Drivin' Alive by bziarkowski
Keep your friend's plant alive by driving ambulance.
Your friend went away for a week and left you his plant to look after. However, it must be watered with a special mixture, which is expensive.

Fortunately, you have recently been working casual as an ambulance driver.
If you receive the right amount of jobs and complete them correctly, you should succeed.


| Youtube | https://bziarkowski.itch.io/drivin-alive |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/drivin-alive |
Ratings
| Overall | 1529th | 3.363⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1246th | 3.308⭐ | 54🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 1447th | 3.176⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 1131th | 3.702⭐ | 54🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 862th | 3.873⭐ | 53🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 746th | 3.47⭐ | 52🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 872th | 3.15⭐ | 52🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 1407th | 3.296⭐ | 51🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 39🗳️ | 28🗨️ |
I had a bad time driving the ambulance, you lose a lot of HP when you crash and when you want to manoeuver the movemement was kind of exaggerated.
I don't really understand the link between the plant and the main gameplay but at least this is fun!
Issue : it looks like I can't water the plant :(
Also I made the mistake of drinking one beer, don't drink one beer.
Also don't drink beer, it was a bad idea :D
https://youtu.be/KZolDNLMOZ8
The driving was the fun part for me. I didn't really get the sitting in the office part, it was fun to get drunk though. The car felt a bit weird to drive as well. The gas was always on until you braked but you could have done it so that when you just stopped pressing forward the car would smoothly slow down like a real car.
But all in all really fun experience!
The game has really good graphics but I was disappointed by the car controls. You can't effectively adapt your speed, when you want to brake, the car goes backward, and every single time I tried to turn it ended up with the car spinning. I couldn't drive the car more than 20 seconds straight.
I'm sure with some improvements it could be a really good game, so keep working on it !
Wouldn't it make more sense trying to keep alive the patient inside the ambulance, ramming through the traffic to reach the hospital ?
And maybe give it "minigame" inside where you could have saved and keep the plant that one of the patient (or patients' parents) gave you to thanks for your work ?
Just a thought.
The graphics looks really good, the playability of the ambulance is really hard though. Maybe it's a feature :D
Thanks for your entry
The driving controls could be a bit tighter, but I managed to keep the patients and the plant alive until April 33th - despite some other rather amusing bugs like flying cars and hotdog stands... :)
Solid, entertaining entry!

However, I really enjoyed playing this game!
After 10 minutes of gameplay I got a bit dizzy, there are some bugs with collisions and I saw a flying car(I'm not crazy)
Jokes aside great and super funny entry, nice post-process effects usage, and SFX, outstanding job.