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Stop the Goblin Army

By rhill

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Fun2903.35
Humor3853.14
Innovation7652.65
Overall8032.87
Graphics8032.65
Theme8362.83
Coolness171339

Comments

ianburnette 2015-04-20 18:27

139! Very fun. Car controls exactly the way I expect it to. Strangely satisfying to knock over the gobpins.

masterofnan 2015-04-21 22:38

It throws an error and won't load in the Unity player for me, sadly :( I'm running Safari on MacOS.

liamlime 2015-04-21 22:38

This reminds me, I haven't gone bowling in a while! :D

Car controls are really fitting, slamming the car into the pins sideways is really neat! :D

bashabookoos 2015-04-22 18:08

Awesome, made me laugh! Love driving into the goblin pins. I felt it got old quick though, and it was too easy to get a strike. Maybe adding some obstacles to get in the way of the car and making the board wider might help.

komjaur 2015-04-22 23:09

Dat goblins :D

rhill 2015-04-24 05:46

Car controls I will admit are mostly the Unity Standard Asset car. There's some stuff like weight transfer and differentials that I never got the hang of building from scratch. There's a lot more to it than putting some wheel colliders on something.

So what I ended up spending more time on was
1) how can you be sure all the pins are finished falling over?
2) experimenting with the camera movement

Apparently I should have spent more time on my goblin puns. I didn't think of gobpins :) plus a friend of mine called this Gob-bowlin' which is pretty great, and I might actually change the title.

selzier 2015-04-24 06:03

"Failed to initialize player's 3D settings" but all the other unity games are working in my firefox so far.

druid 2015-04-24 16:56

Pretty cool concept and strangely satisfying :D Smooth controls too. Really solid entry!

eskivor 2015-04-24 16:57

Tried with firefox, unity "failed to initialize player's 3d settings".

rhill 2015-04-26 06:25

Okay, I added a bunch of desktop versions on itch.io if the web player isn't working for you.

simianlogic 2015-04-27 21:03

Feels like a physics demo more than a game. Maybe have a track with a bunch of pins set up and plow through 10 "frames" as a sequence of 20 sets of goblins instead of always resetting? Like endless runner bowling.

megaponies 2015-04-29 00:36

The old web version would not run for me on Firefox, so I played the minor updates one.

Simple and funny twist for bowling. Maybe a bit too easy, just missed the 10 pins once.

os_reboot 2015-04-29 00:38

Very fun game, really satisfying when you hit the pins at just the right angle so that they all go flying!

jprogman 2015-04-29 00:41

Interesting take on bowling. Bonus points for humor!

There's a serious glitch though: I've pulled a u-turn and landed the car in the gutter. It ends up going to the start than towards the goblin, pretty much stops the game. I like to suggest a timer to when it is time to go to the next frame.

kristof 2015-05-10 07:48

Hey, cool game! I like the controls and physics! Some sounds and music would have been nice.