Ludum Dare #42compo

Tunnel Racer

by ctrble

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.26

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.35

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.60

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.27

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.08

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.21

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.28

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.19

Tunnel Racer

> LDJAM42: "Running out of space"

Tunnel Racer is a challenging arcade racer! In this fast paced game you must avoid running into the glowing red beams - or be killed! Navigate through the twisting and shrinking tunnel to the end of a 2000 meter gauntlet, and sweet victory.

This game was entered into the Ludem Dare Compo, and was made from scratch within 48 hours by a team of one.

Controls:

Mouse - look
WASD - move/strafe
QE - rotate
Shift - brake
Spacebar - thrust

Made With:

- Unity3d
- Photoshop
- Ableton
- Coffee

Updates:

v1.2 - Still tweaking player movement

v.1.1 - Bugfix for mouse sensitivity on start, smoothed player movement, updated title screen

v1.0 - LDJAM42 Compo entry

Tags: #3d, #arcade, #fast-paced, #neon, #rotation, #short, #unity

Genres: racing

Tools: Ableton Live, Adobe Photoshop, Unity

Comments25

Elodeon13 Aug 2018, 12:40

I'm bad at these sorts of games, but I enjoyed it! Nice visuals and sound.

tweedle16 Aug 2018, 02:50

great controls, rocks the theme and the music fits perfectly! 👏👏👏

Tiberiusuciu17 Aug 2018, 02:37

I have played a few games like this one before, I'm glad this genre came up in this LD, good job!

BabyKing17 Aug 2018, 02:41

In my short play through I imagine that using the rotate controls are key. Good job! Especially as a team of 1 in compo! I imagine coffee had a large part to play.

JLV17 Aug 2018, 03:02

Nice job getting such an addictive game done in so little time !

Pros :
- Beautiful graphics
- Crystal clear objective and rules
- The music builds the mood very well

Cons :
- Controls (especially rotations) are a bit wonky
- The first person view makes it difficult to anticipate ifyou are going to skim the obstacle or just lose the game.

ropedog18 Aug 2018, 01:42

Sweet entry! Makes me feel like I'm flying a spaceship to escape whatever massive base/planet/space station is exploding behind me. This entry fits in well with the theme, and the aesthetics make everything gel nicely. Once I got the hang of the rotate controls (and the brake... definitely needed the brake), I was able to successfully escape the tunnel.

Lintfordpickle21 Aug 2018, 08:02

really enjoyed playing that.
Also, I would recommend hiding the mouse pointer in full screen mode.

James Shipp21 Aug 2018, 15:01

Enjoyed this a lot, nice tunes!

Balance68621 Aug 2018, 15:34

Fun game! I enjoy the graphics and the frantic audio is anxiety inducing lol great for the mood of the game. You utilized the theme well. I made it to the end on my fourth try.
Control wise I would ditch the mouse look altogether and maybe even the brake/thrust (I didn't use them).
Great compo submission!

FuriousWitch21 Aug 2018, 21:16

Nice game! Nice gameplay and music. I don't usually play this kind of games so maybe my feedback is not very helpful but I felt that braking was not very responsive and the pace was too fast for me to go very far but as I said maybe that is just me :) Regardless, good work :)

ctrbleauthor22 Aug 2018, 00:28

@jlv Thanks for the feedback! And yeah, the controls were pretty tricky, I've found that most players prefer to use a subset of the controls rather than all of them, but everyone seems to have a different preference. I also agree with your point about the hitbox, it's set to 1 unit, but I could probably do a little bit smaller. Originally I was going to have a third person view and a ship you could fly, but I ran out of time.

ctrbleauthor22 Aug 2018, 00:29

@lintfordpickle Agreed! That's on my list of finishing touches to do soon, and I think it'll help with the feel of the mouse look stuff. Thanks for playing!

ctrbleauthor22 Aug 2018, 00:31

@balance686 The controls definitely need a bit more tweaking, it's tough to figure out what's right though cause everyone seems to like and dislike different parts of them. I'll just have to keep working on it and testing it out.

ctrbleauthor22 Aug 2018, 00:35

@furiouswitch Yeah, you're right that the brakes aren't terribly effective. I wanted to make sure the player was always being pulled towards the end of the tunnel, but there's still loads of room to find the right balance for that and the rest of the controls.

ctrbleauthor22 Aug 2018, 00:37

Thanks @elodeon @tweedle @tiberiusuciu @babyking @ropedog! Thanks so much for playing and I'm glad you all enjoyed the game!

DoctorMozart22 Aug 2018, 00:49

Perfect idea for this theme! Had a fun time playing it. Oddly the first time I played it I somehow was clipped outside of the level? Refreshed the page however, and it was all corrected. Control wise, I might not include the option boost or brake at all, unless you added a timed component. I found myself just holding brake the entire time as it was easier that way. ;) Overall though, great work!

ctrbleauthor22 Aug 2018, 00:59

@doctormozart Thanks for playing! And I think you maybe found the one buggy thing (at least that I'm aware of), where if you're moving the mouse right when you start the game it gets a little wonky. That's definitely on the top of my hit list for the first update, fingers crossed I can get a good solution for that soon!

Carlos Giraldo22 Aug 2018, 03:12

Good job with this one! The art is done well for the concept. The difficulty spikes nicely. Downsides are the controls maybe too sluggish, though being too responsive would make it too easy. So I would try maybe pushing it a little bit.

ctrbleauthor22 Aug 2018, 03:31

@carlos-giraldo Thanks! And yeah, I've been playing with the controls trying to get the responsiveness right. I actually just uploaded a new version that adjusts the player's speed, if you play again I'd be curious to hear what you think :)

Lexyvil22 Aug 2018, 05:38

Fun game! I just wish it was longer and the speed incremented slower. It really reminded me of the old times I played Star Fox and I had to avoid metal obstacles.

bobo_oh22 Aug 2018, 10:06

nice and fun game !!

King Kujito22 Aug 2018, 16:24

I like games like this so I'm sold. Only problem is how the walls sometimes bounce the player around.

novodantis23 Aug 2018, 00:09

Simple, but very nicely done and an excellent take on the theme. Controls did seem a little rough at the edges, but then they are absolutely core to the gameplay so getting them perfect just isn't doable in a Jam timeframe I think. It was certainly highly playable and nicely complete, but there's plenty of room for expansion on the idea; like recording Best Times and moving beams.

Roidz23 Aug 2018, 00:36

sometimes its kinda hard to control with the mouse but i really enjoyed this.
I liked the art also, who doesnt like glowy stuff !
good game !

Local Minimum25 Aug 2018, 10:01

nice game. I didn't survive for very long. perhaps it would have made it easier if I didn't touch the mouse... but the controls were a bit hard to get a hang of, as well as the size of the ship/collision sphere around me. I think I would have liked that one smaller, or actually seeing the ship a bit from the behind.

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