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Spatial Delivery by Michael Darling

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made by Michael Darling for Ludum Dare 53 (JAM)

Get ready for some intergalactic deliveries in Spatial Delivery! Using your trusty drone(s), your mission is to collect items and transport them to their designated delivery zones. The more successful deliveries you make, the faster the items will spawn. However, be careful not to miss any deliveries, as this will negatively impact your reputation.

As you progress in the game, your drones will slow down as they carry more items. But don't worry, you can use the money earned from successful deliveries to purchase additional drones and distribute the workload.

Please note that if the HUD on the top and bottom of the screen is not visible, try running the game in fullscreen or playing the downloadable version.

Controls

  • Choose a single path: Left click
  • Queue path: Shift + left click or right click
  • Switch drones: Tab or left click on a drone
  • Clear paths: Escape

We hope you enjoy playing Spatial Delivery and delivering packages across the galaxy!

Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/spatial-delivery

Ratings

Overall 593th 3.575⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Fun 525th 3.5⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 435th 3.524⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Theme 477th 4⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 901th 3.119⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Audio 415th 3.476⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Humor 881th 2.575⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Mood 915th 3.15⭐ 22🧑‍⚖️
Given 9🗳️ 14🗨️

Feedback

OmriLahav
03. May 2023 · 07:32 UTC
Very nice game, well done!
HagamosVideojuegos
03. May 2023 · 20:25 UTC
Simple and funny, good job!
Najimi
03. May 2023 · 20:33 UTC
I really like the game mechanics and the queue system, and at the beginning I really enjoyed playing the game. At some point it was just too much too manage, and my brain also had issues managing two drones at once so I really missed a lot of points, had super slow drones because they carried stuff I didn't need there and I think my reputation dropped to zero. Tried it a few times, failed each time miserably! But it was still fun
japes
03. May 2023 · 20:33 UTC
Pretty cool how intuitive everything was, love that the start button is also your first instruction to the drone. Also love the progression from moving your drone around, inevitably clicking the "buy drone" button, and then realizing that the game is more than you thought, it's about multitasking the management of all these crazy drones. Also it's not so much about successfully making deliveries as avoiding getting overloaded with junk!

I think this is a very interesting idea that could really become something great with a bit more work. It gets a bit too crazy when you have more than 2 drones, almost impossible to plan anything. perhaps if drones didn't automatically collect everything they touched, but you had to click on a thing to specifically tell it to pick it up?

Well done, thought this was great.
BmanStudio
03. May 2023 · 20:36 UTC
Gread idea! fun and simple game, I loved it where you need to start paying attention to which drone picks up what when you starting to buy more drones! However, I find it to be too chaotic once you have more than 2 drones, and it's actually easier to play by just pressing on random locations on the screen with each drone, it gets much of the jub done :)

Great job guys! We actually made Orbit Express which is also a galactic deliveris game, but with a completly different tone haha you should check it out! https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/orbit-express
ludumdarevd6xh
04. May 2023 · 17:21 UTC
Gets challenging pretty quickly. It is fun though. A bigger map would be cool but thats the limitation of the web game I guess.
chocoland.tv
04. May 2023 · 18:11 UTC
the game is an absolute burner, keep it up, I really liked the stress factor xD
LCStark
04. May 2023 · 20:19 UTC
Nice and pretty hectic game! It feels pretty easy for a while, but then you buy a second drone, and it all becomes frantic clicking. After a while I figured out I can hold on for a pretty long time just by selecting each drone and queuing orders to fly across the screen, there and back again.

![spatial_delivery.png](///raw/3cc/31/z/5b4f5.png)

That allowed me to pause for a few seconds and enjoy what I've done.

One thing I might have missed - is there a quit button? I was closing the game using alt+f4, but that's not the most convenient solution. :P
Cresceda
05. May 2023 · 13:55 UTC
This is really cool! Feels very smooth and is entertaining. It does feel a little difficult to click on things quickly, as it's possible to misclick the drongs.
hedgein
05. May 2023 · 21:53 UTC
SICK GAME YO. I like the music its vibe, and the game is very relaxing. Wekekekekeke.
ryusui
06. May 2023 · 05:08 UTC
I wish there were some in-game instructions! I glossed over the ones you posted in the description and I had no idea you could queue paths or switch drones with Tab until I was about to write my review. As it stood, I stuck with a single drone for my entire playthrough because selecting drones by clicking turned out to be too finicky.

I also wish it was possible to discard produce! Since every delivery spawns with its associated item, it's possible to end up loaded down with undeliverable goods, and the screen becomes a minefield of produce with no recipient.

And yeah, as noted by others, it is *bad* that there is no way to exit the game other than Alt+F4. If this game ran in Windowed mode, it'd be forgivable, but taking over the screen and forcing the player to force-quit is poor practice. (My own game lacks a dedicated "Quit" button, yes, an oversight on my part, but you can close the window at any time!)
frozenfire92
06. May 2023 · 13:54 UTC
A really fun entry! The gameplay was just the right mix of fast paced hectic clicking :) I wish I could queue up points on the drones journey, get upgrades for them to automate things, and have different buttons for changing drones/moving the drones. Overall this was fun, keep on making games!

edit: I see now I missed the control for queueing things up, that would have made things much easier on me :sweat_smile:
Daveybb
08. May 2023 · 10:03 UTC
Really fast paced! Must faster than most other games on here. Nice work accomplishing that in a game jam :)
milq
09. May 2023 · 22:55 UTC
Underrated gem! It seems to me the most innovative game I've played so far! And on top of that it's fun! The tutorial couldn't be BETTER! Click on Start and you already make it clear to the player how to play. The use of the tabulator to change the drone also seems spectacular to me. The game design looks like a work of art to me, isn't there a section for this? I find it worth admiring. This game deserves to be more polished and on Steam. Great game, congratulations!
LDJam user 250825
10. May 2023 · 22:48 UTC
Initially clicked on the entry only for the great "special delivery" pun :D The mechanics are interesting and I managed to experiment with multiple ways of solving during my playthrough:

- Single manually controlled drone
- Micro-managing multiple drones
- Oh damn they can steal each other's resources
- Having one main drone with big inventory and few helpers
- Spamming the map full of drones with automatic routes going in circles (did not work)
- Back to single drone (+ a single helper here and there) :D

Syncing the music with the timer was a great idea, the last few seconds had a solemn vibe to them.
LDJam user 259103
11. May 2023 · 07:37 UTC
I had no idea you could queue drones at first; I agree there should be a bit more of a tutorial. But this is a really cool concept and works well! It got very hectic near the end. Nice work!
xk_the_name
18. May 2023 · 07:57 UTC
It was good. Interesting approach to management, I liked the simplistic aesthetic. The 'contained' feel of the game is nice. Also +++ for the theme :D