Running From Power by MichaelGrand

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made by MichaelGrand for LD 39 (JAM)

Controls: Space to jump.

Goal: Get as far as you can without crashing.

Screen Shot 2017-07-31 at 12.01.47 AM.png

Ratings

Overall 715th 2.897⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Fun 628th 2.828⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 803th 2.241⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Theme 454th 3.448⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Humor 522th 2.074⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Given 28🗳️ 37🗨️

Feedback

Quemagalletas
31. Jul 2017 · 11:30 UTC
Nice work, but I would maybe after a crash could be nice to restore the position of the car to the original one, at least for example if you don't crash in x seconds.
elit3dgaming
01. Aug 2017 · 07:44 UTC
Good game, I agree with @Quemagalletas
GuillaumeM
01. Aug 2017 · 08:01 UTC
Good game too,think is really fast, i have some difficulty to ses what's happen when i have a lot of energy.
I scored 70. After it's really difficult.
Jesper Fyhr Knudsen
01. Aug 2017 · 08:36 UTC
Humming Always (by Erasure) to my self. Good challenging entry.
Xsior
01. Aug 2017 · 12:16 UTC
THe game is fun little runner but speed get really confusing when you have over half of the energy. There is also a bug where best distance resets to 32.09 every time I start a game.
Bill Zeng
02. Aug 2017 · 03:26 UTC
I think the proper way to play this game is by yoloing into all of the energy packs. gotta be a man. gud game.
Chris Coe
02. Aug 2017 · 03:47 UTC
Amusing little game. Could use a bit of music, ideally something really cheesy! It was awesome how fast you could go, and a couple times I jumped just right at such a high speed that I went flying off the screen. Those were the best moments.
ultrarat
02. Aug 2017 · 07:11 UTC
Fun little game. I do think it'd be good if it the title screen waiting until it got a full click before continuing. Basically, since I generally died when space was pressed the game would immediately restart instead of waiting until I released and pressed again.
GoldRanger
02. Aug 2017 · 09:12 UTC
It's a Simply and fun little game. My highest score is 172
However, the way I get this score is trying to avoid all the battery and keep at a comfortable speed.
I think this is not really an healthy system.

Here is some little opinion:
I think there are two ways may do a little improvement of the game
First one is let you win when you can full battery charge
But I think this may be too difficult and not match with your high score system

I think the second one may be cooler
In current system, if you get push back, you just back and can't get forward again unless you died
if I can go a little bit forward everytime I eat battery. It will encourage me to eat battery.
Also, if you keep eating and going forward, your risk to hit on sth are higher!
Therefore, I think that may be a more funny and more balance system!
IndieAlchemist
02. Aug 2017 · 11:11 UTC
Nice game. I like the idea of the mechanic that the more power you have the faster you go. I agree with @goldranger on how to improve the mechanic. The second one is cool. Also some particles and making the batteries disappear when you take them would be good. Good job
stoffe
02. Aug 2017 · 14:46 UTC
Fun speed runner that had a little twist that you could set the difficulty level yourself.
I made it to 325 meters, but I only drove at half speed, else it was to hard.

The game could have been more fun if you did what @goldranger suggested in his comment.
kl0z
02. Aug 2017 · 18:01 UTC
Nice game!

I agree with @goldranger having a way to move forward with a thrust that eats energy and a win condition.

Also agree with @chriscoe Coe the mood would improve grately with some trepidant music, I'm thinking sort of g-switch soundtrack (http://vascof.com/GSwitch.html).

Another thing, when you go fast and press spacebar continuosly you dont fall through the holes.

I scored around 200 the strategy was not picking up all the energy boosts as if I go slower its easier. The win condition of full battery would solve this.

Congrats!
Improx Games
02. Aug 2017 · 20:09 UTC
A cute little game. The car just stopping on collision and going off screen with no sound effects or anything looked so funny it made me laugh. Good work.
Vivoubos
02. Aug 2017 · 21:48 UTC
That game is for me : don't take the green pills, or you go too fast to do anything!

Nice concept and well realise.
So bad that the car don't come back to the right after hit (without die) a wall.
Good job!
Aterlamia
02. Aug 2017 · 22:02 UTC
fun little runner game, i did miss music and or sound. And the speed got quickly out of hand i wouldlike a slower start but then again this does challenge you to try and try again.
superpokeunicorn
02. Aug 2017 · 23:30 UTC
This game is pretty basic, but it's at least elegant in it's simplicity, only requiring one button. I also really like the way the game transitions from the title screen right into gameplay so smoothly. The visuals are simple, but serviceable and you get a pretty good sense of speed as you keep playing. That being said, with how fast you're going, it's really difficult to dodge things, giving you only a few frames to react to oncoming obstacles. I never really ran out of power because I would just get hit by an obstacle first. That aside, this is a decent entry and I had fun playing it.
pjnovas
02. Aug 2017 · 23:55 UTC
haha it's so fast I don't feel I can get any better on it with just keep trying with randomly hit the space bar. I had one good run and got to 65. Maybe a minimap to anticipate obstacles could get it more fun. good entry!
bakudas
03. Aug 2017 · 01:30 UTC
Simple and fun!
Good job.
Nordtraveller
03. Aug 2017 · 11:48 UTC
It`s simple idea, but game is too fast, it`s impossible to jump on platform when you see that, becouse u will jump over at that speed.
SVR_Audio
03. Aug 2017 · 13:48 UTC
I love runners, and man, this game is really fast, it insane how fast it gets, I really liked, the faster you get the harder it is to be "alive" and this is cool, the game could have a random stage generator to make the replay factor even better. I loved the game is fast, challenging and fun, great job !
Jupiter_Hadley
16. Aug 2017 · 18:35 UTC
Good start! I included it in my Ludum Dare 39 compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtt-Piir6X0