Wicked Deliveries by Marco Schneider

made by Marco Schneider for Ludum Dare 53 (JAM)

Join Kiki on her delivery tour through the city

:wink: # Postjam Version available: Choosable Difficulty Level, Random Missions, Bugfixes

The video game we developed as part of this gamejam is a homage to the Studio Ghibli masterpiece "Kiki's Delivery Service". In our game, players take on the role of Kiki, who has started her own small delivery company.

The game takes place in an open world. Kiki flies around town on her broomstick, taking orders from various customers.

Jobs can range from simple package deliveries to race quests. Players must explore the city to find the right items and successfully complete the tasks.

Overall, our game offers a fun and relaxing experience that captures the allure and charm of Kiki's Delivery Service. We hope that players will feel like they are part of this wonderful universe and have an unforgettable journey. It was so funny to take part in Ludum Dare again, though we really suffered in the end.

:keyboard: Controls:

WASD - Movement

Mouse - Camera control

Shift - Sprint

Space - Vertical Uplift

Alt - Vertical Downlift

:notepad_spiral: Notes

Performance: You may use a PC with a graphics card equivalent to GeForce 960, cause the toon shader is rather performance intensive
Bug-Fixes: Current Download contains a post-jam bug-fixed version of the game:
Level did just go to 2 instead of 5
controlls worked differently for facing down and upwards
alt-button for moving down
changed photo-quest UI

Find Me.png

Original URL

https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/wicked-deliveries

Ratings

Overall	332^th	3.81⭐	31🧑‍⚖️
Fun	476^th	3.552⭐	31🧑‍⚖️
Innovation	629^th	3.293⭐	31🧑‍⚖️
Theme	553^th	3.948⭐	31🧑‍⚖️
Graphics	126^th	4.417⭐	32🧑‍⚖️
Audio	326^th	3.638⭐	31🧑‍⚖️
Humor	645^th	2.981⭐	28🧑‍⚖️
Mood	106^th	4.172⭐	31🧑‍⚖️
Given		24🗳️	16🗨️

Feedback

Oradimi

02. May 2023 · 13:05 UTC

A pretty game, very nice!

Zerovirus

02. May 2023 · 20:14 UTC

A very atmospheric game with excellently responsive controls. Super relaxing!

bart_diepvries

02. May 2023 · 20:22 UTC

I was looking forward to playing this game! The graphics look fantastic and I absolutely love this movie. My laptop could somehow not handle the game though, the framerate was somehow super low and it was unplayable. Outside of the city the framerate was better. But unfortunately I couldn't really play the game. Nice relaxing music :) I'm sure it's great if it works.

Batisdark

02. May 2023 · 20:40 UTC

Loved the "find me" puzzle most! Nice little town with some good features there and there. Game was too short though!
Had a bit of difficulty sometimes with race event - it felt like I go right in, but would slip past the ring... my aiming is bad apparently :) And there was one texture on one part of the town that was a giant tree! Other than that - game was running smoothly and with no glitches.

Really relaxing game and music. Would love more of it even...

Francis

02. May 2023 · 20:43 UTC

Love the cute Ghibli aesthetic and the town is adorable! I really enjoyed just exploring the town. A suggestion is maybe to do away with the minimap and design the game around that. I had much more fun when I wasn't glued to the arrow following it, especially it made the "Find the location" objectives pretty boring when its an interesting concept. I think it would also be nice if the ascend/descend worked in place without needing to move forward. I recorded my gameplay session here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ_5y_qOLiY

digital bacon

06. May 2023 · 23:45 UTC

I was hoping someone would make a *Kiki's*-based game!

Absolutely loved this. Even just flying around exploring the town was fun. I liked the vehicles and trams roving the city; adding some pedestrians would really make the town come alive!

The graphics are beautiful, really in keeping with the Ghibli-style. The music also helped with the aesthetic.

Really excellent work!

SkelleRoznik

08. May 2023 · 19:52 UTC

I loved this. I am a big fun of Ghibli movies and I just adore the anime art style. I very much like the idea and I see a LOT of potential in an open world flying game. The actual flying is pretty satisfying and enjoyable. I would like to have a little more sense of direction, though. I'm fine with exploring the world to find new quests. But I find it a little frustrating to not know where to go, once I've taken a quest. When I took a pretzel quest, I had to just randomly stumble upon the destination. I understand it might be the goal of the game, but not for me I guess.

And it's such a pity I had to drop the game after the 1st level because of awful performance. I liked the game and wanted to play on SO MUCH, but it was almost unplayable. It only lags when you look at the city/are in the city and runs smoothly when you look away. It might only be a problem with my machine, though.

philipprapp95

08. May 2023 · 21:30 UTC

Hi @skelleroznik , thank you so much for your feedback :) Nice to hear you enjoyed the game. We're also two big Ghibli fans and had a lot of fun. So unfortunate the performance problem :/ we looked into this before uploading the game and did our best to boost performance, but unfortunately it's mostly because of the toon shader. And you're right, it is a bit random to rech the destination. If we just had more time left, we also would have made a few changes :D maybe in a post jam version, we'll see. I was about saying I look forward playing your game, but seems I already did :D Again, thank you so much for your feedback

philipprapp95

11. May 2023 · 01:28 UTC

Hi @francis, thank you so much for your feedback! Yeah we thought of making the photo riddles more difficult, but then time ran out :D but after your comment, I sat down and made a post jam version with an option to change difficulty to high, with less clues for deliveries, photo quests and a harder time limit for the races. If you want to play it, I qould be so happy to hear from you again :) Have a nice day

Oscar Berry

11. May 2023 · 14:32 UTC

The game is very fun, congrats! Did you made the assets by yourselves?
The atmosphere is very good and relaxing, and I like the fact that we have different objectives to achieve.

Well done!!

kanity

11. May 2023 · 16:07 UTC

As someone who has no sense of direction, the game was super hard for me, but I did enjoy flying around the town, the flying was smooth and the views were incredible! It's like we can play in a world of Kiki's delivery service, and it is so exciting ^^ I love that you added a mini-map (not even this can help me but it is a very useful feature) and everything is just beautiful, and music is calming too :3

TwoWolf

12. May 2023 · 08:43 UTC

Thank you for the momentary healing and throwback to Kiki's. I was having a bad day but this helped me a little satisfying my childhood dream of flying.

philipprapp95

12. May 2023 · 17:01 UTC

Hi @oscar-berry , thank you so much for your feedback :smile: Yes, except the cars all other assets are made by ourselves. Had a lot of fun and wanted to have this anime look since our first ludum dare, but never had the time or experience to do so. It was so fun

MPK90

12. May 2023 · 17:07 UTC

Very nice game! I have played through it.

It was not only a feast for the eyes, but also nice in terms of variety.
I also looked at an older game of yours. You guys seem to make great games on a regular basis

philipprapp95

13. May 2023 · 01:28 UTC

Hey @twowolf , glad to hear our game helped you through your bad day, we both wish you a nice weekend :)

philipprapp95

13. May 2023 · 01:29 UTC

Hi @mpk90 , thanks for your nice comment :smiley: We're happy that you enjoyed our game :)

nyanpierre

14. May 2023 · 14:07 UTC

I love the inspiration of kiki the little witch, it's really fun to move around in the game and the art side is REALLY good, very good entry !

drazil100

14. May 2023 · 17:51 UTC

Great job on this one. It took me a while to learn to use the minimap (at which point the game became too easy) but I definitely enjoyed it.

First of all I noticed you could fly through this type of building.![Screenshot from 2023-05-14 12-37-21.png](///raw/320/3/z/5bc22.png)
It could be that I played this on Linux but thought I would report anyway.

I loved the controls but at least in the jam version I would have liked to rise a bit quicker with space button so I could point my camera down more while maintaining altitude.

Overall though while the end result is great I feel as though the pieces didn't quite come together as well as they could. I feel as though these tasks, while great as independent objectives, would have been far better as steps to a single objective. For instance rather than always delivering pretzels the ? items could be what you have to deliver. Rather than going around and taking photos the photo mechanic could have been how you find your destination. The way the game is currently structured it feels like Kiki's Pretzel Delivery Service with fun side activities but all of these mechanics could easily work together to be a true delivery service.

LDJam user 242971

15. May 2023 · 00:39 UTC

This was a relaxing experience. I enjoyed the flight, it felt pretty good to me. I spend some time just exploring and enjoyed it. The arrow system helped alot. I enjoyed the art and layout of the town.

Danyclockworker

15. May 2023 · 12:29 UTC

A game based on my favorite Miyazaki cartoon :)
It turned out great, the only thing is sometimes it is very difficult to find a start at the rounds.