Snowy-Drive

dhim 2022-10-03 09:23

Nice first Entry! You've got a game with a score and a high score (which I tend to forget). I went until 147 but got bored because it does not seem to increase in difficulty across time.

I find the concept of seeing less and less nice, it would be even better if the trail were above the new elements ( e.g. draw a black trail on a white image and use it as a mask to know if you should write the pixel ). You could then clean this mask with the wipe or even have it drips.

mdotedot 2022-10-03 11:03

Well done on your first entry. Took me a little to figure out that I could move past the trailing effect. And the snowflakes aren't harmfull. But I enjoyed the itch version. embed didn't work for me

grilladroid 2022-10-03 11:15

Very nice little game! :thumbsup: Difficulty increasing over time would make it playable for longer.

bridgeonastick 2022-10-03 21:12

Fun to play, although lacking a bit in ramping up the difficulty.

zykino 2022-10-03 22:10

Yeah I wanted to ramp up the difficulty by having the whip blade come less and less often. I should have made snowflakes and obstacles more often with time. The idea came too late :sweat_smile:

pianoman373 2022-10-04 04:45

I really like this take on the theme! Really neat seeing the concept of windshield visibility applied to 2D. Also I was able to embed my PICO-8 game fine on the Ludum Dare website so I don't think it should have any issues with blacklisted calls. You may have put your html file inside a folder inside the zip which would keep the site from finding it. The html file needs to be at the root of the zip file and not inside a nested folder.

bloodbane 2022-10-04 07:51

The embedded version here doesn't work, fortunately the one in itch.io works so I played there. The idea is good and I can understand what to do, too bad I'm not so sure on what caused my crash.

jimbly 2022-10-04 16:41

Neat game, simple concept, I like turning "I forgot to clear the back buffer" into a game mechanic ^_^. I got to 256 before I decided I was never going to find my way home (got bored). It would have been nice if the difficulty ramped up. I like the feeling of relief when the wiper finally wipes =).

zykino 2022-10-04 22:20

@jimbly Yes I forgot to ramp up the difficulty :sweat_smile:. And now post jam I have a lot of ideas but I will wait for after the votes are closed.

I was going for some kind of "relief every 10secs" end when I saw the `cls()` function in PICO-8 I knew what it was.

jag 2022-10-07 03:04

Very nice and simple idea for a game! Short and sweet. I will admit I didn't read the description and jumped straight into the game and first and my first thought was "woah cool and trippy graphics", I dodged cars and wondered what was going on for a bit. Eventually I hit a car and read the description and I had an "oohhhhh" moment when you said you're driving through the snow and those snowflakes are snow building up on your windshield. Great jam entry!

alexander-epton 2022-10-08 01:05

this was really enjoyable. simple but enjoyable. the graphics were really delightful

zwodahs 2022-10-09 05:42

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Congrats on the first submission :)

I really like the effect of the wipe. Initially I thought it was a bug. I like how you turn the programming feature of a platform into an actual game feature :). I wish the difficulty ramp up a bit more towards the end. I got bored so I decided to end it.

Thanks for the game.

loveapplegames 2022-10-09 07:52

The screen wipe is an original idea and graphically effective, congrats on that. Pity the game is not really challenging.

automatonvx 2022-10-12 14:37

I think it may be impossible to make a game in pico 8 that I don't kind of like, I just love the aesthetic. simple gameplay concept but kind of charming and fun and a nice take on the theme. I was confused that my car couldn't go up or down just left/right and also it took me a while to realize i can go through the flakes. On the downside I feel like the difficulty is a bit low and it needs to ramp up a bit, just increase speed a little every 10s would do it. Next time please add some sweet pico 8 chip tune soundtrack :). Welcome to the strangely addictive world of game jams, definitely a good start.

vetche-studio 2022-10-17 14:08

Cool concept! One of the more creative games I have been playing this year :D

stingby12 2022-10-17 18:47

This is a really creative interpretation. It could be made for a more better game than this. An endless runner it's not really the best genre for that.