Trash Truck Hero by Nikolaj
Ever have a day where you are sitting there working from home and you hear the garbage truck squeal by lifting your trash bin in and setting it down, somehow not mangling any cars nearby? There is Limited Space in between all the cars yet they manage! Good Job Civil Servants! Now you can join the ranks and show off your skills!
Controls are super simple, WASD/Arrow keys to drive, Space bar to Grab. You only have 1 block to collect, so do it quick, but watch out for cars and make sure those trash bins don't fall over (the residents hate that). You get a time bonus for doing it quick and collecting all the garbage!
Bonus feature is to opt into "mouse look" which gives you manual control of the camera. Maybe not your first try, but if you feel like a speed run, its the way to go!
Since this is a compo and it ends in 49 minutes, I didn't get time to have a high scores feed, so post your screenshots if you like, I am curious what the highest score can be (calculated roughly as (12*30ptsPerCan) + 50ptsCollectAllCansBonus + (160-elapsed)TimeBonus)
This is godot running in the browser so hopefully works for you. Sorry no touch controls!
NOTE1: For asset/compo creation, I did "derive" on batch of sounds from a rubbish collection .wav I found on freesound (source in the README). Since I chopped it up and mangled it to make loops I think this is in line, and i like my music, so hopefully nobody takes issue with this. I also have sounds i recorded with my phone (trash being dumped, engine revving)
NOTE2: The source code is in the Master not Main branch, as I pivoted from three.js to godot
| Link | https://ldj54.nikolaj.dev |
| Link | https://github.com/nikolajbaer/ldj54/tree/master |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/54/trash-truck-hero |
Ratings
| Overall | 287th | 3.177⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 201th | 3.403⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 159th | 3.5⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 317th | 2.887⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 321th | 2.672⭐ | 34🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 271th | 2.5⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 131th | 2.983⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 298th | 2.774⭐ | 33🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 23🗳️ | 15🗨️ |
If I were to change anything I'd probably actually have made the roads a little bit more organic/twisty, but then that's more where the concept would go than where it is!
I got 214 points the second run.
This is a very fun game, graphisms are pretty cute, that's crazy what it's possible to do with cubes ! The polishing in the game is good, fixed camera view work pretty well (I forgot to activate the mouse lock before my 3rd run, but I took too much confidence so I made a terrible score) and I liked the detail of the trash lid that show if you have already empty the can. I got some minor bugs in scoring count but it didn't bother me during the play.
And I forgot, you handled AZERTY keyboard that's cool :).
I think you should put the sound in opt-out instead of opt-in, at first I belived there was a bug and people could think there is no sound.
Congratulations for the entry !
I managed to get 40 points, it's hard to believe driving a garbage truck could be so tricky! I love your use of physics in the game! Good Job!
Really nice game, the grabber is well implemented and It's a fun little game - I can imagine this would work well with procedual streets and some time pressure
Help me step bro, i'm stuck !
Quite fun game, but I think i'm better at crushing cars than collecting garbage tho
The automatic camera angles was an interesting idea but it seemed a bit temperamental, I would have preferred to just control the camera so it's good you added that option.