Very Fast Robot Rolling at High Speed by binary_coder
You play as a small wheel robot with an very short battery life. Recharge at exposed electrical fields, charge other ports to open doors. Use your momentum to sneak past the turrets.
Controls: Arrow Keys/WASD to move R to restart
| Windows | https://www.dropbox.com/s/mpc6es2rl7m2m39/LD39standalone.exe?dl=0 |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/very-fast-robot-rolling-at-high-speed |
Ratings
| Overall | 84th | 3.818⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 55th | 3.818⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 50th | 3.909⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 11th | 4.429⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 380th | 3.091⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 348th | 2.762⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 231th | 3.2⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 29🗳️ | 14🗨️ |
Jumping can be a little finicky on sharp corners and some of the timing with the turrets seems to need to be *too* exact, or maybe I'm just missing something haha. When I discovered the double-jump I was like OHHH.
[This](///raw/dea/a/z/64ba.png) level is currently giving me a run for my money, I can get over to the right but timing that jump up onto the left ledge is super tricky.
I'm going to keep trying at it and if I get through it I'll update!
Overall a really fun little game, definitely going to be keeping this cute little robot!
Jumping can be a little finicky on sharp corners and some of the timing with the turrets seems to need to be *too* exact, or maybe I'm just missing something haha. When I discovered the double-jump I was like OHHH.
This level is currently giving me a run for my money, I can get over to the right but timing that jump up onto the left ledge is super tricky. [robot1.PNG](///raw/dea/a/z/64ba.png)
I'm going to keep trying at it and if I get through it I'll update!
Overall a really fun little game, definitely going to be keeping this cute little robot!
*Update: so I downloaded the project and ran it through Game Maker. Glad I'm did. The game is very well done, the controls and movement feel very polished, the graphics and sound are good. Solid entry. Really fun to play game. Also there's many levels with different mechanics all introduced progressively in the right order and time.*
Some notes:
- Not a big fan of an installer rather than just an exe download. Don't think it's necessary, particularly for game maker.
- Jumping is pretty broken. I raged a few times because when I jumped I would go super high and hit a ceiling and lose all my momentum and have to try again like 50 times. Seems to happen mostly on slopes. Besides this bug I didn't notice anything wrong with the physics.
Good work!
though the level with the turrets is really hard.
Barring that, the idea is wonderful, the implementation is great, and the art looks good!
Having to install the game rather than it just being a runnable executable is a bit of a hastle though.
I also like the progression of mechanics and difficulty, it's surprisingly smooth for a LD game.
Good job!
-m
Some randomness in the sounds (e.g, in pitch) could be nice to make the sounds not as repetitive imho, but other than that, it was quite fitting.
The controls felt fine as well, maybe the jump was too high all the time. Shame there wasn't option to jump less. :)