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Jet Racing

By luzfish_4

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness356
Fun2313.35
Innovation5682.94
Overall6103.00
Humor8641.71
Graphics8762.35
Theme9022.74
Mood10401.86

Comments

thejackimonster 2013-08-25 21:17

It's fun to dogde the ghosts, but I dont't think it doesn't really fit to the theme, does it?

ravetcofx 2013-08-26 02:39

It does not have a linux version, sorry :|

12323op 2013-08-26 02:43

I got 14 laps and 24 ghosts :)

luzfish_4 2013-08-26 03:05

Ravetcofx: It will compile on Linux. You can use the source code, or if you know someone who can help me make a Debian package I can make one of those.

luzfish_4 2013-08-26 03:06

GNU / Linux*

howser 2013-08-26 06:16

The game mechanic is pretty original and a cool way to make the game get progressively harder. Lacking in sound and graphics, otherwise i enjoyed playing it :)

tifu 2013-08-26 11:26

Cool idea! I got to 22 ghosts :D

nandor 2013-08-26 14:59

Nice game

nusan 2013-08-26 16:03

A ghost system is a great fit to a car game, nice idea. The game is very nice. My highscore is 16 laps - 26 Ghost, maybe you should compute a unique highscore combining those two infos ?

luzfish_4 2013-08-26 16:40

NuSan: I've thought about that. A ghost spawns every 10 seconds, so the ghosts are just a quantized timer.

I think laps are fine as the only score, because it already combines how fast you can drive (Driving fast will get you the same laps with fewer ghosts) with how well you can hold off the ghosts.

The ghost count is mostly there for amusement.

bradleysmith 2013-08-27 00:12

Not too bad. :)

vile-smile 2013-08-27 02:05

Doesn't really fit the theme, but it was fun to mess around with.

gigabass 2013-08-27 03:45

Started out really boring but quickly got entertaining :)

n0_named_guy 2013-08-27 05:09

I failed to find a purpose on this game, and a connection to the 10s theme.

The controls were fine, I was able to control the car just right. The little touch of recording the player's ghosts did not went unnoticed.

I failed to find an ending and purpose. This seemed like a tech demo that failed to convey the idea you were after.

This game seems like a programmer's game.

Rated 5/7.

n0_named_guy 2013-08-27 05:09

I failed to find a purpose on this game, and a connection to the 10s theme.

The controls were fine, I was able to control the car just right. The little touch of recording the player's ghosts did not went unnoticed.

I failed to find an ending and purpose. This seemed like a tech demo that failed to convey the idea you were after.

This game seems like a programmer's game.

Rated 5/10.

infernal 2013-08-27 05:32

After 14 laps I finally died. it was kinda boring at the start but then got a heck of a lot more interesting later on.

sounds would of made it awesome!

gremlin 2013-08-27 17:46

I got up to 13 laps. I like the ghost mechanic. The colors are a bit dark.

lordhellmax 2013-08-28 00:08

Very cool, it was genuinely fun watching the bots hit each other in the middle of the race track! It was VERY hard when I got to the 20 ghosts mark. I died at lap 14 with 23 ghosts. Very cool arcade game, I would like to see a highscore of this. :)

kragnir 2013-08-28 00:54

Interesting idea. Gets a bit crowded after a while should be some other kind of goal then simply surviving.

minionstudios 2013-08-28 15:35

very interesting... more assets and development would be nice, but this is a solid game prototype

croze 2013-08-29 01:00

Didn't really fit the theme, but the ghosts were really well made so props to you on that

kunonooni 2013-08-29 01:06

Its a neat concept. It has a very basic idea behind it. survival. how long can you survive. Good Job.

angrygeometry 2013-08-29 03:19

this game was really interesting to me. i think the interpretation of the theme is pretty excellent.

aslai 2013-08-29 19:08

It pleases me to no end that you're using whff :D
At first, it seemed quite mediocre, but as the ghosts accumulated, it was incredibly fun to see all the cars zooming by in the middle of the track.

endurion 2013-08-31 16:16

More drift! :)

Solid game. When being rammed by a bot I sometimes had the notion that the direction of the checkpoints was reversed? (or I just rotated that much)

luzfish_4 2013-09-01 01:23

Endurion: The crashes can be very disorienting, and the track has no good landmarks, and the camera is fixed rigidly to the car, so it may be that you just rotated a lot.

It also happens that a bot will push you through a checkpoint.

murilo 2013-09-03 00:13

Hey that's a pretty good idea! Rammed by yourself hahaha Add some physics, nice track design and controls and this would be super! Nice one, man!

tegu 2013-09-03 13:00

Dodging ghosts is fun and gets increasingly harder over time which is cool. The intersection gets pretty dangerous. I would have liked to have some kind of lap timer though. Also more tracks would be fun but can't be demanded from a 48h entry. :) Maybe for a post-compo version?

luzfish_4 2013-09-03 23:40

Tegu: I didn't bother putting the lap timer on the GUI. If you play it from a terminal, it should print out your lap times.

I'm planning to add more tracks. The problem is, if I don't have the intersection, then the majority of crashes are from cars sneaking up behind you or side-swiping you. I might move the camera back or something to get a wider view.

jacob123 2013-09-16 22:02

Fun game, even more fun when you are a reckless driver and swerve everywhere like a madman. Then the ghosts get extremely hard.