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Highway 00101

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Audio933.53
Humor1622.63
Fun1713.16
Graphics1833.58
Mood1893.21
Overall2223.28
Theme2643.28
Innovation4432.36
Coolness148542

Comments

MisterMagnus 2013-04-29 15:29

OMG! It's pretty good, what is the song's name?

r3d5 2013-04-29 16:49

@MisterMagnus BIT8, by daftgamer2

r3d5 2013-04-29 16:50

@MisterMagnus And Thank you! That means a lot! :D

dvdking 2013-04-29 18:10

Graphics are great. I find gameplay rather boring... you just drive and drive, nothing happens. It would be great if there were more gameplay elements.

r3d5 2013-04-29 18:58

@dvdking ya I can see that. I'll be making the difficulty increase sooner. Might be too much of a cruise when you start out.

onzephyr 2013-04-29 20:05

Liking the visuals and the music. clean and well executed. got a zen like pacing after a while.

glocks 2013-04-29 20:05

Very awesome aesthetics! I loved weaving through traffic and seeing how far I could get with max speed (furthest I've gotten is 5 miles :I )

taylorlunt 2013-04-29 22:19

Loved the jumps.

argo15 2013-04-29 22:19

That game was sick, damn I like that song.

psychomonster 2013-04-29 22:21

Like the Shader-GFX and the landscape setup. Super nice straight forward minimal racer. like that

fullmontis 2013-04-29 22:23

The music is CATCHY! I found myself to play while bobbing my head :)
The gameplay is nice but becomes boring rather fast...

fabricio-brito 2013-04-29 22:23

Great work on the theme, guys! 5 star for certain!
Wouldn't mind having the speedometer on the top of the screen instead of the car trunk, though... hehe
Missed some evolution on difficulty, despite the pedal to the metal for the whole trip.
Nice music! ;)

liannethy 2013-04-29 22:24

I actually really like this, in terms of an art game. I think it would perhaps be more moody if set on an industrial freeway with the potential for traffic jams so that you can reflect on poor decisions :P I think the ramps maybe take away from the experience a little, but overall, great effort!

r3d5 2013-04-29 22:28

@Lianne Booton Confession time! The ramps were totally me freaking out it wasn't fun enough. It really was an art game to begin with but after I had it play tested a bit, people seemed to want ~anything more exciting. So the ramps were a super quick addition for those players. So ya, I totally buckled lol, I'll admit it. But I wanted to compromise for both types of players.

r3d5 2013-04-29 22:29

@Lianne Booton and thank you!!
(lol, dodging the eyes I'm getting while I'm at work not working)

r3d5 2013-04-29 22:31

Wow, thank you guys all for such great feedback and compliments!! I'm getting all emotional that you played it!

pinothefrog 2013-04-29 22:39

I really enjoyed this one. Nice music, great landscape. Lots of occasions, though, where I felt stuck between the cars, couldn't really slow down and the path was totally blocked. Like the motion, though, smooth and relaxing.

waave 2013-04-29 22:41

Seemed fun, sadly I was having trouble with the framerate on my 8-year-old computer :(

ataxkt 2013-04-29 22:41

Plays like Desert Bus.

r3d5 2013-04-29 22:44

@Waave ya, there's like a lot of effects used on this. I was going to add a quick start test and adjust the visual / graphic intensity but I ran out of time :/

post update!

bleating 2013-04-29 23:02

The graphics in particular really stand out, good work!

fussycashew 2013-04-30 00:10

Pretty cool game, seemed kind of bland though.

xandy 2013-05-02 14:46

cool game but framerate gets bad at +90mph :/

minionstudios 2013-05-06 02:57

I am not quite sure what that game was, but I f*ckin love it.

joe40001 2013-05-06 03:25

Oddly enough I think it might have worked better with the style if the car were like a wireframe or something more like that, it's current paint job is out of place in the tron type world. Also if the game is supposed to celebrate speeding down a highway the controls feel very sluggish. You need more game here to keep the player engaged.

As a proof of concept on background generation though this game is alright.

smilingcat 2013-05-06 03:28

Loved the graphics and the soundtrack!

phocker 2013-05-06 04:46

nice game -- the controls were not as solid as i would have liked but it was a good game overall.

nimblegorilla 2013-05-06 05:17

Nice racing game, but I didn't really get a sense of speed while going down the road. Some markers on the side of the road might help it seem like you are going faster.

msquirrel 2013-05-06 09:42

That was great!! really nicely done. I liked the style as well, the graphics were very cool. Good job man

2013-05-06 09:50

Wow.. loved it! Awesome art as well.
Any chance of releasing the source for us newbie unity students?

beerman 2013-05-09 06:42

Looks absolutely lovely, but as a few other people have said it just feels too slow to be much fun.

cardboard 2013-05-20 02:31

Really cool game! I got stuck behind the slow cars too often though, so I had to step off the gas sometimes. The ramps were my favorite part :D