eingya 2015-12-15 03:37
Quite hard, interesting though, good music
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD34 → Turbo Tram Drift
By drury
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 2 | 79 | ||
| Audio | 154 | 3.70 | ||
| Fun | 207 | 3.56 | ||
| Overall | 261 | 3.60 | ||
| Mood | 310 | 3.47 | ||
| Innovation | 367 | 3.33 | ||
| Humor | 403 | 2.83 | ||
| Theme | 491 | 3.70 | ||
| Graphics | 533 | 3.43 |
Quite hard, interesting though, good music
Music is great, a neat challenging game :)
Just sayin if you liked the music, there's more where that came from https://soundcloud.com/snijboer
Of course used with permission :P
Amazing game! One of my favorites! Pretty much everything about the game was good: the graphics, the audio, the controls!
It does take a bit to get used to the controls at the start, but once you do, it's great!
Neat take on the 'endless runner' theme, very challenging. I think it accelerates a bit too quickly though, and the sharp turns made me feel a bit ill. Interesting atmosphere, love the 80s synth ballad soundtrack going on.
Linux - Opens then immediately crashes.
Welp. Sorry about that. Didn't have a linux machine at hand.
Love the music , the game is pretty hard but i liked it
Awesome game! I was really digging the music.
Neat concept, though it gets really fast and hard to control or see the trains coming! I made it to 32 seconds though!
I'm not hardcore enough to reach the end it seems. With the time limit and required speed to reach the end, it's hard to dodge other trains! Nice use of the Two Button theme. Loved the aesthetics.
I dont know its just me, but i get a bit nausea in the first playtrought. But meh, i get nausea easy.
This game get hard quickly XD!
i have made a strategy to beat the game. Most of the trains appear as 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 (track 1 and track 2)
didnt' work... ;\ 4.8/5
ALSO THE MUSIC <3
Oh, RNG distributes trams evenly to the left and right rail so there shouldn't be any -noticeable- patterns.
If I were to let you in on my winning strategy, keep to the right. Trams drive in the same direction as you on the right side, moving slower relative to you so you have an easier time dodging them.
Try and find a speed that you feel comfortable with and memorize the position of needle on the speedometer. Then try and keep the needle around that point by drift-braking. Just drive at your own pace a couple of times, making sure to dodge everything till the timer runs out, then gradually increase the pace till you make it. I don't even brake anymore and make it to the end with 10-15 second reserve, which is something I considered impossible when uploading the game. Maybe should have made the timer 60 seconds after all?
Love the 80s Terminator like feel to it! Graphics and sound were great. Gameplay was impossible, but good. Maybe accelerate it a bit slower.
On OSX, if it says can't be opened: Open terminal, type "cd ", drag the turbotramdrift.app, add "/Contents/MacOSX"
Now "chmod +x turbotramdrift"
Enjoy.
Fantastic game, nicely done! Best time I got was 9.62 seconds to spare :P
Amazing! Difficult, but I made it to the end.
Pro:
+ Great music and graphics
+ Interesting mechanics
+ Challenging game
Con:
- Controls were a bit hard to get, some instructions would be nice too
Great work!
LOL, it's impossible to win this game,
If someone made I want a screenshot as proof!
I liked the idea and the music so much!
YOu made a funny game and you also made me curious to see the end!
Great game! It did make me a little bit dizzy, but that's a risk in every game for people prone to motion sickness. I love the risk/reward system of speeding up, and that's the most stylish method I've ever seen for a tram to put on the brakes.
Damn that music is gorgeous! Great mood too.
This game is haaaard, the first few times I played I got wildly different experiences. Once I had no other trams for about 20 seconds and other times I had tons of trams and no turns. So nice job on the variety and generation :)
Very cool game! The music is very nice too
Fantastic game! quite hard to control at first, but it gets easier. I also love the artstyle and music.
Now here's a fellow train game! I also really like the vibe of the music. :)
Took me 1-2 plays to understand i also had to drift in order to slow down. Does being on the inner ideal line of a curve make you accelerate quicker? I guess the thing in the lower left is just a progress bar? Didn't make it to the end so far and got one game over that I didn't understand. Is there a time limit? Also managed to get the train thrown out of one of the curves which was fun! :)
You should add to this! Score and combos would be cool, definitely some sparks when you're grinding and sound effects. The idea of a chase on two train track is pretty fun!
FINALLY got to try this. Took me a while to realise that you could use the 'drift' thing to slow down. You squeezed a surprising amount of functionality out of the two buttons. Super hard, but then I expect you were going for that. Nice :)
Sparks when grinding are drawn but didn't get in in time. We had some other effects planned but never had the time to implement any.
The score here is the timer. You're supposed to reach the end of the line by the time it runs out. If you crash on the way, you can measure how well you did by it, similar to Super Hexagon. If you do manage to beat the game, you can see how many seconds you had to spare, so you can still improve your lap times, again similar to Super Hexagon.
I'll scrap the timer system once I start fleshing the game out, appreciate the input. Tram chase definitely happening somewhere down the line.
Cool idea. It was a tad confusing at first, but felt great once I figured it out.
nice... as pointed out in the stream i don´t like the wobble, but besides that great fun
Quite hard, sometimes really fast.
Pretty cool twitch reflex game, could do with some more effects and feedback overall but not bad at all for a first game. Nice work!
This is Drive meets Train Simulator. Short, but really nice game. I enjoyed playing and beating this game :D
Finally beat after a many tries. Fun game once you get the hang of slowing down. I highly recommend pausing and listening to the AWESOME music track. Shame that it restarts and you don't hear the whole thing on loop.
Music gets in the way because it starts over every time, if it kept on from the same place, it would be amazing.
Game is interesting and fun!
Needs sound effects!
Stick the camera to the tracks! (you can still make it shake along with the train, just keep it pointed in the direction you are going, not where you are facing)
Maybe consider using splines for some smooth curves instead of 90° street corners only.
There were also a few times where two trains blocked the path and the controls were rather lacking to deal with the situation.
I'd suggest allowing a slow down without hopping onto both tracks by holding left and right (particles and sound will make it evident enough). You could still allow breaking during a multi track drift if it works like this:
While holding left on the left track, adding right will break without any track change. Releasing left during that break will make the back wheels switch to the right track and you can keep breaking by holding left again. Repeat to also switch the front wheels to the right track.
This would look pretty cool for drifting through a corner from the inside track while controlling your speed as well as giving you a bit more control over which wheels you are about to switch (front by only tapping towards the other track, back by releasing the direction of your current track while breaking).
tl;dr: add more control over speed and track switching (front/back) for differing hold/release scenarios of both keys.
Great feedback dude
Sound effects - agree
Less camera wibbly wobbly - agree
Smoother curves - agree. This was an experiment that turned up negative results.
I find that due to the way they're generated, two trams lock the path when you go too slow, but yeah, nothing you can do about it right there right then. Kinda bad.
I plan on making it into a fully fledged racer with a proper control scheme, but your two-button control scheme is pretty genius. Wish I thought of that back when it mattered.
Particle effects when breaking were planned along with other effects, but none made it in before deadline. I realize how important especially sparks when breaking are.
I'm curious as to what you'd add for full fledged controls. As two buttons really seems to be all you need to have snappy track switching movement as well as breaking. And using shoulder buttons on a controller feels really natural.
I guess you'll simply add dedicated accelerate/break/boost/whatever buttons?
Yep, it may seem redundant but I have some ideas for the acceleration/brakes that may be too much for just two buttons. I hope to have a new prototype out by the end of the year.
Fucking excellent. Couldn't beat it though. I think it needs a lower time limit to start off with, and a bit more of a difficulty curve. I think I spent longer playing this than any other ludum dare game :)
As somebody else said I had to fiddle with some permissions to get the mac version to run. You can probably avoid this in the future by using standard zip instead of 7zip, or just not compressing the mac build at all.