Diminishing Returns (TinyStudios)

Have you ever dreamed of stable employment? Do you wish to experience the joy of being an instrumental member of an important logistics pipeline, helping to convey packages day after day? Do you appreciate looking at beautiful mountain landscapes as you drive along well maintained roads on a precise, well organised schedule?Well, tough. You’ve got stuck with this trainwreck.

Made for the GMTK20 Game Jam on the theme of ‘Out of Control’, Diminishing Returns puts you in the driving seat of an entirely unstable hovercraft, fulfilling the demands of your uncaring corporate masters even as you are rendered increasingly incapable of doing so, your every success rewarded by losing more and more of your faculties. Every shift presents you with fresh challenges, as your choices of ‘upgrade’ combine to create a huge variety of interesting deficiencies for you to struggle with. Get as far as you can, and then start over to see how you’re going to get screwed this time.

Credits:

Design & Development : Sam Vickery

Art: Aaron Hicks

SFX: Dan Lloyd-Evans

Music: Louis Nanke-Mannell

UI: Ben Kokolas

Stupid bug music on low res mode stops after the first few days. Will post a fix after the jam!