Keep It Steaming by Jvdwijk

Welcome conductor Mink!
Mink, you have a long journey ahead!
Repair the train, keep the people onboard company, and ensure the train travels as far as possible!

In this game you'll be playing the character "Mink" who is a train conductor. He is used to long journeys with trains, but this trip is like no other. The train keeps falling apart. Help him with managing the train, to travel as far as possible!

Controls: - AD keys - Move left/right - E - Interact with furniture - L. Mouse Click - Interact in minigames

When something needs repaired it will light up in green!

Make sure the furnace always has enough coal!

We can't let the steam escape, close all the open pipes!
Credits: - BasicMilky ~ Developer - Parasite210 ~ Developer - TRAXX186 ~ Developer - MONONOKO ~ Audio Composer - Jamjamem ~ Artist - Aroy ~ Artist
Bug Fixes: - Put Train out of minigame view - Bartending & Coffee minigame: Fixed position on order UI
Known Bugs: - Minigame Parts have a chance on breaking very quickly, needs a delay - Wheels in the pipe minigame need more varied colors when open (now are slightly more red)
| Itch.io | https://basicmilky.itch.io/keep-it-steaming |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/keep-it-steaming |
Ratings
| Overall | 505th | 3.661⭐ | 64🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 524th | 3.532⭐ | 64🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 632th | 3.379⭐ | 64🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 630th | 3.71⭐ | 64🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 518th | 3.865⭐ | 65🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 433th | 3.55⭐ | 62🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 297th | 3.686⭐ | 61🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 743th | 3.441⭐ | 61🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 63🗳️ | 89🗨️ |
Also, I love this endless train type of game. The graphics are great and I'm amazed by these minigames!
It's a really fun game to play, congratz! :D
Thank you, very kind words! 💕
@benk86 Glad you were happy with the sound effects, they were very fun to make!
@slashdevslashzero Thank you! We are thinking about expanding on the minigames at a later stage ^^
I just wish you had a leaderboard :D I got to day 49 and thought that was pretty good 
Solid entry regardless :smirk_cat: Especially the SFX.
@nidel thank you! 🤗
The sound effects made me laugh and the art was great!

@malero I think the coffee minigame is a bit bugged unfortunately. I'll have to figure out what's going wrong later!
@nate-the-great thank you for playing and the feedback! From the feedback we've gathered we should definitely add a delay after you fix a minigame!
@psv-games-studio thanks for playing our game and the kind words!
@stefan-laimer So now you have first and second place? haha 😂 nicely done!
for some reason it didnt have any audio playing — as i saw the game actually is supposed to have — but i think it could be because of my browser (im using vivaldi) instead of the settings not working. i saw it occurring w/ my game before too when another person played until they switched the browser. still was a lot of fun nonetheless and fits the theme nicely!
Small issues I noticed would be with:
- marker that something need attention sometimes stayed on for me (coal minigame, not sure why, cannot find out why this happens)
- electrical minigame could get with slightly oversized colliders for detecting mouse, cause I ended up often missing by few pixels, but that also is something players can just adjust and train to aim better at proper elements.
Game is quite fun and seems finished, no major issues are jumping out at me.
@yearningboo Thank you for all the kind words! A bit of a shame you missed my sound effects but I am glad you enjoyed it either way ^^ We've tested our game on Vivaldi and didn't have the audio bug so we'll have to look into that more!
@minus thank you for the feedback! We've improved the colliders for the next update already but are still looking into the marker bug!
@mook Thank you 🤗 We are actually looking into some new minigames and systems that would make the game more interesting!
Train graphics is superb. Sound is ...
Even a tutorial!
Not my type of game, but I am very impressed with what you delivered!
Loved the sound effects and your minigames were creative.
Good work!
idk what happened but i got a game over screen even tho every single one of my carts had mid to full health, might be a bug
If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1450167991?t=09h50m52s
Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D
💜 Elysia Griffin AKA Button Feedback Lady
https://www.twitch.tv/elysiagriffin
Also sometimes the locomotive indicated a problem but there was none, weird.
Congrats on this game!
Thanks for sharing your game with me! I love the graphics really pretty and the mini games were fun. Things I would fix is adding some sort of UI or help to show the player what they are supposed to do for each mini-game. Maybe even using audio with a reward type sound so I know I completed the mini-game successfully. The audio made it a bit confusing, I understand it was a bit humorous but it made me confused wondering if I did actually fix the thing when he said "is this fixed?" So again maybe just looking into some cleaner communication. Overall great game :D
Aleyoop
PS: I knew the main character looked familiar to me... It was the same [Mink from LD49](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/49/drunk-hill)!
@debone @okamit @elysiagriffin @zimny11 @skvader-418 Thank you for all the kind words!
@nardandas Thank you for the feedback! I fully agree with the RNG and we are trying to find ways to improve it ^^
@javasaurus thank you for streaming our game, screenshake would definitely add a lot to the tension of the game. very good suggestion!
@drentsoft Thanks for streaming our game, in the next update (upcoming this week!) we already added a lot of visual tweaks to make minigames more clear!
@syafire Thank you for streaming the game, watching was a lot of fun! Definitely agree that some of the sound effects should be changed a bit (They were added in the last day lmao). We already got a small control scheme in each minigame but we'll also look into smaller hints for first playthroughs!
@mateusboga thank you for playing our game and creating the vod, that is very helpful! You had some good points during your stream too!
@honest-dan Thank you Dan for the feedback! Thought your feedback about movement was very good, we are now looking into how to adjust the movement system to make it more engaging and fun!
@bluishgreenpro Thank you bluish for the interview! Hopefully the next update will be able to show a bit more minigames to the players! ^^
Always love when people recognize our characters! I talk a bit about Mink in [the new post!](https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/keep-it-steaming/minks-journey)
+ Love the voice sound effects for the train's tasks
+ I like the art style for this game
+ YEET caught me offguard lol
- Maybe find a way to communicate clearer that the red bar on the top of each car is the indicator that something on that car is breaking
- Raise height of "keep it steaming" words so you can see title of game when in "play" menu or remove it entirely
- The target area to select 'wagon' or 'wagon cart' should be a bit bigger. I tried selecting it but it wasn't highlighted on the entire button.
- maybe find some music to help create more atmosphere to the game
- I was able to still interact with a task behind the "fix the wagon" HUD screen was up
Loved playing this one and hope I can get a better score