Dumpin' Stars by AntonioNP

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made by AntonioNP for LD 42 (JAM)

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Well, this is our game and our first nonlocal Gamejam. Dumpin' Stars is a game about dragging trash into the pressing machine to keep your dump clean to not to run out of space. To not to colapse your dump, you will send your trash to your competitor.

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Inputs are WASD to the player on the left and the arrows to the player on the right. They must draw all the trash they can to the pressing machine in order to avoid the trash bar from filling up, because that means that you lose.

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You will have some spicy combos according to what kind of trash you smash.

(Web version has some bugs, so we have uploaded a PC version with all the features while we fix it.) RE: BUG FIXED.Advice for Unity developers: Mesh colliders don't work well in WebGL, try to avoid them. ;)

Ratings

Overall 950th 3.053⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 862th 2.947⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 723th 3.053⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 657th 3.421⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 679th 3.316⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Humor 469th 2.816⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Mood 835th 2.833⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 17🗳️ 17🗨️

Feedback

boyTurnedRobot
14. Aug 2018 · 17:13 UTC
Enjoyed the game, love the mechanic for keeping players from getting stuck. The first time I got stuck I was like "Well, I'll let them know about this bug... oh, never mind." It took me a second to realize I needed to push the red button. Overall a great game!
Kyllax
14. Aug 2018 · 17:16 UTC
Interesting idea also like the fact that there can be 2 players playing.
The only issue I had was the maneuverability, turning is really difficult.
The graphics are looking good too!
Haj
14. Aug 2018 · 17:23 UTC
A bit hard to push the trash into the pressing machine, but I like the idea! The acceleration felt a bit slow, which might be more realistic but is annoying.
merdeboi
14. Aug 2018 · 17:24 UTC
Audio kept cracking, truck kept flippin, but great idea that fits the theme. Nicely done 1v1 game!
ChaosTheLegend
14. Aug 2018 · 17:29 UTC
Cool and original idea, great graphics, even local multiplayer(but I have no friends), great entery. I like the game, but not the controlls, it's really hard to play. Every time when I trying to do something, I'm rather getting stuck in garbage or flip over and have to wait until respawn. I also have found very annoing bug: when you respawn and there is some trash under spawnpoint, you spawn ontop of objects and when you tries get down, car flips again. Really great game, hope you'll make something out of it after LD
Jose Rodriguez
14. Aug 2018 · 17:35 UTC
Yama___ (@yama) , and AntonioNP (@antonionp) *

The thing we liked the most was the art, thematic game and concept!

I tried to play by myself, but was not successful :( brain splitting for sure. I think single player is kind of a must for the jam, the 2 players is certainly a cool factor too. Then I got my wife over to play with me and things got better, I like the goal behind it, it felt good for a bit.

The thing that disengaged us was the physics, I think it was great for the trash but not for the whole truck, once things got busy I was constantly waiting for the truck to be respawned into place just to spawned into a flipped position. Maybe locking axis on position/rotation, locking Y pos and and X/Z rotation would be interesting. There where some issues with acceleration, once it gets up to speed and collides, it does some weird things, sling shot kind of.
There is a glitch on music when spawning new object that also didn't sit well with the experience.

I feel I didn't say many positives things here, I completely relate to the difficulty of the timeline and I'm sure that given a couple more days my review would be different. Cheers! :)
Enot487
14. Aug 2018 · 17:41 UTC
First of all, cool preview picture! Intresting idea, but the movement of bulldozer seems to me too hard and slow. Sometimes one kind of trash stucks in another and it's very difficult to move them. But I liked the transfer of stuck bulldozer to the center of the dump, it's very usefull and smart feature =)
🎤 AntonioNP
14. Aug 2018 · 20:28 UTC
Thank you all for the feedback! It's true that control isn't balanced, feedback is useful for that and maybe we do corrections in the next days if we have time.
🎤 AntonioNP
15. Aug 2018 · 17:22 UTC
@enot487 @kyllax @haj @chaosthelegend @jose-rodriguez we've updated the controls,I hope to have changed it for better ;)
0nironauta
15. Aug 2018 · 19:09 UTC
Fun game for 2 players. I like the combos idea. It reminds me the robot wars, with the red button. Congrats!
Corbak
16. Aug 2018 · 11:39 UTC
really cute game you have here. Loved the cool design and the overall feeling of driving the car. It is a good entry :)
NoNiMad
26. Aug 2018 · 13:09 UTC
Great idea but the controls are really incompatible with me. I got stuck too many times just trying to understand why when I reverse the controls are... well reversed x)