Get Away by Achilles

made by Achilles for LD21 (-)

This is a game where you have to evade the police in your get-away car as you race across the desert. Well, that's what it is supposed to be anyway. This was my first LD48 and it was quite the learning experience. I used Java with the Slick2D engine, which I had never used before. I didn't get it finished, but I am happy I got something.

Controls:Arrow keys for steering and gas/brake

The arrow at the top points to the target.

Avoid police cars and cacti.

Windows	http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1539676/Get%20Away/Get_Away.jar
Source	http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1539676/Get%20Away/GetAwaysrc.jar
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-21/?action=preview&uid=4968

Ratings

Coolness	0%	418
Overall	2.09	441

Audio	2.27	226
Community	1.00	529
Fun	2.09	397
Graphics	2.36	341
Humor	1.63	307
Innovation	2.00	415
Theme	3.09	219

Feedback

Spigot

22. Aug 2011 · 19:29 UTC

Well, there's not much to do :)

The game's intuitive, but the enemies are completely unchallenging.
I appreciate that you took the time to include sound, however - too many games are silent.

wally2069

23. Aug 2011 · 20:20 UTC

The sound started out kind of loud. It would have been nice to explain controls in game but otherwise good job.

Shigor

25. Aug 2011 · 22:38 UTC

I've tried three times, always just drove straight for the end (only once i got hit by police car which promptly disappeared). After I hit the target game tells me I've escaped and then crashes. Boring, there's no challenge.

Rudy

26. Aug 2011 · 16:03 UTC

Very simple. Controls are not well done, acceleration and turning is very slow. View range is also too short. Terrain could use some variety. Engine sound is very annoying. No real challenge but to drive straight off once you know where cops are.

vitae

27. Aug 2011 · 19:29 UTC

Far too easy. Enemies not very threatening.

siebharinn

27. Aug 2011 · 21:36 UTC

Couldn't get it to run, but I'll admit that my Java runtime is probably borked on this machine. I'll figure it out and give it another try.