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shipme (Starbase Shipping Simulation) by lsummers

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made by lsummers for LD 42 (JAM)

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After getting promoted to a management role in the shipping department for the starbase LRX47, it is up to you to carefully handle the shipping of products across the empire...

Music, SFX, Font, 3D Models, 2D art - all made from scratch for the jam.

Credit to: Music by GreyScreen (Kevin Stebner) greyscreen.bandcamp.com

My micro postmortem:

  • The UI pop-ups works OK. If I could do it again, I’d build it a stacking dialog system combined with a toast system (as I seem to spend more time just hitting OK to get the darn message out of the way).
  • I drafted up the concepts of red space pirates to steal stuff, I never got around to finishing that part, but I fee like that could have been a cool addition.
  • The game is a bit of an active clicker but started originally as a strategy design.
  • Found it is helpful to turn off the feeders (dock area) to save cash while waiting for new transport ships
  • I would have like time to add a skip-tutorial button
  • I also had another crate/box/object type that I didn’t incorporate that I pictured as an accidental bomb-type

Source included. Models done in blender. Audio generated in bfxr. Font made in fontstruct. Intro song done in beepbox. 2D models, UI layout items done in gimp.

Main game song made by Kevin (see above).

HTML5 (web) https://redironlabs.itch.io/shipme
Source code https://redironlabs.itch.io/shipme
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/shipme-starbase-shipping-simulation-1

Ratings

Overall 327th 3.636⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 484th 3.341⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 712th 3.068⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 685th 3.386⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 296th 3.886⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Audio 221th 3.545⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Humor 415th 2.921⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 408th 3.325⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Given 19🗳️ 17🗨️

Feedback

Guilhermoni
13. Aug 2018 · 02:02 UTC
Solid game, had fun with it. Those text boxes right in the middle of the screen are really annoying tho. Simple and precise gameplay, good graphics. Well done!
Gary Beebe
13. Aug 2018 · 04:30 UTC
Very polished, but like @guihermoni said, the popups got in the way.
🎤 lsummers
13. Aug 2018 · 04:47 UTC
Definitely thanks @guilhermoni and @gary-beebe if I could do it again, I'd probably move all the pop-ups over to more of a toast notification in the corner. And maybe get the user something useful to do when > 1,000$
Kultisti
13. Aug 2018 · 04:50 UTC
Looks so cool and the gameplay is sweet, sometimes the popups wee little annoying but otherwise good job!
smilewood
13. Aug 2018 · 04:51 UTC
This was a rather fun game. It took me a while to figure out that some trucks only took certain colors of box, but once I did it was a lot of fun. I really liked the sound design, both the background audio track and the sound effects were great and fit the theme well. I enjoyed the progression of trucks and docks. I did find some of the smaller boxes to be rather difficult to click on and towards the end was just letting them fall into the sun. I really appreciated the tutorial/story introduction at the beginning, this was one of the only games I have seen this Ludum Dare that has introduced the game so well. fantastic entry, great job!
Blondhie
13. Aug 2018 · 05:50 UTC
Really enjoyed having a little tutorial in the beginning. It was fun and easy to get into. I do agree that the small boxes were hard to click on, and at some point a crate (box) was stuck out in space. Overall great job!
elenesski
13. Aug 2018 · 06:50 UTC
Good job L. My only complaint is the popup boxes tended to result in me dropping the boxes into the sun. If they were replaced by a non-intrustive notification, that would have been better.
Tobias_Headstrong
13. Aug 2018 · 07:57 UTC
Hi guys. I had a lot of fun! Similarly to the others the pop ups drove me nutz especially once you get up to 4 docs and 4 trucks! A tutorial explaining how it works including colours may be useful so you dont have to sit through the initial popups every time you get fired... I got to $20k so can I buy a nice car now :-)
Furtive Pygmy
13. Aug 2018 · 07:58 UTC
Good game, probably sick of hearing it... but the popup boxes :p
jdhollen
13. Aug 2018 · 08:03 UTC
Nice job! I might speed up the pace of play after the first couple of purchases, but dang, you got a lot done in 2 days !
louckousse
13. Aug 2018 · 09:09 UTC
I have nothing to add I just wanted to congrats you, the game is fun despite what says before.
suve
13. Aug 2018 · 12:54 UTC
A very nicely done game! It's a bit of a shame there isn't any kind of goal to reach, since after playing a bit one gets so accustomed and the money flows in so fast losing stops being a concern. Still, the audio and visuals are really impressive for a jam game!
Oneiros
13. Aug 2018 · 15:21 UTC
This is not my type of game but I had some fun to play it.
recursor
13. Aug 2018 · 17:02 UTC
The only thing that bugged me somewhat was the popup dialogs. I think the animation and wait time between them could be tweaked to make them feel better. I enjoyed watching the little robots throw the cargo out. Watching the cargo get destroyed by the sun was also oddly satisfying. This was nice because even if there were no trucks to come and buy my stuff, I still felt rewarded. Enjoyed it
wildcard
13. Aug 2018 · 19:42 UTC
The pop-ups are quite annoying once the game gets more hectic and I also had problems with actually getting the crates with my mouse because of the precision required.

But aside from that this is a beautiful little game, I enjoyed the soundtrack, design and challenge of the game. It wasn't immediately obvious to me what I was supposed to do but I catched on pretty quickly. I also enjoyed the space atmosphere! Very well done!
Enver Arco
14. Aug 2018 · 00:10 UTC
Great job including a tutorial in your game, very graphically pleasing too
BloodJohn
14. Aug 2018 · 02:45 UTC
Awesome space! Pop-up messages are the main enemy in this game. Hate them.