Flashlight Runner

by thevtm
Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.68
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.67
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.79
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.83
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.53
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.29
Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.13
Community★★★★★★★★★★2.13
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★5%
This is my first LD entry.

A harcore runner, the objective is to run as far as you can.

Controls: Mouse

Comments13

JohanAR22 Aug 2011, 16:57
32 seconds.. I think the first jump is the most difficult one
thevtmauthor22 Aug 2011, 18:33
82 secs... A friend made 120.
tnelsond23 Aug 2011, 17:09
46 seconds, and I concur with JohanAR about the first jump.
barabat23 Aug 2011, 21:54
How long do you have to run to escape?
thevtmauthor23 Aug 2011, 21:57
80 years!
matthias_zarzecki24 Aug 2011, 07:02
Neat. especially the evilness of not actually seeing the ground :-)
johnfn
johnfn25 Aug 2011, 06:17
I missed the first jump like 20 times in a row, then got 50 seconds. Hehe. The "see all past players" was cool, but since they weren't distinct from me, they started to really confuse me and I had to restart.
Andrew26 Aug 2011, 19:46
43 seconds. I don't have much to add that hasn't been said already, maybe a yellow tint to the current flash light to differentiate the player from the previous shadows.
Deraj27 Aug 2011, 02:34
Pretty simple and fun concept. I'll echo other comments and say that the difficulty progression was backwards (the first jump was the hardest) and that seeing my previous runs though made it so confusing I had to reload the page.

Very clever, regardless.
Daniel X. Moore27 Aug 2011, 05:39
The view from previous runs is cool, but after a bunch get stacked it can get confusing. I like the simple mechanic.
localcoder
localcoder1 Sep 2011, 10:29
The darkness is an interesting twist - being unable to see the platform you are jumping off makes this much more stressful than a standard one-button jumping game.

It's fun going for a run with your past self.
PaulSB
PaulSB1 Sep 2011, 13:03
Nice mechanic, does make for a tense take on what would otherwise be a predictable game. Not sure it really says "escape" to me.
summaky
summaky10 Sep 2011, 15:16
At first I didn't know what to do. Then I just got to 42 seconds...
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