CityWide Delivery DevLog

Description:

Citywide Delivery is a driving game about reflecting the current situation of the Chinese food delivery business. There are several industry giants in this business, so the competition is fierce; every company is trying to make their service the fastest one. Their competitive method is to use the algorithm of the software system to force the delivery staff to deliver the food at the fastest speed regardless of everything. Sometimes the delivery staff would have to violate traffic rules to meet their performance requirements, run red lights, drive in the opposite direction, drive on the sidewalk, etc. We want to make a game to reproduce these scenes because when people enjoy the convenience of express delivery, they can’t notice the dangers behind it. 

The development process overall:

We started our brainstorm process base on an article named Delivery Man Who Trapped in The System. We discuss some of the difficulties that delivery staff is facing at work, and then we decided to focus on how the restricted time affects their performance and recreate that situation in the game.

Game Process:

1. Character selection scene (Color of the character is representing the theme color of the delivery Giants in China)
2. 1st level: pick up 1 order and deliver to 1 destination
3. 2nd level: pick up 2 order and deliver to 1 destination
4. 3rd level: pick up 2 order and deliver to 2 destination

Game rules:

1. Limited time to deliver the food
2. Avoid any obstacles (cars, people, trees, garbages)
3. Time management since you may have to deliver multiple orders at the same time
4. Overtime won’t end the game, it just deduct your total gain

Development Image:

Character selection page

Delivery box open animation

Animation process

Animation keyframe process

Character rigging

Playtest feedback:

1. The zoom in effect when speeding up feels nice
2. The location shown on the mini map is not clear enough
3. The scooter can drive through car or buildings
4. Sometimes the scooter stuck on invisible things
5. Driving around the city without time limits feels relaxing