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A jam submission

Wind-UP RacerView game page

Submitted by Twymanator (@alex_twyman) — 1 day, 12 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#4963.2303.230
Innovation#5203.2133.213
Overall#6343.1173.117
Graphics#6363.2623.262
Theme#6513.1973.197
Game Design#7083.0493.049
Audio#7752.7542.754

Ranked from 61 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

In what way does your game fit the theme?
This difficult racing game requires you to constantly rewind the wind-up key to your toy car that you can drive around a bedroom.

Did you write most of the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes, I made everything myself. The only thing I did not code was the original car controls and camera controls.

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Submitted(+1)

Cool Concept! Like how you used the theme and its fun/frustrating to try and get to the box with the crazy amount of drift hahah. The biggest thing I would say can be improved is the camera. I feel like the sensitivity is too high and the camera may be too close to the car. Great job!

Developer

thanks for the feedback !

Submitted(+1)

Liked your take on the theme. A car is a bit hard to control, but you can get used to it

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted(+1)

Nice concept of "rewinding". The timer also adds pressure to it what makes it a good challenge. The driving mechanics are a bit difficult to master. Maybe you should place a wet floor sign in the levels :D

Developer

Haha yeah. its icy. added more friction after submission

Submitted(+1)

The idea is good, the game design is really cool. Being so tiny in a giant room is awesome but the car control is really hard, it often slides with anything. And the rewinding mechanic is not something very special, instead of holding a button to accelerate you just tap it and that tires you finger. After the jam work on a few updates and this game would be very fun to play, I would even play it again!

Nice work on the game, my friend, you did a good job!

Developer

Thank you! appreciate the feedback

Submitted(+1)

Cute little racing game. Love the style and the different levels. The car is difficult to control even when it probably shouldn't be, like going up a ramp straight on. Also you can just touch the shoebox from the side and it still counts. Great game, well done!

Developer

Thanks! 

Submitted(+1)

I'm impressed by the quality of the assets. and the game was fun!

Also, i found a little bug when arriving at the shoebox at the very last second. it shows the "gameover" and "you win" screen at the same time.

Developer

thank you for the feedback!  i will have to fix that issue

Submitted(+1)

As the description says its difficult but its fun. <3

Developer(+1)

thank you for playing it. glad you had fun

Submitted

You are welcome. :)

Submitted(+1)

Nice idea and environment. I feel like with the current state of the game, it doesn't feel right constantly right clicking. It doesn't really add anything. If you were to only speed forward on the down of rewind, that may add the thing it's missing. Also, drifting is frustrating yet does add a bit of challenge. Otherwise, nice beginning of a game!

Developer(+1)

Thank you! i understand its hard. i added more friction to make it better to control after submission. appreciate the feedback

Submitted(+1)

Enjoyable game. Felt like i was in Toy Story for a few minutes.

Only thing i was really struggling with were the camera controls. I would have liked to inverse them but it's more of a personal preference i think.

Good job ^^ Would have loved more parcours challenges :)

Developer

yeah the camera controls were changed after submission. thank you for the feedback. i like the parkour challenges too

Submitted(+1)

The game was really cool and the use of rewind in the game was good. The only problem that i had was the camera movement was kinda too fast and the car was really hard to steer

Developer

yeah i agree. thanks for the feedback

Submitted(+1)

I did the idea of playing w a wind up car in a kid's bedroom.  My one recommendation is to add a sound que when the wind up meter is gone.  Nice job!  Keep it up!

Developer

That's a good idea. thanks! 

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Nice!

Submitted(+1)

A really cool idea as a way to use the theme. I'd have liked it a little better if perhaps the winding actually just made you go forward by itself as an accelerator, as the way that it is just meant that I was just driving around while clicking repeatedly. I really liked the style and gameplay though, it was cool to slide it around!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

I loved playing this game and I see soo much potential if you do some changes.

What I liked:

  • Tutorial section to pratice
  • Room layout is very nice and detailed
  • Reminds me of Toy story
  • Jumping off Ramp is awesome 
  • all the bits and pieces laying around on the floor

Improvements 

  • Rewinding sound would add more game feel 
  • Fix car drift , too much right now 
  • No time limit or more so you can explore the room
  • Restart option (When car knocks over, I just have to wait since I can do nothing)
  • Camera stationary like in driving games or limited rotation view more
  • Other toys to interact with like monster truck, police cars , bandits , trains sets, roller coasters etc.

Bugs 

  • Nothing I could find. Well done!

Really impressed with the game and the room looks amazing. Really reminded me of playing with toy cars as a kid.  Check out my game too when you have a chance. I would love your feedback <3

Developer(+1)

Thanks for this awesome post! Thanks for the feedback! There is a restart feature in the pause menu. I should mention that in the description

Submitted(+1)

Nice game and aesthetics. Controls feel a little slippery and I feel that clicking  doesn't add much to the game. Maybe if the initial wind-up was all you got that and you'd have to stop at the right place could be better (although that wouldn't fit the theme). 

Developer

i agree. the friction was changed after the submission process was over and its much better to control. The wind-up mechanic was kinda hard to choose what to do. i like the mechanic right now, but I think it needs some type of improvement

Submitted(+1)

We loved the game! It's so much fun drive and drift around the room, the only thing that it's really anoying it's the camera control, because it's inverted controls to rotate it.  Also we played your game listening to Inital D ost's after finishing all levels to have more fun xD!

Developer

haha that's awesome! thanks for the feedback

Submitted(+1)

Really nice game. LOVED the room art great work!!

Developer

thank you

Submitted(+1)

Good job I like the idea and its really fun to play but I think you could get more wind time as it just feels like I am just spamming the mouse all the time to keep going

Developer

definitely agree on that! thanks for the feedback

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Developer

Thank you!

Submitted(+1)

Music is interesting. I love drifting the car. I wish there was more time to explore the room. Nice job on the 3d enviornment!

Developer

yeah i should add a room with no timer for the player to explore

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