Vice - Ludum Dare49 by Truedat

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made by Truedat for Ludum Dare 49 (JAM)

Was my first LD and it was a good experience. Thank you! I used Pyxel Edit for sprites, Geist and Cubase for sound and Unity as my development flagship. Have fun playing this short collect-driven pixel art game . Have a good one and keep care !

Edit: As soon as the dumpster gets highlighted go for it. you have a specific time to dump the stuff you collected in there.

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Ratings

Overall 872th 3.438⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1392th 2.703⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1161th 2.906⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1385th 2.641⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 270th 4.172⭐ 34🧑‍⚖️
Audio 111th 4.065⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Mood 99th 4.145⭐ 33🧑‍⚖️
Given 25🗳️ 42🗨️

Feedback

ModdingMachine
04. Oct 2021 · 21:12 UTC
Lovely Game, by far the best looking game I've seen so far. I think the visual rendering might have glitched for me because my meter had't filled up and my character was not rendering lots of waste on my back when I toppled. Aside from that this was a wonderful sumbission with incredible mood... Good Luck!
LLlarsO
04. Oct 2021 · 21:14 UTC
The style is pretty nice! The train in the background, the colours and the movement of the persons are very cool.

The gameplay however gets repetitive pretty fast. Some variety would be nice.

Good job at making those graphics!
🎤 Truedat
04. Oct 2021 · 21:19 UTC
Thx guys, yeah i may work on it on freetime fom now on...and ModdingMachine it think its not a bug but not very clear...you have to dump the bags as soon as the dumpster gets highlighted, but yeah first time doing ld and i sspent to much time on graphics and music ;D
Hjalte
04. Oct 2021 · 22:06 UTC
This was awesome! The city felt so alive. I really really dug the mood :).
Idk if it was a bug, but the camera kept zooming in and out randomly. Maybe it was based on how much trash I was carrying/proximity to dumpster? I couldn't always put the trash in the dumpster? Slightly confusing.
Either way, it was frigging sick.
🎤 Truedat
05. Oct 2021 · 11:01 UTC
@hjalte the camera zooms in when you near the dumpster and when you should go to the dumpster to unload.
had no time left to give this info to you players. so on the first iteration you only get one bagpack full and you need tio dump it than the next round starts. something like this :) thx for playing and your feedback
Loig
05. Oct 2021 · 12:03 UTC
Very nice graphics and atmosphere! Congratulations for that.
arya-s
05. Oct 2021 · 12:08 UTC
Very cool setting and mood. The sounds are particularly nice, makes it feel good just walking around. Even tho the characters are so minimalistic, I like the variety you created with them.

I found it hard to know where or who my character is at first. An outline might have helped.

Congrats on your first submission!
chesschaser
05. Oct 2021 · 13:50 UTC
Love the game! original idea!
LDJam user 202408
05. Oct 2021 · 16:46 UTC
I love the mood of this one, the idea is pretty cool too Im like "behave yourselves people" lol
Rafael Garcez
05. Oct 2021 · 16:51 UTC
very cool art style
Javier Belmer
05. Oct 2021 · 18:40 UTC
Really nice ambience!! You could really feel the weight of the character as you collected more items. Some of the bags were red herrings, I'd go over them, but they seemed to be part of the landscape.

I would say I would've liked the music to vary a tad. It was very chill and moody, but will little development and change. Then again, being a short game, I'm not surprised. I'm interested how you did it.

Would you mind as well checking out our game as well?? It's called 'King on the Mountain', for which I did the Music and Sound design, so I'd be very interested in hearing your take on it. ^^

Thank you for making for game!!
kgabis
05. Oct 2021 · 20:04 UTC
I love the music and the art style but had trouble figuring out what gameplay is about.
qookie
05. Oct 2021 · 20:32 UTC
I really love the art style and sound design. It builds a really cool atmosphere. I wish the game was a bit longer though.
Aznz
05. Oct 2021 · 21:51 UTC
The graphic, the artwork was on point and the music. The game was very very unstable xD I feel like the fps rate could be smoother. Overall you did a great job!
Uncle_J0ker
05. Oct 2021 · 22:00 UTC
sick art style it really feel like the city is coming to life with the people and their surroundings. especially love how you animated the buildings lights whenever the train comes by while the screen is shaking. the gameplay feels too laggy and slow, don't know if it was intentional but overhaul the game look good.
JazzatheFOSS
05. Oct 2021 · 23:29 UTC
The visuals and music for this are superb. Adding screen shake when the train passes was a very nice touch. I found it a bit hard to see who I was playing as, and I think there are some framerate issues. Overall, great atmosphere on this game.
fabioecco
06. Oct 2021 · 04:36 UTC
When you're overwheight it feels like Skyrim. lol The rain got this game +1 star in all categories, good job!
🎤 Truedat
06. Oct 2021 · 05:35 UTC
@fabioecco thx man
@jazzathefoss @aznz @uncle-j0ker ye it needs some work on the performance side. i am not an expert when it comes to things like that. maybe the fog shader and the cinemachine camerazooms are whats causing this. in future i will definitely try to improve on that. thx for your feedback
@qookie i have an idea to expand that little game to a full one. with a trash merchant and even that you can live in one of those houses and with more missions to do. but it will take a lot more time ;)
@kgabis thx its a hip hop beat loop. and ye its now just about collecting those boags and throw em into the dumpster. nothing challenging at the moment ;) thx for feedback
ZwodahS
06. Oct 2021 · 05:37 UTC
Congrats on your first submission.

Great art style and concept. I think the explanation for such game needs to be better. For example, I don't understand when the dumpster is available. I think the art is too dark (might be my monitor), which makes it a lot harder to see.

Anyway good job on the submission !
elbowGeese
06. Oct 2021 · 06:48 UTC
The pixel art is beautiful and I enjoyed playing, I wish there was more!
vsi-
06. Oct 2021 · 08:22 UTC
Liked the graphs,gj!
Misfire_dev
06. Oct 2021 · 08:56 UTC
I liked the graphics a lot, but i think something went wrong because the game kept ending before the meter filled up? maybe i was doing something wrong.
🎤 Truedat
06. Oct 2021 · 09:51 UTC
@misfire-dev ye its not clearly said but as soon as the dumpster is highlighted on the right a timer goes off (is not seen on screen). you have to dump the bags as soon as possible as the dumpster has the yellow outline. hope that helps . thx for playing and your feedback
Erlioniel
06. Oct 2021 · 19:12 UTC
I really love the minimalistic approach (would be happy to be able to do smth like that at some point)! Nice stuff, man
Quoc
09. Oct 2021 · 12:15 UTC
Great game. I like the graphics and the music fits well. It was fun to play
SunnyRx
09. Oct 2021 · 12:22 UTC
That tram, that rain, and that people running on the street, amazing.
Zackary Bazzle
09. Oct 2021 · 18:02 UTC
Great Job! Amazing graphics and attention to detail, I liked how you made the camera shake every time the train went by as well as the variations in light due to the clouds of pollution that were coming in. Also the sound design was epic, very nice submission!
zimny11
09. Oct 2021 · 23:37 UTC
Congratulation on your first LD game! I hope you will stay with as for long :)
Amazing art style and really cool visual effect. Music is pleasant to the ear too. Great job.
🎤 Truedat
11. Oct 2021 · 10:19 UTC
@zimny11 @sunnyrx @quoc @zackary-bazzle @erl thx all for your kind words!
SpaceDinosaur12
11. Oct 2021 · 14:51 UTC
Good job! The visuals and audio were just great, and the trains in the background made the city feel really alive
tetrapteryx
12. Oct 2021 · 19:26 UTC
Beautiful atmosphere, and an impressive level of polish! I had a hard time predicting when I would be able to actually use the dumpster, a visible timer would have been helpful.
kurrik
18. Oct 2021 · 00:36 UTC
Such great atmosphere and music, and I really liked how well the simple art style worked. As I was playing, I felt like I didn't know whether I was doing well or not - trash kept vanishing before I could pick it up and I wasn't sure if that was ok or not. A little more feedback would have been great. But I enjoyed it, congrats on a great submission - pretty impressive given this was your first time!
kristinamay
19. Oct 2021 · 15:20 UTC
I love love love love the vibe. Such good pixel art.
🎤 Truedat
22. Oct 2021 · 23:01 UTC
@kristinamay @kurrik thank you!