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Homeless Business by Ludo

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made by Ludo for Ludum Dare 45 (JAM)

Homeless Business is a game where you embody a homeless man working with a Punk Gang to clean up Chaos City. Run away from the police, they will try to stop you !!

Use your shopping cart to bring junk to the landfill and get your pay ! Hide from policemen, they will try to steal your money. Try to get as much as you can before the time runs out.

Our team is made of 4 French game design students who wanted to have a little bit of fun. We wanted something a bit whacky and physics based, especially with the shopping cart controller, the trash items and the random AI. With more time we would have loved to polish more and add some more sound/feedbacks. The objective of the game changed during production and in the end we put the timer, not original but encourages the player to rush to gather trash. The map is fairly big and well set up but we did you 3rd party assets, so no Graphics category for us. :(

We had a lot of fun anyways and thanks for playing, see you at the next Jam ! Special thanks for Alexis, our friend and inspiration <3

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Youtube https://tanguy-gallard.itch.io/homeless-business
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/homeless-business

Ratings

Overall 730th 3.274⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Fun 650th 3.155⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 551th 3.179⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Theme 575th 3.286⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Humor 236th 3.425⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Mood 551th 3.345⭐ 44🧑‍⚖️
Given 116🗳️ 12🗨️

Feedback

Bocodillo
07. Oct 2019 · 22:22 UTC
The idea is awesome but I found the controls a little too sluggish, stopping, starting and turning felt like they took way too long. Once you're up to speed though it's really fun!
GabrielGameDev
07. Oct 2019 · 22:30 UTC
Very good idea. Very frustrating that you can't carry more than one TV at a time. The movement and physics are kind of buggy but yielded funny moments. My character stuck to the floor and then went flying and spinning, I came to stand on the roof of some buildings. It's easy to get lost in the scenario, so it would be nice to have something pointing where junkyard is. Only the minimap doesn't help much. I really liked the visual style of the game. Congratulations for the entry!
Gehad
07. Oct 2019 · 22:30 UTC
I really like the mood of the game , great job !
Onat Saygı
07. Oct 2019 · 22:41 UTC
I played a whole playthrough and managed to get a score of 387. The atmosphere and exploring around the city was cool. Howewer controls felt like sliding on ice. Due to placement of the drop off zone and garbage spawn zones I found myself only going for the couple closest spawn points.
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LoneWolfDev
07. Oct 2019 · 22:53 UTC
Good job! They game is good, but it's a bit hard to play it due to the controls though. But the art style it's really good, and when it does like superman with the kart... it's awesome:)
masterkrepta
08. Oct 2019 · 01:26 UTC
The visuals on display here area very impressive, and the gameplay itself is a lot of fun. As already mentioned, the controls feel very loose, and i got stuck a few times where even reseting my position didnt seem to help break me out of right away. I loved the minimap feature, This would have been imposible to navagate without it.
Drixide
08. Oct 2019 · 12:58 UTC
Hobo games unite!
croewens
08. Oct 2019 · 21:32 UTC
Thanks for controller support. Keyboard felt a bit difficult and lacked polishing. Once you're up to speed, it feels better! Nice work! Care to checkout my submission?
NachtWitch
08. Oct 2019 · 21:46 UTC
Great art style, 5 stars in all catagories for your hard work and dedication
NATHAN WASH
08. Oct 2019 · 21:54 UTC
This is pretty fun! Physics based games are always extremely tough to fine tune so I think you did a great job with the amount of time available. I agree with other posters the controls could use some work, or rather just how the controls affect the movement, the controls themselves are fine. More acceleration at the start of a move would help it not feel so much like an ice rink maybe.

Aside from controls/movement - My character had a tendency to just walk diagonally on 2 wheels which made movement impossible without resetting position. I also found that turning under high speed sometimes just puts you into a spin, this happens a lot trying to avoid the police.

Great concept and execution, had fun playing it!
Vovin
08. Oct 2019 · 22:00 UTC
Good looking game :thumbsup:
I managed to fall through the map by ramming the lamp post directly above the container.
Desenvolvedor44
09. Oct 2019 · 00:51 UTC
So much fun!, I like the models
hyperscope
09. Oct 2019 · 03:21 UTC
Like many of the previous people have mentioned I found the controls to be too sluggish. As well I had a hard time getting a solid play-through as the character did not seem to handle collision very well.

I found the atmosphere/models to be really fun and the top speed character animation was fun!
veer
09. Oct 2019 · 09:45 UTC
Controls definitely need work, the acceleration and turning radius get annoying after a point cause we lose precious time just trying to steer & move around, All the models, environment & PP are well done. Audio fits the game too.
RealityCheck
09. Oct 2019 · 16:51 UTC
Impressive graphics for a game jam. The music was absolutely awesome as well.

Sadly I found the controls very unresponsive and sluggish. I also got stuck in the environment several times, and even though you provided the reset button - that didn't always to the trick. Especially up by the TVs I tended to get stuck behind the dumpster, fence and light post.

If you did some work on the controls and the feel of running around this could be a very fun game indeed. The physics of the flying objects made for some fun situations. I managed 510 points - but the game didn't want to end when time ran out. I was stuck up by the TVs by then, but wanted to see what happened when time was up.

Overall, though, I really enjoyed your game.
eta
10. Oct 2019 · 21:00 UTC
Funny idea and very nice looking. But it is very hard to control the cart.
sillyman987
21. Oct 2019 · 11:24 UTC
Very fun, but as mentioned above, hard to control the cart.
Statiko
30. Nov 2020 · 20:36 UTC
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23. Dec 2020 · 22:33 UTC
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