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[udellgames]

Hi, I'm Nick Udell, developer of Hairball - which I've previously shared here. When I did, I got such good feedback from you, I'd be mad not to try again with my latest project!



This is Alpha 0.5 of Speedrun, you can play it here: http://gamejolt.com/games/arcade/speedrun/16993/ and there is a web player, as well as binaries for Windows, OSX and Linux.

I'd love to know what you think!

[rhenzar]

Nice job on the game! It runs smoothly and is fun to play.

I've been working with Unity for the past few weeks and I was wondering, how have you set up your Scene? I would imagine that the player's Z axis is locked, with the walls (also nice and challenging) moving towards the player and being removed after hitting a trigger behind the camera. All in all, great job! Looks awesome!

[udellgames]

Yeah, that's pretty much it, except instead of a trigger they just run a depth test when I update their positions. There are also a few invisible trigger planes for some of the effects too.

[udellgames]

Hi, good idea on the background colours!

The scoring works like this:

When you pass a set of blocks, you receive a base score of 100x the number of blocks in that group.

You also have a multiplier. The multiplier is accrued by passing adjacent to blocks (either directly left, right, top or bottom). Each block you are adjacent to adds 0.1 to your multiplier, up to a maximum of 3.

The base score is multiplied by the multiplier and is added to your total score.

I'm working on adding a few different bonuses for tricky maneuvers, such as a "last second save" bonus which doubles your score for that block group if you move out of the way of a block within 1 second.

I'm open to suggestions though, and I'll see if I can come up with something from your idea.

Thanks!

[Daid]

First off, I suck at the game. But I do like it, feels nice and fast.

But I am missing one little thing, and that's some better feedback that I lost a life. Right now I think the walls change color, but I'm not watching the walls, I'm watching the end of the hallway. I also do not have the time to look at the lives counter. Maybe some audio feedback would help in this case?

[udellgames]

Hi, Daid, thanks for the feedback!

I agree that audio feedback for life loss is sorely needed. I'll be working on that tomorrow, and you should be able to expect a new build posted here on Friday.

Thanks again!

[framk]

It's a very fun and very difficult game. I would slow things down just a tad, because it seems incredibly difficult from the get-go. Other than that, the feel is good. I love the juciness when you move to a different space and it sort of wobble-fixes itself - now that's good game design.

[udellgames]

Thanks very much! I'm embarassed at how long I spent tweaking that

[framk]

It's totally fine. In my humble opinion it's the little things in making a game feel great that truly make the game. Anyone can make a game that's functional - Maybe even the game is fun - but until you hit the trifecta of functionality, fun, and fluidity, you haven't made a great game.

[andreyin]

Really cool. IMO the only thing missing is some kind of feedback for when you hit something; maybe break the boxes, have a sound play or something.