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Smugglers! by rjhelms

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made by rjhelms for LD30 (JAM)
A game about international cocaine smuggling, in glorious 4-bit color.

Instructions:

Follow the compass at top left to your checkpoints.

WASD/ZQSD/arrows to drive.
LShift or Space for a speed boost.
M to mute/unmute the music.

Built in Unity. Graphics in GIMP. Music in Garageband for iPad. Sound effects in as3sfxr.

Linux and Mac builds are untested at this time. Please let me know if there's any issues with them.

Update Aug 26, 7:15pm Eastern: Added a delay for the splash screens before accepting key presses, so you can't accidentally button mash your way past the win and lose screens.
Web http://rjhelms.itch.io/smugglers
Windows http://rjhelms.itch.io/smugglers-pc-builds?secret=wKQsGV4sEK%2bdTGvDYTr50rV%2bZSs%3d
Mac http://rjhelms.itch.io/smugglers-pc-builds?secret=wKQsGV4sEK%2bdTGvDYTr50rV%2bZSs%3d
Linux http://rjhelms.itch.io/smugglers-pc-builds?secret=wKQsGV4sEK%2bdTGvDYTr50rV%2bZSs%3d
Source https://github.com/rjhelms/LD30/tree/ld48-release
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-30/?action=preview&uid=39055

Ratings

Coolness 82% 2
Overall(Jam) 3.16 424
Audio(Jam) 3.48 181
Fun(Jam) 3.35 208
Graphics(Jam) 3.35 398
Humor(Jam) 2.88 213
Innovation(Jam) 2.62 601
Mood(Jam) 3.16 341
Theme(Jam) 2.54 606

Feedback

Troy
26. Aug 2014 路 02:25 UTC
I really like this game! First of the graphic style is perfect and the music is great, a mini-map would be useful (unless of course it's meant to be hard to find stuff) other than that great entry!
馃帳 rjhelms
26. Aug 2014 路 02:50 UTC
Thanks Troy!

A minimap would have been a great idea - wish I had thought of it, but even if I had there probably wouldn't have been time.
Maxium
26. Aug 2014 路 02:58 UTC
Nice game, the overall presentation was really nostalgic. I also think that a minimap would have been pretty useful, but it wasn't impossible to do well without one.
Lord bobyness
26. Aug 2014 路 03:06 UTC
This is what pacman should have been :)

Normally I would have more to say but my only real qualms were the siren sound and the half hour of my life that I will never get back!

Thanks for making my day.
mramaizng
26. Aug 2014 路 03:07 UTC
Well designed. Music was nice addition.
Satyre
26. Aug 2014 路 03:24 UTC
Nice game. The police is very persistent, though xD. I never could escape.
Moocowsgomoo
26. Aug 2014 路 05:02 UTC
That was really fun, and the commitment to the graphical style is impressive. Nice job!
vividhelix
26. Aug 2014 路 06:19 UTC
Lots of fun, great entry!
pxlcoder
26. Aug 2014 路 12:59 UTC
Loved the visual style and music! Great entry!
Jellycakes
26. Aug 2014 路 13:43 UTC
Really cool, simplistic style. I liked this a lot.
Kerdelos
26. Aug 2014 路 13:49 UTC
Very enjoyed your game ! Quite good music, loved the pursuits, keep on working !
DvigubaiPiktas
26. Aug 2014 路 17:25 UTC
Simple, but quite good game.
pinion
26. Aug 2014 路 17:30 UTC
It got a lot easier once I realised what the compass was for.

Nice game.
Talvara
26. Aug 2014 路 17:30 UTC
it took me a while to figure out the compass was a guide rather than some sort of crazy clock.

when the cops(?) give chase I found it prettymuch impossible to shake them.

there麓s certainly a game in there though!
hogtrick
26. Aug 2014 路 17:32 UTC
Loved your game. One of the best so far. Loved the music and the way the game feels to play.
So hard to avoid enemies >_<
馃帳 rjhelms
26. Aug 2014 路 18:34 UTC
Wow! Thanks so much everybody, I didn't expect this to be this well received - I've never done a game jam or even published a game before.

pinion & Talvara: yeah, I regret not explaining what the compass is for in the instructions. It seemed obvious to me at the time but I realize it's not - maybe putting an "N" at the top of it would also have helped.

Satyre and Talvara: that's what the LShift/Space is for - you'll never ditch them at your normal speed but you can boost to get out of there (though your cash ticks down faster.)
AtomicVikings
26. Aug 2014 路 20:30 UTC
Great work! very fun to drive around and the sound effects were nice :)
TeamQuadratic
27. Aug 2014 路 00:31 UTC
Interesting use of the theme. Fun little game!
Skywilly
27. Aug 2014 路 06:01 UTC
Ahah, i love this little game, the "minimalist GTA", really enjoy the graphics & the music. Nice !
jjhaggar
27. Aug 2014 路 06:14 UTC
I love the mechanics, music and graphics! :D The only "but" is that the theme doesn't seems to fit very well, but appart from that, great job! :D
Tanser
27. Aug 2014 路 09:03 UTC
Cool game :)
Killswitch
27. Aug 2014 路 09:41 UTC
Good game!
wdebowicz
27. Aug 2014 路 15:24 UTC
First time I thought that there is no compass but a clock, and took me a while to find a target ;-) Little hard to fit the theme but Funny game!
John Drury
27. Aug 2014 路 20:54 UTC
Hilariously fun! audio and art is charming. :3
whilefun
30. Aug 2014 路 15:44 UTC
I really enjoyed the graphical style of this game. I found the police/red jeeps a bit too hard in the later stages because they were so magnetic, and once they saw you there was no way to get away really. Some kind of "cop radar" would make this a little more forgiving I think. The music was great also. Nice work overall! :)
Aomeas
03. Sep 2014 路 12:30 UTC
The mood is great, it really feels like an old game! :3
mrspeaker
03. Sep 2014 路 13:40 UTC
This is the highest rating I've given a game so far... perfectly executed in every way! I was not only transported to the world of international drug smugglers, but to the world of SVGA and soundblaster16 cards. Played it for ages. I feel like there could have been a tree or two in the "jungle" (I thought I started in the city!) and it seems unfair that the cops chase you even before you've picked up any drugs: I was just going for a casual drive through the jungle, after all!

Fantastic game, anyhoo. That tune will be in my head all day.
Dohan
11. Sep 2014 路 17:04 UTC
Colors, sounds and the ruthlessness of the cops remind me of the games I used to play a lot of time ago. Great game!