Roundabout Way by Quandtm
Screenshots
Find your exit!
You're stuck at the centre of the world's largest roundabout! You don't know how you got there. To be honest, you're not really convinced of the practicality of such a large roundabout. Regardless, you're in the middle and you need to get out!
How to Play
What to do
Change lanes while avoiding collisions with other vehicles. When you're at the outermost lane, wait for your exit and then head out!
Red lanes are fast lanes. You know... because red goes faster?
Blue lanes are carpool lanes. They generally go slower (because they don't want to spill the water in their carpools).
Controls
"Roundabout Way" supports both keyboard and controller input.
| Control | Description | |-----------------------------------|--------------------------------------| | Left / A / D-Pad Left | Move one lane closer to the centre | | Right / D / D-Pad Right | Move one lane further from the centre| | Up / W / Right Trigger | Accelerate | | Down / S / Left Trigger | Slow Down |
Who Made This?
Team Members
| User | Credits | |--------------------|--------------------------------------| | @quandtm | Programming | | @tad | Art, Music |
Extra Credits
| Credit for | Credit to | |---------------------|-------------------------------------------------| | Car Sounds | All retrieved under Creative Commons 0 Licenses | | Bellerose (font) | Harris Design, used royalty-free for non-commercial purposes | | Day Roman (font) | Apostrophic Labs, used royalty-free for non-commercial purposes |
Ratings
| Overall | 86th | 4.155⭐ | 118🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 45th | 4.181⭐ | 118🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 345th | 3.743⭐ | 117🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 15th | 4.5⭐ | 118🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 167th | 4.293⭐ | 118🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 151th | 3.982⭐ | 116🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 307th | 3.495⭐ | 111🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 347th | 3.823⭐ | 112🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 78🗳️ | 88🗨️ |
Edit: it works!
This game is a delight to play!
* First of all, great music!
* Second, I thought the crashing cars was executed so great! I have to admit I tried crashing the cars on purpose to see what would happen. really awesome camera work with being slightly out of focus!
* Lastly, this was a perfect match with the theme!
Great job, I had a lot of fun!
Freedom!
Great entry !
Pretty chill music, too!
It is also a lot of fun watching the madness on the game over screen after you crash!
Very clear and easy gameplay.
I enjoy to play it.
Great game with a fitting theme!
My first time - after many crashes - was 01:06, later I did it in 00:35.575, abd I guess I'll keep this tab open to keep playing later
Great take on the theme
Great entry, very easy to learn and a very good title for quick 5-minutes during Subway run to work. Would be very cool mobile title as well.
Well done guys!
The idea is really solid and the game controls really well.
It's fun to speedrun and the music makes it 10 times better.
Not an easy start but I succeeded
i like the end screen when all cars crash into each other
and now I am ready for Paris
@oxropy It's a good point - we probably should have had "r" as a restart button. At the moment, you can press esc and then enter to get back into the game from the "uh-oh" screen, if that helps! :)
Very nice and good looking game. A perfect example of a LD game! Simple, quick and fun. The graphics, music and SFX are very nice. The gameplay is simple but addictive.
I might be nitpicking but I have two points: It would be nice to be able to restart the game immediately, instead of going to the main-menu and then click "begin".
And because of the randomization of the cars (which is a nice feature) you can get lucky with your fastest time
Overall very well done, I really liked it!
Very fun game: good graphics, great music and perfectly fits in the theme. Only complaint would be that it's a bit short: it would gain to have multiples levels (but I understand it easier said than done, especially with limited time during the jam). Overall, it's a really good game
To improve:
* Add the "Begin" using some key closer to WASD Keys, the same to "Return to Menu"
- Don't force me to return to menu and then back to game. Just let me press enter or something so I can try again as soon as possible! Since there is so much accidents waiting to happen, it can be quite frustrating to be forced to do two clicks just to get back to the game
- I was quite confused why my truck was losing speed when switching lanes. It seems logical to me if one would remain their speed that they have to change manually. Sometimes this was unpredictable and frustrating.
But seriously, I enjoyed the game so very much, played it for way too long - these were only two problems I had with otherwise great game with great sounds and graphics. Nice job!!!
I think you should make the buttons a little more striking, it is a bit difficult to see them at first!
And the gameplay loop was addicting too! Great work!
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Feel free to ignore most of the things due to jam scope, etc, but I'm giving feedback assumming you would keep working in the game.
Could've been better:
- Accessibility things such as adding UI controls with the same input you use for the game
- Gameplay variety: such as different levels layouts
- Customization: Choosing your car color before you play
- Floating UI arrow is not well communicated, kinda confusing and hard to understand at first
Good points:
- Working with gamepad, that's cool
- Scope size the project is short and sweet
- Easily understandable, quick to learn and play
Did you guys model everything and made all music? That's impressive. The track is really cool, congrats Tad!
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Thanks for the experience you provided with your game!
+gameplay felt innovative and was a breath of fresh air
+graphics were on point
+music and sfx were solid
-death screen could be improved so you see the chaos more clearly!
Best game I've played so far, congrats!