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V8000 AD by DanteDouglas

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made by DanteDouglas for LD33 (JAM)
V8000 AD is a game about being the post-apocalyptic road monster you always dreamed of being. Wreck some cars! Enjoy the desert ambience! Put on some cool sunglasses!

Art and sound effects by Dante (@videodante).

Music by Cullen (@cullenddwyer) of @cowboycolor.

both of us are part of the KARTRIDGE FAMILY.

Most of this game was made at Fertilab Thinkubator in Eugene, OR, as well as the Kartridge Family Rat Den.

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CONTROLS: Shift & Arrow keys. Alt-Enter toggles fullscreen.
Web version is lower resolution! Highly recommend the Windows download if possible.

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Additional credits:
"Wavy percussive drone" sound effect from http://freesound.org/people/Speedenza/sounds/203916/
Font "pixelmix" from http://www.dafont.com/pixelmix.font
Crash sounds from http://freesound.org/people/smmassuda/sounds/136629/ and http://freesound.org/people/Northern_Monkey/sounds/185244/
Windows & Source http://dantedouglas.itch.io/v8000-ad
Twitter http://twitter.com/videodante
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-33/?action=preview&uid=29769

Ratings

Coolness 57% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.53 261
Audio(Jam) 3.66 142
Fun(Jam) 3.38 301
Graphics(Jam) 3.97 239
Humor(Jam) 2.51 685
Innovation(Jam) 2.92 596
Mood(Jam) 3.58 197
Theme(Jam) 2.98 853

Feedback

cowboycolor
25. Aug 2015 · 01:41 UTC
YEEAHH BOIII
Lissar
25. Aug 2015 · 04:06 UTC
Oddly enough, this is the first one I've seen about cars! Good job on the art.
BeardoGames
25. Aug 2015 · 18:24 UTC
This is the post-apocalyptic car-wrecking soul-searching game I always imagined you'd make one day. It's an excellent piece of work from the sunburned aesthetic to the simple controls to satisfying feeling you get when you ram something. You've entered some extremely awesome territory, very cool!
LordKawaii
25. Aug 2015 · 20:38 UTC
Very fun and the graphics are amazing! Alll da parallaxing!
ILoveToJam
25. Aug 2015 · 21:24 UTC
I found myself playing for about twenty minutes when I only meant to play for about five! Well done!
Lancelot Gao
26. Aug 2015 · 02:01 UTC
Amazing.！Really fun and great graphics！
Galan
26. Aug 2015 · 02:07 UTC
So addictive. If it had a scoring system I could see myself playing this for far too much time.
Shaw
26. Aug 2015 · 02:09 UTC
Lovely mad-max-esque game, graphics, sounds and particles are spot on. Smooth easy to pick up gameplay. Alot of fun. Excellent job guys.
jphelps
26. Aug 2015 · 03:05 UTC
nice job and fun to play
Bsevers18
26. Aug 2015 · 03:07 UTC
Fun game, well done! Great presentation
belowzerogames
26. Aug 2015 · 03:21 UTC
This game was a lot of fun to play, kinda funny at first I just was passing the cars instead of ramming into them :-)
humanatee_studios
26. Aug 2015 · 10:02 UTC
Simple and addictive, nice job.
peterkirk
26. Aug 2015 · 10:04 UTC
I love the art style and music.
I kept coming into an issue were the page would scroll down everything I moved.
🎤 DanteDouglas
26. Aug 2015 · 20:12 UTC
Due to a large number of issues with the web version, I've removed it (for now). It may return later!
HThomson
26. Aug 2015 · 21:49 UTC
Fantastic aesthetic, I love the intro screen it has a very cinematic feel to it.
Kerdelos
26. Aug 2015 · 23:21 UTC
Great graphics, the audio is discrete but well done. At first I didn't understood why i was loosing but it was because I did not had anymore fuel. Apart from that the player feedback is good. The only negative thing I encountered is the car physics. Don't get me wrong, it's working and quite good, it's just that it feels a little bit stiff. I don't know if it has to do with having no animation for the car going up or down or if it linked with how the car respond to the input. I just have a feeling that it could more enjoyable. Oh and sometimes there is a long time before another car to hit appear.
Good job !
Awpteamoose
27. Aug 2015 · 11:00 UTC
Some instructions would've been nice, I didn't figure out you have to bump into cars with nitro until my third go.
CrownCity
27. Aug 2015 · 12:32 UTC
I like the style and the gameplay. I only think some scoring system would satisfy me a bit more. Other than that good job!
Birke
27. Aug 2015 · 16:18 UTC
Very nice art and sound design. I had to read the comments here before I got you had to destroy the other cars to get fuel so it would be good if you provided some feedback on that. A nice reward sound or something for example.
architect404
28. Aug 2015 · 12:31 UTC
really nice aesthetic. a couple of bugs I noticed: the music doesn't play on any subsequent runs, you have to relaunch the game. also you can get caught up in an obstacle and taken from full health to none in a split second rather than receiving one hit. I'm not sure how well it fits the theme, and some kind of goal beyond survival would've been nice (even if it's just a high score of how many cars you destroyed), but all in all it's a fun game with a cool aesthetic and I enjoyed it. good effort!
architect404
28. Aug 2015 · 12:39 UTC
oh, one other thing, sticky keys! maybe shift wasn't the best choice ;)
guoboism
29. Aug 2015 · 00:42 UTC
Very nice game! Graphics are amazing!
inbetweengames
29. Aug 2015 · 06:03 UTC
That was furious! Love the vibe, gameplay and style!
🎤 DanteDouglas
29. Aug 2015 · 07:52 UTC
Hey all! Thank you so much for all the feedback! For those experiencing audio bugs: The updated build (1.1) on itch.io includes a few small audio fixes.

Understandably, those fixes were submitted well past the LD submission date and you are free to ignore that build if you like- but it's out there if people are interested in playing it with the sound working on consecutive runs, haha
Ithildin
29. Aug 2015 · 09:47 UTC
Great mood! Music was really good, and I loved the colour palette. Gameplay was cool as well, awesome job!!
MrMordem
29. Aug 2015 · 10:02 UTC
Cool post apocalyptic car game really well done :)
Literal Games
29. Aug 2015 · 11:26 UTC
Cool, seems inspired by Mad Max, which is great! Enjoyed the music too, gave it a nice mood along with the sepia
Jupiter_Hadley
29. Aug 2015 · 17:53 UTC
Beautiful graphics, fun game. I included it in part 10 of my Ludum Dare 33 Compilation video series, if you would like to take a look :) https://youtu.be/Jf2dZyQpNFE
walsh9
31. Aug 2015 · 17:26 UTC
I love the deep parallax background that makes you feel like the desert goes on forever. The big chunky particle effects are great too. I did not know you had to hit the other cars with nitro boosts until I read the other comments here. I was just trying to carefully push them into rocks at normal speed and it was not going well.
Sergi Montaner
31. Aug 2015 · 19:07 UTC
I really like the vibe of this game, It totally captured the wasteland survival thing and the gameplay is simple yet addicting.
Also the color palete fits very well.
I'm working on a game with a similar concept of car crashing, maybe it's interesting for you:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=455689246

Good job!
Lady Beardo
01. Sep 2015 · 22:21 UTC
WITNESS! Well done-- fantastic vibe.
LukeZaz
02. Sep 2015 · 03:57 UTC
Good little game. Not much to see, but what is there is good. Could do with a few more things to do, though.
nintendo master
02. Sep 2015 · 07:07 UTC
Wow! Now this is what I call fun! Not sure what makes it so enjoyable, but I love it! Maybe it is just something about destroying stuff that feels so good. Watching the sun go down really encourages me to play longer, because it gives me the sense that it's doable at the rate it's dropping and to see what happens after it does of course. Excellent job on your game!
Drauthius
04. Sep 2015 · 19:58 UTC
Man, that was a nice game. The rocks were brutal though!
Kai20
10. Sep 2015 · 17:00 UTC
8 bit Mad max. I mean this positive ;)
Jan Tuts
14. Sep 2015 · 18:05 UTC
Nice Mad-Max-ish game! :D
I'm sorry I couldn't judge audio though, but I can't make noise right now... :/