Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD47 → Crazy Running Cow
By vollfeiw
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 179 | 3.66 | 44 | |
| Fun | 129 | 3.72 | 45 | |
| Innovation | 341 | 3.22 | 44 | |
| Theme | 312 | 3.58 | 45 | |
| Graphics | 87 | 4.01 | 45 | |
| Audio | 215 | 3.32 | 42 | |
| Humor | 69 | 3.65 | 45 | |
| Mood | 175 | 3.48 | 44 |
i loved the theme, very cute cow and farm! the controls are fun, as the cow tends to drift trough corners. i found myself trying to do pretty nice drifts more then trying to get a high score :-) nice little game! i'll rate it when the rating opens.
Thanks for the feedback @magus77 ! Yeah, at first, the cow was sliding way more, but it was too difficult to control it after some times.
I think i'll finish this game after the LD47 with Coop, i'll correct some issues with lightnings and sounds, i'll change some texture, and i'll do fully controllable character. If i'm not lazy of course.
I loved it. Very fun. I like the powerups. You've got some brilliant graphics.
Great graphics and quite funny. Good job!
Fun to play! I like the drifting cow and the farm. I would love to play this again if you add coop features in the future!
This one is really great! I'm really impressed with pulling off these graphics and this gameplay in just 48hrs. Excellent work. I loved the low poly on everything!
In order to provide a bit of feedback and places this could potentially improve: 1. The run animation was just slightly 'off' or jerky something about how the legs moved. 2. The run sound didnt match the pace of the feet at all 3. The animation speed of the running could perhaps change the faster you go. 4. Hitting the fences caused 2x too much damage imho. Those are all nitpicks though. The graphics and mood were amazing and it had really fun racing mechanics. Well done and thank you!
I wasn't able to get it running in Safari but it ran fine in Chrome on Catalina
Thank you for your feedbacks.
Yeah, i had some problems with animation, i'm not really good at it, and the first running animation i made was too slow, and when i speed it up, it was weird, with the fact that bone weight around legs is really broken. Didn't got the time to redo the model.
About the running sound, yeah, just put a loop, i wanted to speed it or slow to match the speed and the feet, but changing the pitch make it sounds weird, so i kept the "best overall", even if this doesn't match.
Really thank you for your feedback @fabdynamic, this will really be helpfull wif i keep the project up.
Mø!
amazing work! love animation and the controls makes it very funny to play.
A drifting cow, what more could you ask for? Nice entry, controlling the cow feels a bit clumsy but that's the point, so it makes it quite fun. Does the difficulty rises up as you complete more loops? didn't feel like it but I might be wrong.
@zakamana So difficulty relly on speed here. Everytime you're going to a checkpoint, your speed increase, everytime you take damage, your panic increase (with bonus / perfect loops) can decrease it.
Acceleration is greater in the beginning, while slowing down once you reach "the spot" where i think the difficulty should be (around 5 laps). However, you can have a slow down bonus. Sadly, i'ts all RNG, and if you can come up with one or more at every laps, well, it feels like taking forever to speed up. You have on average 3 bonus per laps and around 1 of 8 chance to get slow down bonus, wich should give you around one slow down every 3 laps.
On first laps, the slow down bonus decrease by the speed you get on average with one lap, while in the end game, it decrease the speed you get on average with 3 laps. If my math are done correctly, you get on average enough slow down to keep the game running forever once you hit the sweet spot.
If you find it too easy to control and anticipate things when you're at that sweet spot then yes, sadly, i didn't come with idea to increase difficulty without being unfair or breaking the game. So yeah, in the end, balancing the game was pretty rough, i added panic system so when you take damage and recover HP you still have a drawback for failing, it's kinda like a hidden health somewhere.
If you come up with some idea to slowly increase the difficulty without breaking everything up, it's all welcome.
Long answer for a simple question, thanks for the feedback !
@vollfeiw Thanks for the explanation! Might be too simple, but I was expecting more bombs/less milk(?) to pop up as I ran around the loop, just to challenge me on my cow-piloting skills :)
@zakamana Bombs and milk spawn on same locations, out of the darker ground, and often close to wall. With more speed mean harder to get bonus without hitting a wall and harder to avoid bombs on turns. I could somehow works on a system that drop more bombs as time goes by, i think that less milks would be unfair but adding extra spots when bombs could spawn behind or in front of milks as the number of laps increase could be a great way to increase difficulty for sure.
I always ask for some friends that are mostly casual gamer to playtest my game to get a review of the difficulty, and it's hard to get things perfect.
Haha great game!
"The Cow handles like a fine drift car" is not a sentence I thought I would ever use...
But The Cow handles like a fine drift car!
The game is pretty well polished for the timeframe. The animations were not perfect, but most games don't even have animations... So I can't complain too much
One suggestion: on itch.io enable "click to launch in fullscreen" I would love to play this in fullscreen
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A well-made game, quite enjoyable. Liked the graphics especially.
@ausstein I have a problem with the webgl export of the game, wich doesn't correctly set a size for itch.io, fullscreen seems to be broken sadly, i'll see if I can work around that, i'll keep you in touch if it's working, but might be related to my version of unity.
Heh, interesting take on the theme, and a fun concept for a game.
You already got a lot of feedback on the controls, which I won't repeat. Using the speed of the cow as a difficulty modifier (which can both be affected by player performance) was an interesting extra addition to the basic mechanics.
One nitpick I have, is that the "grass tufts" looked distinct enough to look like power ups, so it was sometimes a bit confusing when I spotted them on the track.
All in all, it is a fun game, with an interesting concept and take on the theme!
@somnium Thanks for the feedbacks, especially about grass, didn't though about that :)
Haha quite amusing and well executed idea. This could be spun into the Spanish bull run, just add ragdolls of people running and your goal is to get them :D. Solid entry.
@tomeks Thank you ! Nice idea for ragdolls, might be fun ^^
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GREAT GAME! Nice graphics :)
@masonmasonoff @gilad-bar-ilan Thank you for playing :)
Nice game. Liked the art and sfx of the animals in the background.
@schraf Thank you :D
Nice cow game! I almost forgot I was stuck in a loop, but then I crashed and probably became someones dinner.
@barrier Thank you for playing the game. Don't worry, you'll be a good steak !
Hey great job. We're programmers learning Blender too. Cow animation is great and the orthographic world view fits the gameplay style, the drifting is fun!
Really like the use of the particle effects and lights. Would be fun to have things you could smash through without punishment, as I liked the bomb explosion, but had to avoid it survive!
Also the arcade style notifications of speed boosts etc is a nice touch that integrates well into the game and is cooler than having it on a UI.
Very solid entry.
Very nice little game, I liked the controls and graphics a lot
@eldogg Hey, thank you for your comment.
Yeah, considering all comments, i should have put some props reacting to physics, and some ragdolls too. About orthographic view, at some time, i switch back to a perspective view, then back to an orthographic view again, it was easier to predict turns with an orthographic view, even if we loose a bit of the 3D world. As for the arcade style popup, thank you, it was inspired by ARPG to be honest, at first, it was looking at camera, but was looking like it was part of the ui, mainly cause of the ortographic view style i guess.
Again, thanks for feedbacks :)
@shp Thank you :D
Woah, I like how you gain speed every lap! It makes for a very nice difficulty curve. Great work on the music and graphics too! Nice game!
This was fun but pretty hard for me. At first I thought the lights on the checkpoints were things I had to avoid. It was so much fun drifting around with the cute crazy cow; great job!
Nice simple game. I imagine that's an accurate depiction of how cows make milk.
The controls are a little bit cumbersome, but it's a part of the fun. The graphics look neat, the models are cool and particle effects add a lot to the overall game feel.
Great job! It was fun to play.
@fractalsunrise I hope it wasn't too hard ^^ Yeah, about that lights, i knew that was too bright, but after more than 5 hours of burning my gpu on light baking, i decided that it was enough for now xD Your cows are cute too bro ;)
@bereg Thanks for playing. Yeah controls are .. kinda special. It playable using a controller, wich make it a little bit smoother, however, menu doesn't work with controller.
Moo.
Haha crazy idea. On my first run I got the rainbow power up and was laughing a little. Enjoyable little game. Nice style!
@froggimarc Thank you, the boost is currently inspired by rocket league boost, then the rainbow is inspired by too many hours of coding during the night, it made me laugh, so i kept it :D
Moo, fun entry. Nice !
This game is brilliant. Loved the feeling of the cow and it´s movements. Great game.
@jajakeim @henrik-ganard Thank you for playing and your feedbacks :D
@henrik-ganard Ho, hey, you're the redneck boat guy, how's my score doing ? still 2nd ? I guess it's got beaten by now right ?
Mooo moo moo moo (lovely game but the cow exploded)
really nice, i can play this for an hour coz. of good graphics.
really nice, i can play this for an hour coz. of good graphics.
@bananabobbert The cow didn't explode, she ascended and she's now free from the loop !
@smiley405 Thank you, if you play a while, you can share your score :D
The graphics in this game were great. One small thing I would like to be improved is the camera. When you hit a wall the camera snaps into a new position which doesn't feel very smooth. Great game!
Very fun game, man! Rainbow power up is awesome! :rainbow: :cow:
@oa5f I'll keep that in mind for the camera. There's actually some bugs that i'm aware off, and some thing that need to change. The camera follow the player and add up the velocity, and sadly, not normalized, so yeah, at high speed, hitting a wall make the camera doing stupid things.
@fumybulb Thank you ! Rainbow power up is the best ! :rainbow:
The cow theme with farm audio affects are great for the mood. The graphics are impressive too, especially for a quick weekend. The smooth well done graphics and audio environment make this game really enjoyable. The only things I would suggest are to leave the lap completion text up for longer, its really quick and progressively add more obstacles to the track to increase the challenge level.
@apbakeware Hey, thanks for playing, and thanks for the advice. If I work on the game again, I will probably keep a "survive" mode, but I think I will go for multiple maps, with wider roads, and multiple player at once, with some AI i guess.
I keep in mind all the improvement that could be done with a game of this genre, but I think the base game itself looks more like a couch / party game, rather than an arcade / highscore game. So yeah, "more obstacle" could be a great idea to expends what already exist, and it will probably be done at some point, but I think other player could also be a great twist, and could lead to a game where, kinda like speedrunners, you just try to survive longer than other player.
I don't know yet, i'm experimenting with procedural generation on a platformer game right now, I'll probably get back on this game after that, because it went way better than expected, and it's a great start for a project, but, almost everything have to be redone from scratch. All these feedbacks will be a great source of idea.
And yeah, for the lap completion, I have to remake the entire popup system, right now it's just an animation with a self destroy function at the end.
And again, thanks for the feedback, i really appreciate it :D
super cute game. Loved the graphics!
@mike-caputo Thanks :)
Awesome submission :)
Very cute graphics, and lots of polish - and I've just noticed it's a Compo submission too, all the more impressive, congrats!
@eloquence @ditam Hey, thank you, sorry for the delayed response, and yeah, I can't do jam cause I don't have much assets to work with, so I often starts with nothing. I don't have friends, and, i'm not really sure i could do any better even with an extra days.
If i get more confident in next jams, i may ask a friend to join me on a jam to give me more time at programming while he make models / sprites / texture but, that's not for now ^^