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Draggin ten

By croze

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness291
Fun6662.79
Humor8111.81
Audio8591.81
Theme8612.81
Overall8642.73
Graphics9082.29
Mood9172.22
Innovation9592.38

Comments

lustdante 2013-08-26 02:46

Whoa, look at the size of that thing!

disdanes 2013-08-26 02:47

This is an excellent game! It took me half a second to figure out the controls, but I really loved getting to upgrade the car after every run!

croze 2013-08-26 02:50

@Lustdante yeah haha I would have scaled it to fit all monitors but java is a pain when it comes to control over how your images look in-game

omar_q8 2013-08-26 03:22

at first i was confused but this game is not bad, always curious to see how the next upgrade will be.. maxed out most of the stats!

patrickgh3 2013-08-26 03:23

I liked the music! I wish it played in-game.

umu 2013-08-26 03:30

I enjoyed it, but I don't know if I'd call it fun. It really isn't that hard, and you'll always get enough money for an upgrade. There is also a lot of time when I'm really not doing anything. I liked the little dials, and the radar upgrade. There was also a good sense of speed after about 7 upgrades across the board.

Is that car modeled after a Honda NSX?

caranha 2013-08-26 04:17

The game was pretty fun. I found my self playing it over and over :-) In the beginning, it is a bit hard to understand that you need to press "up" (W) to go "right", but after I got that, the game plays very smoothly.

I would suggest that you add some sort of "in-game" gauge of how far the player has gone. It really motivates in this launcher games to have some measure of progress, like a "last record" flag.

Also, sound effects, please! :-)

Thanks for the game, and congrats on a nice 1st LD.

davisan 2013-08-26 19:16

It's fun, but repetitive. Perhaps would be better if had a larger variety of obstacles.

robotparking 2013-08-26 21:57

Ha! Made me think of SpyHunter

wally2069 2013-08-27 02:51

Whoa, look at the size of that window

supercannon 2013-08-27 03:08

Solid game, held my interest until the end. Perhaps a bit to hard, but overall great game for 48 hours.

kunonooni 2013-08-27 03:18

Wow that was addictive. Maxed out all stats and bought radar. Really cool game! Nice use of theme.

croze 2013-08-27 22:11

Thanks everyone :D

tainted_code 2013-08-27 23:13

Dat window! Good game though!

elementz123 2013-08-27 23:20

This is pretty addictive with nice graphics! I think there should be some challenge though like racing other cars or something. Nice entry!

kragnir 2013-08-27 23:23

It make me kind of sad that 90% or so of the memoryusage in this game is 3 music files that are not used. With the radarupgrade you get a bit of gameplay also.

However when I had the radar I only looked at the bottom right part of the screen wasting much of the graphic and feel. I believe it should be changed to simply zoom out instead to get the most out of the resources in the game.

vile-smile 2013-08-28 00:04

The graphics were OK, but the idea is quite good.

croze 2013-08-28 00:05

Thanks for the advice krag; I also noticed that while playing, but by the time I could even worry about it, it was already submission time :( I probably should have included only 1 music file, or had a separate download for it.

jellycakes 2013-08-28 03:55

Pretty cool, liked the upgrading, although you could still continue to drive after the ten seconds were up. Still good to play nice one.

croze 2013-08-28 12:09

Jelly, you were supposed to be able to, you have 10 seconds of accelerating and then after that you wold slow down based on your resistance level.

lordhellmax 2013-08-29 01:39

The upgrade screen was atrocious, sorry... But the rest of the game was quite good looking! That kind of game is always addictive and you managed to make it fun. I love the speed near the max upgrades, wow, that's fast haha!

croze 2013-08-29 02:11

Thanks haha, yeah I really wanted to make the upgrade screen nicer but still make it keyboard only, but I couldn't come up with anything that would look much better that would still be keyboard only.

phocker 2013-08-29 02:21

ok that was pretty fun -- nice job

ghribacki 2013-08-29 03:31

Looks like a very interesting and funny game! Too bad for the screen size... I couldn't play it. =(

malactus 2013-08-29 05:58

Quite fun,
Good Variation in obstacles and stuff you have to keep an eye out to be able to get all the way to the end distance.
Played until end as well :)

My only gripe is the upgrade screen. My eyes. They bleed eternally. Tone down the neo :D

minionstudios 2013-08-29 16:00

Fun and well-made! The end game is tough, no more upgrades and miles to go...

ratalaika 2013-08-29 17:10

good job

kirbytails7 2013-09-14 06:38

The file size! It's so big! Also, the window is too big! =/
I like the font for the menus, though.

croze 2013-09-15 17:40

Yeah I shouldn't have included all 3 music tracks in it, and the window size was an issue I thought I could solve easily but Java doesn't have image manipulation integrated already.