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Summer Death Olympics

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness1100
Humor2892.41
Audio3892.50
Graphics4322.77
Theme4732.67
Fun4912.38
Mood5042.21
Overall5062.61
Innovation5182.33

Comments

cogentinvalid 2013-08-26 02:19

The sound when the race ends is a little too loud, but overall a good game.

rabbits 2013-08-26 02:32

I didn't have a second player, but it was entertaining to play myself.

oldpeculier 2013-08-26 02:51

Totally great concept and theme. Not much fun for one player though.

waave 2013-08-26 02:52

The runners' graphics are neat.

dmastergames 2013-08-26 02:53

Good Game

snail_man 2013-08-26 02:54

Not bad, although I'm not entirely sure I understood it.
Still, a fun party game.

flamecow 2013-08-26 02:55

There's not much to dislike with this game. Simple and enjoyable. The one thing that I do dislike is that loud sound at the end. Kinda spooked me!

angrycrow 2013-08-26 02:56

I didn't have another person to play with! Aww.

beerman 2013-08-26 03:06

Single player experience is a bit limited, but I can see it being a fun game to play with a group of friends.

tacospice 2013-08-26 03:32

Needs AI runners! Cool though. "Loser" sound is a little grating.

l0gical1nsanity 2013-08-26 03:58

Interesting...was a lot more fun multiplayer than single player. I feel it would be good to add bots or something

ramonimbao 2013-08-26 03:59

Fun!

isharacomix 2013-08-26 04:15

It would probably be more fun if I was playing with others, but it's still an awesome game! The background details are a nice touch, too. :)

tetha 2013-08-26 04:20

The single player experience is indeed rather limited, and I'm a bit confused why there is such a slowdown (for me) in the middle of the race.

But overall, well done.

empyrealhell 2013-08-26 04:31

This is about as simple as it gets. Not a lot going on here, so not much to rate, really. The graphics lacked cohesion, there were sprites of different resolutions which really broke up the feel. I would have liked to see more from it, maybe power ups or lane changing, anything to make it more than just a button tapper.

jishenaz 2013-08-26 04:46

I played single-player, but I can tell that the multiplayer would be great. This game exercises my hand!

tork 2013-08-26 05:02

Like the others say, its not so fun playing solo but the idea is good.

stevesalmond 2013-08-26 05:35

Pretty cool - I think I would need to play with a friend or two to get the full experience though. Nice one! :)

reaperguy 2013-08-26 08:15

Well, alone it's boring, but with more players it's quite good

bufbot 2013-08-26 11:12

I corrected the sound, hope it'll be good for you guys, thanks for commenting as it was our first game ever we are glad that some of you liked it !

kaldrick 2013-08-26 11:19

Fun little idea, reminds me of old NES games ;)

matthias_zarzecki 2013-08-26 12:49

Nice faux 3d-models!

2013-08-26 13:49

Thanks for your feedback, it's really nice. We probably are going to get back on it to finish and add some features, like powers up.

superfoonly 2013-08-26 14:37

it felt like hitting the buttons was not influencing the game, the sprites were just slowly moving across the screen on their own

bradleysmith 2013-08-26 15:16

Very enjoyable. :)

ratalaika 2013-08-26 16:22

good job

spiralcodestudio 2013-08-26 17:08

Haha, fun!

zedutchgandalf 2013-08-26 19:22

The concept and graphics are nice, but this could really do with some kind of AI so that there are always 4 runners :) (even a very basic one would be nice)

gikdew 2013-08-26 19:36

Go runners, Go! REally enjoy it!

triplevisiongames 2013-08-26 19:54

I used to love games like this on my Spectrum. Aaaah those were the days. Anyway, well executed and nice graphics too

aquilicoco 2013-08-26 21:01

nice game

diogomuller 2013-08-26 23:37

It's certanly a multiplayer-only game. Pretty fun to play with someone else, needs AI players for single player.

davisan 2013-08-27 02:49

Good game! I miss those old sport games! :D An IA would be great too!

megashroom 2013-08-27 04:14

Heh, nice game.
It would be cool to have some AI racing with you to illustrate the concept, but it was overall fun and visually appealing.

patrickgh3 2013-08-27 04:37

I bet this would be a lot of fun with a large group!

anachron 2013-08-27 06:51

Nice sense of humour, it would great to see some AI!

lightmarestudio 2013-08-27 07:59

A decent game! :D

firezenk 2013-08-27 08:33

The multiplayer on 1 keyboard is nice

udo 2013-08-27 09:06

I played three people at once - I won! :-D
That was a fun retro experience, reminds me of the Olympics games for C64

infernet89 2013-08-27 09:29

Really nice addition to racing game, i loved the graphics of background!

nerlin 2013-08-27 11:09

Interesting concept. But i don't understand controls, what should i press?
Still cool game.

bufbot 2013-08-27 11:35

@Nerlin it depends on the numbers of players, you have to press one touch then the second one, by default it's : arrow left + arrow right for player 1, A + B for player 2, Y + U for player 3, F + G for player 4. We didn't had time to include possibility to change the controls :(

mrx 2013-08-27 13:41

not very fun single player, I think it would be better if there were different rhythms you had to tap instead of just left right the whole time. maybe the first 10 meters it's lr then it's llrr, then llrllrr something like that could be more interesting

bufbot 2013-08-27 13:44

@RetroEpic yeah that's true that we could have done better on that side, and even add AI, but the good thing is that we learned a lot for our very first game from scratch and we plan to maybe finish it to just learn even more. Thanks for the feebacks !

xgor 2013-08-27 18:55

Really needs a more thought out single player. Could be fun with a group probably.

dancingflame 2013-08-27 19:28

Single player mode needs more polish, but overall a nicely crafted game :)

fgielow 2013-08-27 20:50

The idea it self needed more work. The concept is good, but i think you should work more in the game experience. but congratulations for ending the game.

flod 2013-08-27 21:39

reminds me on california games! ohhh the good old times! +1 for the multiplayer feature!

p4nurge 2013-08-27 23:01

Cute nostalgic style and fun simple gameplay. Just needs some computer controlled runners. Good work!

namrog84 2013-08-27 23:26

Was it just the 1 sport? not really the Olympics if just a sprinting game?

ailin 2013-08-28 10:09

Fun game, very "retro".

xrm0 2013-08-28 11:21

In single player it's not much fun and I (maybe it's me) find that in certain point in the race, the runner slows down.

sebastian 2013-08-28 15:13

This looks like it would be a lot of fun with a bunch of friends!

xatulu 2013-08-29 06:08

What is there to say about that, didn't dislike anything, was fun and good!

kristof 2013-08-30 22:55

Simple, but nice little game. Was fun to play with two hands. My right hand won :D

tobiasw 2013-08-31 15:10

Interesting take on the theme! You might've implemented some computer enemies - like most people here, I play and rate the games alone.

diptoman 2013-08-31 17:36

I like the graphics for the game. I tried out 4 player mode just to check if there were different sprites for all of them and was pleasantly surprised. :)
This is not as fun in single player though, but I can imagine this being one of the mini games in a party game collection.
Good job!

pinktreeleaf 2013-08-31 17:54

simple, but congrats on making a multiplayer game in a jam, also the graphics emulate nes graphics beautifully.

georgebroussard 2013-08-31 21:51

Nice effort. Not fun playing solo, really.

jprogman 2013-09-09 23:08

The controls seems to become unresponsive as I continue to play the game. I'm not sure if that's just me. Nice little concept you got.

2013-09-13 22:16

@Jprogman No I thing you are right. We missed something about the resetting of the variables.

ossi 2013-09-16 04:52

Simple and neat retro art style. Good job!

porglezomp 2013-09-16 23:50

The single player version is practically pointless, but playing against myself was a bit more interesting, I don't really like button spammers though.