Run the World! by Monty
About the game
Your goal is to go from Rio de Janeiro (where I was born) to Lisbon (where I live), avoiding the traffic. Along the way, you pass by Toronto (a place I've been before), after all, it's a small world!
My jam on this
I always wanted to make a Outrun-like game; and this was not the time I satisfied this itch. Considering that this is my first foray into racing games, and that I did using nothing more than C++ and SDL, for a weekend, it's not bad. For some weird reason, the Emscripten verison won't load the fonts?!
Links:
Emscripten build: http://montyprojects.com/runtheworld/game.html
Source code: https://github.com/TheFakeMontyOnTheRun/run-the-world-LD38
It is known to work on Linux and OSX.
Controls - Space for handbrake/selecting menu items - Up, down, left and right to control the car.
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/38/run-the-world |
Ratings
| Overall | 664th | 2.818⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 631th | 2.636⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 674th | 2.455⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 698th | 2.545⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 600th | 2.818⭐ | 35🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 492th | 2.033⭐ | 32🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 589th | 2⭐ | 28🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 640th | 2.667⭐ | 29🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 42🗳️ | 13🗨️ |
The collision detection was a bit frustrating in that if you hit a car, you'd stop - and the car you hit would slowwwwly move away, so you'd just hit it again. It would be better if the car zoomed off faster so you had a chance to avoid it.
It was fun though: i played it for way too long!
I will eventually get back to it and fix this aspect. I was so displeased with the collision that I even considered removing the other cars. the amount of work put into rendering those convinced me to keep it, tho.
I had more courses planned - I might get back and add it. and a proper ending? yeah, lots of plans :)
this mostly seems like an exercise for you on the subject, more than an actual game
good effort anyway!
Fun one, I even like the motor sound :-)
The collisions are frustrating, and the other cars might benefit from being in a different color.
And nice car graphics by the way!
Going to Lisbon through Canada, so much fun.
It would be cool to have some 8 bit music. ;)
Still have Outrun on the computer too...
and I think I played it for 6 loops or something before quitting... it's more fun than it looks.
(and i dont like when i crash into a car it comes back in the distance... and because it's so short distance, i cant avoid hitting that same car again...)
Gotta admit that while Outrun was the main inspiration, I was really aiming for the graphical style of TopGear
It does capture that OutRun fun factor - especially when turning the sense of speed is great. Good simple sound effects too. I'd try and get rid of the green grass background and make something nice and glitchy like the far backgrounds, and maybe change the car design to match that as well.
Also, even if it was kinda buggy, it's cool to see a retro style aesthetic. I don't mean in the pixel art kind of way, I mean in the it has the genuine feel of an old arcade game kind of way.
A bit hard to control though, seems very hard to avoid enemy cars. Am I missing something?
A little wonky with the 3D rendering... the movement of the other cars isn't very predictable and it's really hard to avoid them (especially after recovering from hitting one!).
I noticed that being in grass isn't that much of a disadvantage, so you can just sit off to the side and spam up arrow with no drawback.
Other than that, nice job for a 48-hour game jam. Well done!
Anyway great job ! It also maybe lack some kind of entertaining music that will push you to continue ! I think I would loved that :
But yeah, music would certainly help making the mood!
There are some issues with the game-play at the moment - the biggest for me was not being able to judge where the other cars were on the road as I was going round bends - so I was just hitting them over and over again.
If you could fix these little issues and add sound then this would be a wonderful homage to Out Run! Excellent work.
Other misc. feedback:
-Some music would be nice
-More interesting scenery would be nice
-The graphics are simple but the feel definitely reminds me of those old arcade games.
(mac, safari) Thanks for the trip down memory lane! Congrats!
@guitarbro if I were a guitarbro, maybe the game would be more musical ;-P
@joemid thats quite bizarre! also surprising that it runs on Safari at all - I didn't test it (despite also using a Mac). And the 7800 is such a underrated machine...
Thank you all, guys!
