COMPATIBILITY NOTICE: The window size of the game is locked at 1600x1000 if your screen is smaller than that, you can not play. I'm sorry for those who won't be able to play but I started expecting java to allow easy picture scaling, but it doesn't.
AUDIO NOTICE: I couldn't get audio to export properly so I included the music files in the zip, I'm sorry for that too :(
This game is a game that's a hybrid of hedgehog launch and/or burrito bison + topspeed dragster; you have 10 seconds of acceleration(Or gas I guess) and after every run you get money to upgrade your car.
I enjoyed it, but I don't know if I'd call it fun. It really isn't that hard, and you'll always get enough money for an upgrade. There is also a lot of time when I'm really not doing anything. I liked the little dials, and the radar upgrade. There was also a good sense of speed after about 7 upgrades across the board.
The game was pretty fun. I found my self playing it over and over :-) In the beginning, it is a bit hard to understand that you need to press "up" (W) to go "right", but after I got that, the game plays very smoothly.
I would suggest that you add some sort of "in-game" gauge of how far the player has gone. It really motivates in this launcher games to have some measure of progress, like a "last record" flag.
Also, sound effects, please! :-)
Thanks for the game, and congrats on a nice 1st LD.
It make me kind of sad that 90% or so of the memoryusage in this game is 3 music files that are not used. With the radarupgrade you get a bit of gameplay also.
However when I had the radar I only looked at the bottom right part of the screen wasting much of the graphic and feel. I believe it should be changed to simply zoom out instead to get the most out of the resources in the game.
Thanks for the advice krag; I also noticed that while playing, but by the time I could even worry about it, it was already submission time :( I probably should have included only 1 music file, or had a separate download for it.
The upgrade screen was atrocious, sorry... But the rest of the game was quite good looking! That kind of game is always addictive and you managed to make it fun. I love the speed near the max upgrades, wow, that's fast haha!
Thanks haha, yeah I really wanted to make the upgrade screen nicer but still make it keyboard only, but I couldn't come up with anything that would look much better that would still be keyboard only.
Quite fun, Good Variation in obstacles and stuff you have to keep an eye out to be able to get all the way to the end distance. Played until end as well :)
My only gripe is the upgrade screen. My eyes. They bleed eternally. Tone down the neo :D
Yeah I shouldn't have included all 3 music tracks in it, and the window size was an issue I thought I could solve easily but Java doesn't have image manipulation integrated already.
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Is that car modeled after a Honda NSX?
I would suggest that you add some sort of "in-game" gauge of how far the player has gone. It really motivates in this launcher games to have some measure of progress, like a "last record" flag.
Also, sound effects, please! :-)
Thanks for the game, and congrats on a nice 1st LD.
However when I had the radar I only looked at the bottom right part of the screen wasting much of the graphic and feel. I believe it should be changed to simply zoom out instead to get the most out of the resources in the game.
Good Variation in obstacles and stuff you have to keep an eye out to be able to get all the way to the end distance.
Played until end as well :)
My only gripe is the upgrade screen. My eyes. They bleed eternally. Tone down the neo :D
I like the font for the menus, though.