Maize Runner by miltage
Your narcoleptic brother Jim has fallen asleep at the wheel of the family's combine harvester again!
Can you make it home before you're ground to a fine grain and sold at the farmer's market?
LEFT/RIGHT: move
UP: jump
PS: Keep out of the corn, it slows you down!
I found out at the last minute that my web build doesn't want to work properly, so you'll have to download this game to experience it. Sorry Mac and Linux users. :sob:


| Link | https://github.com/Miltage/ldjam52 |
| Link | https://miltage.itch.io/maize-runner |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/maize-runner |
Ratings
| Overall | 48th | 3.929⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 24th | 4.048⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 149th | 3.375⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 63th | 4.125⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 22th | 4.286⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 71th | 3.675⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 17th | 4⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 42th | 3.9⭐ | 22🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 22🗳️ | 17🗨️ |
Have to say, I found out, you can kinda cheat the game a bit: just continuously jumping lets you outrun the harvester, you only need to change position for the high fences.
Also love the rest of the game, super cool take on the theme, models/animations all look beautiful with a very good-looking art style and the sound design (as already mentioned above too) is amazing. Love the sounds when the fences etc are harvested by Jim. The framing story is also very funny, that made me laugh. Great job all around, well done!
Seriosly the game is very well done, the sounds are fun, the art the mood, the humor everything is very nice :)
Then I got greedy and looked for if you made it change for the left/right obstacles but couldn't see it.. Would be pretty coool! ;)
Nitpick obviously, solid impressive entry

Great work!
If I remember correctly, it was made in Godot beta? If so then web builds should run only on Chromium browsers and on itch with the uh experimental setting enabled on web settings there. Besides that compiling a linux or a mac edition shouldn't take too long and I can check if it works if you want~
I first thought that there was a potato driving the harvester but then only after a further inspection noticed that it was a sleeping person :laughing:
Also no worries about the missing web build. The windows binary ran really smoothly in wine on Linux