Light Speed Driver by RatDog_Adam

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made by RatDog_Adam for LD25 (JAM)
Controls are either mouse or left/right arrow keys. Move side to side collecting yellow objects and avoiding red objects. Attempt to chain good pickups to increase the multiplier and get big points.

Ratings

Coolness 65% 3
Overall(Jam) 2.95 181
Audio(Jam) 2.56 195
Fun(Jam) 2.62 206
Graphics(Jam) 2.70 237
Humor(Jam) 3.17 73
Innovation(Jam) 2.81 171
Mood(Jam) 2.55 233
Theme(Jam) 2.81 245

Feedback

TeamQuadratic
18. Dec 2012 路 01:01 UTC
I'm not sure I really understood the game, such as why animal creatures kept flying across the screen or what this has to do with the theme for that matter, but it was a fairly simple and fun game.
Dark Acre Jack
18. Dec 2012 路 02:23 UTC
Definitely playable, and trippy. Where's the villain?
馃帳 RatDog_Adam
18. Dec 2012 路 03:10 UTC
Hey guys thanks for checking the game out. You are the villain, while you think you're racing around space you're actually running over innocent people. This is shown in the brief flashback moments.
馃帳 RatDog_Adam
18. Dec 2012 路 03:14 UTC
In Light Speed Driver the player is the "villain".

The player is hallucinating due to being on LSD hence the title [L]ight [S]peed [D]river. While the driver believes himself to be in a fantasy game world he is in fact going on a carmagedeon style rampage running over innocent cartoon-like civilians.

When hitting the stop sign icons the player catches glimpses of reality.

On game over the player finally is jettisoned out of his vehicle to his own death.
iiAtlas
18. Dec 2012 路 03:26 UTC
Spent the first few minutes trying to work out how to shoot because of the crosshair in the middle, had it not been for your spiffy unity web page player work I would've been stuck all day! Controls are a bit choppy, and the score doesn't seem to increase, but all in all the game is pretty fun.
Quantumvm
18. Dec 2012 路 03:36 UTC
Well I really didn't understand that game but the strange alien that jumps in front of the windshield did entertain me quite a bit.
ming_tea
18. Dec 2012 路 03:38 UTC
I felt the controls were a touch sensitive but this was definitely fun.
caasi
18. Dec 2012 路 03:45 UTC
My eyes! My eyes!
xandy
18. Dec 2012 路 03:48 UTC
great idea!
GreenPixelDev
18. Dec 2012 路 03:50 UTC
Playable! The screen would sometimes flash over to a driver in a car running over people so I kind of saw the villain theme there :D
31eee384
18. Dec 2012 路 03:54 UTC
Ha, right as I started to wonder where the theme was, I saw my first flash. Interesting game.
KWL_TW
18. Dec 2012 路 03:59 UTC
I did't get it at first,
But when I know Light Speed Driver means LSD,
this makes me "WOW!"
RARoadkill
18. Dec 2012 路 04:00 UTC
Interesting game. Might need to be a bit more clear in the game how you are a villain
rylgh
18. Dec 2012 路 04:45 UTC
nice, i understood what was going on (you're fucked up and think you're traveling to space but you're actually just on the road) and appreciated that you didn't hammer it in with a story screen or anything.
dalbinblue
18. Dec 2012 路 05:00 UTC
Hehe, I actually got it without reading the comments. Kudos for the subtlity and giving me the, "aha!" moment.
Tigerbot
18. Dec 2012 路 06:32 UTC
I spent about 30 seconds thinking "Did this guy even try for the theme?" and then it hit me.
bitwise-constructs
18. Dec 2012 路 06:33 UTC
Have to admit, I had a lower score until I read some of the comments. Nice allegory but the gameplay still suffers from being sluggish and twitchy, somehow at the same time. I enjoyed everything else, though!
Markusn
18. Dec 2012 路 06:33 UTC
Nice. Played it, found it nice and simple, read the description, played again. Cool to know the thought process behind it
Meep
18. Dec 2012 路 07:06 UTC
The whole back story explaining the tie in with the theme that you described in the comments would've been useful as a starting sequence in the game or in the description above. That aside, it's a nice little trippy game. :)
illugion
20. Dec 2012 路 02:26 UTC
Your take on the theme was really unique, i like that, really nice game
Patrick64
26. Dec 2012 路 18:50 UTC
Cool game, seems well polished. Nice touch with the flash backs, I liked how you saw terrified pedestrians in the distance where the pick-ups are.
Houly
27. Dec 2012 路 23:12 UTC
At first I was like, why is a light speed driver a villain, but then I got a little better at catching those yellow objects and got it :) But i'm not sure if this is physically correct :P
fishbrain
30. Dec 2012 路 14:29 UTC
Well, that was a trip-out!