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School Bus Simulator 2017 by mmason

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made by mmason for LD 40 (JAM)

The students have run all over town, if something isn't done they'll miss class!

There is only one person who can get them to class on time, BUS GUY!

The more students you have aboard the worse the bus handles!

I reccomend the downloadable versions as they have shown to have less glitches.

Use the Arrow keys (or WASD) to drive

Up/Down - for forwards and backwards

Left/Right - to turn those directions

There are some controls listed in the unity inputs that do nothing (Gas/Break/Boost). they were an attempt at setting up a controller that failed (maybe in a post build).

Drive around and have students hop on your bus, then deliver them to school to complete the level.

The more you mess with Unity's WheelColliders, the worse it is! Seriously I wouldn't reccommend it to anyone else during a game jam unless you already know the secret sauce (there's a reason the bus only rotates on the y-axis)

HTML5 (web) https://mmason.itch.io/ld40-final
Other (document) https://mmason.itch.io/ld40-final
Source code https://soundcloud.com/pattyman
Audio (@pattyboy) https://patricklenihan.bandcamp.com/
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/school-bus-simulator-2017

Ratings

Overall 712th 3.295⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 501th 3.386⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 689th 3.045⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 868th 3.023⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 767th 3.136⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Audio 413th 3.273⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Humor 129th 3.81⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Mood 839th 2.929⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Given 31🗳️ 9🗨️

Feedback

peanutboyz
05. Dec 2017 · 02:37 UTC
Nice dinger! Impressive for such little time!

The "I'm Stuck" button is a pro touch : )

I'm on my way to GrockJockers now!
saviourgaming
05. Dec 2017 · 02:51 UTC
Oi! Nice sound effects and graphics.
Kapura
05. Dec 2017 · 02:53 UTC
I got through several levels but eventually the bus just kept spinning and spinning, even after pressing the I'm Stuck button. But it's clear you spent a lot of time on making interesting levels to drive around!
Tan Kwong Yee
05. Dec 2017 · 03:00 UTC
Nice touch on matching with the theme
Shaolin Dave
05. Dec 2017 · 18:15 UTC
I couldn't help but chuckle at the kids leaping at the bus and sticking to it, or the way they flew off in all directions once I got to the school.
Shaolin Dave
05. Dec 2017 · 18:19 UTC
By the way, you have your previous games listed on your profile but not this one
🎤 mmason
05. Dec 2017 · 19:23 UTC
@shaolin-dave glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for noting that submission time was 10pm for me and after finializing everything I figured there were a few things that got missed
🎤 mmason
06. Dec 2017 · 01:21 UTC
@kapura There are a few bugs we didn't have time to iron out, unfortunately that's one of them. That bug has something to do with wheel colliders and the physics engine I think. We had one bug early on where the bus did tons of kickflips which was **TOTALLY RAD**, but annoying.
Eric Florio
06. Dec 2017 · 02:17 UTC
Funny concept!
But I don't think it gets harder the more students you have (maybe slower?)

One sugestion: make the acceleration and deceleration stronger.
🎤 mmason
06. Dec 2017 · 04:01 UTC
@eric-florio The top speed gets lower with more people, the turning radius gets larger with more people and theres the chance that the students might collide with things and stop you, maybe I should have made it a little more pronounced. You have no idea how hard I tried to get the acceleration and deceleration to work better. Using WheelColliders in unity is a nightmare! this was the result of a days work. I think it might be possible by applying forces to the vehicle in addition to or instead of the motor simulation that is supports. In the end we just didn't have the time to get it how we wanted it.

The short response, good suggestion, I agree.
Shuzo Iwasaki
06. Dec 2017 · 15:05 UTC
Good graphics and good level design.
But I was hard to feel bad status a little.
The moving of students is very funny and nice.
Mike Cullingham
06. Dec 2017 · 15:18 UTC
Nice low poly graphics, although I noticed a lot of the streetlights dropped through the world. Had fun driving around and knocking trees around. I couldn't find the school on level 2. Would love to know what Grockjockers is.
jk5000
06. Dec 2017 · 15:59 UTC
Weird and really fun.
🎤 mmason
06. Dec 2017 · 16:17 UTC
@mike-cullingham Glad you enjoyed it. The streetlight issue only seems to happen on the web version so we've been having some difficulty tracking that down. The school is on the middle island in level 2. Grockjockers is a discount grocery store, they have great sales on donuts!
glock00
06. Dec 2017 · 16:57 UTC
I love bus simulators and this is one of them :) I only have suggestions already mentioned here...
CyberPunks
06. Dec 2017 · 21:28 UTC
Quite a nice game. Is nice that you can collide with trees. The hardest part for me was to find the school to complete the level.

"The more you mess with Unity’s WheelColliders, the worse it is!" -- Hahaha :))

Cheers. (Morco - CyberPunks team)
Norbert
06. Dec 2017 · 21:35 UTC
fun/humor 5, i would give 6 if i could xd those flying students xd well done.
Jack Maxwell
06. Dec 2017 · 21:35 UTC
Audio is too loud, UI and Text was kind of simple/boring. A "I'm Stuck" button is kind of alarming. I didn't really notice the bus handling becoming worse, I felt that the bus had its brakes removed by the kids attached to its side. Overall is a interesting funny game but the gameplay isn't that fun.
maRuda
06. Dec 2017 · 22:12 UTC
An interesting idea for the game. Studying and going to classes ... It seems to me that there is little time to level
Jupiter_Hadley
05. Jan 2018 · 00:06 UTC
Funny game! I included it in my Ludum Dare 40 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdHqgfn9vOI