April 26th-29th 2013 :: Theme: Minimalism
Ludum Dare 26 — April 26-29th, 2013
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The car is controlled in a strange way! Can you get to the end line as fast as possible?
Find the minimal acceleration to control your car!
Computer generated tracks!
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Ratings
 | Coolness | 61% |
| #253 | Audio(Jam) | 2.97 |
| #325 | Humor(Jam) | 1.94 |
| #487 | Theme(Jam) | 2.51 |
| #496 | Mood(Jam) | 2.05 |
| #514 | Innovation(Jam) | 2.03 |
| #514 | Fun(Jam) | 2.09 |
| #533 | Graphics(Jam) | 2.00 |
| #545 | Overall(Jam) | 2.17 |
Comments
It was very difficult to get the car on the road, not sure what the direction was intended to go. Music was cool. Controls need some work.
Not the worst game I have seen, but not the best either. The sound effects are annoying at best, and the game just isn't fun after you realize you can go through the grass just as fast as the road.
Thanks for comments!
Controls difficulty is wanted, but yeah, they need some work.
I started yesterday to develop, so I submitted to the Jam instead of Compo.
I really like the sounds (especially the one at the end of the level, which only plays on my rear speakers and is hence even more awesome somehow), but the fact that going off the road carries no penalty sort of makes everything moot. I'm also not super happy with the car responsiveness. I've been working on a Micro Machinns clone recently, and I THINK that what you are doing is adjusting the turning rate relative to the player's speed (at least that's what it feels like). I tried that and found that it didn't feel "right". Cars don't always understeer all of the time like that, and it's not really fun to drive an unresponsive car anyway.
Core concept is good, needs to be more like Micro Machines, great sound.
nintendo thanks for the detailed comment!
You get it! I tried to add this strange controls to the car to experiment a play focused on medium velocity of the car, but seems that it didn't seems to be a feature to players but a bug.
I ran out of time to add off road penalities ^^'
I love the music, but the vehicle handles very poorly, it does fit the theme well though.
Good game, but controls need some improvement. I also think max speed should be lower when you run on the grass.
Good collision detection on other cars. :)
Good take on the theme, you should try to make a post-compo version bug-free!
The green map tiles start to flicker sometimes (Windows 7). I think there are too many obstacles on the road to have a proper flow in playing. And why can I drive on the green tiles? That makes it very easy. The goal should be not a single tile and a line instead, because with the strange controls it gets difficult to hit even with slow driving. Just keep working on this game. A lot of people release "post-compo" versions (excluded from the rating) to show even better versions of their game!
Yes, a little glitchy but I intend it as a experimental game. Not bad!
Thanks for comments! I'm already working on a post-jam version of it!
Physics were kind of annoying; dirt piles seemed to slow me down for a certain amount of time (rather than while I was on them), which was weird. Not sure if large turning radius was meant to be the challenge, but the road was too cluttered for it to be really feasible to go around the things.
Nice entry
With a little bit polish and an appropriate description on How the controls works it can became a great game :D
I missed having some sort of enforcement to keep the car on the road, instead of avoiding all obstacles by going through the grass. Maybe one idea to make the game more challenging, after fixing the grass bug, is to make the car accelerate by itself. Thus the player goal would be to minimize the speed in order to get safely through the obstacles.
Thanks all for comments! Very useful! I made a post Jam version of it: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?iwm1j3nlmohjzc8
Hope you enjoy that!
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Poorly made and very glitchy.