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A jam submission

Monke BrakeView game page

Made for MonkeyJam 2024
Submitted by Aquanoctis — 2 hours, 19 minutes before the deadline
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How does your game fit the theme?
It's a racing game on a bicycle! All the fun of rhythmically hitting 2 buttons to take victory!

Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 4 days?

Yes

Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 4 days?

Yes

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

One of the best representation of cycling mechanic on jam! It's really fun to play. Visually game also looks very cool. Great game!

Submitted(+1)

I have no idea how I won, I crashed like at least 50 times. Love to see a GMS2 game, since all my past games were made in it. Some janky physics for sure, but a fun unique cycling race game. Fun art, and fun music too. Nice little game here (I gotta crunch out these last 3 (2 now) games for me to play cya)

Submitted(+1)

Camera's pretty disorienting, while the paddling mechanic is pretty unique, it could have probably paired better with something else for the controls, idk, you do you. games pretty nice, i was on the wrong lane the whole time, dont tell anyone lmao

Submitted(+1)

This game is nearly impossible to control. Even after i understood them, and began putting in perfect after perfect the map turned wayyy too sharply for me to follow. there was also 0 way to react to cars coming either direction. Solid concept though, with a little tweaking would be incredibly fun!

Submitted(+1)

It was quite difficult at first, but the moment i figured out how the controls work - i was unstoppable! Such a fun game! It's short but it's just the right amount of short. The art is so cute and adorable and amazing and other adjectives! It's a perfect 5 minute adventure! Love it!

Submitted(+1)

So I did had some diffictulty understanding the controls, but once I somehow got them (even though they skill confused me) it was actually pretty fun, although when I nearly reached the finish line I somehow got stuck in the forest, but fortunately a car hit me while trying to get out and then I could actually finish the game! I liked the art style and that you actually had a goal which motivated me a lot to keep going to eventually reach that goal! So overall pretty fun game, escpecially when you are riding fast it got a really good feeling 😊 (until you get hit by another car 😂)

Submitted(+1)

The controls were a little hard to understand at first, and I felt as though there was not much merit to hitting A and D at all, aside from every now and then to get perfect (seems like acceleration overwrites even if it's slower), and I also got stuck on a wall once. That said, the art and music were great, and I actually enjoyed the concept quite a bit.

Developer

Thanks for the feedback, it’s much appreciated! Yeah, the ‘acceleration curve’ for how much boost you get from each tier of pedalling could definitely be adjusted. With the way the numbers work out a ‘Great’ is almost just as good as a ‘Perfect’ in terms of how much acceleration you get, so I definitely could’ve tweaked it to more slowly ramp up in acceleration gain, with only a ‘Perfect’ giving you that big speed increase.

Submitted(+1)

Fun Game, didnt really understood the controls, annoying cars everywhere but kinda fun anyway

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing! Aha, sorry, yeah the game is a little too random generation, and not enough procedural generation so sometimes the traffic does just decide to make you miserable en masse!

Submitted(+1)

Very unique take on riding the bike! It was hard to get the hang of it at first, but in the end it was a a very cool experience!

Developer

Hey, thank you! For sure, an easier practise area at the very beginning would help ease people into it a bit more I think, rather than instantly barraging them with traffic!

Submitted(+1)

If you think you know generally what kind of "cycling" games you'll see in this jam, you will be proven wrong and wrong again. The game starts by pulling you out of a 2D top down into this funky 2D-3D look and blows you away with its funky movement and sort of QTE pedaling. I need to come back and master this because I absolutely suck at it, but man is it cool and unique. The art is great and the music is groovy and intense. Great Game!  

Developer

Glad you liked it, thanks very much for playing! :D

Submitted(+1)

I love the art!! Spinning the camera around was kinda alot but i thought the gameplay was great!

Developer

Thanks! Yeah, the camera can be pretty dizzying, apologies!

Submitted(+1)

Sprite stacking? YESSIR. It's really impressive for a gamejam game to have sprite stacking, congrats!!

It was really hard at the beginning but when i got used to the controls it felt nice.
The music was SOOO loud though i wish there was a way to lower the volume.
The camera angle kinda messed up my head, but got used to it.
And the game crashed at the end, which wasn't much of a problem since i've had already finished it.
Overall pretty good!

Submitted

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Here's the crash log

Developer

Nooo, sorry for the crash and the loud music! Thanks for the bug report. When you say it happened ‘at the end’ was this once the race was over and you got the little ending illustration? Or was it just as you crossed the finish line? Thanks for playing though!

Submitted

Really cool wanted to play it more but 2 hands on the keyboard doesn't really work well for me and I couldn't play it properly. Good luck!

Developer

Ah sorry to hear that. If I end up working on this more post jam I’ll try to implement some alternate control schemes. Thanks anyways!

Submitted

Wow, love the style of this one, my brain is sore from playing it though (especially with the way the camera moves around XD.

I got so close so many times, but then I'd get hit by a car or run into trees due to the crazy swinging camera :P. In the end, I was unable to finish because the world itself threw a curve ball at me... I'm guessing this happened because I took too long to learn the gameplay, and the road pathed back into itself somehow? :P

Either way, amazing job! :).

Developer (4 edits)

Aha sorry! Yeah that’s an issue I found too late and there’s a chance with the random generation the road will overlap itself. Only way to resolve it to restart sadly.

Thanks for playing though! (The game just sort of…ends once you catch up anyway lol so you pretty much did it anyway :D)