Buy your own Freedom

by voider
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.15
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.53
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.30
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.72
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.93
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.76
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.03
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★85%
Controls:
up/down or W/S for movement
spacebar (or click on gold) to collect your gold

Tools used:
Framework: Phaser
Art: Photoshop
Text Editor: Sublime Text 2
Sounds: bfxr.
Music: synth music by the big Diego Belay (korg ms-20 + Cubase)

Known bugs:
When returning with the gold, some tiles could not render properly.
It might slow down as game progresses

We only tested in chrome.

Post-jam version [workers' day edition]:
http://psychonull.github.io/ld29-game/post-compo/
(fixes the problem with tiles not rendering correctly; better performance).

Comments32

pancakecity
pancakecity29 Apr 2014, 00:54
It takes a while to buy freedom! This is a neat game, I like the varied style of play!
diego_belay29 Apr 2014, 01:53
I love it!
Crawler Studios29 Apr 2014, 21:51
Really good pixel art, and awesome 8-bit music. Its a lot of fun going back and forth to collect gold, but very hard to get it all back to the mine. Nice job though!
eerongal
eerongal29 Apr 2014, 21:51
Neat game! However, i noticed a couple of times it set up spots on the track where it was literally impossible to dodge successfully, and I just had to take the hit.
wicht
wicht29 Apr 2014, 21:52
Nice one. I had fun :)
Nkracer29 Apr 2014, 21:53
Pretty fun, yet very hard!
mihaivdev29 Apr 2014, 21:54
Nice one. Innovative and fun. And I can't complain that freedom is so hard to buy, that's how real life is too :)
But honestly, you should make it somewhat easier.
Keep it up!
Vytheros
Vytheros29 Apr 2014, 21:55
Takes a while for freedom, but the concept is fun and very enjoyable. the hit detection is slight off your some objects like the rocks and the broken track as I get past by quite a bit but still lose money.
elefantopia
elefantopia30 Apr 2014, 04:34
This game was a lot of fun! Fast-paced and energetic (especially clicking for gold). Great work!
Xeke_Death30 Apr 2014, 08:47
The tile rendering bug is a game killer, I just gave up and let the cart run as I didn't know what was safe and what wasn't...

Without that, though, it was pretty fun...
ThingoStudios2 May 2014, 02:02
This is the "12 Years a Slave" of video games.

God bless you.
Rabbits...
Rabbits...2 May 2014, 02:07
There were some missing tiles that made things confusing, but the graphics were wonderful
kasarun
kasarun2 May 2014, 07:49
Nice game, loved the old retro synthe audio :)
DanEEStar2 May 2014, 12:02
Great graphics! I like the game.
There were some strange graphic errors when I was going back the longer the game run.
end3r
end3r3 May 2014, 14:44
Really enjoyed playing it, cool gfx and overall feeling.
Cash3 May 2014, 17:51
Cool game but the perfomance on my PC(always around 15 fps) made it a little worse for me
Maschinen-Mensch3 May 2014, 17:56
Gameplay a bit repetitive, but I liked the message. Grats on the game!
Rikkter Games3 May 2014, 18:15
Pretty fun for what it is! Though the generation of the levels need some tweaking considering there are points where I would have to hit something because all four tracks are blocked by something on the same spot.
Gap
Gap6 May 2014, 15:08
Sweet <3
Nezzhil6 May 2014, 15:25
Nice and fun game, with good music, maybe too much money to end it, may become repetitive.
copain
copain7 May 2014, 03:07
nice nervous game.
but so hard! Is it a verification that make there is always a way possible?
lowcade
lowcade7 May 2014, 03:13
Simple and nice.
Easy to play and really fun.
Maybe some upgrades made this game better.
psychonullauthor7 May 2014, 03:29
@copain there is no validation on the level generation to make always a perfect path. We finally decided to not include that feature since we were running out of time.
However I ended finding somewhat nice to have no alternatives to taking the hit / trying to collide as little as possible.

Thanks everybody for the feedback, for now the post-compo version only includes performance fixes, but we're hoping to include gameplay fixes soon.
jujule7 May 2014, 21:09
Good concept. I really liked it. I felt that the difficulty mostly comes from the obstacles hitbox being to big. I'd like to see that corrected in a post-compo version.
matt_j8 May 2014, 21:18
I was having trouble dodging, haha, so it was pretty difficult.
jacklehamster
jacklehamster8 May 2014, 22:27
Nice fast paced game with simple controls. It'd be interesting as a multiplayer game.
gwa
gwa9 May 2014, 07:39
Nice Hard Game I would have needet houers to get our :)
alwaysinbeta9 May 2014, 16:25
Really good game. I thought the gfx and audio were very nice. Couldn't beat it on the first attempt but I'll be back :)
local minimum
local minimum11 May 2014, 08:34
Quite fun and challenging little game. The pace started out quite high and difficult and I was no where near escaping into freedom. So maybe have difficulty scale a little more forgivingly in the beginning?

I quite often had black tile glitches going back leaving me to just guessing. I don't know if that was a FF-thing.

As other pointed out, it sometimes got very hard / impossible to pass by some parts. One way to help with that and make the game more capturing could be to have obstacles fit the music. Like Bit Trip Runner or an inverted Guitar Hero. I'm not sure if that's possible with Phaser though.
Alucard J19 May 2014, 11:38
Fun game, intense and exciting, nice retro graphics and sound, good job.

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