Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD49 → The Escape
By marin0104
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 678 | 3.57 | 74 | |
| Fun | 698 | 3.45 | 75 | |
| Innovation | 783 | 3.27 | 75 | |
| Theme | 364 | 3.93 | 76 | |
| Graphics | 440 | 3.92 | 76 | |
| Humor | 856 | 2.74 | 68 | |
| Mood | 640 | 3.50 | 76 |
I quite enjoy the game, audio have some tearing though (Not sure if it's intentional or not). Other than that, the driving mechanics was quite the enjoyable experience. I'm quite bad at the game though, only able to last for 30 seconds before dying.
Quite smooth gameplay in terms of what was trying to be accomplish where it feels the driving should be hard yet smooth at the same time. So kudos for the balance for that!
Really enjoy the mood and sound effect!
The game is very well made. It's fun and addictive and I really like how it played. The only issue I had with gameplay was at times I could just go forward for a while without changing which way I'm going. One glitch I encountered was when I died the blocks of the ground on the menu sometimes showed. That didn't affect my score however, it was a really fun game.
I like the simplicity, it's very stylish :) I was not able to last long even on easy though, it felt impossible to move away from obstacles fast enough -- but that's probably just me haha. I think I might enjoy playing a version where I do have the speed to avoid obstacles, it's more a matter of steering and harnessing the speed. Again, not sure if this is the case for others. Nice game overall :)
@enya454, @shade2810 and @ovilia thank you guys for your review! I have to read the rules again, maybe i can upload a game with performance upgrades and bugfixes.
@judy-kim thank's for your review! I can relate, i've built in the difficulty configuration right before the deadline and therefore time was running out to balance it more. I was able to finish the game on easy till apokalpyse (after a couple of tries :smile:). One idea i have is to speed up the car on easy, so one is able to escape from a dangerous ground plate faster. At the moment the difficulty setting controls how fast the next ground plate is getting destroyed.
what do cacti have that i don't? :(
cool entry, I almost finished it but always reached the wrong side of the house. Key seems to be to drive diagonally as long as possible
Very good game. It is funny to play. It took me at least 10 tries to complete. For me the steering of the car could be a bit sharper. Also the plants don't realy react with the environment what some times looked weird. They don't get destroyed when the floor is broken and also some of them spawned in the place of the safe house.
I also used Godot this jam and was very impressed whats possible (new to game development). Bookmarked your game to showcase whats possible if some friends ask
Cool game! really gets your adrenaline pumping!!!!
Fantastic idea and really solid execution. You've done some good optimisation to get all those sprites to run well on HTML5. It's a shame that HTML5 makes the audio pop so much, I believe that can be helped by increasing the audio latency. Overall it's a very well made and fun game! I used Godot too and it's great to see what can be accomplished in the engine. I just wish you could destroy the cacti when you drive through them :grin:
Extremely difficult getting into the safe thingy. The brake seems to be of no use? :P Otherwise pretty cool
Stylish and pretty hard. Idea is great. I kind of wish the cacti blocked your path.
This is really good! The visual aspects of the game are really good, love the art style and the overall feeling of this entry. Gameplay-wise it's kind of hard at first. I decided to give it a few tries on normal before switching to easy, which was also not really easy haha :laughing:.
I realised that instead of driving as fast as possible, it's better to carefully drive between the lava pits and wait a lil bit before proceeding, because when you see the ground getting dark below you, it's already too late :smile: I feel like the rotating speed could be increased a little, because right now it's really hard to maneuver between the obstacles. Apart from those issues, the game is really good and fun to play! A really solid entry :tada:
This is really pretty and it has good audio too.
Very good game, I liked a lot the car controls, the difficulty seems to be well measured, but at the beginning it is difficult to see what you need to do (follow the little arrow) and you get a little lost picking up coins, but once you get into the rhythm you understand what you have to do.
My game is also made in Godot, it's the first time I use it for the Ludum coming from Unity, very cool to discover that so many people are using it now! :D
The driving mechanics are pretty smooth, and the graphics are cool!
Some suggestions would be to maybe make the ground collapse a bit further away from the player, as it is possible now to drive diagonally and not really need to worry about losing.
Good job!
This game is absolutely insane I kinda love it - this is like fear and loathing in las vegas but with drifting. Awesome.
@substain, @devundead, @catalina-luca, @connor-magson, @jepjoh2, @agameortwo and @deav i really appreciate your reviews! Will see when i have the time to play and rate your games!
@devundead @connor-magson and @agameortwo about the cacti, i've tried using obstacles that blocks your path, but then it was just too hard. What would work, in my opinion, is to run the cacti over but they slow you down. I've just could not make that in time... Thank's for your ideas!
@totteriludu, @ccglp and @mords thank you for your reviews! @totteriludum yeah i've noticed this as well. You can exploit it with this behavior. I think it's because i am randomize only 90 degreeish angle (0, 90, 180, ...) and therefore never in the diagonal from the player's tile... If you guys really dig this game, i think i can do some more work to polish it even more. I am very glad that you guys like this game that much so far!
@marin0104 yes, I think that it would be solved if the divisions were randomized diagonally.
Just an idea of mine: I think that this game could perhaps be a good mobile game, if acceleration was constant and steering was done by tapping the edges of the screen. Maybe one could brake by steering left and right at the same time?
Really liked the concept, however I found the difficulty was too hard (even on easy). The sprite stacking is well executed and looks quite nice. Keep up the good work!
@totteriludum nice idea... If the player presses both thumbs on the display to break, how to steer to drift away from the abyss? I tried to implement a handbreak, but it didn't work out in time that i was satisfied with how it worked. I think to get it onto mobile, i have to optimize the performance by a lot :smile:
Great entry! The title screen is really imaginative!
This rocks! Great mood, really tense with the music and chaos around - you can really imagine yourself in the driver's seat. Died plenty of times, but normal difficulty seemed perfect for me. Never heard of sprite stacking before either, it looks cool.
Really liked this idea, fun gameplay but gets hard very quickly!
Your game is so so hard, even on easy settings. And i think this will be problem on my game also. Mood of the game is very good and it is fitting. Thememaster, thats you are, fit into the theme. Not too horiblle art but next time try invest time more into art. Your audio is not good, maybe next time skip it. Your game is pretty fun, so please make it more next time. Original game mechanics, I like your inovations. Overall I think this game is good, and I think, next time you will create as good game as this is, or maybe better, so good job.
One last note: I always write down honest review, because everybody need that, not just nice craps with some bullshit, but sometime I will aperceite very good games. So if this review insult you, but use it well :) Anyway every game is counting so :)
I rage quit it in 9th best attempts, I almost made it :(
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Great mechanic, art and sound. Gameplay feels great but a bit too difficult, even on easy. Maybe moving the camera away from the player would make it easier, but I like how it makes the game more chaoitc. Great game!
It's difficult haha! even on easy, I might just be bad though haha. The sprite stacking you did is really effective and has created a really nice visual style. The effects of the earthquake also looked really really good. The audio was on point too!
really good entry 😁 good job!
@chesschaser, @svemir, @louiejams and @hadik thank for your reviews!
@hadik don't worry, i am thankful for honest reviews with constructive criticism. I've spend a lot of more time than i have thought on how to draw thousands of sprites performantly and within the right perspective :smile: I need to find ways how to produce my own game assets like gfx and sfx faster and at a consistent level of quality. I depend too much on other's assets. This time i tried to model everything with MagicaVoxel and generate the sprites from them. That worked quite well, but i am too slow to produce nice models at the moment :sweat_smile: I need a better workflow for sfx, maybe someone has some tipps for me. But i think the more i try the better i will get. Will have a look onto your game next!
for me easy was easy :) just followed the arrow at did it. tried apocalypse and it is fun and challenging. you di a good job with this ! i recently saw a video where the guy explained sprite stacking in godot. i think we will see it more often now. good job !
I wish car didn't just blow up on colliding with lava pits, but fall into it.
Very appealing visual style!
Nice job! very hard!
I like how the text for your speed rotates based off your turning, gives you even more feedback on what your car is doing. Fun Game!
Love the style. cool drifting experience but it's too difficult for my taste. :thumbsup:
Really like the 3D scene and 2D sprite style.
Liked the way it looked and played. Might be inclined to tone down the car sound a little to let the music be a bit more prominent. But good game all round.
Awesome work! I had a lot of fun. I love the feeling of everything and the Title screen is great! I just wanted two entrances to the garage lol :laughing:
Really good vibe! A little more logic around things like coin placement and the patterns things crumble in could really polish things out and make it super fun as you get into the "flow" of things while heading towards the garage. Great work! Things look great too btw :thumbsup:
Nice art style, i loved the menu, its very original! I think more environmental assets would be nice :). Also perhaps trails that show were you've driven.
Neat entry! The rendering and game feel are cool, really enjoyed playing it :) Only small bug that annoyed me was the sound bug while transitionning from your starting scene to the actual game, as I failed a lot and fast on the first tries ^^ Might be nice to hotfix ;)
Thanks a lot for the game, I had fun!
the audio sometimes gives problems and it's a shame for the lava that doesn't inspire me. I like the fact that it is "simple". great job, just a jam game :)
I'm surprised that exit works =))
Very nice game! Only one thing though, every time you die you have to drive to the right again.
@truedat, @vlandemart, @dan-colman, @bernard-bumblebutt, @thunderkerrigan, @astropower, @njs, @tyler-law, @timur-bahadir, @ekilibr, @giulychu, @st00nsa and @sillyman987: Thank you very much for your feedback! First time for me, to receive so many reviews. I am going to review your games as well tomorrow.
@truedat yeah i have got into that topic in june, during developing my own, bigger game. There are some really great implementations with lighting, just gorgeous. But sprite stacking fit not the gameplay and art style in the end i want to accomplish. Since then i wanted to implement it into a different game...
@tyler-law: The props are generated by a noise texture. I've added the coins to emphasize the player to take detours from the direct way to the safe house.
@ekilibr: I think it's because i am generating a lava noise texture and two other bigger noise textures. It seems like this takes some time. If one of my next games need to load longer, i'll add a loading screen and make sure that all sounds are stopped before :smile:
Really fun game! Liked visual style, smooth controls and car physics
On my first play, I definitely laughed out loud when I died in 1 second.
The concept is really good and the hecticness reminds me of Pako Car Chase Simulator. Unfortunately the balance is a bit too hard. I'm not convinced anyone here actually beat the game without using the diagonal trick.
Aside from that, everything works well together. The constant explosion sounds, the floors giving way, the intimidating lava everywhere. The scariest feeling is when you miss your shot at the Safe House, and while you're trying to go to the other entrance, the floor keeps giving out and eventually you're totally blocked.
Cool game and it sounds like you have some really neat tech in there to get it all to work.
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Love the art style! Music is really fitting to the atmosphere as well - the only issue I experienced was with audio clipping, I wonder if it's not present in other browsers (I use Firefox).
I personally found it a bit too hard even on easy, but it might just be me. Awesome way to exit the game as well, haven't seen that before!
When I finally made it to the safe house, both the entrances had their path vanished xD
I really liked the challenge tho. Great game :)
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Pretty cool game! I enjoyed the visuals. The concept is really nice, and well executed upon. The hardest part of the game, for me, was getting into the safe zone, because I usually didn't have the correct angle when I got there, and it happened to me a good few times that just all the tiles leading into the safe zone were destroyed, which feels pretty bad. Also, the steering didn't feel like it was reactive enough to espace the crumbling floor tiles when you were running parallel to them and they appeared just beneath your wheels, so running diagonally is kind of mandatory I believe. Anyhow, good job, this was pretty fun and polished! Great entry!
Wow this was hard! But it was a fun moment when I first started driving and the stage started collapsing and I was like "wooooooooah" and knew I was screwed lol. I really appreciated your discussion on how you used sprite stacking. Very interesting and I think it worked well to make a really neat game! Great job!
Phew, I made it to safety!
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A nice game, it has very nice graphics! Only thing I can think of is that the turning speed could be a bit quicker, and that the tiles around the safe zone could be protected from breaking, since otherwise there is a risk of the entrances being exploded making it impossible to win.
Great job!
(On first play dies in less than a second) Ah, so that's how it's going to be. Eventually I managed to survive for 30-40 seconds on normal difficulty. It is kind of unfair how sometimes the earth opens almost right below you and one can't do anything about it (I think). Well few times I managed to hand-break in time, but that never left me in a good position. But gameplay kind of falls into background here, outshined by what a cool and unique graphical experience you made. Graphically and atmospherically this is an achievement, good job.
Nice game, the visual style is nice and it's fun to control.
Nice visuals, really creative approach to the graphics. Feels good to steer the car and it's a lot of fun trying to avoid all the holes opening up. I do wish I had a little more time to react to some of the holes but that's a minor complaint. Good work.
Wow, nice game. I really enjoy the sound effects! The graphics are also very well done but simple
@gastar, @peachtreeoath, @bakuchi, @fersyvanderzee, @fae-pdf, @pixelydian, @jefvel, @kr4ft3r, @hotowlgirls, @polymathld and @preda: wow, so many reviews in the last hours - thank you very much! I really like that you guys posted some screenshots!
@peachtreeoath i think i have to check the Pako Car Chase Simulator out, thank's for the tip!
@bakuchi: No it's not the firefox's fault, it's mine (i've explained it in my last comment above, it's about generating assets for the next scene, but i've forgot to stop the sound before the transition to the next scene).
@fae-pdf: I can totally relate to your comment, i think i have to upload a Post JAM version that is tweaking the balance this week...
@kr4ft3r thank your for your kind words about the graphics! I would never have thought that this type of art is that fun to produce and enjoyable for you guys.
Like it, the only problem I've spotted is the sound which is stopped with some crazy noise on level loading (and I loaded it a lot!)
Fun game, but hard to control and quite difficult. But I love what you were able to accomplish in Godot in that short time. Good job!
Хорошо, что есть места, куда можно спрятаться при землетрясении. Все вокруг рушится, а ты сидишь себе в гараже, и в ус не дуешь. Красота!
Спасибо за игру! ^_^
Wow! hard game. But I think it is polished and playable, well done! Maybe speed of the car could be higher o maybe game would be more chaotic.
I had a fair bit of lag spikes, not sure if that was just on my end though.
I liked the game and it gave me some 2012 movie vibes. I would have liked to be able to drive a bit faster, I mean if the ground around me was dropping down and I'd see lava down there, I'd drive over 67km/h! :smile:
I think being able drift around would have also made the gameplay more engaging, but with break essentially being reverse, that was impossible.
Excellent game! Stylish and well put-together.
I love retro aesthetic, graphic and mood are great here. I like how the car is handling but i wish it could have more slide. Good job! :star::star::star::star::star:
Whoa this was pretty intense. It took me a few restarts to get the hang of it, but once I did. I enjoyed balancing grabbing coins with staying alive. The music and sfx are great and add so much to the mood/experience. Kudos for using Godot and making a neat game with it.
Nice game! Good Job :)
wow, I liked it, it's really cool to drive. Very funny.
Really cute car and the graphics overall are very nice. Altho cute, the car is also quite slow and thus the earthquake spawning in front of me felt a bit unfair at times. Didn't manage to escape but then again I was maybe a bit too focused on collecting the coins and enjoying avoiding the earthquake!
Fun game. Kind of addictive, as it seems really easy but its not :P Nice work!
Wish there was some sort of second chance, like a 'boost' button or a jump button, or some effect that shows where the floor will fall! If a lava spot spawns in front of me, there's no way to avoid it, even if i hit the brakes! Other than that, quite fun to drive around and attempt to run for my life!