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Runners

By kelley

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Theme434.00
Innovation554.04
Fun3303.30
Overall3703.37
Graphics6303.04
Mood7652.76
Coolness146046

Comments

adamswaggoner 2014-04-28 03:06

At first I was pretty bored by this, but then more roots started sprouting and it suddenly became very interesting. Cool game!

mattv 2014-04-28 03:07

controlling multiple at once is really fun!

porousnapkin 2014-04-28 03:08

That was quite fun! Would feel a lot better if you could smooth out the camera movement. Maybe try and lerp it at a certain speed to the destination point? Great job with the theme.

elforama 2014-04-28 03:08

Good game. When the roots started splitting it got really fun and challenging.

supermsp10 2014-04-28 03:21

cool concept and excellent executation

supermsp10 2014-04-28 03:24

cool concept

gwinnell 2014-04-29 12:35

Is there any reason not to make the roots collide to make the game easier? Perhaps it should go faster when there are more roots, or something sort-of self-balancing! :)

kelley 2014-04-30 01:26

Thanks everyone for commenting and giving such great feedback! I'm really glad you're enjoying my little game.

@porousnapkin: That's a great suggestion. I was attempting to play up the retro/8-bit vibe by having everything move in discrete steps, but it's definitely something I'll consider for future improvements!

@Gwinnell: The roots colliding with one another was meant to make the game a bit more challenge and strategic. Like you have to make sure you don't cut off one of your other roots when moving to avoid a rock. But maybe that makes the game a bit too hard :)

bubuiic 2014-04-30 09:42

Ha, we had a very similar idea but went in a bit different direction (You control every root at the same time in our game). Interesting to see it done this way.

elefantopia 2014-05-04 04:40

Fun, challenging game, especially when the roots split and you're cycling through them. Great work.

rowdyghosts 2014-05-06 02:43

Pretty clever idea!

nicealexanderas 2014-05-14 22:32

Interesting concept :D very fun, great work :D

xevozfighter 2014-05-16 18:31

I really like the fact that more roots sprout the deeper you go. A little sound would go a long way to add to the mood.

phocker 2014-05-18 01:59

184ft - nice game

mark-goetz 2014-05-18 02:09

Not bad! I do like the root splitting as a way of adding more variety to the game, but it did feel like there were too many times where there was nothing to do. Nice job with the graphics too!

commanderj 2014-05-18 03:51

Wow those extra roots sprouting makes it so much more difficult (and fun). I really like it. I think it could have used some sound, almost anything really. Nice take on the theme.