"Prices climb but quality falls.
Taxes rise but services get worse.
The elites sail among the stars... and keep us thrashing in the dirt."

Take on the role of a principled runner on a planet rich in resources but kept poor by the powers-that-be. Pilot a stolen skimmer made to haul cargo across the planet's surface, and skirt the unjust embargo to serve the material needs of your exploited community. Defy the haulers of the Capital ships scouring the planet’s surface, and deliver much-needed goods to their rightful place - the people!

Your task won’t be easy - the skimmer is great at hauling, but your cargo remains unsecured and at the whims of the ship's G-forces. Careless piloting will see your copious bounty quickly ejected from the ship! And speaking of bounties... if the local haulers find anything on your ship during their scans, they’ll increase the bounty on your head, reducing the time before your near-inevitable fate at the hands of the Capital ships in orbit!

Fly fast, be smart, and don’t crash! Good luck!

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Made with love in 9 days for Godot Wild Jam #93! We had a blast working on this one. Would've love to get just a feeeeew more sounds in there (especially the scanner) but overall very happy with it! We hope you enjoy ^-^

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Controls:

Movement

Use W + S to throttle your skimmer forwards and backwards
Use A + D to rotate your skimmer left and right
Hold Shift to activate your boost

Interactions

Hold Space Bar to open the cargo bay doors and transfer resource to and from the planet surface

Use Left Click to move resources around your cargo hold, and to click Station icons to find out what resources they need

Brief Guide:

The goal in BLOCAID is to supply every Station with enough resources to build your COMMUNITY meter to maximum! And if not, at least try to rack up the highest bounty score you possibly can before you go out ;)

BLOCAID has 2 screen segments - the map screen (left) where you can steer your ship across the planet, and the inventory screen (right) where your cargo hold is displayed. 

Opening the doors of the cargo hold allows you to pick up resources as you fly over them, but be careful as resources already in your inventory are also dropped out! You can hold a resource to prevent it flying out.

The 4 blue icons around the edge of the map screen point towards the Stations, which you can click on to find out what they need. Drop resources within the circular radius of a Station to deliver them off. Stations will eagerly accept any supplies they can get their hands on however, so careful not to drop anything you need!

Patrolling haulers will scan your cargo hold if they get close enough, indicated by a yellow area - if they detect anything, they’ll increase your bounty and reduce the amount of time you have left before the Capital ships arrive. Dragging resources around the cargo hold is vital to both dropping them off and avoiding scans.

Tips:

• Your ship's momentum will throw your cargo around!
  • This can be a great way to avoid a scan, or quickly unload items.
• You can Boost as long as you want, but when boosting you cannot turn so make sure you have a clear path
• Most resources are in clumps together near the roads connecting the stations.
• Don’t forget to check in with the Stations regularly to see if it might be worth grabbing extra supplies!
• When dragging an item, it can interact with the other items in your hanger
  • You can use this to your advantage to quickly move cargo!
• The more items detected in a scan, the greater the increase in your bounty!
• When you collide with a wall, your hanger doors may open briefly!
• Slow movement will not cause a crash, but be careful…

Made by: 

• astralstew (Sean O'Connell) - Programming, Design
• oggie-rock (Sean Ogden) - Art, Design  
• danielby (Daniel Belfrage-Young) - Vfx, Design 

Third party assets:

• BebasNeue google font
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