The Simple Life: Expedited Edition by Somniac

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made by Somniac for Ludum Dare 53 (JAM)

Objective is simple, deliver some crops ASAP.

Harvest crops using you 100km/h combine harvester and deliver them to market.

Controls: - Movement: W, A, S, D - Reset Vehicle: R - Restart Game: ESC

The game was built in Unity using a combination of purchased and free art assets. All the scripts are available below. Also hosted on itch.io, link below.

Have fun!

Ratings

Overall 385th 3.761⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Fun 64th 4.152⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 569th 3.364⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 795th 3.696⭐ 25🧑‍⚖️
Humor 108th 4⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Mood 270th 3.881⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 17🗳️ 24🗨️

Feedback

icch_howw
01. May 2023 · 19:42 UTC
This is one of my favorite games up until now, I love how hectic and completely over the top everything feels. First time driving the truck I though "Ok let's go deliver this!" only to hit a rock and lose 95% of everything. Great game :thumbsup:
melpomephy
01. May 2023 · 19:49 UTC
A chaotic fun game, loved it! It goes really fast and I'm really bad at it, but that half the fun. Only problem I noticed is that resetting the truck makes all the crops disappear.
ugly_robot
01. May 2023 · 20:05 UTC
This game is such a joy! I was open-mouth guffawing the whole time. Fishtailing through the pumpkins - backwards, doing donuts in the cabbage patch, petal-to-the-metal carving my way through the farm. 'Simple Life' indeed! So glad to have a reset button, more than once I torpedoed myself out of bounds.

A hard days work to deliver 4 crops lol.
Deeply enjoyable, well done.

Also! Can I ask, what did you set Unity's build resolution to? - the [embedding guide](https://ludumdare.com/resources/guides/embedding/) recommends "948x533" - but with the WebGL border thing, mine seems to be a few pixels off, even after trying to shrink it a bit. You seem to have gotten it perfect - what did you use?
Thanks!
Jimmybobb
02. May 2023 · 00:39 UTC
Thanks everyone for the comments! In regards to the unity build resolution, I uploaded 4 times to get it right. The Unity game bar at the bottom adds an extra 50px to the total resolution, so set you resolution to "948x483".
LDJam user 336560
02. May 2023 · 01:51 UTC
Really fun collecting the crops and drifting on the fields! It would be cool if more stuff was destructible, I found myself getting stuck on tiny things many times :D
the neon shark
02. May 2023 · 02:26 UTC
"Why does this game seem like it's intentionally making me fail and lose food? Am I just bad??"
** Ramp in road appears **
LDJam user 257438
02. May 2023 · 06:09 UTC
Great game and chaotic!!
I love the way the combine harvester moves!!

I love it man!!

Pls play my game also bro!
hmrpf
02. May 2023 · 09:27 UTC
Loved this, ahah. I went from road raging everywhere at 100km/h to slowly making turn to crops properly really fast. I'm glad I didn't trust you with this big straight roads at the end :laughing: Great entry, and so much work done. Graphic and audio are really good. Nice job !
stesim
02. May 2023 · 13:28 UTC
Controlling the harvester takes a bit of getting used to, but then you're rewarded with the fun of drifting through the crops. Overall the game is quite enjoyable and has a nice look to it. The only issue I noticed is that you can get stuck on the white fences (too) easily. On the other hand, accidentally jumping over them was quite fun. Great job! :smiley:
PixelPocket
02. May 2023 · 13:52 UTC
Wow I love how you've put all the assets together, the colours of everything are really bright and saturated. The controls took some getting used to but it's got that RC car unpredictable vibe which is great.
binroot
02. May 2023 · 23:33 UTC
*that* is one of the fastest tractors I've ever seen!
slimefriend
02. May 2023 · 23:39 UTC
This is really cool! The truck physics were pleasantly difficult to master, and collecting a bunch of stuff is always satisfying. I did get the truck stuck in a few places, but that's mostly my bad driving haha. Great job!
Branquelo
03. May 2023 · 02:57 UTC
This game is such a fun experience. I know that is a game that you can make a lot with it if you guys want to make something bigger, because it's really fun. It's chaotic, and that's why i liked a lot.
SmelJey
03. May 2023 · 07:32 UTC
Wow! The game is so much fun! I love how the vehicles are controlled, however I got stuck in the trees and fences several times. Also, when I tried to reset the truck, I lost all of my crops. But the game looks very solid and I really enjoyed playing it.
Russ Moonbase
04. May 2023 · 04:14 UTC
This is the funniest game I've played in this jam. I laughed out loud when I put all the crops in the truck and then as the truck I took off at full speed and lost everything. I had a super fun time.

My only small problem was my harvester and truck getting stuck on objects. I really want to smash those white fences!

Great game! I want to play again.
Sam Minh
05. May 2023 · 13:43 UTC
This game is a gem. The physics are really fun and the harvesting is really satisfying. The multiple stages is very impressive. The free resetting is well played since the phsyics can unfairly screw the player over.

Really enjoyed this quick well done game!

![Crops.png](///raw/23d/e1/z/5b618.png)
Sam Gorman
05. May 2023 · 20:39 UTC
The chaotic energy is strong, love it! I agree with others that the truck kept getting stuck, requiring a reset - two options here might be making a way to respawn the truck without losing everything, or just making everything destructible. Nice work!
the_martijn
05. May 2023 · 21:24 UTC
Amazing :laughing:

At first I taught the driving was way to unbalanced, but as soon as I had to drive the truck and almost lost all of the vegetables, I totally understood why it had to be so hectic!
geck0
05. May 2023 · 21:53 UTC
Wow, the physics mechanics are crazy, and I like it! haha The 'R' button was my friend, my vehicle fly a lot xD

Funny game
David Mason
13. May 2023 · 10:06 UTC
![nice.PNG](///raw/a39/8/z/5bbbc.png)
StaGYL
18. May 2023 · 05:42 UTC
Love the game! Everything goes so well together! I thought the truck loading was the most tricky part until I encountered this lol.![bandicam 2023-05-17 22-31-55-395.jpg](///raw/e71/75/z/5bd53.jpg)