Freerunner by ben1066

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made by ben1066 for LD22 (COMPO)
Small freerunning game. Inspired by bit.trip runner and other games. You are running "alone"

The windows zip includes source. I plan on compiling under Linux however it has been more difficult than I had expected.

Also, due to me using Visual Studio 11 this will only run on Windows Vista and above.

Ratings

Coolness 10% 641
Overall 1.62 679
Audio 1.58 480
Community 1.80 604
Fun 1.62 619
Graphics 2.08 522
Humor 1.33 545
Innovation 1.23 695
Mood 1.57 597
Theme 1.54 677

Feedback

Sheep
21. Dec 2011 · 18:39 UTC
- 5 seconds waiting before you can start over
- old basic game concept

It's just the old same jumping game. Try something new.
Cell
23. Dec 2011 · 19:21 UTC
Sorry, overused gameplay. :|
summaky
27. Dec 2011 · 19:16 UTC
Yes, not too imaginative.
caranha
02. Jan 2012 · 16:58 UTC
Here are some hints:

1- The timer is annoying, get rid of it.
2- You should tweak your level design, so that the game starts easier and gets progressively more difficult as time goes on.
ratking
04. Jan 2012 · 15:56 UTC
Same old, same old.

After dying too much, I ragequitted. Not very fun, the jumping feels strange, and there probably wasn't much thinking about the theme.

You can do better!
Canyon
07. Jan 2012 · 19:51 UTC
I found this game extremely hard and the difficulty felt unfair due to large hitboxes mostly. Sometimes it was impossible to do a section because a platform was too thin followed by an obstacle immediately in front of your only landing position.

I think you need to tweak your procedural generation code to not just be purely random. Test your game more and add conditions to make it playable.

With free running games it is important to have some sort of learning curve.