After centuries of faithful service, Charon, also known as the ferryman of the dead, has retired. His son is now collecting payments from the dead and escorting them to the next life. Just with one small change….
\n❌ Boat\n✅ Monster Truck
\nPick up a spirit by stopping next to it. Follow the arrow to their portal to the afterlife. Stop in the portal to let them pass over. Hit jumps to collect larger payments.
\nController Recommended, but keyboard also works:\nAccelerate: Right Trigger or W\nBrake: Left Trigger Or S\nSteer: Analog stick, d-pad, or A/D\nMenu Choose: A/D, d-pad, or analog stick.\nMenu Confirm: A button, Start, or Enter
\n","source":"roblouie/charon-jr","stars":42,"yt":"aIHlEQK_nR4","post":"https://roblouie.com/article/949/the-making-of-charon-jr-js13k-postmortem/","comments":[{"typ":2,"at":315623529,"author":"Richard Davey","login":"photonstorm","gh":164476,"url":"www.photonstorm.com","twitter":"photonstorm","text":"Welcome to Crazy Taxi of the Dead! Race towards a spirit, slam the brakes on so they can get in, and then shoot off to the big glowing portal that matches their color. The faster you get there, the more money you make. But, even more fun than this is the ability to really ramp up the dosh by pulling off massive jumps from the gravestones and hills. You’ll audibly hear the cash counting up (you’ll barely have time to glance at the number itself), and if you can drop off the spirit within time, the bonus is yours.
\nSome objects will stop both you and your dead passenger, such as the trees and stones, but mostly you can tear around in your truck, leaping all over the place. Thankfully you can still control the truck while airborne, which is great fun and leads to some superb landings, especially on the Earth level.
\nThe graphics are great, the gameplay is fast, fluid, and fun, and I love the little spirit sound effects (they reminded me of the British children’s show The Clangers!). Superb.
\n"},{"at":315627305,"author":"Javi Agenjo","login":"jagenjo","gh":393515,"url":"http://tamats.com","twitter":"tamat","text":"Amazing how much content was created in such a small size. Congratulations for the achievement. Smart use of WebGL to get the most of it.
\n","games":["EVAC3D"]},{"at":315636841,"author":"Arthur Brongniart","login":"Platane","gh":1659820,"url":"https://platane.me","twitter":"platane_","text":"That’s super cool ! I used to love crazy taxi.\nThe engine sound is very convincing, I could feel the speed!\nThe fact that you manage to pack 3 levels is quite impressive. Congratulation
\n","games":["Skull Ocean"]},{"at":315660369,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"Impressive 3D game in JS and 13kb! I mostly enjoyed bombing about trying to pull off jumps and exploring the levels.
\nGreat look and feel plus good sounds.
\n","games":["Soul Jumper"]},{"at":315831077,"author":"Jonathan Vallet","login":"jonathan-vallet","gh":5329099,"text":"Impressive game!\nEasy to control, fun to play, all this 3D with only 13kb!!\nI’d just had like a music to complete the fx, a death metal theme like in Brutal legend would have been fun, but it’s already an amazing game, great work!
\n","games":["Tindeath"]},{"at":315876214,"author":"Salvatore Previti","login":"SalvatorePreviti","gh":6913178,"twitter":"SN74HC00","text":"Seriously impressive, great job! Loved the atmosphere, the idea and technically impeccable.
\n","games":["Dante"]},{"at":315986896,"author":"Miguel Ángel Pérez Martínez","login":"zlash","gh":1052438,"twitter":"zurashu","text":"Getting this in 13k was quite an achievement! I love the graphics and the car simulation. Sadly I’m getting 5~10 fps so I can’t really enjoy it ;_;. I’ll see if I can get a computer with a better GPU and play it again :D
\n","games":["Deathwish"]},{"at":315993606,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"Really fun game. Controls were a bit funky, but in a good way. You can steer the car in mid air which was hilarious. The downside was that the game was annoying to control at slow speeds. Great graphics and sound effects.\nI don’t understand what I’m earning money for. There could maybe be a way to spend those bucks in making the car faster and more agile. But it was fun that I got extra points for being airborne.\nThis game is probably one of the best this year. Fun, well polish and very relevant to the theme.\nPerformance on Firefox was pretty bad, but was OK in Chrome.
\n","games":["Planet B"]},{"at":316068344,"author":"Michael M.","login":"Schnark","gh":17846729,"url":"https://schnark.github.io","text":"Unfortunately, I could not drive. I have “search as you type” activated in my browser, so pressing a key brings up the search. You should call .preventDefault() on keyboard events to prevent this.
Another one of my favourites!
\nLove the concept of Charon ditching the boat for a monster truck xD
\nGameplay wise, this is the afterlife crazy taxi I didn’t know I needed in my life.
\n10/10
\n","games":["Hell Inc."]},{"typ":2,"at":316818022,"author":"Joep van Duinen","url":"https://poki.com","twitter":"joepvduinen","text":"very impressive what you’ve been able to build given the constrictions, I was positively surprised by the handling and steering of the car, physics are usually hard to get right, how did you do it? I also enjoyed the challenge of picking up the sprits within the time challenge, although I could not figure out the logic for when time was added. The audio of the souls and the graveyard aesthetics were very much on point with the theme.
\nSuper solid creation all around, great job!
\n"},{"at":316824747,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"I love Crazy Taxi which this is based on. And you don’t disappoint, you’ve done a remarkable homage to it in 13k - wow.
\nI played with a gamepad and it worked really well, felt like I was playing a console game. The d-pad didn’t work for me but that was fine as the stick and triggers worked well.
\nThe sound effects were good,and the engine noise was impressive (if a little loud).
\nThe graphics, physics, textures, chase camera, level generation and gameplay were all really well done for such a small game.
\nI can see this game placing very highly in the competition, well done.
\n","games":["Bee Kind"]},{"at":316868834,"author":"Cody Ebberson","login":"codyebberson","gh":749094,"url":"https://cody.ebberson.com","twitter":"codyebberson","text":"Fantastic job! Quite a variety of 3d shapes and figures. Impressive vehicle physics. Great job!
\n","games":["The Unavoidable"]},{"at":316930509,"author":"Jonas Olmstead","login":"sanojian","gh":428082,"text":"Very technically impressive. Smooth controls and great engine sounds. Jaw-dropping entry.
\n","games":["DEAD AGAIN"]},{"at":317076771,"author":"ckolin","login":"ckolin","gh":25738463,"url":"colins.computer","text":"Wow! That was absolutely mind-blowing 🤯
\n","games":["Templo Mayor"]},{"at":317166360,"author":"Thiago Romão Barcala","login":"thiagorb","gh":821208,"text":"wow! great interpretation of Crazy taxi. Amazing graphics and sounds. Nice attention to details. Impressive that all of this fit in the 13k. Bravo!
\n","games":["Death Tournament"]},{"at":317203277,"author":"Matthew Diamant","login":"matthewdiamant","gh":806338,"text":"Super super fun! Really enjoyed the handling of the monster truck, good sounds and gameplay. Fun concept and controller support felt really nice. Great job!
\n","games":["There Can Be Only Death"]},{"typ":2,"at":317332639,"author":"Noël Meudec","login":"Noel-FB","gh":71314518,"url":"https://facebook.com/instantgames","text":"OK, a Crazy Taxi like it is!\nWhat I liked:
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