FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD27 → SMS Racing

SMS Racing

By hlink

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall114.05
Innovation34.44
Fun143.89
Theme24.22
Humor14.37
Mood683.62
Audio1413.30
Graphics2183.55
Coolness180617

Comments

archaeometrician 2013-08-26 05:50

Your game is really funny ! Innovative hilarious concept and so true, if you dont respond in 10 secs you are judged lol. Nice one !

drachlen 2013-08-26 07:38

I love it so much. What a great idea.

vids 2013-08-26 09:26

Great idea!

In real life, when you're trying to text while driving, you don't look away from the road but bring the phone to a height where you can move your eyes between the road and the phone. Well at least that's how I do it in real life and it's great fun imo. Try having both things available at the same time so it's no more a game about just driving and messaging speed but also how the player decides to switch between the two.

deepnight 2013-08-26 12:30

Excellent take over the theme! :) I laughed continuously watching the gameplay video.

cubertoy 2013-08-26 12:37

Enjoyed it, really fun interpretation of the theme.

methamphetabear 2013-08-26 12:57

Ingenius!

2013-08-26 14:19

Wow, really nice game.

quill18 2013-08-26 14:31

Brilliant concept!

calahagus 2013-08-26 14:37

That was hilarious! I found myself groaning when I had to type out more than 3 letters (something something disrespectful generation) and the landscape was fun to look at, I mean, when I didn't have to respond to a text of course. My biggest had to be the lack of reverse indicators, and I found myself going backwards more than once. But overall this was fun and hilarious, well done!

irock 2013-08-26 14:54

When I hit 'send', my message disappears from the text field and it doesn't send. I'm playing the OS X version. Am I doing something wrong?

xgeovanni 2013-08-26 15:24

Crashed after a while for me, while I was driving around with no friends. Here's the crash report folder if you can make use of it: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/127476718/Etc/2013-08-26_161556.zip

falconstar 2013-08-26 15:29

Easily the funniest game I've played so far. Well done. xD

spaceoff 2013-08-26 18:18

Absolute genius. I totally love the concept.

umu 2013-08-26 20:06

Wow! I was working literally on this idea with somebody several years ago. We even had the same camera angle. We were focusing more on the texting than the driving though, I think you made the better call.

taylorlunt 2013-08-26 21:10

This is a pretty interesting game.

loolpolo 2013-08-26 21:15

Fun idea!

jomomomo 2013-08-26 21:24

Fantastic... just... fantast.. oops I crashed.

vittorioromeo 2013-08-26 23:02

Very funny entry! I love it!

lordhellmax 2013-08-26 23:54

That's a crazy and genius idea! Game crashed on me but I guess I just died while texting... :) Good job!

travischen 2013-08-27 06:50

YES. 1000x YES. Stay in school.

oxydam 2013-08-27 14:09

Very fun idea. Original exploitation of the theme.

zkenshin 2013-08-27 17:22

Had fun, but it crashed on my computer as I (believe I) was approaching the finish line.

ratking 2013-08-27 18:25

The car controls are shitty, but I guess that's not what the game is about. Hilarious idea!

aquilicoco 2013-08-27 20:48

Good idea

adamharte 2013-08-27 22:03

Awesome game, and super funny.

iiechapman 2013-08-28 01:27

Very funny idea, way harder than real life

gatechgrad 2013-08-28 01:52

Neat concept. Really kept me busy responding to text messages.

daoyster 2013-08-28 03:02

Awesome and fun use of the theme. I can already see the news networks using this as a basis for what it's like to text and drive. But in real life I believe it's a little easier and you have a tad more situation awareness then in this. Overall, good execution of the idea, saved it to play later after the rating period is over too.

zillix 2013-08-28 04:11

fantastic. great take on the theme!

angrycrow 2013-08-28 06:42

OOOOOOOOO DEAAAR! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!! I .. this game is amazing. Literally. my mind is amaze right now. Excellent and political and just plain awesome. Please rate my game. http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-27/?action=preview&uid=5288

hlink 2013-08-28 06:49

Thanks for all the feedback, everyone!

Added a Unity Web Player version and fixed the crash that a few people reported with the Windows version.

dancingflame 2013-08-28 12:16

Great idea! Lessons learned: Do not respond message while driving. lol~

euske 2013-08-28 13:40

This game should be used in a driving school.

minionstudios 2013-08-28 15:24

Hilarious! Glad you're getting some press for this. At first I was like...

lekochen 2013-08-28 16:20

AWESOME.

zlowrance 2013-08-28 21:12

Amazing idea, great execution. Id be surprised if this didnt win!

sittaman 2013-08-29 02:12

Very creative!

otus 2013-08-29 20:37

I love this game!!!
It looks and sounds great, and its really unusual!

Also, I laughed out loud when I failed to reply the first time :P

Great work!

zuige 2013-08-30 21:53

Brilliant game! Found you on Nerdcubed's channel! :)

encryptedcow 2013-08-31 03:49

Amazing. That's all I can say about this.

g_o 2013-09-03 21:28

Pretty neat game.

nightshadow0 2013-09-04 14:51

This game has taught me that having no friends feels awesome. Nice work!

lesterpig 2013-09-08 10:09

Did you use unity packages for graphics environment & collisions ? Nice concept.

split82 2013-09-09 23:53

Idea is really nice :)

mekuri 2013-09-12 21:12

haha, very funny idea!! Personally I would've liked if the cell phone were in view of the road when typing, so you ad least had a chance to drive :P
Really great idea!!!

pickensincorporated 2013-09-13 13:12

Fantastic! Love the racer itself, but the SMS made me smile and grimace at the same time, and that countdown is really pressurizing. The text to speech lady is also hilarious.

You probably already know this, but OfficialNerdCubed, my favourite youtuber featured your game in his video "3 Free Games Friday 40" :D so congratulations, that's been my dream.

nilo 2013-09-14 10:37

Since it's based on a demo, I find it hard to rate the graphics and sound, since most of it probably comes from the demo itself. However, great and fun idea! really innovative.

hlink 2013-09-16 06:07

@lesterpig - it was built using the Unity Racing Tutorial which you can get on the asset store. It's more of a mod than an original work, to be sure.