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Drone Racer puts you in the shoes of a drone owner. When you pick up a controller and start moving around the two thumb sticks, you actually feel like you are operating an actual drone. The realistic enough controls and the beauty of seeing the world from the top will leave you with a desire to want one in the real life. Drone Racer is packed with 6 challenges and a practice arena. The challenges difficulty will grow progressively as you move from one challenge to another. Each and every challenge is designed to test your reaction time, maneuvering skills and the speed with which you operate your drone.
Complete all 6 challenges and obtain your performance report :)
The theme is used in the following two ways:
- Every successive challenge will grow in difficulty than the previous one. I have used the theme "grow" in a more tangible or emotional way rather than something physical.
- When playing with a controller, it requires two buttons i.e. Left Thumb-stick and Right Thumb-stick. (This is definitely debatable :D).
Controls:
BEST PLAYED WITH XBOX360 CONTROLLER.
Right Thumb-stick (Forward and Backward) - Pitch - Maneuvers drone forward and backward.
Right Thumb-stick (Left and Right) - Roll - Maneuvers drone left or right.
Left Thumb-stick (Forward and Backward) - Throttle - Adjust the altitude.
Left Thumb-stick (Left and Right) - Yaw - Points to the front and helps with changing directions while flying.
Left Thumb-stick Click + Right Thumb-stick Click - Skip Challenge
A - All other interactions
Corresponding Keyboard Mappings:
Left Thumb-stick - WSAD
Right Thumb-stick - Arrow Keys
Enter - Skip Challenge
Space - All other interactions
Tech Used:
Unity3D Personal Edition
Adobe Photoshop CS5
Bfxr
ALL feedback is welcome!
THANKS FOR PLAYING!!!
EDIT 1:
1) After receiving some really good feedback. I took time to smoothen the controls -> Drone Racer Post Compo build (https://s3.amazonaws.com/anshulgo.com/jams/droneracer/postcompo/index.html)
2) For some reason Unity webGL build couldn't recognize the controller even if it is already connected. I really appreciate if you could please download the standalone version for better experience.
Downloads and Links
Ratings
 | Coolness | 100% |
| #653 | Audio | 2.09 |
| #689 | Humor | 1.64 |
| #827 | Graphics | 2.34 |
| #835 | Mood | 2.18 |
| #847 | Innovation | 2.42 |
| #857 | Fun | 2.48 |
| #935 | Overall | 2.46 |
| #960 | Theme | 1.88 |
Comments
Quite challenging game. You could improve moving to look more natural however it's still good game :)
Bit of a learning curve on the drone controls, but by the time I got to the last level it was fun to fly through the frames. Had to download, couldn't get controller right stick to work on WebGL player on Mac.
It gets tedious after a while... its really difficult to manoeuvre!
Bit good attempt, its not easy to make the flight controls! :)
Neat game. Navigation is incredibly difficult because of camera's field of view - on drones it's usually wide-angled lense
I actually enjoyed this a lot! I think the "feel" of the flying would be improved if the drone took a moment to come to rest when you release the controls and also if it drifted a little. That would make the game a bit more challenging though!
I like the levels you've created. Playing on a controller really does the trick. Nice game.
Nice game idea.. It is very difficult to control the game. so there you might have some more polishing work to do. But overall it is a good game. I like challenging games!
Don't work on WebGL for me :/
I am not sure to understand the link with the theme.
does not fully work with my 360 controler, i cant go forward
i cant go up or down with my keyboard
i can't use both at the same time to compensate
i did that on the web version
Fun, I felt compelled to get at far as I could!
I like it :)
I played with a controller as recommended. This was challenging and pretty fun, I'm actually about to check out the post-compo version now.
Fun on keyboard. I got the drone feel but 3rd person view would have been cool.
I tried, but only left side stick was reacting in the game. The right side did nothing, so I could only fly up and down and look around.
Well done, but I think that a little more speed would be better. ;)
Feels good to buzz around. Super-challenging to get all the objectives within the time limit after the first level. I would love to have a city environment or something to fly around in. Fun game!
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I like the challenges, but I feel like some things could improve a bit:
When releasing the Arrow key buttons, it pop's back into horizontal flying mode, I think for it to be more realistic it should slowly go back to horizontal mode? Also when releasing WASD it instantly stops, this could use some more 'slowing down' too ;)