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The game
By threeeffhex
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| Category | Rank | Score | Count |
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| Fun | 24 | 2.82 | 17 | |
| Overall | 25 | 3.18 | 17 | |
| Innovation | 32 | 2.94 | 17 | |
| Theme | 53 | 1.76 | 17 | |
| Audio | 24 | 2.40 | 15 | |
| Humor | 32 | 2.20 | 5 | |
| Polish | 33 | 2.76 | 17 | |
| Graphics | 42 | 2.59 | 17 | |
| Towlr | 8 | 3.50 | 8 | |
| Journal | 27 | 2.82 | 11 | |
| Technical | 39 | 2.69 | 16 | |
Comments
The game was presented pretty well, which meant I wanted to like it. Sadly there were just way too many frustrating things about it for me to do so. Firstly, and most crucially it doesn't quite fit on my 1024x768 screen, even with browser maximized.
The general gameplay physics, collision detection etc. feel pretty good, but the game is very hard, and unfortunately not in the "I'll just have another, see if I can nail it this time" way.
Finally it's barely on theme (protect the sideways road that flips gravity, umm eh?!)
It has potential, but it just doesn't realise it at all I'm afraid.
Lots of neat ideas, with many interesting things going on. It just didn't quite feel fun though. Maybe if it was easier to get around the level, and the player attacks were more powerful?
First, I hate platform games in general. So my rankings are probably extra harsh, sorry about that. You did well to have a playable game and I can appreciate that. For me, I hate repeatedly trying to get things just perfect. In this case I lost my patience before even getting past the tutorial.
Something very off with the physics here! The super floaty sideways movement when you jump is crazy, and the springs never seemed to do the same thing twice (or, more accurately, they'd be useful once, then after that they'd consistently send me about 2/3as high). Because of the spring stuff and general crazy difficulty, I never got past the third level! Red stuff hurts.
I'll agree with everyone who posted already when I say that the biggest problem I noticed was the control/physics. It felt a little hokey and more like if (right.isDown()) position.x += 5; instead of if (right.isDown()) velocity.x += 5; This is most crucial for the jump, where the control gets pretty wonky.
The levels are well designed, however, and it was pretty fun.
I was going to bitch about how the road was a really random element in this game, but eventually I got past the first gravity inversion level and onto the escort one. At that point it got a bit more "sensible". It also got harder, in a different way. I gave up. Would have been nice to get some higher framerate (I saw maybe 15 fps), as it would have made it more comfortable to play. Turrets were a bit overly aggressive and numerous early on. Player offensive capabilities were odd and limited. Anyway, I sort of like it. Mostly because hamumu dislikes it.
I really, really like the game you almost made. The inlined tutorials, the minimalist platformer -- all very cool. A little on the difficult side, though.
Even past level 3 the 'roads' theme is a bit of a stretch. Still, neat idea.
I like the graphics and the game has a lot of polish. Game was overall a bit too hard, easier difficulty would have helped it for sure!
Granted I didn't get to level 3 but I do have to agree that this wasn't exactly on-theme =)
Very nice platformer. It has nothing to do with the theme (I don't count the escort trucks level, which felt very forced), but anyway it was real good fun.
The physics is a little bit of, but I know how hard it is to do proper platformer physics, so I was quite happy with it.
The gravity flip was awesome, that really messed with my head :) - lots of towlr for that.
Thought this was pretty awesome. It's definitely too tall (the screen), which I was guilty of as well :P. I found controlling the game when you were upside down quite difficult, which only compounded the general difficulty of the game (which was very high). I felt that having a respawn after 5 or 10 seconds, and lower starting health, would have worked better than just killing you off completely, and high starting health.
I got to the first level where you had to escort the ambulances, so not very far.
fun game, lobbing dots and moving turrets, cool gravity flip