Drone Supervisor II Online
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Async cooperative multiplayer online automation game. With a bit of incremental / idle thrown in. Definitely overscoped.
Warning: You may spend an hour on just the tutorial and the first level, if you're enjoying it. I'm sorry.
Controls: Mouse and keyboard.
Tips
* If you want to play with a specific friend, copy and paste the URL after creating a game, it's got the game/room ID in it.
Links
* HTML5(WebGL): dashingstrike.com/dronesup2/
* Source Code: Jimbly/LD59-drone-supervisor-2
Screenshots
*Development Notes*
This is a sequel to my LD39 entry. _Almost_ all game code was (re-)written from scratch, though I ended up re-using a little more code than I intended (about half of the tutorial, because after seeing the old one, I couldn't imagine what else to write, and some finicky deterministic simulation resolution logic).
This game is _heavily_ inspired by Spry Fox's _Leap Day_. Even more so than _Drone Supervisor I_ was, as with this version I wanted to capture the async cooperative multiplayer aspect of _Leap Day_, so a number of mechanics (such as the real-time revenue) had to change.
My game engine's multiplayer framework did a lot of heavy lifting, though I still spent way more time than I intended just dealing with lobbies, joining and leaving games, etc, and it's still only barely functional.
Up until an hour before the jam ended, the game was more strongly themed on _Signal_s, as the crafting stations required precise timing to work correctly, however the game was just _way_ more fun without that, so now the crafting stations are very forgiving, and Signals are only slightly required (they _are_ the biggest deviation from Drone Supervisor 2's formula).
Tools Used
* Custom Engine: GLOV.js
* Mtn Dew
* ARQ-16 Palette
* Font: 04b03
* 1BITDRAGON
* Aseprite
Also touchups in:
* Audacity
* Photoshop
Warning: You may spend an hour on just the tutorial and the first level, if you're enjoying it. I'm sorry.
Controls: Mouse and keyboard.
Tips
* If you want to play with a specific friend, copy and paste the URL after creating a game, it's got the game/room ID in it.
Links
* HTML5(WebGL): dashingstrike.com/dronesup2/
* Source Code: Jimbly/LD59-drone-supervisor-2
Screenshots
*Development Notes*
This is a sequel to my LD39 entry. _Almost_ all game code was (re-)written from scratch, though I ended up re-using a little more code than I intended (about half of the tutorial, because after seeing the old one, I couldn't imagine what else to write, and some finicky deterministic simulation resolution logic).
This game is _heavily_ inspired by Spry Fox's _Leap Day_. Even more so than _Drone Supervisor I_ was, as with this version I wanted to capture the async cooperative multiplayer aspect of _Leap Day_, so a number of mechanics (such as the real-time revenue) had to change.
My game engine's multiplayer framework did a lot of heavy lifting, though I still spent way more time than I intended just dealing with lobbies, joining and leaving games, etc, and it's still only barely functional.
Up until an hour before the jam ended, the game was more strongly themed on _Signal_s, as the crafting stations required precise timing to work correctly, however the game was just _way_ more fun without that, so now the crafting stations are very forgiving, and Signals are only slightly required (they _are_ the biggest deviation from Drone Supervisor 2's formula).
Tools Used
* Custom Engine: GLOV.js
* Mtn Dew
* ARQ-16 Palette
* Font: 04b03
* 1BITDRAGON
* Aseprite
Also touchups in:
* Audacity
* Photoshop