Last Man Driving by Rewzu
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About:
Last Man Driving is a Compo game made for Ludum Dare 41.
It is a combination of two genres: Battle-Royale and Racing. Every round 10 players (9 AI) are spawned and only one can be the winner. AI will attack you and other AI's if it has weapon and ammunition. Otherwise it will flee. When there is only you and one AI left, red pole will tell you the position of the AI. There are fixed places where guns, ammunition and repair kits can spawn. Every weapon has a small aim assist. Type of gun and ammunition that spawns is random. Ammunition and repair kits respawn after some time. Trees and rocks are generated in random places every round. Icons on the left notify you about amount of your ammunition for each weapon. Icons on the right notify you about players that are alive, your kills and if "Weapon swap" is enabled.
How to play:
- Pick up an weapon from the ground. (RED - Rocket launcher, BLUE - Heavy cannon, YELLOW - Machine gun)
- Pick up some ammunition for your weapon. (RED for Rocket launcher, BLUE for Heavy cannon, YELLOW for Machine gun)
- If you want to change your weapon: enable "Weapon swap" (SPACE) and drive through an weapon on the ground.
- Every weapon has a small aim assist, so it's not necessary to directly face the enemy.
- Destroy other cars or wait until they will destroy each other.
- If you get damaged pick up repair kit. (GREEN)
- Win the game and be proud of yourself!
Default controls:
- Arrows/WASD - Steering
- Left Ctrl/Left Mouse Button - Fire
- Space - Enable/Disable swapping weapons
- Enter - Restart game (works only after win/lose)
Note:
- I will improve the game in the future. (bug fixes, better AI, better audio, better UI, better graphics, recovery system, more vehicles, more weapons, more maps, maybe multiplayer)
Have fun! :star::star::star::star::star:
Ratings
| Overall | 353th | 3.37⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 219th | 3.5⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 573th | 2.87⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 527th | 3.174⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 380th | 3.174⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 493th | 2.19⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 338th | 2.667⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 596th | 2.441⭐ | 19🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 21🗳️ | 13🗨️ |
Had fun trying out all the aspects of the game, I'm surprised a car based battle royale hasn't been done yet, what a genre!
My main suggestion would have been to color code the weapon icons in some way to match their colors in the field. Good work!
Really nice work on the game. :) The car driving worked better than I expected and the game was really fun to play.
I liked the simple graphics and the sound effects a lot!
On the web build, the sound seemed very quiet on my machine (barely audible at 100% volume), and the edges were cropped off until I toggled fullscreen (initially I was confused at the lack of a HUD, but there it was after all :) ). You can set up the screen size on its itch.io page.
But I had fun, and it ran astonishingly smoothly on integrated graphics.
Good Job!
Just a few critiques:
- The sound effects and lack of music didn't seem to match the pace of the game. I felt really pumped when playing, but the audio didn't reflect that.
- The aiming was a little tough. I would love it if the crosshair was locked to your mouse position and you could control the car independently.
- Each time I played, it seemed like about half of the cars would end up stuck to the side of the house, and wouldn't fire back at me. Not sure if this is a bug or not. If so, I was playing on the web version, if that matters.
Overall I had a blast playing, nice work!