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Grocery Run by delauraen

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made by delauraen for Ludum Dare 54 (JAM)

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Grocery Run

Everyone knows you HAVE to carry all your grocery bags in one trip or it doesn't count. Play as bag lady, carry as many groceries as you can handle but be careful because the more you carry the slower you move - you may need to dodge a rogue gang of geese that are out to steal those groceries. Get as many groceries to the end as quick as possible!

https://youtu.be/iyknsrMFUeA

Controls

  • Third person controls - mouse to look around, WASD to move
  • F to pickup items
  • G to drop items
  • P to pause/resume game
  • Alt + F4 to quit :)

Tech

  • Created entirely in Blueprints!
  • Unreal Engine 5.3
  • Platform: Windows Only

Credits

Devlog

Another solo entry to Ludum Dare, I didn't accomplish as much as I originally wanted (per usual) but I did enjoy learning new things and felt a lot more comfortable in the 3D space. I may continue to iterate with the new 3 week option to see if I can get this into a more complete game.

Some additional notes: - Picking up multiple items and storing them without an actual inventory system proved interesting. I ended up using the socket manager to fulfill this but quickly encountered may problems with this as you drop, the goose steals. Figuring out the collision/overlap logic was interesting. - * Changed some stuff at the end to cleanup the blueprints and broke the tracking/dropping so it's a bit jank, won't be able to fix before end of jam :cry: *

GitHub https://github.com/delauraen/ld54-LimitedSpace
Itch.io https://delauraen.itch.io/grocery-run-a-ludum-dare-54-adventure
Windows Exe https://drive.google.com/file/d/12xDESxiPjyojjGAd2Y6SqQsv8KQWNX0W/view?usp=drive_link
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/grocery-run

Ratings

Given 6🗳️ 10🗨️

Feedback

MrSamafu
03. Oct 2023 · 10:59 UTC
The concept is interesting, with more work you will be able to make an excellent game :D
Antoine Aubert
03. Oct 2023 · 18:57 UTC
I like the concept, but unfortunately my GPU isn't powerful enough to run it smoothly. It would have been interesting to have a real supermarket design. Nice work.
JOZGames
03. Oct 2023 · 19:38 UTC
Não sei porque eu ri disso ai, hehe
LDJam user 262766
03. Oct 2023 · 19:42 UTC
Raw but concept is interesting try your best
Shpimpasta
03. Oct 2023 · 19:48 UTC
What to say about this game? Well, I will be quite frank, the experience was lacking. Now I don't know if it was due to a lack of explanation OR that there just is not a lot of content. But regardless, I found myself running around in an empty room with some geese. I assumed the groceries were to be brought to the platform on the opposite end of the room, but alas, that didn't seem to be the case. Also at one point I dropped all groceries on top of eachother. When I went to pick them up I picked THEM ALL UP and had 9/7 with no weight problems. When the geese attacked me I dropped bags, but it didn't subtract from my count. So it was essentially an infinite grocery glitch.

I'll be honest, the concept has a lot of promise and could turn into a really fun party game! But some improvements would have to be made.
🎤 delauraen
03. Oct 2023 · 21:04 UTC
@mrsamafu appreciate it! - there's definitely a lot to make it into a full game but was happy to get concept working

@antoine-aubert - oh no! I'm new to unreal so it's possible the prototype assets I had set to the highest. I'll consider this next time as there's no reason this should be.... that gpu intensive 😅

@jozgames - hope I'm not butchering the translation but the bag lady and learning how to attach to the model was so funny looking so I just had to include it

@anton4ik-dev - thanks! I'm hoping to put in more work in the next few weeks to make it more complete. I kinda built out functions but didn't really have time to put it all together 😅

@shpimpasta - Appreciate the valid even if a little harsh feedback 😁, I totally agree that there isn't really a complete experience here. I put together a couple of different mechanics during prototyping because at first I was prioritizing learning, but when it came to integrating it I ran into issues and of course scope creep. As someone still somewhat new to unreal engine and working solo it can be difficult to commit enough time into this while planning appropriately. This also explains the pickup/drop bag behavior, I avoided an actual inventory system and instead used attach to actors via collision, when it was just one bag it was fine but adding multiple I should have revisited the problem.

Thanks for the comments and appreciate you playing my ~~game~~ sandbox!
Henk Fan
04. Oct 2023 · 14:44 UTC
Fun concept! However, polishing is definitely needed and there should be more content to the game.
Raphiell
05. Oct 2023 · 02:12 UTC
Like others have mentioned, this is definitely unfinished. But I recognize that creating something, ANYTHING (especially in 3d) and releasing it is difficult. I also worked on a 3d game this jam for the first time in my LD experience. Well done on participating and releasing something.