B-Rush Deliveries by bashem

- Just play the post-jam version! The original one is a bit buggy and not very well tweaked.
- Check out the leaderboard and send your result when the game is over.
Have you ever wondered how hard managing an art supplies delivery business can be without having any expertise in the field? No money, sub-optimal materials, weird clients, an indecipherable market and a general lack of knowledge will make your new job a living hell.
How to play:
You just started your small art supplying business in your garage with only a few crappy materials and zero money. Your main goal is to make as much money as possible, and possibly to beat the other players before you'll inevitably succumb to the harsh ingratitude of the market.
- Whenever a customer places an order it will show up in the orders column on the right side of the screen. Click on it and try to build the required item as soon as you can.
- If you don't use the right materials you'll need to throw the item out and try again, otherwise you'll have to package it and send it out. A book on the left side of the screen will give you all the instructions you need.
- Going further in the game you'll be able to get upgrades: coffee and "sugar" for increasing your speed, and helpers to whom to delegate orders for items you've previously been able to build yourself: click on the helper icon of a pending order and one of the guys will take care of everything.
If it seems overly complicated don't worry: you'll get used to it, and by the way you'll constantly get hints about the next step to take on the bottom left of the screen.
We'll keep upgrading the game every now and then. Let us know in the comments if you've got interesting ideas to share or if you find any bugs.
Thank you and have fun!
| V1 (Original) | https://bashem.itch.io/b-rush |
| V2 (Post Jam) | https://bashem.itch.io/b-rush-deliveries-post-jam |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/b-rush-deliveries |
Ratings
| Overall | 734th | 3.444⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 958th | 3⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 606th | 3.316⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 832th | 3.632⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 176th | 4.316⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 668th | 2.861⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 610th | 3.028⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 612th | 3.5⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 18🗳️ | 43🗨️ |
@milq We're definitely planning to add music!
@emmelinee Thanks for reporting the bug. We were aware of it, we already tried to quickly patch it but I guess it still pops out every now and then. We'll try again tomorrow!
@jpbaraky Yeah we were somehow conflicted about the fact that players would've needed some knowledge in color theory but we eventually decided to still go that way while on average giving players some more time than we initially planned. Don't give up and try again!
I was just too dumb to craft all the items in time, most of my deliveries failed.
But I'll try again. This business is going to be successful one day.
I feel like there's a sort of tension between the 'experiment / figure things out' and 'go as fast as you can' aspects of the game.
Maybe having a much longer timer but only on items you haven't 'solved' yet would sort of help? So you would alternate between quickly churning out items you already know and taking a bit longer to figure out the items you don't.
@ntimi @lucdeligne We've uploaded a new version with longer timers and with helpers to whom the player can delegate orders related to items which have previously been successfully built by the player himself. Also there's now an instruction book which explains how to build each item/produce each color!
@yumykon We just put some basic background music on, but we should definitely compose something ourselves as soon as we'll get enough time!
Maybe I should play it more, but I felt that after 3 or 4 orders, I just had a lot of them waiting and I couldn't keep up. Maybe that wouldn't have been a problem if I knew how to order the minion around haha. Oh, and also, I feel like time should freeze when you're reading the instruction book!
Those are just suggestions, but it is still a very solid and amazing looking entry. Good job!