Lonely Crewman by nkling

made by nkling for LD28 (COMPO)

You are a lonely crewman, with no crew. You must manage the ship on your own to find the exit points. Navigate using the map,the steering levers and engine. If you run into a wall your ship will spring a leak that you will need to fix and mop up.
Controls:
movement: wasd
e: interact,pickup
q: drop item
Notes:
-Stand facing an object in order to pick them up/interact.
-Wrench fixes holes
-Mop cleans water.
-The Submarine will sink if 75% of the ship fills with water.
-The steering controls will not operate if covered in water.

Windows	http://www.TheChickenBandit.com/games/LD28/Lonely_Crewman.exe
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-28/?action=preview&uid=18369

Feedback

dqmhose

16. Dec 2013 · 09:28 UTC

Really liked this one. I like the stress infusing "OMG I DONT WANT TO DIE" feeling I get on this one.
Love the art style, animation and gameplay feels smooth. Couldn't interact with any of the items except the steering wheel and the map. Mop and engine didn't work for me =/ Still, great idea!

oldmanbiles

17. Dec 2013 · 01:22 UTC

After Windows 8 having a bitch fit about the exe file, I Spent far too much time cleaning up after myself. I'm a worse janitor than I am a pilot. Fantastic little game and my favourite I've seen so far.

jackyjjc

17. Dec 2013 · 11:10 UTC

There are some glitches in the collision detection. I can't walk between parts of the ship sometimes but I really like the graphics, the gameplay is fun and intense. Quite a hard game i must say.

psychomonster

17. Dec 2013 · 20:57 UTC

Nice I crashed so often before i got the idea to change the direction. Nice Game... Poor lonely little guy... Hight stress factor. Is there a way to walk through the water? I get stuck after steped into it :)

glovecat

19. Dec 2013 · 11:14 UTC

I love the graphics but I'm not good enough and I always die xD Good job!

CatOnMars

19. Dec 2013 · 11:17 UTC

Awesome graphics! Nice plot and mechanics. Like this one.

Norgg

20. Dec 2013 · 22:03 UTC

I managed not to sink! :D

Fun and nicely challenging game.

rnlf

23. Dec 2013 · 01:17 UTC

Wow, a really great game. It gets quite hectic once the ship hits a wall. Very high difficulty. I liked it a lot, not least because of the fantastic graphics!

Diptoman

24. Dec 2013 · 08:27 UTC

Whoa, great graphics for the sub and main character. The water needed better sprites, and there were some weird collisions. But playable and enjoyable. I lost my wrench in the water so many times xD
The theme's implementation with only one crewman doing all things was really good.

BradleySmith

04. Jan 2014 · 23:14 UTC

Beautiful pixel art.

Noyb

20. Jan 2014 · 19:27 UTC

Great work for jam limits! Pacing the ship's speed is a difficult design issue: too slow and the player spends long periods of time waiting, too fast and you make it more difficult to recover from mistakes, which is where most of the interesting mechanics show up. Would love to see this developed further.