A little difficult to use arrow keys to move when it scrolls my browser is all
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Difficult (?) game I made where you roam around trying to get a high score! Watch out along the way for spikes and keep your eyes on the look-out for powerups. Also be prepared to fight a boss! One checkpoint at 20000 and you will see why. Share any bugs in the comments and even your highest score, with an image link (mine is 1,897,093). I couldn't figure out how to prevent scrolling (I couldn't edit the zip file) so you can play fullscreen on itch.io https://derpgio.itch.io/epic-race-game
Controls:
Arrow Keys - Move
Shift - Boost
(I can't believe I forgot) R - restart
Updates:
v1.1 coming - fixes double crash, changes boss color, makes boss bounce off of spikes (no event to damage it from them) and more
v1.09 is here! (v1.1 will make the boss sprite look better)
v1.1 is here - fixes double hits, makes the boss more recognizable, gives you full health at boss fight start, and makes the boss bounce off spikes.
DerpGio responds:
If you want you can go to the itch.io link in the description and play fullscreened
I like it; it's quite fun, although there's a couple of problems.
First, and mainly – the game does not restart when you lose (making 'highscore' pointless). Whether you crash the car or run out of fuel, the game does not restart. Now, I later found out you can restart the game with 'R', but it's not written anywhere. You shouldn't rely on people's ability to 'guess' the controls. What about a restart button on the screen when it's Game Over?
When you crash, you can also potentially get hit twice immediately afterwards (e.g. when hitting a wall). There should be some temporary invincibility.
I also did not see a single powerup until the 20k checkpoint (or weirdly, after I died). If you stand still and wait, some do appear,
I was quite thrilled to see a "boss battle", but I can't get past it. The car becomes invincible, drives in random directions (no matter which keys I press), bounces and you're also no longer colliding with items like spikes or powerups. I'm not sure what you're supposed to be doing (high score: 20,003).
And AGAIN, I later figured it out – the boss which looks exactly the same as your car (!) spawned and killed me before I noticed. I thought I was healed before the boss battle, instead, it spawned while I was close to the centre and "replaced" me.
But I think the checkpoint and especially the zoom out is a good idea. I'd at least make the enemy car blue to make a distinction.
As for other things:
– I'm not sure if 'Boost' is useful. It just makes you more likely to crash.
– Not sure what the "crowned bean" powerup does.
– The boss probably should get hit by spikes. Also, I feel your fuel runs out too quickly during this phase. You have to evade his attacks, but doing so makes you lose when you run out of fuel.
– Why do we need the compass? Surely we can tell which way the car is headed even without it…
– The whole page scrolls when pressing arrow keys, especially when you have the compass powerup. Try the workaround as described here:
https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/developer-resources/unity3d-webgl-support#wiki_toc_4
DerpGio responds:
I will try to fix many of these. First, I actually can't believe I forgot to mention the restart button, I know about the double crash and I think your idea is very good and I might implement it. The powerups are very random as they have a chance to spawn after a certain amount pf seconds, and I had to nerf them from spawning to much. The compass was implemented because one of my friends/playtesters found it hard to tell which direction they were going in and I will try to fix the page scrolling thing too.
(Spoiler alert)
The bean stops the car from acting for 3 seconds.
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