greetings! alright here’s a little PS. for the Sewer Rat Racer.

This is my first real Ludum Dare and my first ‘working’ game in Unity.
I really wanted to focus this LD on programming and game-mechanics to learn
a lot about Unity, but surprise, it went totally different once i got started.

I already had a cool idea for a racing game in mind, but it didn’t quite fit the Beneath the surface theme, still I really liked this idea so i wanted to go for a racing game either way so i could learn about racing game mechanics and perhaps reuse my code for this other game…Then I quickly came up with the Rats on Jetski’s idea and was totally psyched..so much that i spend about a whole day modeling the rats, rigging bones, animating (originally i had a kind of triathlon in mind which also involved running, where the jetski’s were introduced later.)

Anyway you get the idea, 2 days went by (with lots of import problems), but i had an animated rat on a jetski, some sewers with water, particles and stuff but not a line of code yet. I was set out for the 48hour compo but now i strong doubts i was even gonna make the Jam. Still I wanted to offer the experience to be able to cruise around the sewers on a jetski and get generally getting an idea if this sewer race idea was cool enought to pursuit further after the compo..I spend most of the last day working on simple pathfinding for the other rats, and in the last two hours i managed to slap in a finishline with timer, suddenly realising i had the chance of actually releasing something that could be classified as a playable game.

what went wrong :
Yeah..so in no way I managed to do what i had intended as a learning experience, and spend most of my time on things i already knew how to do (modeling/animating) i have been a working as a modeler and animator professionally. I guess you can call it bad planning, but I still believe the graphics and mood as it is now comes close to how I envisioned the experience also it is hard to downscale your ambitious idea into something that can be made in 2 or 3 days

what went right :
everything else, i had an awesome time making this, right now playing and commenting other games..already looking forward to the next LD

What now:
I really want to thank everybody who has took the time to play the game and supply me with their comments so far, i understand the gameplay could be a lot better, and there is a big list of features i had to cut in the process. But comment are so very inspiring and  i’ve already started working on the first updates: better water, better AI..so yeah i will release a post updated sewer rat racer at some point!

thanx!

play Sewer Rat Racer