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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 47 | Stuck in a loop | Loop Drifter | jam | 850 | 3.45 | 3.37 | 2.32 | 3.19 | 3.34 | 2.75 | 2.81 |
That was a hell of a ride! This is a very interesting game that perfectly fits the theme, is interesting, humorous , and is very innovative. Unfortunately after a while it just stopped working. Nothing clicked and no more messages arrived. Dunno if this was intentional but in any case - Keep it up man!
The style is super awesome! It's so casual yet looks so cool. The fact that the sound effects are all human made makes it like one of those doom 1 mods but just in a very laid back way. It all fits together super nicely and I honestly loved it!
Super interesting game man! Loved playing it! Fits into the theme but I thought that it would fit even better in the last GMTK jam. I think the theme was "out of control" and that just perfectly describes the game.
The only problem I encountered was that sometimes one train would head directly after another. In that case you can't separate them cause you can't click the junction while one train is over it. In this case you will just have to avoid the front trains cargo for the rest of the game. trains.png
What I thought of while playing was that maybe you could switch the junction while one train is over, for it to switch when there is an empty space.
Anyways, great game that I loved playing!
A nice little game with cool hand drawn graphics. The humor is kinda nice, The 2020 touch was cool. The sound effects are pretty cool too. The knight saying its but a scratch while dying was funny. Although the gameplay does get a bit repetitive after a while. Fits the theme pretty well.
Super cool idea with the loop of the level tho it would be better if there was some kind of hint for it. Cubes that stayed were a cool mechanic. Level design is awesome once you get how the game works. Overall great game!
@spider-the-second Oh god you noticed. While making the level I noticed that same thing but decided it was just me looking from top view. When playing I found it too distracting and tried changing it but it just kept looking the same way. Just decided to leave it there thinking no one would notice. I was clearly wrong. Thanks for the feedback btw!You wouldn't believe it but THIS was the original designorig .png
@feiko Thanks man! Yep I actually had an idea about customization but ended up not doing it cause I had no time (fun fact: I submitted the game 10 seconds before the jam ended). I'll probably add it in just for fun later. Thanks for the feedback!
@feesh Thanks! I actully spent quite a while getting the controls just right. Probably like 5 hours at the start. But it seems it was worth it! Thanks for the feedback!
@nikolaj Thanks dude! Thinking about it now I should probably have added a difficulty setting.
@potatopancakes Thanks for the feedback! Btw do you think this would work as a mobile game release if I worked more on it?
@kingofnova Thanks for the feedback man! About the question you asked:
First of all the car has different friction on different sides so Unity Rigidbody 2D friction is going out the window. I decided to create my own friction for the car. It took in the local car velocity on the x and y axis and subtracted a value from them proportional to the axis velocity.
After that I did the forward and backward motion. That one was pretty simple. I just accelerated the car by some number. It wouldn't accelerate forever as the number was constant and the friction grew in proportion to the velocity. This way the car would slowly stop accelerating when coming close to some speed(just like in real life). I just messed with the acceleration until it looked right.
The next thing was turning. What I decided to do was define a maximum angular velocity which would scale with your velocity. Of course it couldn't just scale with the velocity magnitude. That would let the car turn while moving sideways. What I ended up doing is multiplying the local speed vector by two variables. One would control how fast the car would turn depending on how fast it is travelling on the local x-axis and the other to do the same for the y-axis. I would then get the magnitude of that vector and use that to scale the maximum angular velocity.
Then to reach that maximum velocity I simply accelerated towards it using an acceleration variable which would scale using the same magnitude I used to scale the maximum velocity.
For the friction on the angular velocity I used the unity standard Rigidbody 2D angular friction.
Anyway, not the most elegant solution but it works. I've noticed some issues like how the sideways velocity should slowly transition into forward velocity if you're at an angle. Will implement that into the friction when I have time.
@jordanfb Thanks for the feedback man! Yeah the drifting turned out pretty good. I like it myself quite a lot! The game is too punishing tbh so I should probably decrease the slowdown timer on collision. Thanks for informing me about that last level error. I thought about it and it seems that this is caused by the continue button loading the next scene that doesn't exist yet. I should probably redirect to the menu in that case.
@mat-stevenson That's an awesome idea! Could really incourage players to drift and go as fast as possible. And it's super easy to implement! Thanks!
@wujood Thanks for the feedback!
@bradyg Thanks man! I don't really play racing games either but I just felt like making a racing game for this jam. After some time the game does become easier but you're right, it does require some difficulty settings.
@dampfwaltze Thanks! I actually used a capsule collider on the car) I might have made it a little too wide tho.
@jojopalambas Thanks for the feedback! You're right the theme is kind of a stretch but I just couldn't think of anything else))
@pkenney Thanks for the feedback! Yeah the collisions do feel quite too punishing but I'm now thinking I could solve that with a difficulty setting. I also really increased the friction on the car to make collisions juicier but it might have been too much.
@geist Dunno man the turning feels pretty allright to me. I could probably add that as a setting tho. Anyways, thanks for the feedback!
@hoolop Thanks for the feedback!
@vcasadei Yeah music would fit super nicely into the game bu I just didn't have time to add any. Thanks for the feedback!