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Sambar Scamper by Daniel Gelband

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made by Daniel Gelband for Ludum Dare 53 (COMPO)

Sambar Scamper challenges you to deliver as many crates as you can to Wakamiya Hachiman Shrine without dropping them. Your Subaru Sambar mini pickup delivers 40HP of pure driving joy, speeding you toward your destination quickly, so don't run into a cherry tree!

Try backing up slightly onto the star while the crates are dropping to keep them from falling over when you accelerate.

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Made with Aseprite, SFML and Box2d.

On Windows, use SambarWindows64.zip

On Linux, use sambar_scamper.zip

If you are having trouble with "error while loading shared libraries", please try:

LDLIBRARYPATH=lib/ ./sambar

Source Code (C++) https://github.com/dgelband/sambar
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/sambar-scamper

Ratings

Overall 234th 3.438⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Fun 136th 3.625⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 245th 3.188⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Theme 58th 4.25⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 245th 3.404⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Audio 327th 2.214⭐ 16🧑‍⚖️
Humor 201th 2.841⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Mood 284th 2.978⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Given 20🗳️ 25🗨️

Feedback

MartensCedric
01. May 2023 · 01:16 UTC
This game is a certified classic for any mini-truck enjoyer.The art style is excellent and the controls are nice. I was able to finish the first level with 10 crates stacked :)
MichealT
01. May 2023 · 04:44 UTC
Seems good overall. Simple but effective and on par with the theme!
dUmMy432
01. May 2023 · 05:01 UTC
Good game 👍
khaotom
01. May 2023 · 05:05 UTC
I like how sometimes your delivery is just immediately scuffed because the crates bounce and become unstable. :lollipop: I love the tiny tracks. It reminds me of racetracks I used to draw on paper back when I was a kid.
DrunkardWolf
01. May 2023 · 10:07 UTC
any game with a Subaru Sambar is a win for me :) Good job, cool take on the theme and had a lot of fun with it!
DanGuRi_Cat
02. May 2023 · 02:25 UTC
surprisedly fun！
Cinterre
02. May 2023 · 05:12 UTC
Wooo mini truck! Cool idea, making balance part of the driving. Like it!
Wahooney
02. May 2023 · 21:23 UTC
Is there a windows build on the way?
CocoMendes
02. May 2023 · 22:04 UTC
Waiting for a Window version, looks really fun!
Hora-Timer
02. May 2023 · 22:44 UTC
**Wow very good!** 2D
LDJam user 338044
02. May 2023 · 22:48 UTC
@wahooney @cocomendes Working on a Windows build! I have been struggling a bit to get Box2d to compile on Windows, but I should hopefully be able to get one *delivered* :)
LDJam user 338044
03. May 2023 · 00:41 UTC
@wahooney @cocomendes Windows build is ready to go! Shout out to @winter2277 for the help.
LDJam user 338044
03. May 2023 · 01:07 UTC
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Dev High Score
snesgaard
03. May 2023 · 11:41 UTC
Very cool, like an NES Death Stranding. Run this on Linux with WINE no problem. Some of the runs failed upon being initialized because the physics just dropped the stack. But could be an artifact of running it with WINE. Anyways, very creative take on the theme.
Wahooney
03. May 2023 · 13:41 UTC
I really enjoyed the visuals, and I actually cheated a few times by bypassing most of the roads, but that becomes tricky in the later levels :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: Something that might be interesting for the late game is getting money for deliveries, and you can buy single attempt powerups, like rope to slightly increase the stability of your stack.

Good entry overall.
LDJam user 338044
03. May 2023 · 19:25 UTC
Thanks for all the feedback, y'all. I noticed the bug with some boxes colliding when they spawn, but I ran out of time to fix it and I also left it in because I thought it was kind of humorous :)
Kreshi
04. May 2023 · 08:00 UTC
It's a good game, i liked it :). The difficulty level is harder than it looks :D.
Kirbloid
04. May 2023 · 16:24 UTC
Big fan of games with simple premises you instantly get that keep your playing for a bit trying to do better. The early stacks give a good false sense of security and the risk quickly ramps up. A fun time and the sprite work was really nice for the levels and side view!
YurisCat
07. May 2023 · 03:14 UTC
Great game! I like your artistic style of photo processing.

It's a good thing there were no traffic police checking for overloading on this road. Just kidding:P

You did a great job! I like this game!
LDJam user 166918
07. May 2023 · 11:06 UTC
I don't know what I did wrong, but somehow i broke the game: after respawn , cargo just keeps falling all by itself without any movement, that's kinda funny)
Tygrak
17. May 2023 · 08:34 UTC
Fun game! A small random thing, but I like how you displayed the score on the scroll bar :D. A strategy I found is that a lot of times driving of the road was actually the safest and easiest. A few times so many packages spawned that I failed basically right away, but that is minor :).
Good job!

Edit: not sure if audio was broken for me or there was none -- I skipped voting on it, if there was none you could have opted out of the category afaik :)