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Burn Notice by pinkemma

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made by pinkemma for Ludum Dare 51 (COMPO)

Can also be played on itch.io (https://pinkemma.itch.io/burn-notice).

Burn Notice

In Burn Notice a massive fireball goes off every 10 seconds. In the mean time, you in your little truck must push a crate to the delivery spot in the middle of the map, but only after running down the locks.

When the fireball goes off you must hide in the shadow of a set of pillars around the small world. If you fail to shelter in the shadow in time, too bad, you're incinerated. During the cycles the pillars may juggle around, leaving you with less places to shelter.

And for each level there are more locks, less pillars, and a more powerful push-back.

Can be played by keyboard or joystick.

Created using:

Engine: Unity

Graphics: Inkscape and Krita

Music: LMMS (https://lmms.io)

Sound effects: jsxfr (https://sfxr.me/)

Link BurnNotice-source.zip
Link https://pinkemma.itch.io/burn-notice
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/burn-notice

Ratings

Overall 352th 3.175⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Fun 348th 3.025⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 129th 3.6⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Theme 131th 3.85⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 409th 2.775⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Audio 244th 3.1⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Humor 302th 2.263⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 354th 2.85⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Given 26🗳️ 29🗨️

Feedback

Vedrfolnir
02. Oct 2022 · 22:14 UTC
Stressful and fun. Love it.
Hi7ch
02. Oct 2022 · 22:30 UTC
OMG! I am so bad at not panicking. Lovely game, very tense and stressful (as is your style I find)

Great job!
🎤 pinkemma
02. Oct 2022 · 22:43 UTC
@vedrfolnir Stress is what I excel at! I also word at it! Thank you, and thank you for being on the stream.
🎤 pinkemma
02. Oct 2022 · 22:44 UTC
@hi7ch I guess I have a style now! Thank you for being there and feeding me and letting me arm-wave at you!
PixelsAtDawn
03. Oct 2022 · 00:14 UTC
As with all the best games, once you have strategized, you feel like you're in control. Until you aren't. Addictive!
Paroxysmal
03. Oct 2022 · 02:16 UTC
Great entry. Annoying though when the package is against the wall.
🎤 pinkemma
03. Oct 2022 · 02:30 UTC
@paroxysmal Yes, it is very annoying when it gets a bit stuck. I was leaning towards making it so it would be pulled instead, but other issues prevented me from getting that far :(
LDJam user 230963
03. Oct 2022 · 03:54 UTC
Nice entry! The audio, the ambiance and the mechanics kept me interested. It's right on theme too.
Henrik Ganard
03. Oct 2022 · 06:39 UTC
The first time around I got the package stuck in the corner, then I became a part of the puzzle to keep it away from the edges. I would like the package to be untouched by the force if it is in a shadow as well so that you can "hide" it.
Overall, great game.
Thanks for making it.
LDJam user 237413
03. Oct 2022 · 08:42 UTC
Great submission

I like the explosive going off and being protected by the pillars.

I struggled a bit with manipulating the box for delivery, but cool game

Nice job!
🎤 pinkemma
03. Oct 2022 · 17:39 UTC
@henrik-ganard I never even thought about having the box shaded as well! That would have been really cool!

@haydads Yes, I don't like the manipulation of the box either, I want to make it a dragging operation instead of a push, but ended up having UI issues when pushing to WebGL so I had to skip that unfortunately.
CapnChaosDK
03. Oct 2022 · 18:02 UTC
A great entry, but be careful it can be a time sink as you just want to beat the score one more time!
milq
03. Oct 2022 · 22:24 UTC
Very good game!! It has been difficult for me to handle the box as they say but otherwise it is so funny. I'm glad you used LMMS, it's not easy to find people like us who use it. Great game!
🎤 pinkemma
04. Oct 2022 · 00:30 UTC
@milq LMMS was great! Really fun program. Took me maybe an hour to make the loop, and I'm completely musically illiterate. I think this will be my goto program for this use.
EX3D0
04. Oct 2022 · 04:34 UTC
Pretty neat concept! The audio really adds to the suspenseful feeling. Personally wasn't a huge fan of how the delivery truck handled and manipulating the box was fairly difficult but overall still had a fun time.
simba
05. Oct 2022 · 18:24 UTC
Very cool idea for this jam. The visual feedback for where the safe zone is during a fireball was really well done and intuitive. I think the controls need a little iteration, but congrats on a really strong entry otherwise!
albertnez
07. Oct 2022 · 12:09 UTC
Nice game, and interesting combination of mechanics. Once you got the gist of it it was fun! I only found it a bit challenging, I found particularly hard to detach the box from the wall, but with practice it got easier.
BangKerpow
07. Oct 2022 · 12:30 UTC
The timing between placing the fireball and the explosion is perfect. Any longer and it'd be much easier, any shorter and it'd be impossible. That said it felt I should have been safe a lot more than I was. Great job overall.
LDJam user 202408
07. Oct 2022 · 12:35 UTC
Really love the consept of this game! the shadow mechanic is a creative idea and the gameplay is chaotic but fun! I like the added locks to deal with as it adds a sense of objective while you wait for the delivery, I've noticed many games that involve time don't do this and instead make you wait for the timer doing nothing, this game nails that issue which is great! nice work
John llyod Apolo
07. Oct 2022 · 12:41 UTC
Good game, difficult but challenging. I like the visuals and the gameplay is good but addictive, as I always want to beat my past score.
Lorwon
07. Oct 2022 · 12:42 UTC
Good idea ! love the way you have to hide behind walls.
However, I do not know if I missed something but my crate keep getting stuck in the corners. I think it will be better to drag the box instead of pushing it.

However you made a cool game good job !
Berz
08. Oct 2022 · 01:17 UTC
slightly confusing at first (but fun to figure it out), and then frustratingly (but in a fun way!) "simple, but not easy." Once you've gotten through a few levels, you know what you want to do, and you can see what went wrong every time you fail (and kick yourself for it), and you KNOW you can do better next time (until you mess up again). Very solid "one more try" game play, that keeps me picking the controller back up.
kromeboy
09. Oct 2022 · 18:18 UTC
Great game!
Very hard for me. I was barely able to complete the first delivery after to many attempts