defeat your enemy!
Console
- Console will provide you with information about each program when you mouse over it. It will also display feedback in battle.
Tools
- Godot 4.1.1- Affinity Designer
- Audacity
Credits
Everything made from scratch for the jam by the two of us, except for the music track and some of the sound sources (which are from GDC - Game Audio Bundles).
Music: “Oortsche Wolke (ID 80) ” by Lobo Loco under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. Check out Lobo Loco here.
Post-Jam Changes
- Included an in-game tutorial.
- Improved program descriptions and tooltips.
- Added missing feedback to some programs.
- Added floating text feedback.
- Added "Fast Combat" switch.
- Added Breach & ZIP programs (cut content).
- Rebalanced some enemies and loot.
- Polished animations.
- Squashed bugs.
- Prettier main menu.
- Fixed .exe icon.