Tax Haven by Weirdybeardyman
Fixed a bug 6th April - Stopped net disappearing when reaching polygon limit.
In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.
You thought because you were a billionaire you could just hide away in a sunny tax haven, sailing your superyacht around, drinking piña colada’s and not pay us a penny.
Well we’re the HMRC. As we speak your little piece of paradise is being surrounded and an amphibious naval destroyer is inbound. hmm Just try and wriggle out of this one.
Instructions - Escape for as long as possible from the HMRC amphibious ship that is chasing you. The more fuel you burn the more expenses you can deduct and the lower your tax bill will be in the end. - It will lay a net behind it so be careful not to get trapped in that. - You have a canon which can firing incriminating documents overboard. The HMRC want to get their hands on your documents so they will make a beeline for them and give you a chance to gain breathing space. - Watch out for the red buoys, they will slow you down if you crash into them, but if you navigate carefully you can use them to slow the chaser down instead.
Controls - Use WASD or the Arrow Keys to move your superyacht around. - Aim with the mouse and click or press space to fire your incriminating documents overboard.
I couldn't make the Compo deadline but this game was made solo.
* Credits* - Made in Godot - Art - Affinity Designer - Notes - Notion - SFX - Audacity - Music - FL Studio - Colour Palette - Sweetie 16 Palette https://lospec.com/palette-list/sweetie-16 - Font - FT88 by Ange Degheest, Many Elbe, Oriane Charvieux from Fontesk https://fontesk.com/ft88-typeface/
By the way, the HMRC governmental tax organisation in the UK, like the IRS in America.
| Link | https://www.dropbox.com/s/y4mfam1loxx0r99/LudumDare50.zip?dl=0 |
| Link | https://weirdybeardyman.itch.io/tax-haven |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/tax-haven |
Ratings
| Overall | 312th | 3.827⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 243th | 3.796⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 240th | 3.75⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 89th | 4.259⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 577th | 3.796⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 309th | 3.731⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 184th | 3.893⭐ | 30🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 714th | 3.458⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 20🗳️ | 26🗨️ |
Great interpretation of the theme and a good sense of humour to the whole thing :smile:
I would have liked a way to get more documents when you run out (apologies if I've missed something)
Really good game overall though, the little sea birds just flying around and chilling is a nice touch too!
One thing.. I didn't find the document mechanics that obvious.. but still a very good idea.
Good job on this one :thumbsup_tone1:
But appart those little things, this is a solid entry, I had fun searching the best avoiding strategy (one part is to not let the chaser go out of the screen, and even stand by it on some turns, to keep enough space for the next passages), and the arts and animations are very polish, you made something really good in so few time, well done!
I supposed it was this kind of limit that causes the bug. In most of the games with a trail or something like this, the trail disappear from the start, and so in this game it would be not such a problem - but here, the net disappear from the end, so if you find a way to delete earlier parts when the length reach 4095, instead of last parts, I think this could solve the problem :slight_smile:
The best help would be that you include somewhere a way for me to read the effective polygons used at the end (maybe with a hidden command, like a key to press on the end-game page), so that I can tell you how many I used if I do not reach the end, in case of double-buffer adds a lag on the game and you wants to know the optimised number to use
Neat experience. Well done!
I enjoyed the experience, clever take on the "death and taxes" inevitability as well!
The idea of tax evasion is super funny!