Bus Mayhem by Sebastian-M
Welcome to Frenzy City.
A really nice cubic-looking place, where public transportation is surprisingly popular and cars are not that durable.
You are the new bus driver, in charge of the original bus of the city. The tires are a little used, so expect some slipping here and there. Also, the bus allows for only 100 passengers, but we don't follow those rules here. It does become harder to drive when it's overweight though... Good luck, and please don't destroy the bus.
Controls
- 'W' - Acceleration
- 'A', 'D' - Steering
- SPACE - Brake
- 'S' - Reverse
How To Play
You have to pick up the passengers at every bus stop and take them "safely" to the central station.
- Move in the street, avoiding other cars and buildings.
- Stop at the pickup zones of the stations. These are marked with blue lines. Use the brake (SPACE) to completely stop touching the zone.

- When all passengers aboard, continue to the next station until you reach the central station.

- Beware of your health and overweigth level in your car control panel. The more passengers you have, the less stable your bus is. It get's super drifty.

What about that sweet funky music?
I'm very passionate about music. Although this is only my second Ludum Dare, you could say it's already a tradition that I spend almost half of the time composing, arranging and recording a special song for the game. This time it's a weird funk song that adds instruments when your bus gets more and more crowded. It ends up fitting really nicely. I encourage you to try to hear the whole song in it's 4 stages without dying in the game. It's not easy.
Hear the song on Soundcloud
Thanks to my dad for recording the brass section of the song. He did an amazing job with it.
What about everything else?
The graphics are all done using nothing but the basic Unity's 3D shapes. Hence the cubic-look of the place. Some modified sound effects, some custom car physics written using C# and ... That's pretty much it.
Known Issues
- lightning Problems. (Fixed v1.1. Lightning system migth take some time to load properly)
- You can win while dead. (Fixed v1.1)
- Bus not stoping when picking up passengers (Fixed v1.1)
- If the car flips upside down, your only options are quitting the game (with ESC) and open it again, or wait for the cars to kill you and restart with 'R'.
I'll stop the description here, otherwise it'll take you longer to read this than to complete the game.
| Windows | https://s-martinez.itch.io/bus-mayhem |
| HTML5 (web) | https://s-martinez.itch.io/bus-mayhem-webgl |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/bus-mayhem |
Ratings
| Overall | 328th | 3.682⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 140th | 3.841⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 181th | 3.682⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 89th | 4.136⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 663th | 3.341⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 183th | 3.682⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 103th | 3.886⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 457th | 3.432⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 23🗳️ | 28🗨️ |
Maybe some kind of points system to reward 'perfectly' stopping would have been nice, or have passengers board much slower the further away from the stop you stop at...? Things to consider if you expand on this post-Jam, but this is a solid entry as is (although slightly disappointing it just ends after one level - maybe could have just restarted that level with a lower initial time limit each time?)

Fell in love with this game the moment I saw the thumbnail. A bus so crammed with people that they were popping out of it? That's _my_ kind of weird. I'm glad to see that the game managed to live up to the high expectations I had on it.
This game was a wacky romp, with some funny comments. But the real deal was by the end of the run, where the thing was noticeably harder to control. So there I was, clumsily driving a bus of sardine-like people, grinning like an idiot throughout the short ride.
While simple and short, this was one heck of an experience. Great job! In behalf of my team, we're looking forward to what you can come up with in the future! Cheers! :whale:
Still, this was a fun game to play and it captured the theme pretty well. Nice work!
Music was definitely top quality.
Web version ran ok for me.
Come check out my game if you like!
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/virus-detected
My only issue was that the other cars would bump into me when I was loading passengers, which didn't feel fair to me.
Overall, a fun game with great potential!