Planet Taxi by Marin0104
Hey Ludum folks, we hope you enjoy our entry. This is our first submit to a ludum dare! :smile:
Planet Taxi is a game about the only taxi driver on Planet Taxi. Give your passengers a lift to get:tada: and :moneybag:! Watch out for their happiness. The more happy your passengers are, the more happy you will be :moneywithwings:. If one passenger is extremely unhappy with your service - you've failed. Be the taxi driver the planet deserve!
Thank you very much for playing this game. We hope you had fun playing it! :smile:
Links
You can download the game on itch.io
What's next?
We decided to improve and polish this game in the future. In addition we want to add things like: - Car Customization and Upgrades - Day night cycle - Achievements - Conversations with the passengers to get the passenger more or less happy :smile: - Traffic - Multiplayer
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- SFX and Music (Artist will be listed)
Bugfixes (27.04.2017)
- Unfortunately i've got to remove the direction arrow. There is no easy way to implement this. To give you some comfort, i implemented a distance display instead.
- Planet stopped rotating after GameOver in Homemenu
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/planet-taxi |
Ratings
| Overall | 528th | 3.125⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 488th | 2.958⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 540th | 2.833⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 120th | 3.917⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 312th | 3.72⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 523th | 2.2⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 600th | 2.783⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 34🗳️ | 21🗨️ |
Now, gameplay.
First thing - GPS was not working most of the time, when it showed "small see" or "tower" it was making me drive in circles a long way from the destination.
Car could drive on the water - that was a very helpful feature.
Music was very fitting for this kind of game.
Overall I had fun, it was a very action-packed taxi driving experience.
thank you for your comment. You are right, the gps is not working well. I figured out a fix that i will implement until friday. I am very happy that you enjoyed playing the game :)
Cheers
Marin
My major gripes would be driving through the gimbal lock of the planet, which completly screws any momentum and is sth. you definitely need to look at again and also the harsh difficulty. The controls aren't entirely easy, so having a bit of leeway for the player to pick up passengers and deliver them would greatly benefit the game imo.
Also when I first started the game, my taxi seemed to have spawned inside of the planet, leading to the camera just phasing in and out of the planet for around 3 minutes till the game over screen hit.
Anyways, beautiful little entry, I really dig the visual mood and coherence.
cheers~
The money certainly kept flying away :money_with_wings: :money_with_wings: :money_with_wings:. Even after memorizing all the hotspots I still could not make any money at all with these rates. This is not how a :taxi: service works. You pay more the longer the trip, not less.... Oh well, there must a lot of competition I'm not seeing then.
The difficulty could use some tweaking, is my point. This goes from Crazy :taxi: to Impossible :taxi: pretty quick.
Thank you for your feedback. I appreciate it. I see, i've got to tweak the difficulty and solve the gimbal lock problem as well...
Apart from the lack of direction help that others have mentioned, I thought that the collision was a bit of a problem. The most obvious is the bridge, which slows you down a lot for seemingly no (gameplay-related) reason and which I got stuck on more than once, and had to reverse down and try again with a bit of a run-up.
I also go stuck on the corner of a building once, with no way to reset or drive off of it. I just had to wait until I lost.
Ideally (for me, at least) if you ran into a wall at ~30 degrees, you'd just rotate and slide along it instead of getting stuck, although this is probably more complicated to implement than could fit into a jam (I have no idea).
Also the first time I started the game up, my car was seemingly stuck in the center of the planet because I just got a close-up view of the ground and couldn't move/do anything....worked the next time though so I'm not sure what happened there.
I really enjoyed playing it overall though :)
After losing I started again and this time I was lucky enough to find my fare but then I had no idea where I was meant to be taking him.
It's a shame as it could be quite fun - but, in my opinion, the handling and responsiveness needs to be improved.
Some bugs I found:
* The camera rotates for no reson around the "poles" causing the car to suddenly crash.
* Sometimes when I start the game, the car is stuck under ground and I must restart the game completely to fix it.
* I often got stuck on the bridge even if my speed was high.
Other than that, Great game! 10/10 ign
First of all thank you very much for your feedback. I apologize for the bugs i was not able to fix in the last week, because of my daily work. My plan is to fix these bugs during the next week. Hopefully i can provide you a more convenient version to play :)
Overall i am very happy that you enjoy my vision of a low poly taxi driver on a small planet ;)
Thank you very much and please stay tuned :)
I can see a slightly-bigger planet and lots of little interactive things with your Taxi and have this lovely toy and game. It does have problems, and as many have pointed out, the GPS and the Gymbal lock are one of these.
I would like to point out as well that when you crash to anything in an angle, you get to a full stop. It really takes you out of the speedy taxi thing. I would recommend instead to make the taxi bounce or slide. It could be fun, thinking like a spherical pinball with your taxi to reach faster and making combos or something could be a neat idea. Or at the very least make it slide so you can keep going.
However the core concept is good and the visuals are really nice. Keep it up!
The graphics are nice, and the car control feels good, especially when you drift and the wheels make sound.
I think it could be a bit more forgiving in the difficulty... I start to loose money way too fast.
Overall it's a really nice and innovative game! Good job!
Its really challenging to play and, with some more poliment in graphics and including some more challenges in the game level, i think you can manage to create a really fun experience! Great job!
Also, test my compo entry here too, need some more few ratings too now! thanks ;D
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/anthills-multitask
There are a couple of troublesome spots on the map.
- sometimes the bridge stopped me for no reason
- between the bridge and the church the camera rotates weirdly messing up the steering
The music was really driving things forward, gave it a very nice mood.
My highscore was $21,91. But it seems that the highscore is not reset after loosing, so maybe that was over more then 1 session.
Overall i liked it! Good entry!
The music is cool too! Good job for the game! Just one thing. The camera do a 180° at one point, and each time I rod on the wall...
The driving controls were pretty frustrating for me though. I think it wasn't a big deal that there was no arrow pointing to the right direction (although that would have helped), but it was more the fact that the direction changes as the camera does (which you have no control over). That is, if I keep holding down W, the car will start to turn on its own because the camera is rotating. I think having "W" be the direction the car is facing and not make it rotate with the camera would make this much less frustrating at least for me.
Same, I couln't see where I was too many times...
Sad, I really wanted to play this game a bit longer =(
But I really like the music and the gameplay, great!
PS: I played with a Xbox controller