Survivor by Hagge
Welcome to Survivor.

This is your car. This car can help you to fly to a "better place".

Your car needs fuel made by trash you´ll find scattered all over the map to be able to continue driving. Inside your car, you will get oxygen for you to breathe. If the car has no fuel it can´t make oxygen and you will die.

To be able to get $ you have to store some trash in the car and sell. The goal is to raise 750$ and automatically buy a plane ticket for "A better place"
In short, you will have to balance putting the trash into the fuel tank to get fuel and oxygen and selling the trash to get $ without dying... Good luck. See you in a better place...
Controls
Moving: WASD
Enter/Exitcar: Space
Pickup trash: LMB
Deposit trash into the trucks bed: LMB
Turn the trash into fuel for the car: RMB
Known issues
The car can drive through rocks and also the world border
| Youtube | https://hagge.itch.io/survivor |
| Youtube | https://hagge.itch.io/survivor |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/survivor-1 |
Ratings
| Overall | 1944th | 3.167⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1891th | 2.983⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1715th | 3.034⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1539th | 3.517⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 1344th | 3.533⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 1448th | 2.661⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1746th | 3.069⭐ | 31🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 14🗳️ | 17🗨️ |
I did have a couple of issues with collision detection on the rocks -- the player couldn't pass through some edges but could on some others, and the truck just rolled over everything.
Good entry!
If you want to continue to work on it, I might have enjoyed a little hint where the trash is, like in witcher 1 when you press a button and see it highlighted or like a compass that roughly points you in a direction like in skyward swort oooor if you don't like that, maybe add a minimap where you can see at which places you've been before? then maybe make the trash respawn but like trash being more likely to be found in areas you didn't explore before or something (and make a minecraft like infinite world, where every 100 meters or so those trash selling places can be found)
oh, also maybe add a subtle silent and minimalistic music, that can add a real touch to games like that and can put and emphasis to this sad "beautfy" of being lonely in a broken world :) there's a lot of great free stuff out there and the artists also enjoy the shoutout! :D
all in all a great entry, congrats for finishing your game! :)
But even with a few bugs there, the game was nice, I spent a lot of time playing, thanks.
Love the character and car design. Trash attachments system works great too!
Things to improve (imho):
- better car controls & physics
- car collisions
- minimap (why not?)
- fix diagonal speed to a normalized value
- ideas for gameplay features: other scavengers/monsters (for pve) | time factor | physics puzzles | car upgrades | loot scanner | some other resource management | etc.
Here is my playthrough:
https://youtu.be/_gxS3Eu08w4
If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/615952171?t=0h6m32s
Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D
💜 Elysia Griffin AKA Button Feedback Lady
https://www.twitch.tv/elysiagriffin
The mechanics are solid and the arrow for the Card indication is totally helpfull.
It's harsh to die immediatly when you run out of oxygen but thats kinda ok.
The Game is a bit too dark in my opinion but fits in the theme of your game.
Overall a nice Game.
Well Done.