{"author_link":"\/users\/nikolaj","author_name":"Nikolaj","author_uid":1005518,"comments":[{"id":987306,"author_name":"Nick Rafalski","author_uid":"nick-rafalski","epoch":1696265564,"text":"I think this plays really well! The physics are just controllable enough that it feels right, without being too rigid. I like how bumping into tress cuts them down! The sound effects are great and really immersive","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":987369,"author_name":"brainles etertainment","author_uid":"brainles-etertainment","epoch":1696266486,"text":"Your score: -130 :rofl: ","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":992621,"author_name":"Ackbad","author_uid":"ackbad","epoch":1696306093,"text":"It's fun. The whirring sound in the background was kind of jarring as it would cut in and out as you started and stopped moving. I liked the concept though and other then the one issue the audio was great.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":992653,"author_name":"Nikolaj","author_uid":"nikolaj","epoch":1696306503,"text":"@ackbad thanks! the whirring sound is a different idle i got from another clip.. i guess i should have stuck with the audio i recorded in my car (the main driving sound)! ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":992662,"author_name":"Rose","author_uid":"rose","epoch":1696306589,"text":"Driving a garbage truck is hard! I eventually figured it out but sometimes the cans would slip out of my claw anyway. It's an interesting challenge though, and a good theme for a game! I found the camera flipping when backing up pretty disorienting - I usually wanted to just reposition slightly, so a consistent camera would be helpful.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":993002,"author_name":"Nikolaj","author_uid":"nikolaj","epoch":1696309788,"text":"@rose thanks for the feedback! There is a mouselook option that lets you have control over the camera. I couldn't decide between auto-adjusting the camera and having the person figure out how to use the mouse.. ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":994045,"author_name":"Lee Martin 77","author_uid":"lee-martin-77","epoch":1696319929,"text":"This was a really neat little concept! I definitely smashed into half the cars and was sending trashcans everywhere, so an accurate representation of my local waste services. \n\nIf 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!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":996253,"author_name":"LDJam user 283449","author_uid":"283449","epoch":1696337054,"text":"The driving felt very smooth and I really like the idea. With more polish, proper graphics and different levels this could turn into a really fun game!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1000572,"author_name":"cogcomp","author_uid":"cogcomp","epoch":1696364118,"text":"I really liked the way the garbage collection worked. It took quite some time to get anything at first but I gradually got a lot better at it. Great fun! Well done!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1002722,"author_name":"LDJam user 352490","author_uid":"352490","epoch":1696388018,"text":"It's fun playing around with the grabber physics, thanks for making. Not sure I'll recover from this one though:\n\n![truck.png](\/\/\/raw\/ae0\/65\/z\/5f7c4.png)","format":"md","likes":3,"spam":"N"},{"id":1004604,"author_name":"LDJam user 378283","author_uid":"378283","epoch":1696418712,"text":"-200.lol","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1006645,"author_name":"sebbernery","author_uid":"sebbernery","epoch":1696443848,"text":"I will start with the positive: there is some car I didn't touch ^^.\n\nI got 214 points the second run.\n\nThis 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.\n\nAnd I forgot, you handled AZERTY keyboard that's cool :).\n\nI 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.\n\nCongratulations for the entry ! ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1007598,"author_name":"fnelix","author_uid":"fnelix","epoch":1696451921,"text":"-80 points, there was limited space, fun little game! I like the sound effects\/music and wonky physics. I prefered the mouse-look camera. Great entry!\n","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1010109,"author_name":"Bernhard","author_uid":"bernhard","epoch":1696503057,"text":"Made it with no mistakes on my 3rd try! Applause on the complex trash pickup physics interaction, it actually worked! :laughing: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1013113,"author_name":"tucan","author_uid":"tucan","epoch":1696570823,"text":"I saw your progress gifs several times during the Jam, I bet you were having a lot of fun!\nI 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!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1013244,"author_name":"Henrik Ganard","author_uid":"henrik-ganard","epoch":1696576633,"text":"Great game idea. It would have been super cool to steer the pickup arm myself. Great game.\n","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1013286,"author_name":"LDJam user 206001","author_uid":"206001","epoch":1696578249,"text":"I couldn't resist and ran over everything I saw in front of me. ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1013342,"author_name":"chuckeles","author_uid":"chuckeles","epoch":1696579425,"text":"Cool game! :stars: BTW how did you get Godot to run in HTML? Mine just refuses to work (Godot 4 that is)...","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1013356,"author_name":"Diccuric_Sigeon","author_uid":"diccuric-sigeon","epoch":1696579846,"text":"i like this mechanism","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1013424,"author_name":"Smitner","author_uid":"smitner","epoch":1696582282,"text":"I picked up all the waste, but at what cost.. Noone will be able to drive to work tommorow.\n\nReally 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  ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1013661,"author_name":"LaserPanzerWal","author_uid":"laserpanzerwal","epoch":1696592101,"text":"Interesting idea. Too bad you didnt have the time for better graphics. I often got negative points while lifting the trash cans for no obvious reason while not getting positive points for emptying them, seems thats a little bugged. There is potential for the idea though!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1013855,"author_name":"JamesW","author_uid":"jamesw","epoch":1696599077,"text":"Never knew collecting trashes was that hard! It's a fun game. Graphics is simple, but works.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1014156,"author_name":"polyforma42","author_uid":"polyforma42","epoch":1696607222,"text":"I like the camera and controls. Simple but nice game.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1015978,"author_name":"Vollfeiw","author_uid":"vollfeiw","epoch":1696667301,"text":"![GarbageTruck.png](\/\/\/raw\/074\/c2\/z\/5fef2.png)\nHelp me step bro, i'm stuck !\n\nQuite fun game, but I think i'm better at crushing cars than collecting garbage tho","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1019713,"author_name":"DeadByDeath","author_uid":"deadbydeath","epoch":1696849095,"text":"The game was very fun because for some reason I was doing dumb things with my garbage vehicle. I believe no matter what game you are playing, when you are driving it instantly becomes GTA. Not to mention that my best score was something like -350 :smile:! Nice try! Keep up!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1022221,"author_name":"LDJam user 278146","author_uid":"278146","epoch":1697042246,"text":"I like when bin lid flips up :3\nThe 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.","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1025286,"author_name":"LDJam user 234567","author_uid":"234567","epoch":1697392544,"text":"As we say in french: \"j'ai mi la cabane sur le chien\". Very fun to play! It's normal to finish with a negative score? :sweat_smile: ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1025726,"author_name":"betovf","author_uid":"betovf","epoch":1697436892,"text":"I love the look you achieved just using Godot graphic primitives. The physics are well acomplished as well. Really fun. I now understand why garbage containers in my city are so messed around :rofl: ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1026632,"author_name":"LDJam user 300020","author_uid":"300020","epoch":1697566576,"text":"Got -90 lol. The game controls are simple and smooth. I hope it doesn't turn the viewpoint too often when backing up, or give a setting that doesn't turn the viewpoint. Sorry, I'm a bit dizzy for 3D. https:\/\/ldj.am\/$374960! Try this if you like puzzle game\ud83d\udc97:)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1026655,"author_name":"Hare Software","author_uid":"hare-software","epoch":1697568393,"text":"I do not think I am cut out to be a garbage truck driver, at least I do not think so after playing this game. A fun little entry, well done!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld54\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/ldj54.nikolaj.dev","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/github.com\/nikolajbaer\/ldj54\/tree\/master","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"91040","g_author":"1005518","g_event":"LD54","g_eventkey":"117","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"434471","g_title":"Trash Truck Hero","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"287","g_commentcount":"30","g_site2_node_id":"371917","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"371917","n_urlkey":"434471","n_parent":"371459","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/54\/trash-truck-hero","n_slug":"trash-truck-hero","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"5518","n_created":"1695270282","n_modified":"1779568573","n_version":"1162843","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD54","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":8,"author":5518,"body":"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? 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