bicheste 2020-10-06 01:03
The music is fire! Getting those F-Zero vibes Nintendo refuses to give us.
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD47 → Hyper Racer
By william-akins, x-pilot, George Nikolaou, maximevincent and Alex Akins
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 191 | 3.99 | 85 | |
| Fun | 89 | 4.07 | 84 | |
| Innovation | 682 | 3.44 | 86 | |
| Theme | 204 | 4.14 | 86 | |
| Graphics | 118 | 4.37 | 86 | |
| Audio | 173 | 3.93 | 86 | |
| Humor | 1240 | 1.69 | 28 | |
| Mood | 422 | 3.74 | 83 |
The music is fire! Getting those F-Zero vibes Nintendo refuses to give us.
very cool! fits the theme nicely, and I like the cool futuristic graphics and music ^_^ unfortunately it's very laggy on my machine :(
This is easily one of the most well done games Ive seen so far, such a great job!
... wow... 😮 This game is amazing. I made it around 10 times and lost control for a brief second, giving my ghost time to catch up and smash into me. :D
From the video the game seems amazing, but for some reason I can't play it :(
That was cool especially the graphics but i get little bit motion sickness, wanted to play more just couldn't
Music is a good choice. Crashing is jarring. The graphics are great with the spline mesh. Nice job.
Wow!!!! You guys really need to keep exploring this game and push it. I love how each track adds another track to the music! Sometime can be desorienting but maybe I'm to close to my monitor. Amazing game, one of the best I played so far!
Nice! You did the game I was thinking of while brainstorming! Even the ghost cars included!
I usually don't download games just aiming to test WebGL entries but the screenshots for this game made me do an exception. :)
The music was fitting the game and the graphics amazing. No lag at all on my 12 year old computer. You should aim for a VR release for the ultimate motion sickness feeling :laughing:
One way to stop the player to just turn back and cross the finishing line would be a few checkpoints along the level and if the player hasn't run trough them in order that lap is invalid.
I love racing games so this this is top tier out of the games I played, I might just keep it around my drive haha, one improvement I can think of is car sound effects or something
This game looks really cool, but crashing into myself was a bit upsetting. Usually they are called ghosts because you pass through them. I didn't really get a sense I was racing anything, but it definitely gave me F-Zero vibes and I think there's potential for something cool if you dig a little deeper.
This game looks absolutely incredible. I was honestly so impressed when I saw some of your posts during the jam and it looks even better now that it's out. I also absolutely love the music! :smile:
I'm not sure if I experienced some glitches or what, as for the most part I only saw a single ghost every lap, and it was moving really slowly? I think the first time I got to, like, lap 4 there were a bunch of ghosts, but then I usually only saw 1, and even restarting the program didn't fix it... (I did download the "Latest" version FWIW)
In terms of the racing aspect, I think I would really like some sort of speeding up / braking like in Mario Kart, or maybe a jump feature, or just *some* additional controls for the car. I had fun playing the game, but I think it felt a little non-racing-game-ish because I didn't have any way to speed up.
But that said the game fits the theme very well and has superb music and graphics! Well done!
Very fun and very literal interpretation of the theme. The music really makes this game stand out. It is very nice and easy to begin with and ramps in a manner that feels very doable in the beginnign but becomes more hazardous with every turn. Great entry.
Amazing aesthetics. Really good job. I would suggest that the direction line always show the fastest path. Beautiful entry.
Great graphics, and the music fits the game perfectly. I am not really good at it but I like it. Good job!
That was one of the best games I played so far. Really like the concept of racing against yourself as ghosts. It's really well polished and looks amazing. Music is really nice too. Managed to get to Lap 14 :smile: Screenshot 2020-10-06 162109.png
The game looks and feels polished, gameplay is fun and have some Wipeout vibes.
Love the Wipeout feel of it, and racing against your ghost is always fun. Nice music as well.
Very catchy music, and i like i raced against my own ghosts. I had no controller but it still was fun even with the keyboard
Beautiful game. Loved it.
very beautiful the game, the gameplay is nostalgic because of ps1 games that were like this
Great game! Loving the music and the theme! I think its a bit brutal that you instantly die when you touch a ghost with no chance of redemption, but other than that it was amazing :)
This is really fun! A bit confusing with where the physics take you. I drove backwards at one point. The style is also really cool.
Fun:4 Can get difficult with many ghost riders but that comes with scaled difficulty. I think I would have more fun if there was a variety of loops and levels to try
Innovation:4 Follows the standard design for racing games, and the space aspect is very much a bonus... although race cars probably don't drop in space lol. Having different levels or procedural design would very much increase it's replayability.
Theme:5.0 Fits the theme for stuck in a loop
Graphics:5.0 Very very pretty, nice use of emissive textures, the artists really know what they were doing
Audio:5.0 dynamic music, changes each time a loop is completed.
Mood:3.5 very upbeat, like a rave. The gameplay can get dizzying after a while but can be improved with changes to gravity, friction and physics design.
Overall:4.5 I was first attracted to this game from it's look. The artists and programmers worked well as a team and clearly has done this before. I usually don't play racing games but this one really kept my attention for about 20 minuets. I think the replayabiltiy can be improved with more levels, procedural design, and tweaks to the physics engine.
Overall it's a well done, polished game.
Thats a 5 stars in graphics if you ask me! This looks amazing! And your music is really good for guys, who are not musicians. There is one track with very loud low frequences though
Car go fast, Car go brrrrr.
I really enjoyed this honestly. It's a simple idea, but I like the idea of past lap ghosts becoming obstacles in future laps. It's a bit unfortunate there's nothing much else to work towards, but that is the nature of game jams. Also, as a side note, I much prefer the music you guys did to the stuff that comes after. It fits significantly better. The graphics all look great, though.
Really nice looking and sounding game. Needs more obstacles in the actual levels, once you get past your ghost there's nothing stopping the player from winning(expert map you just need to be careful in the beginning, really.) Maybe some boost pads or bumpers that the player has to keep an eye out for. The ghost feature is nice but its not really racing against yourself since you go faster every lap. Overall a great entry that has everything going for it. Good job!
At first I thought I had to deal with all my ghosts not just the most recent one :smile: It seems the best tactics is to pick a lane and stick to it, than switch the lane to the opposite one. I love the graphics!
Here is my playtest:
https://youtu.be/LaNp-y_wWLg
I was really excited for this game, because the idea is great and the graphics are splendid, but for some reason i just fall out of the map everytime and i have low FPS. Probably an error on my end, but it's unfortunate. It happens, when te car goes 90° to the intended direction. ps_7.png
@int Sorry about that :sob: Our colision detection is frame based so if you go super fast you'll go straight ahead for the frame duration, but it won't check to make sure the ground is below you. Slight oversight on our end. We believe we know how to fix it and will work on updating the game, and hopefully also fixing/addressing some of the other issues mentioned by people above :smile:
@x-pilot I'm sorry i broke it :( I'll give you a follow and will enjoy the fixed version! (this happened on the "with less bugs"version, just to compleat the report)
this is an extreamely fun game, changing the music little by little is really cool and the subject is here, so good job !! i'll keep it on my computer, it deservs it !
Really nice entry. I felt like I wanted more because the base was so tight. Amazing visuals and sense of scale. Could easily see this adapted into a full game.
I loved your game! The graphics are pretty and the music is super fun to listen to! The advanced track was also very clever! I would highly recommend working on the UI. Maybe you can go with a tech type theme to match the environmental art. Great work!
God this music! It is so good! And the game looks and feels awesome too. I honestly don't have anything negative to say about this. Really well done!
Remember me? I'm Hermitao7 from RorySmith's stream. I said I would come play your game! And boy, I'm IMPRESSED. You guys did amazing! The audio was perfect, and the graphics looks a lot like some retro games. A lot of talent was involved here, congratulations to your all. Thanks for the experience, had a lot of fun! Will keep this game on my computer. Screenshot (319).png
Game's good but the size is big. Cool textures and effects and models.
Looks great! Concept is cool! It'd be nice to push this a little further with something a little more physics driven so it feels a bit more like driving. It felt like it took a while before it got really interesting (didn't really see many ghosts until around lap 10), so maybe it'd be worth making the track shorter or something so the laps go faster. Overall really cool, though!
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This game is insane. Having a few performance issues but other than that is really fun.
Nice game :)
Best work! Such a nice graphic and musics!
I know that the whole point is that you're supposed to be stuck in the loop, but being able to fly out of the loop made it way more fun and enjoyable.
Dude the music is tight, that second song on medium difficulty is hype.
I played the deadline version and I loved glitching out and trying to get some freeform loops.
Wonderful game, addicting and enjoyful at the same time.
Well, played it on stream guys, got 735
##### Am I good enough?? I can go up to 800 probably :D
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#### 785!
I have a video if you want to use it for promotion. I'm going to go puke hard somewhere now.
I enjoyed the loop, but with increasing speed and clones. It got wild as soon as I started to lap my clones! Fun game.
Fun and very challenging when you've completed enough laps. Pretty on the eyes (and stressful after a while) and great music design. Really nice work!
This game looks gorgeous, I appreciate the bloom and the futuristic cyber look of it, along with the decent dnb loop. Are the tracks procedurally generated? I noticed car momentarily float around on certain bits, which felt off cause the vehicle looks like it's supposed to remain on the surface.
Only feedback I can really suggest is to improve the menu to make it feel less static, the game supports gamepads except in the menu and it looks like you could breath some life in it by having the camera travel through the course in the background.
Thanks for submitting your game for me to play on my livestream!
If you’d like to rewatch the playthrough, you can find it here:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/767497194?t=0h52m08s
Good luck on your ratings, see you next LD! :D
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I want to give my congratulations, this game lacks some gameplay elements to make it really enjoyable but it's not far off from that. The art is amazing, creating such detailed good tracks must have needed a great talent and great tools, you can be proud it's a pleasure for the eyes! Same goes for the programming involved in the reverse gravity racing that works without bugs and really the sensations are here, moving in these races feels good and can even get a player dizzy by making loops and losing control!
I would have liked buttons to accelerate and slow down though, I don't know if it's on purpose that you didn't put them but that'd only be for gamefeel that would be great.
Great audio too, really works well, I get huge wipeout / F-zero vibes but with your original ways and fitting really well the loop theme, the loop is on the shape of the track, the track itself and the stuck in the endless accelerating in it with ghosts of you you should not touch thing, well done!
Please improve it and make it a full game
Absolutely beautiful aesthetics and very tight / smooth gameplay, and a cool and unique (from what I've seen) take on the theme. As others have said this gives me strong wipeout vibes (which is _good_).
Nice game. Innovative interpretation of the theme and a great execution all around. Only thing is the UI should look a little bit better (also it's either km/h (objectively better measurements btw) or mph, but definitely not mp/h (the P stands for per and so does the /). Also the game is very easily cheezable, as you can go backwards, touch the finish and it will still count as a lap and then you can continue doing that.
The car and camera movement is really well done, it all feels exactly like those closed waterpark slide tubes.
I quite liked playing this - the gameplay was pretty enjoyable, the movement felt a bit too quick for me as I found it hard to control the vehicle. However, I think that played into the challenge of the game, if it was easy to path straight then it would be easy to avoid hitting your previous laps ghosts.
I really liked your game - the visuals were great, the music - stunning, and I dont remember a racing game where I was so much consumed by competing with my ghosts xD I really hope you push this into a full game - would surely buy it if you do that :)