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Wasteland Express by Gasimir

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made by Gasimir for Ludum Dare 53 (JAM)

Hey there! Welcome to "Wasteland Express"! You'll be playing as a delivery service, delivering stuff to five groups of customers: cowboys, bikers, aliens, robots, and mutants.

Remember, the world's gone to heck and your customers depend on you to keep them happy. You gotta collect resources from different spots and transport them quick. If you're too slow, they'll get unhappy and you'll lose.

For each successful delivery you make, you'll earn some cash. Spend it to improve your delivery service. Hire more staff or make 'em go faster.

Ready to rock and roll? Come play and show us if you're the ultimate delivery service in the wasteland!

Link https://github.com/tbstdt/LudumDare53
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/53/wasteland-express

Ratings

Overall 287th 3.85⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Fun 204th 3.867⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 380th 3.583⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Theme 164th 4.321⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 527th 3.783⭐ 32🧑‍⚖️
Audio 149th 3.983⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Humor 285th 3.607⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Mood 491th 3.638⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Given 54🗳️ 38🗨️

Feedback

MarkovAlex
01. May 2023 · 15:26 UTC
Awesome!
Brandon Campbell
01. May 2023 · 16:44 UTC
This is a very good entry! I was confused at first because there's a lot going on, but after I figure it out it got really fun and satisfying. It's a really creative concept. The sounds and graphics fit well together.
Valmontechno
01. May 2023 · 16:55 UTC
Really nice, the scenery is beautiful. However, I'm having a hard time understanding what to do.
Calcopod
01. May 2023 · 16:56 UTC
Very nice!

Albeit I was slightly in the dark at first about how to ... do anything due to the information overload, once I got past that I was left with a very pleasant and fun experience.

While the sound effects were really nice, I found the main theme song to be a bit repetitive and annoying after a bit, but nothing major.

Overall a great concept and good entry!
Kerri
01. May 2023 · 16:59 UTC
What a great game! I found myself missing a lot of orders at the start, especially while trying to take everything in the first game but got the hang of it quick enough. Would be nice to have the not enough in inventory flash on the order you tried to fill, since otherwise its hard to notice on the other side of the screen. Overall really nicely done! It's fun when you upgrade the number of staff and can send a bunch of them out at once :smiley:
rhewid
01. May 2023 · 17:00 UTC
That was fun. Quickly figured it out. I like the artstyle. It would maybe help to highlight specific stuff even more. Also the win condition was not clear to me until the end, haha :D ![ld53-3.PNG](///raw/0b3/21/z/58ed8.png)
EvoGenGames
01. May 2023 · 17:01 UTC
This was surprisingly fun xD

The busy background made it a bit hard to notice almost run out but that made it a bit more challenging :-)
Thank you for the game!
LDJam user 299757
01. May 2023 · 17:07 UTC
Quite enjoyed this fast paced kingdom management and I love the art. Good game!
Maskrosen
01. May 2023 · 17:13 UTC
This game was cool and fun to play. I like the art style. It took a few minutes to get what to do but after that it was a fun experience. I only managed to deliver 21/25 deliveries so far in my two tries. Great job on this one!
Krash
01. May 2023 · 17:22 UTC
This game was really interesting! I really like the art and music. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on as there is a lot of elements on the screen. Great work!
Nathan Franck
01. May 2023 · 20:15 UTC
This was really hard to initially understand, but with enough clicking, I figured it out! It was incredibly hard to distinguish between game-critical stuff and background stuff, as well as resources-sources/customers/base areas. Not to say I didn't eventually figure it out! 25/25 delivered 🥇 ez gg
DreamEaterAlex
01. May 2023 · 21:27 UTC
Забавная игра. Был страх запороть всё и проиграть, но к счастью здесь можно только выиграть. Рисовка и прочее - топ)
ThomasVenner
01. May 2023 · 21:42 UTC
Really hard to understand at first because the graphics are not readable enough in my opinion, but once you get into it, the game is actually quite fun
Enver Arco
01. May 2023 · 22:06 UTC
Hard to understand what to do at first. But the music and graphics are charming
LDJam user 264390
01. May 2023 · 22:15 UTC
Super fun, at first I was a bit confused but caught on pretty fast, the music is really good and fitting, and I was really in the groove when it told me I won, wish it had a way to just keep going!
ecmjohnson
02. May 2023 · 01:48 UTC
Very addictive game! The art style is very chaotic and I like it. The difficulty is well-tuned and I enjoyed struggling to keep up with these demanding customers. The tutorial at the beginning is very appreciated in onboarding, but I missed that I had multiple people until a while through my first run. On my second run, I encountered a bug where my people disappeared and I only had a single person running all the errands. You delivered a great game!
llenollume
02. May 2023 · 07:50 UTC
Прошел два раза, запорол первые три. Когда прокачивается база, и становится много курьеров, веселуха лютая, хотелось бы даже подлиннее, только вошел во вкус!

Super addictive, wish there was a way to continue, or to choose the number of deliveries to win!
hotaloca
02. May 2023 · 09:12 UTC
This is a very fun little game. 25/25 deliveries nailed :) I really liked the art style and audio matched it. It was cooled that the different people talked and had different styles - like the UFO one best... Also the different deliveries were cool like the poisoned fish etc. Congratulations very nice entry overall
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LDJam user 139668
02. May 2023 · 09:56 UTC
Hey! Seems like you are having the same name of game as we are :D

Despite your variation on that name lucks of shooting, you made a quite fun management game! Liked it
PotatoCouch
02. May 2023 · 11:34 UTC
It was a bit hard to see thing because everything is so saturated, but overall I think the game was great. I managed to nearly beat it without buying a single upgrade (mostly because I didn't know about their existence until 23 packages in). I enjoyed playing this, it was really fun.
Dylan H
02. May 2023 · 12:00 UTC
Wow, great scoping and polish on this one. Genuinely stressful! Fun twist on the restaurant genre, with excellent art and tense gameplay loop.

Also, I thought the subtle tutorial was very clever--no words, no real explanation of what's happening, but just enough that you can figure it out quickly when the real game starts.
LDJam user 205479
03. May 2023 · 06:21 UTC
Love it! I played several times. I had to reload the page because pressing Restart left me with 0 people, but I had a great time anyways. Excellent graphics, hilarious audio, and lots of fun. Nice job!
fizzbark
03. May 2023 · 11:23 UTC
Nice game, love all the little fallout easter eggs in the graphics. It took me a couple minutes to figure out what was going on, the graphical elements are all great on their own but together there is a lot of visual noise. Quite fun when I got into it, good job.
CaptAndrey
03. May 2023 · 12:33 UTC
good art, fun and challenging! i can't get enough of it =)
merdeboi
03. May 2023 · 14:53 UTC
Quite short and fun, fits the theme, great art. Well done.
Diego Escalante
03. May 2023 · 19:37 UTC
I am a delivery master! The games visuals are conflicting to me. Because on one hand they seem very busy and I couldn't easily "read" the game. But on the other hand, they were colorful, pretty, and so detailed that they made the game feel alive. In general, I like the concept and the simplicity of just picking the game up and clicking around. The voice acting was a nice touch too. Once I noticed I could upgrade my base things really started to take off! Great effort on this game, good job!
HoloLight17
04. May 2023 · 12:44 UTC
Good one. Really intence sometimes, but completable in first run
BslRqs
04. May 2023 · 20:17 UTC
Loved it! Nice learning curve, good balancing and super fun :)
riley9
07. May 2023 · 13:23 UTC
i was hooked within the first few seconds! it wasn't too difficult for me and still i felt rewarded all the time =D i think this is was also due to the sounds and cool graphics !!
LeGromp
17. May 2023 · 21:22 UTC
Death stranding + fallout
Fluburbio
20. May 2023 · 00:28 UTC
Awesome art style! Excellent take on the theme, too 🙂