mathiouza 2018-04-24 16:39
Nice concept ^^ I loved the music and the art style ! I played alone, but I think with friend it can be really fun ! Great job :)
Cool game, keep coding :)
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD41 → TURTLE RACERS - Commanding your way to Victory
By samboyer276
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 409 | 3.60 | 26 | |
| Fun | 381 | 3.50 | 26 | |
| Innovation | 175 | 3.83 | 26 | |
| Theme | 449 | 3.77 | 26 | |
| Graphics | 561 | 3.50 | 26 | |
| Humor | 974 | 1.95 | 22 | |
| Mood | 804 | 3.02 | 25 |
Nice concept ^^ I loved the music and the art style ! I played alone, but I think with friend it can be really fun ! Great job :)
Cool game, keep coding :)
Awesome game! Had a lot of fun playing, and now I have to invite some friends for some lan play xD Great work
The idea is great! Very fun to play with friends... Or that is what I would say if I had any friends :(
The only thing I feel like it didn't make more sense is the back command. I played through the first level without using it. In the maps you showed there aren't any dead ends to use such mechanic.
Why did you put it there?
The game is very nice. NICE WORK GUYS!
thanks for the feedback guys!
@duuuude, the commands were the first thing I added and they were just a reflection of normal turtle graphics functions, but I agree it's not entirely useful. I was actually thinking of making a course with dead ends, but I thought it'd put inexperienced players at a disadvantage (if you'd played the course before you could just remember the proper route) and I didn't really have time to put a finish line shuffle system in, so unfortunately it never happened. Thanks for playing :)
That's a good idea, brings me back to making turtle graphics! I can really see this expanding into other gamemodes with the turtle mechanic (For example trying to paint the biggest ammount of floor or something like that). I'll have to play this with some friends :D
Nice game and idea 5/5!!! Good Luck!
I really like this game. It would be cool if there were an AI player as well. The graphic on this are spot on for the aesthetic You can play ours here https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/infinite-typer
pretty cool! turtle graphics was one of the first things I learned in programming. the graphics are simple but eye-catchy.
Really fun! Going to have to get a partner to try it out with.
xD best! love the idea of the game, the maps and the graphics in general, it is obviously annoying to play, because is like anti smooth controls, but super fun!
Great Game Sam XD Well Done!
Very cool, really original interpretation of the theme! It reminds me of trackmania, somehow - but more tiring on the fingers :)
Cool art style and fun racing gameplay, sort of like golf where you're trying to get to the end with a series of well-placed shots.
Getting this going on LAN with just 11 hrs of dev time is insane. Also, getting these maps working as well as they are must have been a challenge - they have a lot of curves rather than just straight lines which makes the programming easier.
I will say this game would be a relatively easy one to code AI for and that's probably the main improvement I'd recommend. Also maybe some bounce shots would be cool.
Super cool! I'm bookmarking this. :slight_smile:
Wow, thanks for all the positive feedback! I'm so glad that you guys enjoy it :)
@tajamsoft that's an awesome idea! I've always wanted to try out coding a Splatoon game, but I guess the floor would have to be a bit less regular than their maps else players could just draw grids... If/when I start on a post-jam version I'll certainly try it out :D
@GenTel Thanks for the comment! A _lot_ of the multiplayer functionality is being handled by Unity (UNET HLAPI), but still it definitely took most of the time as I've never used it before xD The tracks are an incredibly cheap trick; while drawing a test level I noticed I could copy and paste my curve twice, make one larger and the other dashed and boom, convincing racetrack in 10 seconds! Unfortunately it means they're ugly compressed bitmaps, so for a proper game I'd prefer them to be stored as dynamic splines or meshes.
AI's a really good idea that just skipped my mind, I might've even had time to hack in a really dumb bot using random raycasts and waits. Again, one for the postjam todo list :P
Really unique and fun to play game. Graphic and music is amazing and game is addictive!
Nice concept, and could be cool if maybe you would write longer code for each action, that would resemble a specific coding language. Though what I missed the most as a single player was to see if I was doing any good, by having a simple AI too would race against!
Good job! Cool game!
I left my rating of your game, if you can leave your feedback in our game, Witch's Escape.
I hope you continue with the project.
https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/41/witchs-escape
I like it!
Very fun game, nice graphs and a good mood. I think that you shouldn't need to put a space between the letter and the value, it seemed to just interrupt the flow of play.
@Wevel Good point, I noticed that this was the first kind of syntax a couple of people tried when first playing. Ultimately I chose a style that would be easiest to parse (splitting by spacebar, meaning you can also chain up commands with spaces too), though it maybe could be changed to no spaces in the future. Or brackets and semicolons to frustrate people more? :P anyway thatks for the advice :)
Hahah! Nice stuff! xD lemme start by saying the fun began when reading the description, you've got my kind of humor and i totally dig it... Now on to the game! I like the concept for sure, even though i'm forever alone and had to play by myself it's still really cool to race with commands. It's one of those things i wouldn't have though of for sure.. Being able to specify the controls and exact degrees is genius! I like how it's a racer, but it had my mind drift for a bit and go all like: "what if this was a puzzle game?" Somehow i keep imagining these sorts of movement mechanics combined with an adventure/puzzle game. Just a pitch though, good job!
Very fun game and nice graphics. adding the space between the numbers made it hard + at first time i tried the game I did not get you had to give numbers also (maybe a tutorial or something or it's just me? ) Nice spin on the theme :smile: