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Mad Wheel : Furry Maxster by squirrelsoft

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made by squirrelsoft for Ludum Dare 47 (JAM)

Furry Maxster has found himself in the thunder wheel where he will dive and dash to save his life and entertain the crowd.

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Screen2.jpg

  • Left and Right arrows : Dash left or right
  • Down arrow : Dive under a tall obstacle
  • + - : Change volume
  • M : Mute music and or SFX

Majority of the crowd sfx comes from https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

Furry2.gif

Post LD Version(s)

All the versions (and their release notes) are available here.

+12 Days Version release notes

  • More visible keys on right and left
  • Booing on hit and gameover
  • One wheel part over 3 is now blacken for sake of readability
  • Wider wiremesh on right
  • Make transparent the obstacle that reach the last visible wheel part
  • Red flickering on hit
  • Cheering and fire sheaf on a successful slide
Youtube https://squirrelsoft.itch.io/postld47-mad-wheel-furry-maxster
Youtube https://squirrelsoft.itch.io/ld47-mad-wheel-furry-maxster
Youtube https://github.com/squirrelsoftcompany/LD47/releases/download/%2B12DaysVersion/Windows_+12DaysVersion.zip
Youtube https://github.com/squirrelsoftcompany/LD47/releases/download/LD_Version/Windows_LDVersion.zip
Youtube https://github.com/squirrelsoftcompany/LD47
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/mad-wheel-furry-maxster

Ratings

Overall 1581th 2.704⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1481th 2.596⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1564th 2.423⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Theme 840th 3.593⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1323th 2.904⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Audio 1001th 2.673⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Humor 391th 3.315⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1363th 2.76⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Given 54🗳️ 25🗨️

Feedback

ROBOWARRIOR1982
06. Oct 2020 · 16:44 UTC
Graphics is very cool, maybe it lack of animation, the fake 3D effect work fine and there is a lot of humour in this entry ! Good work !
iorena
08. Oct 2020 · 12:28 UTC
Incredible! A familiar genre combined with a familiar theme in a humorous way. The cheering sounds and graphics of the audience really completed it. If I have to nitpick something I would say that the taking damage/hitting obstacle sound doesn't fit in very well with the rest of the audiovisual theme, maybe it could have been something more brutal?
Sharked
08. Oct 2020 · 12:31 UTC
Funny ! I like the 2D art you've chosen. I would prefere the wheel rolls linearly instead of frame per frame, but it works !
benjamin
08. Oct 2020 · 12:38 UTC
I love the wheel setup. It seems you did all the math for the fake 3D effect so why not pushing the effort and interpolate obstacle positions between each step ? I think you could get very smooth wheel move this way ! Anyway, nice hamtaro madmax mashup ! :hamster: :crossed_swords:
Jooky
08. Oct 2020 · 12:39 UTC
Игра интересная,только у меня немного подлагивает почему-то.
Vivien Fargette
08. Oct 2020 · 12:51 UTC
Nice wheel and take on the theme. The game could use a more fluid turning wheel. Putting the controls easily visible would help (and you have space to put them on top left or top right of the screen). Other than that, I enjoyed it as it is quite creative and humourus
kack3y
08. Oct 2020 · 13:56 UTC
Thanks you everybody, we are happy that you enjoyed the game :)

@jooky we aren't able to read Cyrillic alphabet but I feel that you enjoyed our game and we thank you for this.

@robowarrior1982 @iorena we had a lot of struggle to make all the graphics and audio so it leads to the lacks of animations and too cheap sfx, we will try next time to plan better our works.

@benjamin A lot of the math is done by unity and even it is quite hard to do in 3 days ^^" but we did the best we could.

@vivien-fargette @sharked we know that some would prefer to have a fluid wheel but we really like to add some retro mechanics in our games :p
Ryano
09. Oct 2020 · 07:47 UTC
Challenging little game. I appreciated the Mad Max references and thought you did a good job with the 3D wheel effect. Thanks for the game!
arron-fowler
13. Oct 2020 · 09:37 UTC
There was fun in this idea but not in the actual playing of it. I found it hard to judge distance and could have done with an impact animation. Maybe some shading on the blocks nearest would help with distance. I did think it was funny.
kack3y
14. Oct 2020 · 13:30 UTC
@ryano it's an actual 3d wheel ^^ but with some pixel art treatment to make it more like we wanted ;) thanks for your comment

@arron-fowler Yep we are aware of this problem and we are working on our spare time to do something about that and deliver a new version ;) we appreciate that you liked the idea
RedHermit
16. Oct 2020 · 02:49 UTC
Great little challenge! Love the hamster wheel idea, I went the same route, but with a completely different experience. Had some great laughs playing too, nice work on your entry!
vrerabek
19. Oct 2020 · 09:33 UTC
haha I laughed while playing this game. Very cute :smile:
PTSnoop
19. Oct 2020 · 17:09 UTC
I'm still not sure whether these are giant hamsters, or tiny motorbikes...

I think the sound really helps sell this one - I love the juxtaposition of the baying croud against that poor injured-hamster squeak noise. My high score was 18053!
kack3y
19. Oct 2020 · 17:39 UTC
Thanks you all for your comments

@redhermit I have the impression that the hamster wheel idea is really mainstream for this theme :sweat_smile:

@vrerabek glad to make you happy :)

@ptsnoop Tiny bikes or giant hamster... :thinking: I will let you choose what you prefer :).
We wanted to have an innocent mc :angel_tone3: but in a cruel world :smiling_imp: good if the sound helps you to enjoy it ;)
Flying Dog Fish
21. Oct 2020 · 22:13 UTC
Funny game. Cute character. I never needed to dive because I could always move aside. Animation moving in big steps was a bit distracting.