Steer Clear is a game about navigating your tugboat and barge through tedious waters and delivering crates to factories along the way.
\nControls:\nStarting the game = Enter\nMoving = WSAD\nUnload crate at factory = Space
\nI’m looking forward to fleshing this game out more after the jam. I’ve did various bits of work on Steer Clear for several years now, but it’s a larger Phaser-based game. I thought it might be fun to develop a quick, tiny version for the JS13K competition!
\n","source":"jaredyork/js13k-2022","stars":1,"comments":[{"at":315738607,"author":"Mark Vasilkov","login":"mvasilkov","gh":140257,"url":"https://mvasilkov.animuchan.net","twitter":"mvasilkov","text":"A very hard game!
\nThe Game Boy aesthetics are lovely. Interesting map generation using Perlin noise.
\n","games":["The Neatness"]},{"at":316053883,"author":"Ryan Tyler","login":"tyler6699","gh":50468,"url":"https://carelesslabs.co.uk","text":"I like the gameboy style graphics. Controls were ok but was unsure how to unload, everytime I did I sunk.
\nFeel like this has some potential if the gameplay was clearer.
\n","games":["Soul Jumper"]},{"at":316214219,"author":"Jasper Renow-Clarke","login":"picosonic","gh":26137750,"twitter":"femtosonic","text":"I like the low res low colour feel of the game, reminds me of a gameboy vibe. It’s a good game with lots of potential.
\nThe difficulty was set pretty high from the start, it was too easy to sink the boat, even pressing left would do it.
\nI wasn’t sure when or where I was meant to be unloading crates, I did go alongside buildings and see the “Press Space” prompt, but nothing seemed to change to denote I was offloading, plus my boat didn’t stop during the unload.
\nThere was several times I got blocked in by the landscape when visiting buildings, was this intentional or were the levels generated?
\nI look forward to seeing your proposed enhancements.
\n","games":["Bee Kind"]},{"typ":2,"at":316404300,"author":"Raf Mertens","url":"https://crazygames.com","twitter":"CrazyGamesCom","text":"I love the retro visuals! Some sounds and music too would have been perfect. This is the hardest game I’ve played so far in the competition. There is simply no time to unload while dealing with everything else going on. Lot of potential here with some difficulty adjusting.
\n"},{"at":316560865,"author":"João Lopes","login":"lopis","gh":2715751,"url":"www.jlopes.dev","text":"Love the aesthetics of this game. I really crave the sounds a game like this on GB would have. It’s pretty challenging and I’m not sure if I’m doing it right, but unloading is hard. I need to press and hold? And after I do that I sink. Not sure what’s going on. Also the text “Press Space to unload” was often showing outside the screen. Perhaps that should be fixed in the top center of the screen?\nAre the maps random each time? That’s pretty amazing in itself.\nNot sure how this fits this year’s theme though.
\n","games":["Planet B"]},{"at":316673590,"author":"Michael M.","login":"Schnark","gh":17846729,"url":"https://schnark.github.io","text":"Unfortunately, I couldn’t really play this game. I have “search as you type” enabled in my browser, so every time I press a key it brings up the search. You should call .preventDefault() for all keyboard events to prevent this.
Graphics = awesome.\nGameplay - super hard, too hard for me
\nGathering cargo and dropping it doesn’t really connect for me with one side scroller. Then one hit kills and you have some boats going the other direction.
\nIt would be enough if you just go right, and/or have more HP. Think Rive Raid / Zybex (going to ancient classics)
\nIf this is cargo delivery, then I would allow for more 2d maps, and swim wherever you want. Maybe even remove collisions with lands for good. Then add some other mechanics during travel (not sure what exactly - tornados? fighting with pirates on a zoomed-in map (aka FFVII?)?
\nA different direction would be for the boat to have more inertia, so it feels like a real boat. Then passages would need to be wider.
\nOne thing that I really didn’t like was dead ends. It just doesn’t seem fair for this kind of game.
\n"},{"at":316935032,"author":"Jonas Olmstead","login":"sanojian","gh":428082,"text":"Awesome visual style. The island terrain looks great. The game was very unforgiving. I felt the hitboxes were too big. It took me four games to figure out how to score my first point. I hate those big ships for stealing my cargo! Overall, a nice game.
\n","games":["DEAD AGAIN"]},{"typ":2,"at":316988901,"author":"Huabin Ling","login":"pandamicro","gh":632460,"url":"https://linkedin.com/in/huabinling","twitter":"pandamicro","text":"Superbe retro feeling ! Big thumbs up to the graphics and auto generated level, they are both technically amazing.\nThe game play is fun and challenging, I like it a lot.\nI really hope there would be some music
\n"},{"at":317051010,"author":"John Edvard","login":"johnedvard","gh":656024,"url":"https://reitgames.com","twitter":"ReitGames","text":"Love the graphics and the atmosphere. I thought I was an airplane in the beginning, but quickly learned that I can collide with everything.\nIt’s easy to understand that some objects are things you should pick up. I didn’t get where the ports were in the beginning, but the text message helped. Some music and sfx would help elevate the game.
\n","games":["Hang by a thread"]},{"at":317211786,"author":"Jerome Lecomte","login":"herebefrogs","gh":1383818,"url":"herebefrogs.com","text":"Dangerous waters! The pixelart is amazing and takes me back to early games. Very well done.
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