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Rusted Robots by benjamin-l

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made by benjamin-l for LD 42 (JAM)

Lore

​Humanity was doing fine until 2049, but we ended up running out of space. We fixed this by assembling a robot force to clean up the trash and make more space. Eventually, even that failed and the robots got fed up with having no space. As the sole remaining trash compactor droid still loyal to humanity, it is your job to take out the trash, or else, you too may RUN OUT OF SPACE!

Please note: you don't have much power left, so you can't shoot and run the compactor at the same time :/

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Consider lowering your volume when launching.

Controls:

A, D: move trash horizontally

Left Click: kill robots

S: lower trash

Space: drop trash instantly

W: rotate trash

Control: rotate trash backward

Programming:

Written in Rust (of course). Both of us are proud members of the Rust Evangelism Strike Force. Join up today! @benjamin-l

@joshua-w

Art:

@joshua-w

@benjamin-l

Audio

Music from freemusicarchive.org by RoccoW. Crushing sound from freesound.org by husky70.

Source Code https://git.chronicembetterment.org/ld42/
Linux https://benjamin-l.itch.io/rusted-robots
Windows https://benjamin-l.itch.io/rusted-robots
macOS https://benjamin-l.itch.io/rusted-robots
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/rusted-robots

Ratings

Overall 645th 3.341⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 693th 3.136⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 564th 3.205⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 848th 3.182⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 785th 3.136⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Humor 562th 2.639⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 812th 2.868⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 16🗳️ 29🗨️

Feedback

Lynn Young
14. Aug 2018 · 02:00 UTC
You forgot to post the link to the game! Post a comment when you upload it and I will play.
Joshua W
14. Aug 2018 · 02:04 UTC
@lynn-young, is it not in the description? You can find it at https://benjamin-l.itch.io/rusted-robots.
Lynn Young
14. Aug 2018 · 02:42 UTC
It is now, thanks! But it looks like there isn't a mac version. :/
Joshua W
14. Aug 2018 · 02:46 UTC
@lynn-young we are working on a web version and hope to have it out in 1-2 hours. Sorry for the let down, but thanks for coming back!
Lynn Young
14. Aug 2018 · 02:53 UTC
Oh cool, I will check it out then. Just let me know!
DarkGuardsman
14. Aug 2018 · 03:14 UTC
Very interesting combination of two game styles. Only thing this needs is a high scale resolution and maybe have the r key rotate the blocks.
Wekaj
14. Aug 2018 · 04:03 UTC
Awesome work, I like it a lot! It's cool how you have to force yourself to play the tetris game faster to shoot the robots in time. The art and animations are very stylish too, I especially like the losing animation when a robot touches you.
Joshua W
14. Aug 2018 · 04:44 UTC
@lynn-young the Mac build is done! Webdev may or may not appear. Thanks for waiting so patiently!
Hagge
14. Aug 2018 · 08:11 UTC
cool
Ravengar
14. Aug 2018 · 13:12 UTC
Awesome work I really fun playing it the music is cool the main mechanic brilliant, congratulation !
Lynn Young
14. Aug 2018 · 15:44 UTC
Excellent, Joshua. I'll check it out this evening when I get home. Thank you!
Nelson William
14. Aug 2018 · 22:15 UTC
The shooting twist really makes the Tetris-like gameplay more fun!
Ltven0mI
14. Aug 2018 · 22:17 UTC
It's a cool concept and fairly fun to play.
I had a bit of trouble playing it simply because the robots approach quite quickly.
But other than that it was fun to play. Good job!
Anuke
15. Aug 2018 · 00:13 UTC
Woah, a game made in rust! Did you use any specific libraries or engine for this?
AwiX
15. Aug 2018 · 07:17 UTC
A good game idea, the music should be improved. The graphics are good.
Try our game too, maybe you'll like it)
🎤 benjamin-l
16. Aug 2018 · 04:49 UTC
@anuke The main library we used was [quicksilver](https://github.com/ryanisaacg/quicksilver), which I didn't really have any prior experience with. It was easy to set up and use, although there are definitely some missing parts and things I would do differently. I'm thinking of trying to make a new library for next time. Rust gamedev is way easier now than it was a few years ago, and not having to write all the lower level graphics code is quite nice for getting things together quickly. You can take a look at our code [here](https://git.chronicembetterment.org/ld42/), although it's *very* messy.
Yaro
16. Aug 2018 · 16:15 UTC
Great! The difficulty curve is a bit steep, but it's probably good for a jam game.
flyingporkloin
17. Aug 2018 · 04:59 UTC
Fun game and I love how it looks. The music is nice too. The game's quite difficult. It took me a while to be able to erase even a single line... or maybe I just suck at tetris lol
HIM
17. Aug 2018 · 05:16 UTC
''The program can't start because XINPUT1_4.dll is missing from your computer.''
Zicboy
17. Aug 2018 · 05:30 UTC
Really liked the idea and art style.
ProdigalSon
18. Aug 2018 · 02:53 UTC
Like others have said, it was hard, it took me all of 5 seconds to die...lol At first I thought I was playing an entry from last LDJAM (combining two genres) :D The graphics are really nice, the music (though loud but you did give a warning) was fun, and the game is easy to grasp which makes it fast to get into. Just wish it was slower at throwing enemies at you.

Few suggestions that would make the experience better for me personally:
1. let me shoot a few times before entering Tetris mode, like an energy meter slowly draining and I can shoot multiple times before it drops or each time I shoot a certain amount is drained
2. a charge shot or something that allows me to kill a cluster of enemies. Sometimes there's a group of them and I wish I could blow them all up before refueling

This has potential with a few tweaks to the gameplay design. :D