Runner

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.21
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.11
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.82
Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.04
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.39
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.81
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.33
Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.84
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★45%
Controls: Any key or mouse button, click the 'm' to mute

The idea was to create an endless runner on one screen.
Created in 4-5h...

Tools:
Eclipse
GIMP
SunVox

I'm not joining the compo this time (connection failed, little free time)...
Good luck to everyone!

screenshot

Comments19

frondeus
frondeus8 Dec 2014, 16:32
Simple but addictive.
I like this graphics style. It's... pure.
MMOOxy8 Dec 2014, 16:34
I like the music, but sound effects are missing. Had a small bug, where the death animation was playing after a retry.
yongcamu
yongcamu8 Dec 2014, 23:47
Man, that's some good stuff there. I'm with frondeus on this, simple but addictive!
Team Flashlight9 Dec 2014, 15:12
Great fun playing this and really addictive! The art style is cool.

The interest curve of this game could be a problem as I did not see the difficulty rise / the new obstacle appear after a long play.

Overall great work!
sanchitgulati
sanchitgulati9 Dec 2014, 15:41
what's you high score ? I got to 265.
Nice game, really liked it.

I was thinking something like this for my jam game, had circle on screen but lacked vision on that front.
So end up doing something else entirely different.

But this was satisfactory
GameDevExtreme9 Dec 2014, 19:22
there was no player an score like there is on the screenshot.
Magicolo
Magicolo9 Dec 2014, 19:23
-Would've been nice to be able to vary the jump height :(
-Sometimes, there are impossible jumps :(
-Visually simple but pleasant :)
-Lack of progression :(
Hammers
Hammers9 Dec 2014, 19:28
Woop 403 :D

That was good. It was really nice seeing the world get bigger as you kept going which was a nice visual reward for doing well. I like minimalist style too.

Also nice tune :P
mephistoauthor9 Dec 2014, 20:10
First of all, thanks @all for playing the game :)
@MMOOxy I had some simple sound effects at first, but they got annoying very fast.Also, thanks for letting me know about the bug.
@GameDevExtreme Probably the images were in the wrong place (img folder next to jar). Other than that I have no idea (are you using Linux/MacOS?)
@Magicolo -true -during playtesting that occurred only once -thx :D -I know, would have made more than that if I had gotten more time
@sanchitgulati/Hammers 448 :D

I'll probably port it (/a better version) to Android some day, it feels like a good concept for a one-click game.
Basim10 Dec 2014, 17:06
Great game and a very original idea! Sound effects would have added to the atmosphere as well though
oh_andrej10 Dec 2014, 17:09
Simple and addictive with a great clean visual style. Music is nice but sound effects for jumping and dying would've made things even better. Even though I really like this one!
ElectricSeagull10 Dec 2014, 23:31
Good use of the theme and nice minimalist styling. I like it.
Bloxri11 Dec 2014, 02:54
No player. Ran the game a few times and this still happened. Didn't take score away though, concept was cool. Fitting theme. Graphics were clearly not strong or intensive but that clearly wasn't the goal. No humor or mood in this piece. The audio got kind of annoying.
Rick Hoppmann
Rick Hoppmann14 Dec 2014, 10:32
Doesn't seem to work for me. It starts up, but there isn't any gameplay, just a planet and some particles.
01rafael17 Dec 2014, 08:16
Look simple & stylish)
CodeNMore21 Dec 2014, 15:10
Great game!
Lynx
Lynx28 Dec 2014, 21:34
Very simple yet visually beautiful game. I feel the music didn't help add a good atmosphere to the game though...the song kind of gives it a monotonous kind of mood where I think if you gave this game a more upbeat and faster paced song (maybe something like chipstep) and made the jump a little less floaty, you'd have yourself a rely awesome mobile phone game that you can pass around to all your friends and challenge them to beat your scores!

Can't wait to see a post-Jam version of this, especially for my mobile devices!

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