AbseilRace by duwom

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made by duwom for LD31 (JAM)
Who is the king of Abseiling out of you and your friends? No idea? Well now you can find out!

The originally titled 'Abseil Race' is a simple split-screen multiplayer "experience" where you race a friend or otherwise down a building.

Controls:
Player 1 - D to Jump, S to Rappel.
Player 2 - J to Jump, K to Rappel.
R to Restart the race at anytime.

How to Play:
Simply Jump away from the building and then descend with the 'Rappel' button.
Be careful as Rappelling too quickly will lead your your gear breaking and falling to death and worst of all, losing.

Notes:
You will want to toggle full screen if playing out the embedding, you can also right click on the Unity Web Player and force full screen for the actual game window.

How does this fit with the theme and where are the Snowmen?
The idea came when thinking about why you would see the entire map or how could an entire map be displayed whilst having a zoomed in cropped view. What game to mind was snowboarding game and how they would display progress of your descent. Descent lead to Abseiling.
As for the snowmen, I believe you can find them in the thousands of other games.

Hope you enjoy playing as much as I enjoyed participating in my first LDJam

Twitter: @Duwom
E-mail: t.dunkinson@atomizergames.com

Feedback

Ulydev
09. Dec 2014 · 12:02 UTC
Great idea !
Drtizzle
09. Dec 2014 · 17:47 UTC
Great idea, and great execution!

This really is a tense game when played with 2 players.
Very solid gameplay!

Graphics don't have to be pixel-art or realistic, but can use some work. (Maybe super minimalistic, black and white?)

Good job!
pancakecity
10. Dec 2014 · 02:19 UTC
Fun, a nice challenge!
Pestel Crew
11. Dec 2014 · 18:37 UTC
I liked the idea. Can be a nice game for mobile platforms =)
Gamepopper
14. Dec 2014 · 13:25 UTC
Not bad idea, good competitive game. :)
bofink
15. Dec 2014 · 10:51 UTC
I like the idea! would be sweet on mobile! :)
Dining Philosopher
22. Dec 2014 · 15:42 UTC
Very nice, it took us a while before we got cautious enough not to die along the way :P
OttersDen
22. Dec 2014 · 20:01 UTC
This is pretty unique! Simple gameplay but pretty fun. The game cries out for sound though.
Chaoseed
22. Dec 2014 · 21:08 UTC
Interesting, but hard to play. The control scheme is supposedly simple, but I can't quite get the hang of it. I thought I did with Player 2 but then suddenly "Player 1 wins!". Strange.

Incidentally, you don't have to put snowmen in your game. I mean, nobody does. :P