Delivery by Cheshyr

made by Cheshyr for LD30 (COMPO)

*** IF THE BUTTONS DON'T WORK ***

Click to another tab, then click back and select the game window. It's an issue with Chrome.

Or, try IE. Both have resolved the issue for me.

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You are part of a delivery service gathering both the strange and mundane for your clients. Learn to recognize the style of resource each planet type provides to save on energy. See how long you can stay in space.

I had more gameplay mapped out, but 48 hours is always shorter than I expect, even after bloodying the hatchet. Point and click, using the new Unity3D 4.6 beta UI tools.

The tuning is wrong, so it's unlikely you'll make it past 1 delivery. Sorry for that.

Web	http://www.diffpair.com/misc/LD30/LD30.html
Source	http://www.diffpair.com/misc/LD30/Delivery_LD30.zip
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=20497

Ratings

Coolness	100%	1
Overall	2.76	977

Audio	2.56	636
Fun	2.53	978
Graphics	2.58	878
Humor	3.00	204
Innovation	2.84	790
Mood	2.83	690
Theme	2.74	870

Feedback

LesInk

25. Aug 2014 · 04:41 UTC

Could not play. Clicked on options Quit and Play and neither did anything.

🎤 Cheshyr

25. Aug 2014 · 04:45 UTC

@LesInk I've been noticing that a lot with all Unity Webplayer games this evening. Very strange. Will see if there's anything I can do on deployment options.

Chris Maire

25. Aug 2014 · 04:46 UTC

I also couldn't click Play or Quit.

🎤 Cheshyr

25. Aug 2014 · 04:51 UTC

I checked on a couple other computers. After the game loads the first time, hit Refresh. That should solve the problems with the new UI elements not registering clicks. Sorry for the trouble.

BloodJohn

25. Aug 2014 · 04:54 UTC

Nice GUI demo. Funny descriptions. Will there be a continuation?

P.S. Many LD Unity games do not work under Chrome. if you run them under IE and it will work.

🎤 Cheshyr

25. Aug 2014 · 05:04 UTC

@BloodJohn Thanks for the tip. That seems to fix the issue as well.

I had quite a bit more planned, in case I made it that far, but in the end I spent too much time re-learning Unity after 8 months away. Didn't even get the planet resources balanced right. :-p I'll consider expanding it as intended depending on the response here.

haveric

25. Aug 2014 · 05:28 UTC

Cool idea, kinda reminds me of an extremely simplified Gazillionaire. I apparently am not good at remembering the types of resources each planet had and was only ever able to make one delivery. Lots of potential though.

Tanner

25. Aug 2014 · 06:24 UTC

Nice and simple.

@TeddyNashor

25. Aug 2014 · 07:38 UTC

One delivery and I lose...I fail at the memorization. Need to use some association like "Red is coolaid"... although I think it was green?... shit this is why I suck at this.

some of the entries were pretty funny, like ritual dagger "only used once" LOL!

Haha, anyway gj!

tiff

25. Aug 2014 · 16:11 UTC

Cute little game, I really enjoyed it.

thedeadlybutter

25. Aug 2014 · 17:33 UTC

Hm, game doesn't load on first open, hangs when I refresh. :/

🎤 Cheshyr

25. Aug 2014 · 17:45 UTC

I'm going to have to recommend IE at this point. I don't know why Chrome doesn't play nice with the Unity Web Player.

goffmog

25. Aug 2014 · 17:57 UTC

This is just really fun to play and oddly addictive, one of the few LD entries I've played that were both simple, yet had some strategy to them. So well presented too, good job!

tbam

28. Aug 2014 · 05:00 UTC

Got to two deliveries. Was pretty fun, decent timekiller

stephenhaney

28. Aug 2014 · 05:59 UTC

Interesting concept... the feeling it gave me is similar to the game where you have to flip over 2 of the same tile at the same time, and turn mis-matches back over.

Just for your info, it worked great in Chrome for me.

rustybroomhandle

28. Aug 2014 · 06:36 UTC

Interesting, but I think some of the items in categories need to more strictly adhere to the category type; some of the items could have gone either way.

🎤 Cheshyr

28. Aug 2014 · 12:50 UTC

Yeah, sorry for that. That content went in during the last 60 minutes. Categories are roughly Mineral, Organic, Tech, and Mysticism, associated with Red, Green, Blue, and Purple base colors.

ZYXer

28. Aug 2014 · 13:30 UTC

Nearly made it to two deliveries... I was just missing one item. :(

It's too bad the tuning is off, I really like the the item-collecting part, reminds me of CCG games. The collecting aspect could be even more interesting if the individual resources had different rarity values. Or if each item had a different weight and you could only carry a certain amount.

The items' descriptions are really funny. Well done!

🎤 Cheshyr

28. Aug 2014 · 14:02 UTC

Thanks. I had a lot of ideas, but I think the two most critical unimplemented features were multiple items per planet (of the same category), and some players influenced small scale energy regeneration mechanism. That would have made the game quite a bit more playable. Next time.

hbocao

29. Aug 2014 · 02:19 UTC

Interesting mechanics, but for me, it felt more randomness than skill. Maybe i just suck haha. Good job, man!

🎤 Cheshyr

29. Aug 2014 · 02:52 UTC

Nah,I screwed it up, and it is a little to random-heavy. Thanks for giving it a shot. :-)

Benjamin

02. Sep 2014 · 13:59 UTC

Do you randomze the item / planets color in the same play between to delivery ? Because I had grain on 2x different colors in the same game ( not same delivery )

🎤 Cheshyr

02. Sep 2014 · 14:34 UTC

The base colors were likely the same. I do randomize the secondary colors of the plants, but each planet has a base color of red, green, blue or purple. I don't believe it's possible for them to overlap, but green and blue can probably get pretty close to each other, and all colors can get pretty close to black.

kristof

02. Sep 2014 · 15:50 UTC

I liked the mood. Didn't figure out at first that it's about remembering colours (because I read your tutorial here afterwards :). The atmosphere kept me clicking through it, though I didn't manage to beat the first stage. Nice idea!

mrexcessive

02. Sep 2014 · 16:48 UTC

Hi there. Love the planets fly into view animation. Very funny selection of products, and their descriptions!

CodeNMore

07. Sep 2014 · 12:05 UTC

This was a neat and simple concept!

porglezomp

15. Sep 2014 · 03:21 UTC

This was really fun! It could make for a perfect mobile app with some more tuning and slightly nicer graphics.

🎤 Cheshyr

15. Sep 2014 · 03:46 UTC

I hadn't considered the mobile possibility. Hrm. Good idea!

osthekake

15. Sep 2014 · 20:09 UTC

I played this a bunch of times, I really enjoyed it. Made it up to 5 deliveries and now I'm going to spend the rest of the night pretending that's a lot. Great work!

kyru

16. Sep 2014 · 00:20 UTC

Neat idea, a little boring but I like what is there.

Cake&Code

16. Sep 2014 · 00:31 UTC

I think this is the one of the few times someone has recommended IE to fix a problem over Chrome. I enjoyed that :)