RunnyMcDodgeFace

by zest-is-best

co-authored: @quiny101

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.97

Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.96

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.86

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.70

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.48

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.13

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.76

Speedrun round and round the track! Stuck in an endless loop of trying to shave those split-seconds off, while dodging everything that flies at you with your 3 abilities! 2 Paths, which is fastest? Guess that's for you to find out.

PLEASE PLAY THE GAME IN FULLSCREEN

Bet you can't beat our time....

Controls

- Move: *right click*
- Stop: *S*
- Restart: *R*
- Abilities: Q/W/E (See icons at bottom of screen)
- Q / Boost: Boosts you forward.
- W / Teleport Orb: Hold W, Left click to shoot teleport orb.
- E / Godmode: INVINCIBLE!!!!!

Our Best Times

(Will drop in comments)

Character and environment props imported from the Unity Asset Store.
Effects/Shaders/Particles all created from scratch.

(Sorry for no sound - we're just 2 *bad* programmers)

Comments35

mfischer3d5 Oct 2020, 21:20

Liked the graphics of your game. The gameplay felt a bit slow to me though

ZEST_is_BESTauthor5 Oct 2020, 21:21

My Initial Times:
- Section 1: 10,84
- Section 2: 29.26
- Section 3: 24.51
- Section 4: 28.68
- Overall: 93.28

ZEST_is_BESTauthor5 Oct 2020, 21:34

@mfischer3d Post your times! :D

piper5 Oct 2020, 21:40

my hair is purple, green and bald and even I enjoyed this game

piper5 Oct 2020, 21:49

My times:
* Section 1: 13.01
* Section 2: 15.9
* Section 3: 17.08
* Section 4: 23.7

Overall: 69.69

ZEST_is_BESTauthor5 Oct 2020, 21:56

Bet you can't beat this!

Quiny1015 Oct 2020, 22:58

Here is my all time best

ZEST_is_BESTauthor5 Oct 2020, 23:01

@quiny101 Sub-10s section 1 is insane xD How did you do that?

Usenrame5 Oct 2020, 23:19

Section 1 for 249.38 :)
Game is fun!

Johnsensei6 Oct 2020, 00:25

I'm not going to post a best time. They had a field day running into me. Lots of fun, great job. I really appreciated that you didn't die. I got beat up a lot but didn't feel like I was failing.

ilopes6 Oct 2020, 00:32

Nice game

Croxel Studios6 Oct 2020, 09:24

This is speedrun material, once you know the tracks, you can master the game and get better times. I think some more polish would enhance the game a lot. Graphics are pretty good btw.

grizeldi6 Oct 2020, 09:35

In non fulscreen mode, the UI is a bit big and the game feels a bit slow for what is supposed to be a racing game. Apart from that, good job.

ZEST_is_BESTauthor6 Oct 2020, 09:45

Thanks for all the feeback guys! Really appreciate it all!

Please also comment your best times if you managed to finish the track!

ZEST_is_BESTauthor6 Oct 2020, 11:19

Current Best Overall Times

- 79:71 by ToxicSurge
- 79:84 by Charlie
- 84:41 by ZEST_is_BEST
- 91:93 by Quiny101
- 133:36 by jndm
- 136:32 by Matty
- 141:40 by Blaine

LukeDJ6 Oct 2020, 11:31

Really like the visuals, definitely speedrun material

Ventz6 Oct 2020, 11:31

Cool game but I wish the powerups were more frequent

tigerija6 Oct 2020, 14:56

Its was fun, but a ball patterns felt a bit random or hard to predict.
Abilities were also a bit confusing at the start and abilities should be more understandable - like, I don't know when invurnabiltiy will end. Jumping was also confusing (controls wise).

m7rk6 Oct 2020, 17:45

you have an EXTREMELY solid foundation for a cool speedrun-type game. Nice work!

I wish the timer screen wasn't so large. It was really distracting.

Also i've got to know what SHITnJEANS means.

TheCreator6 Oct 2020, 17:47

Not gonna lie I got a little lost at some points, also when I first started playing I completely glossed over the right click to move function, so I thought I could only move with the abilities xD

I only figured out I was missing something after I beat section one and hand to change directions lol

Stracker6 Oct 2020, 17:51

This looks like it was a bit too ambitious for the 72h, I found the gameplay somewhat clunky and slow, the game could really use a bit of gamefeel polish. It does look quite good though !

xiyou6 Oct 2020, 17:54

I kept pressing R to restart in order to set a new record, maybe it's a loop, too clever. (However I tried a lot of things and I don't know how to finish the first part in 10 seconds)

jndm6 Oct 2020, 17:57

Super fun game! My best 1: 12.96 2: 37.04 3: 31.22 4: 42.00 Overall: 133.36.

ZEST_is_BESTauthor6 Oct 2020, 18:33

@jndm Awesome dude! Will add you to the current list of times! :D Check the GIF at the top of the page to see how we do the first section in 10seconds. No idea how Quiny got it in under 10 seconds. My best now is 10:07

@m7rk Haha where the heck did you see "SHITnJEANS" xD I suppose you'll have to stick around to find out xD...

@stracker Thanks very much, dude! Yes definitely - we were two programmers, one of which had just downloaded unity for the first time :P Ambitious is one way to put it! We agree polish is sorely needed here!

@thecreator Hehe definitely should've added a menu! Did you manage to finish the track and get a time?

Erlioniel6 Oct 2020, 18:42

It's pretty funny to play, hovewer the controls are not so cool from my perspective. It might be (and actually should be) more natural from controls perspective. Did you draw the art as well? I think the robo model is from free assets, right?

TheCreator7 Oct 2020, 01:17

@zest-is-best It was something scary bad xD I kept hitting the orbs lol

etrealjunior7 Oct 2020, 09:32

I liked your game my congratulations, I also did one if you want to know, and give me your feedback I am very grateful, this is the link https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/resurrection

mr-greenhat7 Oct 2020, 10:52

Nice game! I liked the game mechanics. The player character moved a bit slow for my taste.

Rickkmurray8 Oct 2020, 11:03

really cool game peeps. It took me a while to realize the controls were similar to LOL but once I got that hang of it controlled really nicely a bit sluggish but all in all not bad. Well done ;)

Super Hadoken9 Oct 2020, 10:51

Cool game. Q would benefit from dashing in direction of mouse and maybe W as well, like in Heroes with quickcast on. Also, Maru is best.

ZEST_is_BESTauthor9 Oct 2020, 19:19

@super-hadoken Firstly - I like you :P Thanks for getting the Zest reference. Secondly, thanks for the awesome feedback - I think it’s actually a great idea. I’ve become a bit addicted to speedrunning my own game at this point and have discovered about 20 new speedrunning strategies. Current best time is actually under 79 seconds total time :P We’re thinking of making it into a full release and all this feedback is really great - appreciate you all guys! @rickkmurray

etrealjunior9 Oct 2020, 20:29

I really liked your game, it has beautiful graphics, and I would like to leave my comments, 1 - I believe that if the character rotates to the side that he is aiming for is cool, 2- the buttons that are on the bottom side when clicking were with their active functions, 3-the teleportation goes through the bridge, I don't know if it's correct or I'm missing something, 4- the game would be much more fun if it had audio, 5- after a while enemies show incorrect behaviors "shake", needed to add a tutorial because normally games that use combined functions tend not to be so intuitive, I hope it helped, a big hug.

Pulni12 Oct 2020, 10:02

Game looks and plays very well! I'm personally not a fan of speed running, so the "stuck in a loop" theme felt a little far-fetched to me. Also, I'd probably prefer having checkpoints and getting reset when I fail rather than just losing time, as I don't really care about time, and once I realized there's no penalty for failing I stopped trying as much and it didn't feel that exciting anymore. Still, it's great for a 3 day game, good job! :)

Enes Ayyildiz16 Oct 2020, 13:56

The game is related with theme. Game play is a bit slow.With sound and faster actions it would be nicer. It is open ended game and you have chance to develop it more.

CG_Fred26 Oct 2020, 22:03

Would have loved some SFX and music with this game. The controls could have been a bit better, found that the right clicking with the mouse a bit annoying maybe you could have just had a direction indicator that the character would follow? Would have liked a slightly higher pace in the running so you could get a little bit more stressed :D Great entry though, well done!

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