Ludum Dare #33compo

Cheats at Marathons by Not Breathing

by tc4mpbell

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.64

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.96

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.63

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.11

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.48

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.92

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.87

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★53%

Edward loves three things: Running. Blood. And Running. Can you balance the slowdown of attacking fellow racers with the boost their blood gives you?!? CAN YOU?!

Chase your fellow racers: As you run, your blood energy will decrease, forcing you to FEED ON YOUR FELLOW RUNNERS. Run up to them and press Space -- after feeding, sprint on, young vampire, sprint on.

Only one (long) question remains: Can YOU balance your blood levels, speed boosts, hunger, and feeding slowdowns well enough to win? Well, can you?

Arrows to run, Space to attack (close range).

8/25 Fixed in Firefox! Sorry about that, everyone :P.

Genres: sports

Tools: Phaser

Comments21

tayl1r24 Aug 2015, 11:35

Yay, I won. Nice game!

iossif24 Aug 2015, 11:43

nice one :)

lubos24 Aug 2015, 11:48

This is the most funny game I played yet! You just want to try again and again.

MrDave24 Aug 2015, 12:47

So simple but I kept playing even after getting first a few times. I found the game really well balanced.

Good job.

TLansdale24 Aug 2015, 13:07

Great concept, well executed. Nice one!

dusho24 Aug 2015, 15:53

nice one.. had to play several times..
that black font made some messages barely readable, though

ruthiepee24 Aug 2015, 20:23

I love the title screen! It's fun, funny, and the gameplay is totally unique. Great job!

omaha25 Aug 2015, 03:36

Very nice.

I was sad when I won, I didn't want it to be over :)

randoman25 Aug 2015, 06:21

I really liked how you could keep it simple, with a well implemented mechanic. It's cool to play!

eLLectron25 Aug 2015, 11:52

Really cool game, hard enough :)

Dejvo25 Aug 2015, 12:29

fun little game. and well executed!

AAGH Games25 Aug 2015, 20:48

very nicely done no music but fun

10UpCrew25 Aug 2015, 22:04

Nice game, although a litte short. Did not work in Firefox (black screen after pressing space), had to use chrome.

WASDMagician25 Aug 2015, 23:52

Hm, on firefox the play area is off the screen, I can see the very bottom of it when I start and then the play area is just black.

tc4mpbellauthor26 Aug 2015, 01:05

Thanks for the Firefox test, guys, my fault for not checking -- fixed now!

uvwar26 Aug 2015, 13:07

Finally managed to get first. Make it as long as a real marathon with some werewolf competition and it'll be perfect.

CheesyRamen29 Aug 2015, 04:22

Funny idea! Also, simple, yet pretty interesting game mechanic with the blood/speed balancing. Well done!

0101011129 Aug 2015, 17:49

Awesome job! I love all the little details you added to the text.

KerSplotchPolice30 Aug 2015, 17:20

Fun game trying to balance pausing to eating people with having more energy to go faster. I also enjoyed the text mentioning what place you're in although it was blurry at times. Really good work.

bombjack3 Sep 2015, 10:30

original idea. I liked the speed up you gain by biting the opponents.

Franklin's Ghost3 Sep 2015, 14:22

Fun game with nice addition to the runner of balancing your blood energy. Liked the animations of when you catch another runner but did have issues in my Chrome browser where when I clicked space the browser would go down the page and I'd have to move it back up to the game.

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