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Invent the Wheel

By hippolyta

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wolfkingw 2016-08-30 02:31

Your web link doesn't seem to work, and your Windows standalone version appears to just be... a ground texture. I'll check it out if you fix your links!

hippolyta 2016-08-30 02:58

Hey, it's fixed now and should work, sorry for the inconvenience. Hope you like it

adrenalinechallenger 2016-08-30 19:01

happy game ! I think the multiplayer is not usefull but why not.

huvaakoodia 2016-08-31 15:01

This is the dumbest idea I've seen in a while and it just works! Loving it.

I managed to make world records on all three tracks and the second one, well, good luck trying to beat that!

gambitsunob 2016-08-31 15:07

This was surprisingly awesome! The music added so much engagement to this, that it really makes you cheer on your sad, sad little circle drawing.
One tiny request, would be a menu option during the race to reset, I made a little bitty circle, that went really, really slow, and I had to wait until it stopped to try again.

hippolyta 2016-08-31 15:26

@HuvaaKoodia
Very well done! Just a question, how did you manage to finish track 2 in 1.5 seconds? Was it a bug/exploit or did you just found the perfect shape? :-)

@Garret Hoofman
It was part of the idea - you only have 10 seconds to try as many shapes as you like and then live with it ;-)
But probably it's too annoying to watch the fail of a wheel...

Anyway, thank you all for playing our game!

huvaakoodia 2016-08-31 16:38

@Delicious Code
I either hacked your servers or the code bugged out... Let's assume the latter and here's how it went:

The wheel started moving just fine, but after 1.54962 seconds the code erroneously considered my beautiful wheel a failure and ended the run. Only the wheel didn't care. It kept rolling and rolling and rolling and rolling like the U.S. Marshall and his 3 daughters and after 20 odd seconds crossed the finish line, breaking the world record, smiling like a champ, while everyone in the audience knew the truth.

Don't break the rules kids, drugs are for losers.

hippolyta 2016-09-01 00:52

@HuvaaKoodia
Thank you for the reply!
I made a fixed version and deleted your WR. Please try again to beat it :-)

Cheers!

csanyk 2016-09-01 02:42

Took a long time for the webGL version to load... a few minutes, and I'm on a 90+ mbit internet connection. How big are your resources?

csanyk 2016-09-01 02:49

Ok now that I've played it a few times, this is really fun! I'm impressed with how stupidly fun it is. I think though you should remove the timer on the drawing phase, and allow the player to abort a run so they don't have to waste time when they screwed up the drawing and know it's not going to be a good run. Also for some reason at first I got a ton of "FAIL" right away without the rock having much of a chance of rolling, and that was frustrating. But once I could draw a round enough shape to roll, it was fun!

csanyk 2016-09-01 15:04

Super exploit:

Play game in web browser, not fullscreen.

Set monitor resolution super high. 4K display FTW.

Draw the biggest honkin circle you can, starting inside the area of the game, but going outside.

Too big, and the game will automatically fail you. But the bigger you can draw it, the more mass it will have and the faster it'll roll. I got a <4 second time on the first course, which is currently the WR.

It's a fun trick to discover, I'd keep it in.

differentname 2016-09-01 16:33

This was really fun! Perfect fit for the theme! It seemed to work well making holes inside my wheels, which let me get the record on tracks 2 and 3.

skullpixel 2016-09-01 17:00

This was very, very fun to play. Nice job breaking away from cavemen (mostly) and pyramids and computers! If we still had ratings this round, then this one would definitely have won under Theme.

I'd like to see some more levels. :D

csanyk 2016-09-01 18:12

Now drawing is not working at all in 0.9.0

hippolyta 2016-09-01 18:54

Drawing is now on right-click... No more exploits :-p

tijn 2016-09-01 18:58

I've had a blast playing this game. Sadly drawing a proper circle with the touchpad of my laptop proved nearly impossible, haha.

Good job!

_waterman7_ 2016-09-01 21:35

Looks like we had a pretty simmilar game idea :D
I really like the visual style on this one. Looks really polished. Good job!

hippolyta 2016-09-02 01:52

Good news:
We will add new levels and multiplayer in the near future, so stay tuned.

rfgpfeiffer 2016-09-02 11:15

Can you ever do better than a perfect circle? The best solution seems the same in every level.

hippolyta 2016-09-02 12:40

I think it's not that easy to draw the perfect circle with a mouse or finger unless you are very skilled :-)

We're also testing some new materials like wood, rubber, various metals and many more. That will add a lot of variance to the game.
We also thinking about adding more physics, like bounciness in the geometry and breakable parts (e.g. an edge breaks of the drawn shape).

dertraveler 2016-09-04 14:44

Wow very cool idea. And a perfect fit with the theme :) Super simple mechanics but a lot of fun. Music and graphics are really nice and wow for the online feature.

sararycow 2016-09-05 02:48

Great concept, with a lot of potential. I'd keep developing this, this is a great base.

2016-09-14 20:11

What an idea and very well done from A-Z! Fun to play and one can just imagine the potential it offers with more variations. The sound in particular is very well chosen and perfectly matches the setting. Graphics are also nice (could even be more simplistic, I think) and the menu just "rounds" it up.

wan 2016-09-21 06:32

A very simple yet original idea, and a perfect implementation of it. The online records were really welcome to give some replayability!

Also I now own the record on level 2 with a drawing that just remotely looks like a circle, I guess I was lucky ^^