Bail Out! by Historymaker118
You are a skateboarder who has been summoned to make an appearance at court before noon and pay a fine for the crime of skateboarding. Except you don’t have any money and noon is only 2 minutes away! Skateboard around the city gathering as much loose change as you can find and make it to the courthouse in time. Just don’t get caught by the cops!
Controls
Arrow Keys - Move
X - Get on and off your board
C - Drop a doughnut to distract the cops chasing you
How to Play
Ride around on your skateboard (you can get on and off the board whenever you want by tapping the X key) and collect as many dollar bills floating around as possible before the time runs out. Be aware that you still need to get back to the courthouse on the map once you have enough money to pay off the fine. The cops will chase you if they see you riding around on a skateboard, and if they catch you, it's game over! You can drop a doughnut (using the C key) when the cops are chasing you and they'll be distracted, or you can put your riding skills to the test and get out of their sight! Alternatively you could always walk around town and the cops won't hassle you, but where's the fun in that?
Good Luck and Have Fun, and thanks for playing!
The Sauce
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This was my first time doing Lumum Dare alone. All of the art and most of the code was written from scratch for this event. I did not have time to produce any music or sound effects during the event as I had to work all day on Monday and so didn't get the full 72-hours.
If you would like to play my other pico-8 games you can visit my itch.io page. I've got a new game releasing soon and if you'd like to see updates, you can follow me on x/twitter
| Pico-8 BBS | https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=141715 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/bail-out |
Ratings
| Overall | 707th | 3.462⭐ | 55🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 540th | 3.491⭐ | 55🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 883th | 3.038⭐ | 55🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 992th | 3.085⭐ | 55🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 598th | 3.717⭐ | 55🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 308th | 3.529⭐ | 54🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 910th | 3.212⭐ | 54🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 26🗳️ | 34🗨️ |
great work, I enjoyed it
Was definitely fun to out-maneuver the cops on my skateboard. And dropping tactical donuts to laugh behind their backs.
I think the controls and reactivity could use some faster acceleration, although that would completely change the difficulty of the game.
Sticky walls were ok but the walking felt like lag.
Super fun controls, feels very punishing to NOT be on my skateboard!
The hitbox for cops catching you could be just a bit smaller to make it feel more fair.
Sometimes the cops don't seem to register the donuts.
Think it would give the game a bit more depth if skating on grass was impossible or really slow or any other updates that gave the player more reason to use walking in some places.
I got stuck once between a tree and the firehydrant around the bottom-left corner of the map (after skating into them diagonally).
Enjoy the rest of the games and happy gaming!
I would love to live on the streets where you can collect this much, that would make the life easier!
I think the issue which other players described as "laggy" is the pixel snapping. A camera that moves inside the pixelated game world doesn't look smooth.
I did also find starting in debt a bit confusing, and that you can only pay the court once you get to 0 dollars, did you consider making it a number like "0/1300" instead of starting off with -1300 and trying to get to 0?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4bCRA9xFGE
Sometimes it seemed like the cops ignored my donuts but that didn't stop me from getting a win after one or two tries.