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Prog-Jet vs Guardians

By bismark

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall11512.7651
Fun12202.3751
Innovation12112.3350
Theme8833.1252
Graphics8743.0152
Humor8931.7844
Mood9472.6448

Comments

zachw136 2018-08-13 23:40

Well done. Good graphics and a good play on the tron game. How you snap over when turning was a bit disorienting though.

parkerduncan 2018-08-13 23:45

Well Programmed game! I have always been a fam of the light cycles from TRON. The feel is a bit rough and it took me a sec to get used to it. Other than that good job!

bismark 2018-08-13 23:54

Thank you @zachw136 ... for "disorienting" after turn ... it's a few like in the 82' movie. Thanks @parkerduncan : after seeing the film when it was released (and yes, I'm not very young any more), I became addicted to computer science (programming and games - go know why ;-)

mukult 2018-08-14 06:15

Wow! This looks cool. "TRON" styled. It takes a while to understand the game. The turns are very rough... i did not realize for few tries on whats exactly happening. Still cool game though.. :)

bismark 2018-08-14 11:35

Thanks @mukult ; i must add some explanations, sorry for this.

chandymande 2018-08-14 11:58

Reminds me of Tron lol

hakro 2018-08-14 12:06

Nice game. The graphics are simple, and cool. But I feel it misses a bit of precision when there is a turn. I had to adjust the timing to turn at the expected moment.

It will look cooler with some music and sound effcts.

Nice one overall.

farfadet46 2018-08-14 12:07

need some work on camera it's difficult to play when the camera don't rotate.

draeskai 2018-08-14 12:09

The camera is a little confusing when you have to turn, gut it's an interesting project (I've always been wondering what playing this game would be like)

simogecko 2018-08-14 17:13

cool game, a bit disorienting at first like other mentioned that the camera just snaps into position and that turns only happen on a fixed grid. with those fixed and increasing speed it has potential :)

batlordz 2018-08-14 20:14

A little bit difficult with camera rotation but it's a good game! Reminds me TRON :-) ! Great work!

roman-petrov 2018-08-14 22:08

Didn't work for me :( Maybe my computer (iMac mid 2015) is too slow for it (I tried WebGL build in Chrome).

eugene-opryshko 2018-08-14 22:12

Always liked TRON, so this game was must-play for me :D As said before, you need to smooth camera rotation, and I had some troubles determining cell I will turn to, it seems like turning takes place at old bike position. Also you could speed up gameplay a little

paulo-augusto 2018-08-14 22:17

nice (Y)

monstr 2018-08-14 22:36

The camera was a bit disorientating, a smooth camera would have been better for sure. It also seemed that the bike was turning based on it's last cell rather than it's current one. But the game looked cool and I thought it was interesting. Not bad at all. I think the idea has potential.

bismark 2018-08-14 23:01

For fans of Tron (original movie), use this link for a good music (like Flynn's home) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhhmtBOmosA

bismark 2018-08-14 23:04

For @roman-petrov : you can try this link for Mac OS X

http://eice.be/ld42/ProgJet_vs_Guardians.MacOSX.zip

I hope you can play the game on your mac.

liven 2018-08-15 00:00

Looks good, but definitely needs cinemachine (and no latency in inputs)

drevilbrain 2018-08-15 00:01

A nice variation on a classic.

The camera lagging a little after your input to turn is a bit disorienting, but overall the game is quite well done.

robowarrior1982 2018-08-15 05:52

Super I love the atmosphere tron, it is pretty well transcribed, against the camera that turns suddenly it's weird, and it lacks effect and sound when I pass on a bonus we have not feeling like interacting with anything is a shame.

kale-the-quick 2018-08-15 09:36

Took a bit of time to get used to, but once it's uniqueness was allowed to shine, it was pretty fun. The pace seems a bit slow, but once you figure out the powerups it starts to flow nicely :)

thedouche 2018-08-15 12:15

I played didn't like it, sorry. This is tron and there no gameplay. I played the song you linked but i liked pirates of the caribbean more so I played that while i was playing.

Anyway you made some parts very nice!

filip-bergkvist 2018-08-15 12:16

I don't really get it... The point isn't clear, the bike is very slow, and turning is very imprecise. I tried to get the turning timer down but I just can't manage to turn when I want to. If I press right, I want to turn right on the next square, not the one I am currently on or the next one. Look at how Snake handles this kind of movement. The camera is also jarring and needs to be more advanced than simply parented to the bike. Sorry for being very negative, but there is a lot to work on. However as you said it is very playable.

zephyrextreme 2018-08-15 12:43

The camera snap was really disturbing and I couldn't really understand what to do in the game. But a good effort!

jsd 2018-08-15 12:50

I've never been a fan of the movie but I've certainly know of this scene from it.

There was a bit of a lag somehow (camera and inputs?) so that's a shame. Also it would have been great if the speed increased with time or something. Also, check out the canvas elements, they overlapped in the webgl build and couldn't really know if they were charged or not :\

anstabo 2018-08-15 12:50

Too slow and with no clear goal. The technic behind it is interesting though !

sentmoraap 2018-08-15 14:20

The game is way too slow. This may be fun at higher speed but not in it's current state. A continuous camera rotation would be a great addition. The graphics are good. I didn't hear any sound.

blurred-lines 2018-08-15 14:28

Camera turn movement should be more better than this. The idea is pretty cool though. Graphics was also good.

bismark 2018-08-15 19:20

I thank you for your opinion about the management of the camera and the "position" during turns, as well as the problem of non-repositioning action icons during the "screen resize" in WebGL.

These few bugs have been fixed, and an increase in the Prog-Jet motion speed has been made.

Post-Scriptum : better rendering with standalone versions (Windows 32 or 64 bits, Mac OS-X) than in WebGL.

ossi 2018-08-16 21:07

Cool game! I like how you need to consider where you put your walls in order to have the best opportunity to get to the power-ups. I found the speed to be a bit too slow and enjoyed it a lot more when I used the capacitor. Good take on the theme with the walls and the guardians breaking the environment! Good job!

2018-08-17 09:49

Nice job ! fedback after a first run on a laptop between two code sessions : The camera movement is pretty disturbing during the first seconds but it become cool after a while... And it's totally in the mood of the non inspired 1982 movie ! Can it come from the input lag ?

thought-reactor 2018-08-17 17:24

Neat little Tron-like game. The camera snapping on the turns is a bit disorienting, as others have mentioned. Loved the art and UI style.

bungalow 2018-08-18 08:58

This was really cool! I hope to see you work on it further because its really fun!

cliffracerx 2018-08-20 18:47

Excellent lightcycle game! With some sound effects, and maybe some extra abilities for the power-ups, I think this'd be one of the best out there. It really captures the feeling from the original TRON, both in terms of the lightcycle maneuvering itself, and in how utterly *disturbing* Recognizers are. Having them destroy the play area is both a neat new gimmick, *and* a great use of the theme.

Great work! :thumbsup:

bismark 2018-08-22 00:25

To @cliffracerx , thank you. I have seen your submission, and "woah", it's genious ! :-)

cr0w 2018-08-22 00:56

Gives me serious nostalgia. Lots of fun, enjoyed the speed powerup most of all. Nice work!

king-kujito 2018-08-27 20:56

A bit hard to control but very well made

icarus-nb 2018-08-30 22:05

Reminded me of Tron. The camera rotation was a bit strange and let me disoriented and confused some times. The application of the theme was great. Don't know if it's a bug or something, but my game ended suddenly.

jordantanner 2018-09-01 09:02

Classic Tron, of course. Looks familiar! ;) This concept for a game goes way back to the old days too, but it's definitely fun to see it in a 3D format, especially with the additions of the player abilities. Nice entry!!

bradur 2018-09-01 16:15

It looks cool but I'm having a hard time figuring out what's happening. And for a Tron homage you must have sounds & music!

imphenzia 2018-09-01 22:58

Being a tron fan this appealed to me! I liked the idea of "collecting" the squares. My biggest piece of criticism would be the turn-mechanic because I felt lost as the camera warped 90 degrees. I would suggest LERP-ing the camera so yo don't feel teleported :) Nice work!