Escape

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.33
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.28
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.17
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.64
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.19
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.19
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.00
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.65
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★68%
(New Linux version now contains 32- and 64-bit binaries. You'll need some form of OpenGL installed but other than that it should be self-contained. Hopefully :)

Drive your vehicle with the mouse (right-click to reverse) to collect materials to fuel the rocket to escape the marauding red gloop of doom that is gradually shrinking your world.

Click a resource icon when close enough to harvest it. Your vehicle can carry up to three at once.

Resources still to collect are shown at top-left.

By Chris Russell (@chrismcr) and Pete Brisbourne (@temmytemjin)

Comments23

refreshcreations24 Apr 2012, 20:09
Ohhh, a slightly more sinister entry! Made me feel like I was stuck in a B-Movie with the approaching wall of death! Think I lost something in the readme though as it didn't seem to harvest anything i drove over although that oculd just be me. Good effort, nice to see something a bit dark :D
TheGamingProject24 Apr 2012, 22:41
That was very interesting, I liked the shrinking mechanic. Fun game play, good work.
FredericRP
FredericRP25 Apr 2012, 12:42
Can you provide it for Mac ?
free_napalm25 Apr 2012, 13:29
Game was quite good, challenging even. Of all games I have played yet, this has the best mood. In its darkness and depression it nearly matches the final minutes of Tetris :P
Topaz25 Apr 2012, 13:34
I like it :P
Good work!
jwolf25 Apr 2012, 19:12
The game's pretty fun, and I really like the feel / mood to it. The only thing I'd strongly recommend is to make the game window re-sizable, if you do anything further with it or make another entry in the future. Assuming that's possible / easy with the engine you used. It didn't interfere with game play, but bits of the screen went out on my end.
jeroenimooo
jeroenimooo25 Apr 2012, 20:26
Awesome idea! i ost first two couple of times D:
moop
moop25 Apr 2012, 20:37
Fun if somewhat short. Clever concept.
chrismcrauthor25 Apr 2012, 23:28
Thanks all. @jwolf - that's a good idea, I hadn't realised until tonight that the window is slightly taller than my laptop screen.. annoying!
rynti26 Apr 2012, 12:21
Cool game! Did however get stuck at the base and it took a while until I figured out you're able to drive backwards ;) Graphics could be improved, audio on the other hand totally fit the atmosphere =) Good work!
Jiddo26 Apr 2012, 21:20
Wow, what was actually a really good, but short, game. Reminded me of a game I used to play a while back. The game works flawlessly on Linux under Wine.
FredericRP
FredericRP27 Apr 2012, 07:07
Pretty good game, I would have chosen the arrows instead of the mouse to drive the harvester, but that would have been too easy, right ? Interesting way to limit the world.
scoopsy
scoopsy28 Apr 2012, 20:20
Would have loved arrow keys to drive instead of mouse, but otherwise solid!
someone
someone28 Apr 2012, 21:25
Didn't get the Linux version to work, but the windows version worked in Wine. The speed was broken though, the car moved impossibly fast unless you held the mouse really close to it, and also the time bars when mining disappeared long before the mineral was extracted, leading to a lot of confusion.
I would suggest moving to cancel, rather than clicking on the item.
Also crashing into stuff was not obviously a bad thing.
Cyboot
Cyboot28 Apr 2012, 21:35
fun game!
mouse instead of arrowkeys a little strange, but you get used to it.
good graphics, nice world, theme fits

A good job!
skyboy49707
skyboy4970728 Apr 2012, 22:09
Really nice! It took me a while to figure it out, but once I did it was really fun.
thegreystudios
thegreystudios29 Apr 2012, 14:04
Cool atmosphere, really enjoyed the music and sfx. Worked well together in creating a dark vibe.

Controls felt a bit tedious though, got stuck a few times which doesn't help in a game where time is essential ;)

But the game had me captivated for a few minutes. Well done! :)
vigrid30 Apr 2012, 22:28
Fun little game - would be great for touch controls - tablets, phones, and the like.
Martin Vilcans3 May 2012, 18:24
Can't run it on Linux:

./escape: error while loading shared libraries: libGLEW.so.1.6: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

Probably because it's a 32 bit binary.
chrismcrauthor6 May 2012, 17:44
@Martin Vilcans - I've uploaded a new archive for Linux which contains two statically-linked binaries for 32- and 64-bit - give it a go if you get chance please!
Super Soul7 May 2012, 20:37
Nice audio. The game had a disturbing feel to it. Liked the intro screen. Nice work.
gregdevice9 May 2012, 05:47
Good work on the sound! Controlling the rover is tricky at times but the gameplay is challenging and fun overall.

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