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The Road to Troy (probably final)

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Fun173.3020
Innovation193.3719
Overall243.2020
Theme273.6020
Humor73.6316
Graphics312.9417
Polish372.5520
Technical33.8419
Towlr183.176
Journal491.3813
Audio4
Food2

Comments

erik

That's very neat. Lots of nice touches. I'm impressed with the 3d + physics in flash.

demonpants

Pretty cool, although I never got to the end (is there an end?), so I eventually just closed it. I like that you get credibility for running people over. Good stuff overall.

jhauberg

Like erik, im also impressed by the fact that you did this in flash.

Initially it took a while before the game would give me control of the vehicle, but I guess it was just calcing terrain or something? :)

Regarding controls the final was definitely easier to play than the first couple of versions you had up, where controlling were handled by mouse.

matrin

The controls were superbly fun. :D Loved it.

Gilvado

Also found it pretty enjoyable. The absurdity of driving the Trojan Horse like a deadly tour bus was hilarious. Controls were good, though it was hard to control (if that makes sense...). I played your online version and it only loaded/rendered new sections of the map when I hit an edge. This made the game very very difficult, as I wouldn't know what's coming. Other than that it was great!

nilsf

Very impressive technically, but not very fun.

ragnor

I made it to the end, and loved it :).

It's always fun to smash people and smashing people with wireframe trojan horse is funnier. :)

dave1

Nice graphics. It was fun running over people. Some extra variety would be good after a little while. Didn't make it to the end though.

SpaceManiac

Interesting, though hard to control. It's fun running over people.

GBGames

I LOLed at the end.

The controls are frustrating, but obviously that's part of the point of driving a Trojan horse at high speeds across mountainous terrain. It was unintuitive why the controls would get more difficult, or why the wheels would flash colors. Did the cart get stuck? Was it tipping over? It was hard to tell.

crc

Liked: Idea, Humor

Could improve on: Hard to control, mix of graphical styles, surprise moments, maybe some "Distance to Troy" meter instead of "credibility")

Don't kill the messenger. Kill them all. ;)

Hamumu

(illegal graphics of Troy=N/A graphics!)

Pretty marginal in terms of actually being a game, but I like the Credibility meter, and it is pretty crazy trying to drive that big tank around. I too am curious about the wheel color flashes.

A good achievement!

ondrew

Very nice physics and fun to keep the Trojan horse on the road.

Although crushing people is fun, the game lacks some kind of motivation for the player.

dstrysnd

somehow i don't think this is historically accurate

HybridMind

this is too funny. i too remember playing one of your earlier prototypes and this one is much better. it is strangely gleeful to run over messengers in a speeding polygon trojan horse with jangly head! the troy at the end was a bit jarring. heh. wasn't sure if i actually won or not.. it just sorta said I reached troy but didn't tell me what my cred score meant win or lose.