Moving Day by SeanAtr0n

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made by SeanAtr0n for LD22 (COMPO)
Your best friend is moving away tonight, so sad. You already feel so alone... like really alone... perhaps insanely alone. Hey, is that your friend? I bet you can catch them!

Whew, I had to cut quite a few things (including animating the player's arms, who needs arms...) but managed to finish in time.

This is my first flash game, I started learning flash this week and it has been a lot of fun. (This is also the most 'complete' game I've worked on so far, Thanks for the motivation!) I'll probably continue working on it a bit more to explore Flixel and to see if this gliding mechanic would be fun with better planned obstacles.

Note: This game includes the mandatory kitten! (vote for meee!)

Controls: Mouse movement controls pitch while gliding, click to Jump. Escape to reset the game. The cursor isn't loaded at first but you can still click play. (the button will light up when you are over it)

Gameplay Note: You can jump higher by pulling up with the mouse, but you will be sacrificing run speed. You can regain some run-speed if you dive mid-jump.

Ratings

Coolness 48% 248
Overall 2.25 532
Audio 2.13 364
Community 2.55 318
Fun 2.30 379
Graphics 1.95 573
Humor 1.76 357
Innovation 1.95 531
Mood 1.88 498
Theme 2.65 342

Feedback

Okkwogg
19. Dec 2011 路 17:47 UTC
I went running so fast that I left my friend behind! haa
And that was the last time I saw him.
A simple yet funny game. :)
FrankieSmileShow
20. Dec 2011 路 06:20 UTC
Neat game, but even though I managed to beat it im still not entirely sure how it works!
Dark Acre Jack
20. Dec 2011 路 18:43 UTC
I ran, died, and was eaten by a cat. I, too, was disappointed by the feedback to my responses :P
馃帳 SeanAtr0n
21. Dec 2011 路 18:57 UTC
Thanks for playing! I'm not intentionally trying to screw with the player in the end, I just ran out of time to implement a scoring system or some sort of positive feedback :P
caranha
22. Dec 2011 路 22:07 UTC
Interesting game, I love runners. The kitten in the end was a bit creepy though.

Why did you scrap your original psychedelic graphics (from the blog), those looked more interesting :-)

Some suggestions:
* The obstacle course seems completely random - at least one time I got a run that was completely devoid of obstacles past the first two - you might want to tweak that.

* I ran past my friend, woooosh!

* After a time, the background starts to flicker. I wonder if this is intentional, but it sure does look like a glitch.

Thanks for the game!
summaky
26. Dec 2011 路 18:27 UTC
It looks like a canabalt-like game; funny, but not that innovative. Also, the cat when one lose doesn't fit at all and looks stupid, frankly. The music is OK but it would be better if it looped.
SonnyBone
29. Dec 2011 路 18:54 UTC
Whenever I play, there are mounds of mailboxes right at the start that I can't jump over because I'm going slow. There is no way to build up speed, so I can never manage to catch up to my friends.