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A jam submission

LOCOMAYHEMView game page

Fast-paced tower defence on the back of a train in the wastelands!
Submitted by Eriction (@TheRealEriction) — 1 hour, 31 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Style#19213.4723.750
Overall#24353.1893.444
Enjoyment#24743.0093.250
Creativity#31423.0863.333

Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
Build defensive towers and buy additional carriages to increase the length of the entire train!

Development Time

96 hours

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Free D.E.M.O.N - Industrial Metal Music Pack by Tom Feldmann
Custom splash art made by Guillaume Normand

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Comments

(+1)

Got the FPS bug, will try from a different PC, but the game could use some optimisation. Really waiting for a postjam version!

Submitted(+1)

This was awesome! It took a bit of time to understand that I should mine the things that are on the way (even tho it's said at the beginning!), but once I understood that it started to get pretty fun!

I wish there was a way to defend your engine from getting hit besides just putting weapons around. Also, some kind of synergy between weapons positions would have been fun.

I really like the mining idea! It splits the player's attention from having to repair machines to go and earn enough gold to survive. And the fact that you actually have to click multiple times to mine a mineral pile means that you have to follow it with your mouse, so it's not as trivial and gets harder with the speed of the engine. A really clever way of making what could have been a very passive game into something very active.

Thanks for working on this!

Developer

Thank you for playing! Glad you enjoyed it! :)

Developer(+1)

I would like to point out a few bugs to anyone who's wanting to play;

  • Running on a low FPS will cause the train to slow down, making gameplay exponentially easier/ slow/ boring!
  • The enemy vehicles scale up over time, unfortunately I forgot to flush the time data between rounds, so after a few playthroughs you may come to find the enemies are impossible to defeat! To avoid this, you have to restart the game each time (sorry)
  • Not a bug but sorry for the contribution to RSI in your clicking finger... Post jam I will make it only 1 click to destroy the gems!
Submitted(+1)

I love the aesthetic of the game, really awesome style!

However I don't know if I did something wrong or missed an instruction but my train seemed to be far slower than the one in your gameplay video. Like I stay at 0.0km for at least 15 seconds (vs like 0.5s in your video), and I have all the time in the world to destroy every gem in the screen (vs your gameplay where the train goes so fast that you can't hit them all). And since the train is so slow the game never offers me to upgrade it (I die before that).

But I think the problem comes from me (I'm playing on a rather-slow laptop), so I must have a lot less FPS. Maybe the train acceleration isn't frame-independant?

But I adore the presentation and the pacing from your gameplay video seems really fun too! Great job!

Developer

Thank you for your comment and playing the game! :) 

I'm sorry that it seems the brakes were stuck on your train 😭I think you hit the nail, I didn't account for low fps so the train moves via the game delta time, which on a slow computer would make things, well, slow. Post-jam I will look into using something more reliable for major game events, thank you for testing on your laptop! 

Submitted(+1)

Probably the best visual presentation I have seen so far, and by far the best unreal engine game so far. Really good job!

Would be very grateful if you tried our game!

Developer

Thank you I really appreciate that ! :)

Submitted(+1)

oh my god that splash art is insane

(+2)

Sick concept ! 

(+2)

amazing :)

(+2)

Super addictive and fun , got 14km on my best choo choo run :D

(+2)

Supersnootch ممتاز جدا، افضل من لعبة العبد

استمر 👍👍

Submitted(+2)

This game had me roflin and coptering wait I mean training

(+1)

AWESOME!! this game is really addicting and i feel like a bamf