Ludum Dare #49compo

No hands Dorifto

by gorypixels

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.99

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.24

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.86

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.24

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.06

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.56

Mood★★★★★★★★★★2.53

A barely playable thingy that kinda resembles a drift car with the worst tire alignement ever. Press the spacebar or click anywhere to hit the gas, release to avoid crashing into the apex. Score increases faster the closer you are to the apex, and it decreases the further away you get from it. Can you beat my world record? ;D Discovered I had only 10 hours to go for this Ludum Dare's edition, and decided to give it a try either way! :)

Genres: racing

Tools: GameMaker

Comments53

Taft Punk4 Oct 2021, 21:07

A very simple concept, but well executed. Nice looking too.

Gorypixelsauthor4 Oct 2021, 21:27

@taft-punk thanks a lot for playing! :D

Eva Knight4 Oct 2021, 22:07

With a little work could make a good one-button game, would work well on eg a mobile screen with just touching the screen anywhere for the input

Gorypixelsauthor4 Oct 2021, 22:10

@eva-knight thanks so much for your feedback! :)

pdotjpg4 Oct 2021, 22:10

Haha, charming and kinda funny entry. Cool that you made something even with the limited time!

I love the janky, faux-3D look. That + the title and your description gives this surprising character.

Gorypixelsauthor4 Oct 2021, 22:16

@pdotjpg It was a challenge to make something with even a tighter timeframe, so I'm really flad you liked it! :D

dezom4 Oct 2021, 22:44

Surprisingly engaging and very hard! I'm a big fan of the dithery graphics.

Chikentear4 Oct 2021, 22:52

Simple, efficient, totally on topic and terribly frustrating for bad players like me ahah

Fickle Swimming4 Oct 2021, 23:08

Simple and fun game!

LDJam user 2431935 Oct 2021, 08:28

Unstable yet simplistic game. I got 60 score and don't feel like about going higher.

Gorypixelsauthor5 Oct 2021, 16:57

@dezom @chikentear @bloodbane @fickle-swimming Thanks a lot for playing it! :) I know it's a bit too frustrating, if developed further it sure will have a less steep learning curve haha!

njs5 Oct 2021, 17:34

Nice, addictive little game. Another commenter said it would work well on mobile but I can confirm that it already does. For 10 hours I'm very impressed.

Gorypixelsauthor5 Oct 2021, 17:37

@njs Thanks a lot! :)

Zackavelli5 Oct 2021, 17:44

Simple yet addictive game. The idea was well executed an I didn't experience any bugs. Font was a little hard to read.

Gorypixelsauthor5 Oct 2021, 17:45

@zackavelli Thanks a lot for playing! You are absolutely right, the fonts are kinda attrocious T_T Didn't have time to change them, but if I improve this it is definetely one of the first things to upgrade!

TotteriLudum5 Oct 2021, 17:50

I think that your game is incompatible with displays with higher refresh rate, perhaps. The game seems to run in hyper-speed when I play it.

I have not given a rating yet, but I will gladly do so if the issue can be fixed :)

cogcomp5 Oct 2021, 17:52

Addictive game :smile: I couldn't get close to your record.

Gorypixelsauthor5 Oct 2021, 17:52

@totteriludum Thanks a lot for the heads up! I will check it out this days, I'll let you know if I find any way to solve it. Thanks again! :D

Gorypixelsauthor5 Oct 2021, 17:57

@cogcomp haha It took me a while to get there and lots of practice, not sure it was worth it though xD But I'm glad you played it and liked it! :D

Arttu Halonen5 Oct 2021, 18:02

I think I ran into the same problem with hyper-speed gameplay, as I basically had to buttonmash or else I would instantly crash into the wall. But beyond that the idea is well executed and the visuals are simple but neat. Keep it up!

Gorypixelsauthor5 Oct 2021, 18:12

@arttu-halonen Thanks a lot for the heads up! You are not the first one with this problem, so defenitely something I'll check on soon. Glad you liked it regardless! :D

Fedev5 Oct 2021, 18:16

Nice little experience! 109 was my high score... really wanted to beat you but I couldn't hehe

tomer_cool5 Oct 2021, 18:17

Simple but fun game I got about 140, Very nice for the limited time. Also this would be great with some SFX

PowerAnze5 Oct 2021, 20:08

Okay, oof.
This took me half an hour. This game is addictive in the best way. Would fit perfect in a Wario Ware style game. Great job.

Is the car getting more volatile the higher the score is? It feels harder to control at higher scores, but that might also just be a trick of the mind.

m1nus5 Oct 2021, 20:50

omg this was so difficult to play but so addictive! you really want to beat the next turn, and the other one! well done!

Proxy-Games5 Oct 2021, 22:18

This is the kind of game where my fingers are in agony but I must keep playing. It is a bit difficult to get into, as it is kind of hard to figure out how things work at first due to just how quickly it'll give the game over menu, but once I figured it out, it was really addictive. Barely managed to get 72. Shoutout to my lowest score of -9.

Kora0h5 Oct 2021, 22:44

Can't stop playing it until my finger really tired! Addictive 10/10 !

Pixelydian5 Oct 2021, 23:03

10 hours?! Great job - super fun and addicting! Art is really good. Would have liked some music but...10 hours lol.

sunderBird5 Oct 2021, 23:08

Too hard for me :( But I liked that such a simple idea can be so exciting.

rock-gong6 Oct 2021, 03:17

I tried my best to get a 152 score. So challenging.

Solah6 Oct 2021, 05:11

Drifto daze!
I could not get over 139 but that's a nive game you've done in only 10h, very well done!
With EuroBeat music and drift sounds it would be perfect :D

Gorypixelsauthor6 Oct 2021, 10:20

For everyone: I'M SO GRATEFUL you are having as much fun playing this as I did making it! Super encouraging to pursue gamemaking more seriously. Thanks to all of you, specially the ones that are taking their time to vote and comment my game. YOU ARE ALL THE BEST

Gorypixelsauthor6 Oct 2021, 10:41

@poweranze By the way! yes, the car gets more and more unstable the longer you stay drifting :)

R3dleg6 Oct 2021, 14:50

hardest game every created by a human beeing. xD But also very fun and fast paced. well done! :) I would which fore some audio and maybe... more content? xD Nice highscoregame anyways. Good job on this.

Gorypixelsauthor6 Oct 2021, 15:15

@r3dleg haha thanks a lot! It is too hard any way you look at it, but it's part of it's charm! :D

LDJam user 1472276 Oct 2021, 17:23

Nice one, but very hard. The game looks goods, plays good, addictive too. It would be more fun to go further and add some features, concept is interesting!

2kah6 Oct 2021, 19:59

Very good for 10 hours! Would be nice to have a second or two to get used to it when restarting, but then the difficulty is also what makes it special

Gorypixelsauthor6 Oct 2021, 21:21

@brusnika It is too hard for sure! it was the only way to make something this small engaging, but I'm already thinking in ways of expanding this, could be cool to make a full game using just one button! :D

Gorypixelsauthor6 Oct 2021, 21:22

@2kah You got it absolutely right! So glad you liked it :)

Weenie Walker Games7 Oct 2021, 01:45

Definitely a fun little "challenge" of a game. Make this a mobile game with a leaderboard and a way to challenge your friends and I could see this game being really successful. Great job!

Ludokultur7 Oct 2021, 07:51

It kind of fits that Flappy Bird model of being hypercasual but also insanely difficult at the same time. Was definitely motivating to see how far I could push it, and the "creator highscore" is a very nice element I might steal in the future haha! :D

Barrier7 Oct 2021, 08:52

Simple but hard. The graphics and animation are great :)

Gorypixelsauthor7 Oct 2021, 10:43

@weenie-walker-games @ludokultur @barrier Thanks so much for playing! It's really really encouraging to see people like you enjoying my little game :) Now thinking on ways to expand it!

BinaryPrinciple7 Oct 2021, 23:07

I really enjoyed the game and feels like you have a nice mobile game here. My recommendations would be sound, an 80s synth soundtrack and an options to change the camera. Sometimes it felt more like I was fighting the camera than the apex.

gdesecrate8 Oct 2021, 20:42

I hope that is not inspired by real-world driving situations.

Lovor10 Oct 2021, 19:00

Nice game for 10 hour)

ruthiepee11 Oct 2021, 19:01

Is it just me or is it playing way too fast in my browser? I can barely get above a score of 20 by mashing the spacebar as soon as the game starts. Edit: I just read some of the other comments and yupppppp, I think it's running in double-time or something! My monitor's refresh rate is 144hz for reference. Let me know if you come up with a solution, I'll come back and try it again. :)

Gorypixelsauthor12 Oct 2021, 09:28

@binaryprinciple Thanks a lot for playing! :D You are absolutely right about the camara, in fact I tried to improve it but my PC crashed and lost the editable file, so I left it the way it looks now! A new version would absolutely have a different camera angle :)

Gorypixelsauthor12 Oct 2021, 09:29

@gdesecrate HAHAHAH It kinda is! When I was younger I used to trash my mom's Toyota Yaris way harder I had any right to, luckily both of us survived xD

Gorypixelsauthor12 Oct 2021, 09:29

@lovor Thanks a lot!

Gorypixelsauthor12 Oct 2021, 09:30

@ruthiepee You are absolutely right! I'm still figuring out how to solve it, meanwhile you can try to play it on your phone, at least on Android works well as far as I know! :)

ruthiepee12 Oct 2021, 16:47

@gorypixels works great, I tested it out on iOS (iPhone 11 / Safari). I was able to get up to 121! I could see this being an arcade game like Black Emperor if you added little more variety. Great little mobile game and I love the added challenge of trying to beat the "world record."

ValiantSugar19 Oct 2021, 06:48

It looks interesting, but it is very, very hard!

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