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A jam submission

Cold Hard CashView game page

Play as a delivery driver who must deliver food during a historic snowstorm
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme#184.2724.272
Fun#783.7043.704
Presentation#854.1114.111
Originality#3333.2353.235

Ranked from 81 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game represent "Slick"?
As you complete deliveries, the map will become covered with more and more slick ice that you have to navigate around.

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Submitted(+1)

wooooo the mini map and pizza cam are so good. The music keeps me on the edge of my seat the whole time!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

This is awesome!!!! I love the graphics and level design. It nails a nostalgic video game vibe that makes me want to be in the world you've created... super slick!!!!!!!! edit: oh!! And I looove the navigation app!!

Submitted(+1)

I liked the low-poly 3D presentation, the falling snow effect, and the unique twist on the Crazy Taxi formula. The physics felt really slippery (which fits the theme), but I usually lost control when I barely touched the steering buttons... Nevertheless, this was an impressive submission for the game jam. Nice job!

Submitted

Sadly got stuck in a ditch, but this means the game is super realistic... or realislick ?

Developer(+1)

Thank you, finally someone who gets it

Submitted(+2)


As much as I would like to give feedback for this, the fact is that y'all were aiming to make something that was dumb fun, and I say you nailed it.

Great presentation overall with lots of little touches like the cracked glass on the phone and package cam. About the only issue I have is that it felt like it was a bit random at times what actually caused the package to take damage. 

I think my favourite moment in the game was when I was actually driving pretty carefully to the next point with a completely green healthbar for the package, and then my car flipped and did a 720 and the package got completely destroyed. After which I just said " screw it " and stepped on the gas breaking every other package.

PEAK

Kudos to the whole team on this one

Developer(+1)

thank you!!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Ehhh, Slick! Ok, bad

haha my four ratings above, wasn't sure if I was progressing to a finish or if i just keep delivering? The UI was very inspired, I felt like a distracted delivery driver in a snow storm, too cheap to buy a dash mount for my phone. Perfect! Would have liked some sort of progress indicator to know if I was progressing. I appreciated details like other cars off in the ditch, and the ice and snow building up over time. Very fun, great work for a jam game!

Submitted

The food cam was such a great touch!

Submitted

Rank: BAD… :( this game was great! I always wanted to make a game like this, and have tried before, and had a lot of fun playing it! So thank you!

(1 edit) (+2)

If you ever want to show your kids why you should never go out driving when it’s icy, let them play this game.

If you ever want to know why people still go out driving when it’s icy, you should play this game.

The game is essentially a variation of the Crazy Taxi format, but made in the graphics style of early non/low-textured 3D games. If this was the idea, which I assume based on the skills in this production, then fully commit to that choice and include the fake shadows and fake lighting from that era to complete the aesthetic, plus it allows you to ramp up the fps even on less powerful systems.

The twist on the Crazy Taxi formula is twofold. Instead of picking up and dropping off people, it’s food. The seat that holds the food package is shown on the second monitor, so you hilariously watch the packages get flung all over the car as you drift from side to side trying to maintain the car in the center. That alone is worth a play.

The second twist is the ice road itself: it causes uncontrollable sliding, and when that’s combined with the flying food, you get an “Euh” score. But as you play, you actually learn how to circumvent the slips and even use them to your advantage. There’s a satisfying moment when you go from just holding down the gas to switching between long presses and quick tap-tap-tap-tap inputs on the four control buttons, maneuvering perfectly around corners and between buildings. That’s when you get your first “Slick” score.

These mechanics work so well, that even in a game that no other goal then going from A to B, you can't even spend your cold hard cash on useless stuff that would appear on the on-board monitor, time really flies by. This shows the power of a good concept.

If you were to continue with this, which you should, remember to always keep the car 'indestructible', this gives the biggest sense of flow and keep the time limit lenient enough to feel different from the usual clones. Let the stress come from other things: maybe the monitors glitch when you bounce or crash, so you can’t see the navigation app because the customer keeps calling and demanding an ETA, getting more and more annoying. Or you have the phone in your hand when the call comes in, creating a brief delay in steering. Or have different food types that affect how you can drive — for example, a temperature bar (“Must be delivered hot”), a flavor bar (“Contains two servings that should not mix”), or a filled bar (“Contains liquids”).

Developer

Thanks for your super thoughtful review! Your suggestions are amazing, and fully inline with the original vision for the game. If we end up continuing to work on this project I'm sure we'll refer to this review for inspiration 😁. 

Submitted(+1)

This is a pretty accurate depiction of how it can feel to drive on an icy mountain road. Nice work!

Submitted(+1)

The drifting on this game is so slick and satisfying. Loved the snow particle system as well. Over such a polished title!

Submitted(+1)

Wow this game really incorporates "slick" well lol. Really fun and banger soundtrack! I also love the visuals. I think the only thing that might make this more fun is adding a few obstacles. Otherwise solid game

Submitted(+1)

Quite the fun delivery game! The visuals and music were also very nice! My only problem was that even while not on ice the car lost control a bit too easily when you steered left or right but other than that it was pretty cool!

Submitted(+2)

Love the music and the look of this game. I think the controls need a bit more fine-tuning to get the perfect balance between slippery and slick. But for a game jam this is incredibly well done, great job!

Submitted(+2)

MY BURGERS

DRIVER SEEMS TO HAVE SMASHED THEM AGAINST THE ROOF OF THE CAR SEVERAL TIMES

I DEMAND A FULL REFUND

Submitted(+1)

seriously though, great first completed entry as a game, sam! you should be proud of what you did here, get out there and do the most!

Submitted(+2)

I ought to be the worst tofu delivery driver in the world.

Submitted(+2)

Super fun, I love how difficult it is to go faaaast hehe, at one point I veered off the road and hit the side of an intersection from a ditch and my car clipped trough the geometry and I got stuck, it actually looked really realistic lol, but I was stuck after that, no big deal. Maybe this was an inspiration but the game reminded me of Easy Delivery Co., except with faster and more frantic driving lol. Our game also features vehicle mechanics and man, I gotta say yours is legit, it is not easy making a vehicle feel good in a game, but you did a fantastic job.

Developer(+1)

Thanks for the comment! Yeah I definitely wish we would've had more time to polish the map, there's a lot of odd spots in the road due to our road generation plugin acting up and being hard to work with. If in the future you get stuck again, you should be able to just hold down the accelerator and you'll eventually get forced up and out of the geometry, not optimal but it was a nice last minute patch from our other programmer. 

Submitted(+2)

I will gladly give my life for the BigBites Corporation! Great, very funny presentation (loved that you're looking at your phone gps the whole time during the terrible weather too lol). Seeing the food bounce around in the back seat was hilarious

Submitted(+2)

The UI is so slick, one of the coolest GPS I've ever seen in a game. GJ! 

Submitted(+2)

Nice arcade car physics with tight controls. The mechanic for getting ustuck was a great addition and a needed one for me. It would have been nice to see my speed and distance to the destination though. Recalculating the route might have been a technical limitation, but it added a nice risk element for taking shortcuts. Amazing work on the game!

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