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[AeornFlippout]

Hey all, first-time poster here!

My name is Aaron San Filippo, and my brother Forest and I run a joint venture called Flippfly (http://flippfly.com)

Our current project is called "Race The Sun," and it's a sort of odd infinite racer with some hardcore gameplay. The concept is that you're racing towards the sunset in a solar-powered craft, and if the sun reaches the horizon, you lose. Each stage gets a little faster.

We've actually been posting Devlogs for the month that we've been working on it on our site,  but I thought I'd reach out a bit to the community here and see if you all could offer us some more feedback!



Here's a link to the complete week 4 devlog, which includes a playable Unity web build:
http://flippfly.com/news/weekly-dev-journal-4-sun-flare/

Look forward to hearing what you all think!

[AeornFlippout]

Oh also I think I forgot to mention in the devlog: We're developing this primarily for PC/Mac. If we find an audience and we can optimize it enough, we'll go mobile later.

[Dugan]

like the concept and art style. Personally not so keen on the houses, something more abstract might be more fitting?

The houses makes it make it feel like I am racing through suburbia.
Also jump didn't seem to work?
Some sort of brake system might be helpful when trying to get the pickups (one on an energy bar of sorts so you cant overuse it - but it recharges between uses?)

Game reminds me of death chase (spectrum) and Stun Runner (arcade) in a good way. Could be nice if you could do jumps and play with the terrain height maybe.

[AeornFlippout]

Hey Dugan, thanks for the feedback.

Good point about the houses - that's kind of the vibe we were going for I think, but there will be a lot of different visual styles; most of them natural looking rocks and more abstract structures. We'll have more to show on that next week.

To jump, you first need to collect one of the green-ish orbs - you'll be able to tell you have the powerup by a little blue stripe under your ship (the visuals are obviously a wip.) Also, the jump powerups stack. A good strategy is to collect a lot of them in the early stages and then use them to avoid the cloud shadows.

[AeornFlippout]

Week 5 Update:
1. Gamepad support! I'd really appreciate people trying this, I don't currently have a decent gamepad.
2. New building styles - it randomly picks from among about 28 building types
3. New player ship - what do you think?

More info, and playable build here:

http://flippfly.com/news/weekly-dev-journal-5-play-this/

[AeornFlippout]

Week 6 update:

- Slick new intro sequence
- Some UI work for main menu and death stats screen
- misc. visual polish on player ship & FX

http://flippfly.com/news/weekly-dev-journal-6-race-the-sun-continues/

[Xienen]

Sad that this DevLog died, but I'm glad to see the game completed, up on Steam, and doing well! Just picked up my copy during the sale, keep up the good work!