Monorail by AaronGordon
Ride along the rail and crash through the "1"s as you try to avoid the rest!
Pass the other numbers on the opposite side to subtract one from them. Crash through enough "1"s to proceed to the next level.
To play the game:
Download the zip file using the link provided. Extract the files from the zip download and double click "launch".
Please note that the latest version of Java is required to play Monorail.
A game by
Aaron Gordon
Oliver Knott
lilafisch
Alistair Lynn
Special thanks to Sam Phippen
Music by
Moleman - http://www.youtube.com/user/moleman183
Pass the other numbers on the opposite side to subtract one from them. Crash through enough "1"s to proceed to the next level.
To play the game:
Download the zip file using the link provided. Extract the files from the zip download and double click "launch".
Please note that the latest version of Java is required to play Monorail.
A game by
Aaron Gordon
Oliver Knott
lilafisch
Alistair Lynn
Special thanks to Sam Phippen
Music by
Moleman - http://www.youtube.com/user/moleman183
Ratings
| Coolness | 67% | 3 |
| Overall(Jam) | 3.87 | 33 |
| Audio(Jam) | 3.71 | 54 |
| Fun(Jam) | 3.67 | 46 |
| Graphics(Jam) | 3.69 | 160 |
| Humor(Jam) | 1.79 | 409 |
| Innovation(Jam) | 3.50 | 62 |
| Mood(Jam) | 3.52 | 91 |
| Theme(Jam) | 3.74 | 35 |
The concept is great, the game is interesting, as well as a bit addictive.
It wasn't clear to the players that the numbers would count down if they weren't hit by the players.
The switching at times seemed a bit wonky and the player might hit the number while switching, but nothing too game-breakingly unpredictable.
Overall, the game looks good, sounds good, and plays well!
If you want to keep one button maybe try to accelerate on hold click. The problem would be you can't swap on release, but having to release to click again can be a problem especially if you're fast.
Or maybe : The speed always increase and it decreases on swap. So you can try to go full throttle by just making making necessary swaps, or brake hard by double or triple swap.
Anyways congrats for the great intro, your song is still playing while I'm writing it's so good.
The only thing I dislike is how slowly the speed increases. A higher difficulty setting would be very nice.
Also, don't use Zip for the Linux version, because it doesn't preserve permissions - the script needs to be executable (and a #! line would be nice).
(...)\one\monorail\ld28-gdx-desktop>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin\java" -cp "..\ld28-gdx\libs\bloom.jar;..\ld28-gdx-desktop\bin;..\ld28-gdx-desktop\libs\gdx-backend-lwjgl.jar;..\ld28-gdx-desktop\libs\gdx-backend-lwjgl-natives.jar;..\ld28-gdx-desktop\libs\gdx-natives.jar;..\ld28-gdx\bin;..\ld28-gdx\libs\gdx.jar" uk.co.alynn.one.Main
The system cannot find the path specified.
...My Java isn't installed on Program Files (x86), I chose a custom path to install my Java to. Oh well, looks nice, and I wanted to give it a try, to see how challenging the later levels would become, but...
Idea with theme is awesome!
Simple and cool, yeah =)
But nothing stood out for me... :(
It's nice the you tried to make seamless levels, but switching from between them had no animation and was too abrupt. Also, if only (notable) differences were the color and the numbers positions... There's no increase on the speed, no new challenges... this made the game somewhat boring after a while...
Perhaps I didn't play far enough and it would get faster and more challenging - I did stop after 4 or 5 swaps. But those are my only complaints.
Nonetheless, good job!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOHbriI6wnc