It's an annual traditional alien harvest festival.This is a festival created by aliens to celebrate the hard work of the past year.
On this festive night, the aliens will bring their families to the circus to watch the performance of slaughtering livestock. In their eyes, human beings are also one of the livestock.
One of the most popular programs is jumping through the fire rings. Human beings need to avoid being chased by harvesters, but also jump through the fire rings to win the applause of the audience.
There will be four players in each game. They can move freely on the four tracks, and get points by jumping through the fire rings. The player who reaches the end and gets the highest score can win.
Action:Players control humans to run, jump and attack each other, and avoid harvest machines.
Goal: Players need to get as many points as possible before the game ends,
Rules: One player controls one character, up to four players. Characters will die if they are caught up by the harvest machines. Characters will be killed by fire rings if they don’t jump through/over the fire rings. Characters will slow down if they step on a banana. Characters will slow down if they get attacked by other players. Characters can get 20 points if they jump through the fire rings, 10 points if they jump over the fire rings. It will take 2s to respawn after the character dies
Its always good to have a coop in a game and this one is not an exception. One thing troubles me - I didn't get why I need an attack. It slightly slows you down even if you miss your target and it just doesn't seem that good in terms of risk/reward to use it.
@fallcresthero nice feedback! Was thinking if that could be replaced by allowing the player to throw the banana as they did in Mario kart instead of kicking others.
The other idea is to keep the kicking action, but make it more meaningful, for example, the player could kick the other live stocks and thus cause more chaos in the game.
@moonlightbomber ah, didn't know the game is part of Circus Charlie, thanks for letting me know! I played it with when I was a kid with my friends. It was so hard and I could barely make it even in the first level. But yeah, our game is inspired by that hoop minigame!
The graphics and humor are the strong points of this game. The similiarity with dino run and flappy bird is bit of a turn off for me. After finishing the run i did not have a urge to try again. If the game had health system that would make it a bit better because dying would have consequences.
@salvation glad you like the graphics! it's the first time our artists drawing pixel art, but they put love into that and they did a really great job!
Your feedback is interesting. didn't realize the death punishment would discourage players from playing. Kinda worried about the idea of having a health system. as 1) It might slow down the cadence of the gameplay 2) we want to make the flaming hoop jump a challenge with high-reward action.
Instead, I would make the respawn time shorter to make cadence faster. So the player feels less pressure when performing the flaming hoop jump
@korvack thanks for the feedback. as everybody works remotely, honestly I also don't have the chance to test the local multi-play after we finished it :)
I love the animation when the player steps on the banana peel XD, love the chicken and the sheep too, so funny and so cute. I can feel I am immersed into the race. The gameplay guide is really helpful for me. Feedback: from my POV the colors of the race track can be balanced a little, the lightest gray color is a bit popping out. When I start the game I didn't realize the background are aliens watching the race. Good job!
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One thing troubles me - I didn't get why I need an attack. It slightly slows you down even if you miss your target and it just doesn't seem that good in terms of risk/reward to use it.
Anyway it was fun, keep up the good work!
The other idea is to keep the kicking action, but make it more meaningful, for example, the player could kick the other live stocks and thus cause more chaos in the game.
Your feedback is interesting. didn't realize the death punishment would discourage players from playing.
Kinda worried about the idea of having a health system. as
1) It might slow down the cadence of the gameplay
2) we want to make the flaming hoop jump a challenge with high-reward action.
Instead, I would make the respawn time shorter to make cadence faster. So the player feels less pressure when performing the flaming hoop jump
Feedback: from my POV the colors of the race track can be balanced a little, the lightest gray color is a bit popping out. When I start the game I didn't realize the background are aliens watching the race. Good job!