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My Peculiar Car

By brant

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness367
Innovation364.07
Humor803.52
Fun1493.53
Overall2233.53
Mood2613.25
Audio3023.12
Graphics5543.03
Theme8633.21

Comments

tiago-ling 2013-04-29 12:46

Very nice game! Congratulations!

grimpunch 2013-04-29 13:32

Nice Game :)

ysty 2013-04-29 13:36

Great game, very stylish.

infin8 2013-04-29 14:03

Great Idea, though I would have loved to see more tension between avoiding stuff and changing gears. Though at some point it became impossible with all those cacti/ rattlesnakes nearly taking all the lanes.

Love the use of the sax :) .

ttakamoto 2013-04-29 14:21

I played your game and can tell you that I had fun with it. Really did it. Nice sound choice and also really clever to let the car goes only according to the available gear. I liked it! Good jog.

rafaelsales 2013-04-29 17:44

Very nice game! It's really hard to learn the best way to drive this car. And the sax makes no sense but it's fun. Congratz!!

casino-jack 2013-04-29 22:23

Took me embarassingly long to figure out how to go faster, but the funky jazz made up for it when I figured it out.

alanbazan 2013-04-30 00:05

Awesome car huahuahuuah
Very good game!

dew 2013-04-30 02:51

MY poor fish!!

Epic saxo guy!

Loved the idea direction + speed in the same thing (i will think deeper on it)

tiagoair 2013-04-30 03:31

Very cool game! This car is serious business! Poor fishes...

fabricio-brito 2013-04-30 11:53

It took me a while to figure out how to play, but after dying miserably trying to accelerate with the up arrow key, I finally got it.
Not so sure I understood what's with the fish instead of a simple gas tank, but that's ok... hehe
Nice work!

multitude 2013-04-30 13:50

Great idea with the switching and the sax to it. all in all i enjoyed playing this.

my-milked-eek 2013-04-30 14:59

Great game. I loved how shifting gears contradicted with the road obstacles. Twi dun, tu tu dun (sax impression)

rodrigomotta 2013-05-01 02:40

I love this game. The mechanics is amazing. Congrats. 70% of te way. I think you can evolve this concept. Congrats.

uncade 2013-05-01 16:39

Really cool idea for controls!

zatyka 2013-05-02 16:05

Very fun game. Interesting game play mechanic. I played it quite a few times before I finally made it to the end. I hope you participate in the next LD!

granada 2013-05-02 20:39

Great idea! Nicely done!

superdisk 2013-05-03 00:11

I, too, remember you from the last LD, so I came to rate your game.

Great! Concept is quite original. Sometimes it seems like you'd get stuck behind a couple of cacti and the gear wouldn't let you dodge them, but other than that it was quite nice.

gatechgrad 2013-05-07 03:52

I liked the little gear shifting mini-game. Sometimes the cacti in the road could be a little overwhelming. 85% was my best score.

nicosaraintaris 2013-05-07 04:38

Really like how you mashup gears and direction... Nice entry. Congrats!

floko 2013-05-07 13:51

lol, nice game!

I laughed hard at the gameover screen. Didn't see it coming.

I think the intro should be made in the same level of detail as the game. Using pixelart at it raised expectations that did not relate to the actual game visuals.

My main compliment here is the parallel mechanics between driving and the gear. That was BEAUTIFUL! Great game design there.

brant 2013-05-08 14:10

@Floko, about the intro, do you think it was good or lacking? Because I personally think it was pretty rushed.

@Everyone yep. My biggest mistake in this game was surely the two overwhelming pieces of cacti. That simply goes against the flow of the game. Well, living and learning.

leginar 2013-05-10 04:02

I saw your game on indiegames.com and just had to play it. It was so much fun. Great Concept. I loved how the Gameover screen was the first clear explanation of your goal. Good work on getting your game noticed too. My plan of silently hoping indiegames reviews my game hasn't been as effective :). Good show

jigxor 2013-05-10 13:15

Very cool mechanic. It was interesting how my attention was split between the road and the gearbox. Nice work!

fermcg 2013-05-11 00:26

Very nice game!

minionstudios 2013-05-11 17:43

Wow. I am so glad cars like that don't exist! Fun game!

euwaku 2013-05-11 18:24

Gosh so many cactus... Roads are not the same anymore!
Two games in one, pretty cool concept! Also, the sound effects mysteriously gave a soul to this game... weird feeling.

turbodindon 2013-05-11 19:01

Ahaha it's a very good game, it was very fun to play!
I finished in 34 seconds. :p

- SEPHY (@sephyka)

brant 2013-05-11 19:38

@TurboDindon We have a world record, folks. Seriously, what the hell good job!

depp 2013-05-12 06:27

It's challenging! My fish died. I love the saxophone, it just works so well, and the premise of the game just clicks.

mrshoestore 2013-05-12 18:48

really like this game. question, are the cactus and gear change random or placed? It would be brilliant if the cactus placement and gear box patterns matched up, giving the possibility of a perfect run if gear changing was done at the right moment.

lotusgame 2013-05-13 07:31

A little bit repetitive.. but truly a game design lesson on how to mix two different gameplays to make a new innovative one. A must see :)

dem0 2013-05-13 12:18

That was really nice idea and above all, it worked fine too!

kill0u 2013-05-13 23:41

Nice concept :)

sylvain-p 2013-05-14 04:14

Good idea for the two game mechanism in same time.

heuermh 2013-05-14 04:31

Still not sure why the road has cacti but not the desert.

A lot of fun regardless!

farmergnome 2013-05-18 01:25

What a fantastic idea, full marks for innovation and fun, I love the gear change mechanic, I would love to see a post competition version of this myself, but either way good job.