The World's Worst Segway by doomshmuck
The genius engineers at Brainchewer Industries have discovered the secret to the world's LONGEST LASTING battery. It is said to go for years without needing a charge!
Too bad you work for Not-Brainchewer Industries, where they have been using the same battery since 1924. As a result, you are now the proud owner of The World's Worst Segway, a segway where it has the battery life of a Nintendo Wii controller. You have taken a delivery service job at a somewhat busy neighborhood, and it's you shift. Make us proud!
The objectives of the game are to make deliveries to very demanding customers. If you are even a millisecond too late, they will deduct from your pay! Oh, and in case your segway runs out of juice, well, you will have to drag that thing back to the charge pad. And beware the dangerous car... it will smack you into the hemisphere!
- Windows: http://mathewstrauss.com/Segway/SegwayWINFinal.zip
- Web: http://mathewstrauss.com/Segway/
- Source: https://github.com/mbstraus/LudumDare39

Ratings
| Overall | 489th | 3⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 496th | 2.794⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 546th | 2.559⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 316th | 3.543⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 549th | 2.559⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 262th | 3⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 171th | 2.914⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 532th | 2.455⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 36🗳️ | 38🗨️ |
Good job, fun entry!
Oh, and web version runs without issue here!
Quite reminds me of Warcraft 3 mission where you clear loarderon? Overall nice game
Had no issues with the web version here
Good job
The car seemed to hit me a few times when I thought I was safe, but otherwise very fun!
The buildings with the shadows are good and so is the truck, but the characters don
t look good. 2/5.
Theme.
3/5 seems to be what everyone is doing just steadily draining power supply.
Audio.
Best category, music is good, sound effects. Very nice. 5/5
Fun.
Get very boring very quickly sorry to say. 2/5.
Humor.
The segway passengers are funny, pretty sure they are all homer simpson. 4/5.
Innovation.
2/5 nothing stands out in gameplay.
I like the music, very funky! :-)
The sound effect is strange, is that a "whohoo"?
The graphics are very funny actually, I would not have recognized the segway had it not been for the name of the game :-)
A nice game, it would not have needed to be in 3D, though. You could have had much better 2D graphics and the top-down view is 3D effectively. Also I at first got stuck on the gray buildings in the center that looked like the gray steeet, you should have used a different color there :-)
Overall a fun little game, thank you and keep up the good work!
Patch 1: From comments below, I have updated the game slightly. See here: http://mathewstrauss.com/Segway/v2 (I didn't do a windows build for this version)
* Patch Notes:
** Updated base color of the buildings to a green-ish color so that it stands out from the road.
** Added arrow key movement for those who don't have w, a, s, and d.
* Original release is still at http://mathewstrauss.com/Segway/
@digitaldude555
I would like to know what about the gameplay you found boring, and why you thought the graphics were so bad? You didn't really give much detail, and I can't really get anything out of what you said there to improve.
@elgregos
I added in arrow key controls for ya, if you see this comment. See the patch notes above.
@gonutz
They are saying "Wooo!" hehe. I actually explicitly went 3D for a couple of reasons, namely that I wanted to do something in 3D (which I haven't done before). Interestingly, I actually found it easier to work in 3D than I did in 2D (my LD38 entry was 2D and it looked reallllly bad). I think, for me at least, it is actually easier to make art in 3D than it is 2D.
Gameplay is lots of fun, the controls are really direct and snappy! The length of the game could be halved, so that you quickly can try to beat your own score.
Overall very well done!
There are few annoying things though:
- Car is slower than player so you have to wait the car sometimes.
- Building and roads have similar colour
- Collisions are tricky
I kept running into the "plaza" in front of the middle building. Somehow I kept thinking it was a road. Perhaps make the color a bit more like the buildings, or make it similarly stand out?
Highest score: 350
>The strange people chose,
>delivery by Segway.
>Watch out for the car!