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Light Speed Driver

By ratdog_adam

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness365
Humor733.17
Innovation1712.81
Overall1812.95
Audio1952.56
Fun2062.62
Mood2332.55
Graphics2372.70
Theme2452.81

Comments

teamquadratic 2012-12-18 01:06

I'm not sure I really understood the game, such as why animal creatures kept flying across the screen or what this has to do with the theme for that matter, but it was a fairly simple and fun game.

the-jack 2012-12-18 02:28

Definitely playable, and trippy. Where's the villain?

ratdog_adam 2012-12-18 03:15

Hey guys thanks for checking the game out. You are the villain, while you think you're racing around space you're actually running over innocent people. This is shown in the brief flashback moments.

ratdog_adam 2012-12-18 03:19

In Light Speed Driver the player is the "villain".

The player is hallucinating due to being on LSD hence the title [L]ight [S]peed [D]river. While the driver believes himself to be in a fantasy game world he is in fact going on a carmagedeon style rampage running over innocent cartoon-like civilians.

When hitting the stop sign icons the player catches glimpses of reality.

On game over the player finally is jettisoned out of his vehicle to his own death.

iiatlas 2012-12-18 03:31

Spent the first few minutes trying to work out how to shoot because of the crosshair in the middle, had it not been for your spiffy unity web page player work I would've been stuck all day! Controls are a bit choppy, and the score doesn't seem to increase, but all in all the game is pretty fun.

quantumvm 2012-12-18 03:41

Well I really didn't understand that game but the strange alien that jumps in front of the windshield did entertain me quite a bit.

ming_tea 2012-12-18 03:43

I felt the controls were a touch sensitive but this was definitely fun.

caasi 2012-12-18 03:50

My eyes! My eyes!

xandy 2012-12-18 03:53

great idea!

greenpixeldev 2012-12-18 03:55

Playable! The screen would sometimes flash over to a driver in a car running over people so I kind of saw the villain theme there :D

31eee384 2012-12-18 03:59

Ha, right as I started to wonder where the theme was, I saw my first flash. Interesting game.

kwl_tw 2012-12-18 04:04

I did't get it at first,
But when I know Light Speed Driver means LSD,
this makes me "WOW!"

raroadkill 2012-12-18 04:05

Interesting game. Might need to be a bit more clear in the game how you are a villain

rylgh 2012-12-18 04:50

nice, i understood what was going on (you're fucked up and think you're traveling to space but you're actually just on the road) and appreciated that you didn't hammer it in with a story screen or anything.

dalbinblue 2012-12-18 05:05

Hehe, I actually got it without reading the comments. Kudos for the subtlity and giving me the, "aha!" moment.

tigerbot 2012-12-18 06:37

I spent about 30 seconds thinking "Did this guy even try for the theme?" and then it hit me.

bitwise-constructs 2012-12-18 06:38

Have to admit, I had a lower score until I read some of the comments. Nice allegory but the gameplay still suffers from being sluggish and twitchy, somehow at the same time. I enjoyed everything else, though!

markusn 2012-12-18 06:38

Nice. Played it, found it nice and simple, read the description, played again. Cool to know the thought process behind it

meep 2012-12-18 07:11

The whole back story explaining the tie in with the theme that you described in the comments would've been useful as a starting sequence in the game or in the description above. That aside, it's a nice little trippy game. :)

illugion 2012-12-20 02:31

Your take on the theme was really unique, i like that, really nice game

patrick64 2012-12-26 18:55

Cool game, seems well polished. Nice touch with the flash backs, I liked how you saw terrified pedestrians in the distance where the pick-ups are.

philip-wagner 2012-12-27 23:17

At first I was like, why is a light speed driver a villain, but then I got a little better at catching those yellow objects and got it :) But i'm not sure if this is physically correct :P

fishbrain 2012-12-30 14:34

Well, that was a trip-out!