Handle With Care by HumanIsRed
Handling With Care is not just the name of our company, but also a well deserved title that has been proving itself over the course of many, many years! We promise to DELIVER your package with as much CARE, in the shortest amount of TIME as possible!
In the journey, your precious item may experience lots of TURBULENCE and SHAKING, but trust us when we say that there won't be even a scratch on it! We DESIGN our VEHICLES with careful CALCULATION and have the best DRIVERS across the whole solar system
First step of delivering your package is to design a unique vehicle that can do the job. For that, we use J to grab and place the parts. Later, we use SPACE to assign each part to it's own key. It could be any key! When our vehicle is ready, we press the BIG RED BUTTON outside the garage to start the delivery
Second phase is the most important one- DELIVERING your item. Our drivers carefully handle the vehicle in order to get it from point A to point B. If there's any trouble with the vehicle on the road, our drivers have excellent knowledge in REPAIR and are great at critical thinking too!
The last, but not least, is your rating, something that we deeply care about! Depending on whether or not the item is DELIVERED, DELIVERED FAST and DELIVERED WITH CARE, you can give us 1, 2 or 3 stars!! Keep in mind that we only work with the best of the best and employees with low ratings have to get immediately fired :)
This game was made in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 53 using the theme "DELIVERY"
You can appreciate our work by following us on Twitter!
https://twitter.com/riuku_ (programming)
https://twitter.com/ms_frogrammer (programming / music)
https://twitter.com/jamierowan_ (animations/ visuals)
https://twitter.com/TinyBox11 (art / visuals)
*design by everyone involved
Join my discord server -> https://discord.gg/AdH5jZTnPX
!!! POST-JAM CHANGES !!! - added web export - performance optimization
| Itch.io page | https://frogrammer.itch.io/handle-with-care |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/handle-with-care |
Ratings
| Overall | 56th | 4.214⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 146th | 3.956⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 20th | 4.371⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 230th | 4.243⭐ | 37🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 56th | 4.559⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 97th | 4.103⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 256th | 3.682⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 281th | 3.868⭐ | 36🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 26🗳️ | 12🗨️ |
But the Graphics above look super awesome and being able to build your own monster-truck-like delivery verhicle sounds just great, hats off! If you manage to make a Web or Mac Build somehow, I will be in for playing!
But Great Game!
looks amazing, works nicely.
which engine did you use to make it?
The game is incredibly fun and car building part is very robust which is shocking considering this game was made in a few days (I assume this is a _jam_ kind of game and not _compo_, which would be even more incredible). The art style and music are also great - I like when the music transitions from building to delivering part.
At the first moment, it was kind of overwhelming seeing all the parts of the building and not understanding what each of them is doing. But after a minute or two I figured out cause it was not as complicated as I was imagining (_and it shouldn't be complicated!_) which gave me a gratification moment.
Also looove small details, like exploding rockets after a while :smile:. Controls and movement are smooth and I feel like greatly tuned. The goals of each level are easy to grasp with a little bit of a challenge which is appreciated. Overall with all of the complexities involved with building a car - the game was straightforward and fun. I enjoyed every bit of it!
I feel like rambling cause there is a lot to say about this game but I hope you get my point - it's great! :smile:
Small suggestions (not a big deal for me and doesn't affect how I rate this game):
- After quitting/winning the level - do not delete the current vehicle _of that level_. Perhaps have a 3-slot system for created vehicles per level, so that a player can revise their car to finish with more stars
- Cars with umbrellas are kind of wonky. Car with them is incredibly hard to accelerate (maybe I did something wrong with placing them). But more rockets solved the problem easily :sunglasses:
The audio in this is also so solid, just tied everything together so nicely.
Also reflecting on it now, you've done such a good job at making things intuitive enough to not need a tutorial. Even though there's a lot going on, the design choices are clear enough that you can just dive right in.
If I had to nitpick, I wish there was a way to summon the cargo while inside the vehicle. I really like the feeling of having to get out and press the button to load my contraption the first few times... but many iterations later it starts feeling like a chore.
Great work.
I wish the assembly process was a bit faster and more user friendly, but that's really all I can complain about. My favorite game of the jam so far!
"Why isn't the big red button, you know... red?"
Very solid entry, I'm not a huge fan of the visual choice of keeping a single tone, and ended up muting the game because over three levels the game music got really repetitive (is the title screen track longer? I love it, it's so good!) The gameplay is brilliant, especially for jam scope. Very impressive to see great character movement, vehicle building, and all of that without jank. Just wow!
Cheers!
Gameplay is kind of Bad Piggies, but with free construction, what is nice innovation here.
Cars with umbrellas are hard to drive, so on the last level I tryed to make some kind of flying thing, but the height of the screen made it hard to control (because sometimes I сouldn't see it).
Somekind of save/load your machine is also would be great.
But overall, It's SO GOOD, well done.
Pros
- innovative and really fun
- challenging tracks
Cons
- just a small grip, after finishing level, instead of going to the next level give player an option if he wants to continue or restart the level to try better star score
I really appreciate the simplicity of creating a vehicle, this is never should be underrated!
Style is amazing!
Had an awesome time playing this game!
either way, really cool game! amazing amount of work for the jam.
I'm blown away how much you were able to fit into this jam. It's insane! :laughing:
Everything is so ridiculously awesome. :heart_eyes: The player animations are crazy good. I absolutely loved the feeling of being the builder in his garage, welding together random parts... and I think all the player controls and amazing animations really added to that feel. (Rather than simply an editor). The building part was a big aspect of the game, and felt immersive, rather than separate.
I am in awe.
This was one of my first (failed) attempts at my vehicle :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
hey! sorry it's hard to reply to everyone but thank you so much for your kind words! it means a ton and we'll consider all your feedback :)