It's the Minimal Race! You move up and down with the arrows(the up and down) and can boost with Space, that's all!. Collect fuels to increase your speed , but don't touch the woods! * Tap space to start. This game was built using XNA, which may require installing the "XNA redist" http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20914 .
The core game play is pretty minimalistic indeed, but in games like this which has as vital as fuel appearing randomly on the map needs regulation. It quickly becomes a game where you fare better if the fuel cans happen to spawn for you, without little input from player skill. Still it's a nice and simple game without any other problems with it.
Hey cool race! I found it a little picky as to what constitutes a "pickup". Also not sure if you can keep going necessarily, even if you get them all -- are you guaranteed enough fuel? But it was fun. Nice job!
I'm going to agree with Destroyer40k - fuel needs to be a little more guaranteed. In addition, I'm not sure what purpose the 'boost' mechanic serves. All I saw it do was make my fuel go down faster.
bowlercaptain- the boost makes you go faster-sorry if it doesn't seems to. Also- I'd made it like so it won't matter if you boost or not(becauese the ratio between the fuel and the speed is quite the same)- and that is my bad. Learning for next time - and thank you for the review.
The collision detection seems pretty wonky, and I felt like I was losing because gas cans didn't spawn, not because of lack of skill. I couldn't get the boost mechanic to work either.
Really, a game like this depends entirely on the feel of the driving. If you get a chance to play Micro Machines, do it. That has the best driving feel of any top-down racer that I've ever played. It's about not always being in control, but being able to feel when you are going to lose grip and get it back.
I realize that I am maybe putting too much thought into this.
Try to get some art experience, and not make the graphics in MS Paint next go round. Be glad you finished a game, as that's more than can be said for a lot of people.
I found it a bit difficult to know exactly where I should put the car to collide with the fuel cans and dodge the logs. It seems that it was the wheels, but it would be better to make the collision boxes more obvious!
Hey pretty cool race! I agree that the collision could be better so you'd get boost/fuel whenever you should and perhaps give more racing area than background, to increase the challenge. Good job for getting a working easy-to-read game in :)
A good effort that could perhaps be seen as a minimalist deconstruction of endless runners popular on mobile platforms. You can dodge and collect and you always lose! In need of a bit more player influence in the game to make it more involved though. I liked the little guy in the car!
Still it's a nice and simple game without any other problems with it.