Outland Escape by Spike Studio

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made by Spike Studio for Ludum Dare 54 (JAM)

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LD_1.png In the Outland, you must kill zombies to survive. Get ready to scavenge for resources with your limited scavenging space to do so, and be careful with what equipment you bring, as this will limit it further! Outland1Small.gif

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LD_2.png Spend your collected junk to upgrade your buggy enough to escape the Outland. You have limited space to collect junk, as well as limited space to drift, good luck escaping! Base1Small.gif

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LD.png -A / D to steer buggy.

-S to reverse.

-Left/Right Click for buttons. LD_4.png

LD_3.png All Programming, Art, and Audio done by Luke Speicher (solo) Devlog will be out on YouTube @SpikeStudio soon

Ratings

Overall 137th 4.049⭐ 53🧑‍⚖️
Fun 36th 4.255⭐ 53🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 608th 3.304⭐ 53🧑‍⚖️
Theme 767th 3.333⭐ 53🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 497th 3.725⭐ 53🧑‍⚖️
Audio 321th 3.608⭐ 53🧑‍⚖️
Humor 595th 2.824⭐ 19🧑‍⚖️
Mood 382th 3.745⭐ 51🧑‍⚖️
Given 30🗳️ 57🗨️

Feedback

madjackmcmad
02. Oct 2023 · 23:25 UTC
This is great! Easy and fun to control, tight gameplay loops, good times all around. Excellent job introducing little bits and pieces of gameplay over time. I made it out of the outlands and had fun doing so. Thanks for putting this together.
breadstick
02. Oct 2023 · 23:26 UTC
A great and polished little roguelike/survivorlike/racinglike wasteland simulator.

Fun gameplay loop, though the frequent drives back to the left of the screen could get a little tedious as the game continued.

As soon as I understood the 'limited space' mechanic, it did add some interesting choices, deciding which items to pick up and which to steer around.

Nicely done, and very polished!
Aetherswitch
02. Oct 2023 · 23:28 UTC
I love this, this has been one of my favourites to play so far. Amazing work, it feels polished too!
Shmi
02. Oct 2023 · 23:29 UTC
Enjoyed the concept of this game and the end game requirement was fun to achieve. The graphics we're great. The music was a little annoying after a while but other than that loved it.
Minkus
02. Oct 2023 · 23:29 UTC
I really enjoyed running over the zombies! very fun
Turner Austin
02. Oct 2023 · 23:39 UTC
Fantastic game. Has the classic flash game feel and game play loop. Kinda shocked this was made solo, great work.
KewDev
02. Oct 2023 · 23:43 UTC
Easy to control and enjoy. Only issue I ran into was the ammo slider overfilling but it gave me a good chuckle. Very polished and solid entry!
andruid
02. Oct 2023 · 23:47 UTC
Great job on the controls! They were pretty smooth and it was really fun to play the game.
It made me want more. Congratulations!
ElmoEinstein
03. Oct 2023 · 01:50 UTC
A actual great game. The polish feels amazing and the mechanics are fun and make sense. The music is also pretty awesome
blobo
03. Oct 2023 · 02:10 UTC
I like the steady progression from run to run. The car visually upgrading is also a nice touch! I love when upgrades in games visually affect your character.

The drifting feels great, and the screen shake when hitting enemies is satisfying. Seriously good work with the camera too, you don't tend to hear a lot of praise on camera-related work, but I thought I'd point out that you did a great job.

As a heads up, after maxing out the tires/bumpers, I was able to infinitely gain durability for free by clicking on the icons over and over. (Sorry i didn't catch that when I play-tested before the submission hour!)

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LDJam user 313326
03. Oct 2023 · 02:19 UTC
Very nice! reminds me of the old browser games i used to play as a kid. lots of upgrades and features! very good job.
HappyGamer500
03. Oct 2023 · 03:57 UTC
Really smooth/polished game. This was very satisfying to play. The sound was good, fitting, and complete. I felt like the gun was underpowered and less satisfying to use than the ram, and I would have appreciated something like a simple wheel animation. Great game overall, 5/5
LDJam user 315170
03. Oct 2023 · 05:20 UTC
![escaped.png](///raw/22f/c4/z/5f0a6.png)

I did it! I escaped the outlands! This is a really great entry. Graphics and audio are so clean and well polished that I forgot that I was playing a jam game for a second. You even managed to build a steady progression system and add a decent amount of content, good work! I don't have any serious gripes with this.
ZeeHatcher
03. Oct 2023 · 05:34 UTC
This is so well-polished, and everything is so well-packaged! I had good bit of fun playing it! It reminds me of the good ol' flash games.

Personally, I think the gun feels too weak compared to just ramming. I tried making use of it, by slowing down/stopping to shoot at the zombies, but that felt too slow and quickly became a little too boring, so I just resorted to ramming for the rest of the game.

I think car-wall interaction is a little awkward as well. I occasionally got stuck facing a wall, and tried to turn out, but I couldn't, since the car doesn't slide along the walls. And because of that, there's this sense of "I'm stuck, what do", and then I remember that there's a reverse button.

On the technical side, I see that this has been mentioned before, but yeah, I can upgrade tyres/bumpers past the maximum, giving me infinite durability.

![Screenshot 2023-10-03 131830.png](///raw/254/b5/z/5f0c1.png)

I also found out that holding both A and D allows me to go straight, but I'm still considered drifting. So, I was able to complete the drift zones by just going straight through. Only found out on my second playthrough though, where I was more purposefully breaking stuff. <.<

Anyway, this was a very nicely made game! Well done!
JormaRysky
03. Oct 2023 · 07:25 UTC
@tutti-ankka Another post apoc. desert game.
paulboon
03. Oct 2023 · 07:30 UTC
loved it
LDJam user 9418
03. Oct 2023 · 08:52 UTC
The art is simple and the game a bit buggy (managed to got durability filled whole screen) but the game feel is awesome, the car controls are good, smashing zombies are fun. Good Job!
Bauke Regnerus
03. Oct 2023 · 09:19 UTC
You've got a fun game loop going on here. Going out to scavage and then return to do upgrades just felt really good. I did notice a bug when, after having everything fully upgraded, I could still hit the upgrade button, giving myself an infinite number of durability. Also the mouse cursor seems to be behind the UI sometimes. Love the small detail of being able to right click to navigate back through the upgrades. Very well done!
Sachadelsur
03. Oct 2023 · 18:16 UTC
I like the simplicity of the game, I find it very enjoyable. I could spend hours playing it. Good music, too.
Krassenstein
03. Oct 2023 · 19:28 UTC
Thanks for letting me play this on stream, it was awesome!

Here's the VOD with Timestamps so you can click to your game!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NVsG7UOyfw
fusionnist
04. Oct 2023 · 02:48 UTC
Short and sweet! Congrats on your entry. I'm impressed by all the content and effort you managed to put in it :)
Rincs
04. Oct 2023 · 02:50 UTC
Loved the game, that was fun!! I hope you get to fix that one drifting noise bug!
Strato
04. Oct 2023 · 06:30 UTC
Pretty fun game, well polished, and surprisingly relaxing for a game about running over zombies. The upgrades were cool and the art and music are well done. Only criticism is that it's way too easy... seems like there's almost no risk at all. Not a huge detractor imo, but it did make the durability and gun upgrades feel not as impactful as they could be.
Ascenial
04. Oct 2023 · 09:29 UTC
Fun game that feels almost like a nostalgic blast to the past and is very much like one of those old coolmathgames. games is easy to understand and well put together.
amarokczukay
04. Oct 2023 · 12:08 UTC
controls feel very smooth, it was fun to play, you have nice visual feedback on kills and that's enjoyable! if they were like 10 vehicles and 100 upgrades i could have spent the afternoon trying all of them :D
Little Doctor Games
04. Oct 2023 · 18:42 UTC
Fun game! Plowing through zombies was very satisfying. Upgrades felt impactful, and overall the game was short, sweet, and didn't overstay its welcome. Nice work! Thanks for showing us!
cheesepencil
04. Oct 2023 · 19:24 UTC
I love the car movement mechanics, that's pretty great, and I do love games where I can ram bad guys as an offensive move. Well done <3
Hiding.Dev
04. Oct 2023 · 19:27 UTC
Enjoyed playing the game. Really liked how nicely the car drifted and also the RAM effect was cool.
LDJam user 258850
04. Oct 2023 · 19:27 UTC
siiik hehe ^^ lots of fun and well made

![image_2023-10-04_202742279.png](///raw/223/f3/z/5fa1e.png)
Agraffs
05. Oct 2023 · 07:45 UTC
The game was interesting. It was nice to have a good tutorial that explains everything clearly. The graphics were good and the music ok, had they been a bit better the game would really have been awesome. The entry is really solide though, GG !
dob
06. Oct 2023 · 06:37 UTC
Snappy, fun controls, deep upgrade system - lots of fun. I never felt at much risk, so maybe it could have been a little harder, but I had a great time smushing zombies and adding parts. Made the jump at the end my first time after I figured out I needed speed mods. Great work, and a funky music track.
LDJam user 273626
06. Oct 2023 · 16:11 UTC
This game was fun! I'd have loved more unlockable. And something to make the gun do more damage and feel like upgrading the gun mattered a bit more. Just seems ramming was more prioritized. Also think having a mix and match vehicle part could have been cool. Over all, super fun to play!
LDJam user 261538
06. Oct 2023 · 22:16 UTC
Wow, you got a lot of content in here! Between leveling up, dragging your haul behind you, upgrading your car, and fighting zombies... One touch I really liked was how after hitting a zombie, you track blood around for a little bit. Really nice!
OldDog
07. Oct 2023 · 11:51 UTC
so great,Love this game so much,I like collection and upgrade,wish for more content to play
Ategon
07. Oct 2023 · 21:30 UTC
Thanks for submitting the game to the stream! If you wanted to watch it again in the future heres the vod timestamped to your game

https://youtu.be/OMFzVKOU-1I?si=iWeoNFNas8DRYucA&t=14663
Danial Jumagaliyev
08. Oct 2023 · 12:42 UTC
A really polished game! Great detail across everywhere, from the little effects in the overworld, to the popping juicy UI. I liked it a lot.
LDJam user 372515
10. Oct 2023 · 02:51 UTC
Finally got around to actually playing it myself after seeing it on so many streams :smile:! And its just as fun to play as it is to watch! Love all the polish and juice, fantastic submission!