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A jam submission

Time Travel Train to TranscendenceView game page

Arcade Racing Vehicle Protection Roguelite with Trains
Submitted by W4YN3R — 14 hours, 13 minutes before the deadline
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Time Travel Train to Transcendence's itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Visuals#8113.2143.214
Innovation#8572.8932.893
Audio#9692.7142.714
Gameplay#10012.6792.679
Overall#10692.7262.726
Enjoyment#11042.7142.714
Theme#15002.1432.143

Ranked from 28 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does the game fit the theme?
Since the train you protect is able to travel through time and space, you can just try again when failing to reach the end.

What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
I used a lot of Kenney.nl assets and some Unity Store assets, full list below:
Kenney:
https://kenney.nl/assets/train-kit
https://kenney.nl/assets/nature-kit
https://kenney.nl/assets/tower-defense-kit
https://kenney.nl/assets/city-kit-suburban
https://kenney.nl/assets/marble-kit

Unity Store:
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/physics/arcade-vehicle-physics-19325...
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/vehicles/land/4-low-poly-toon-cars-2056...
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/health-system-includes-lea...
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/particles/fire-explosions/procedural-f...
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/particles/spells/magic-effects-free-24...
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/audio/sound-fx/free-casual-game-sfx-pack-5...

Soundtrack: (bought in HumbleBundle):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izLTQQ96SeU

How many people worked on the game?
1

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Submitted(+1)

Damn, this was fun! Very hard to control but in a good way. Liked it a lot. Just suggest making the sound effects louder.

Submitted(+1)

Very nice game!
It was a bit difficult to understand how the controls work.
Objects are also quite small so hard to see what is happening.
Anyway, nice job for sure!

Submitted(+1)

I had fun playing, but it took me a moment to realize that I was controlling the car, and not the train.

Developer

Glad you enjoyed it!
Ye would need to make that clearer next time :D

Submitted(+1)

Very cool game idea! But the car was very difficult to control. 

Developer

Thanks a lot!
Ye the controls turned out to be the hardest thing to get right :D

Submitted
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Developer

Thanks a lot!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Good game! I liked the visuals and the gameplay. But it seems to me that the car was going too fast. Also, in my opinion,  you went overboard with the motion blur effect. But I still enjoyed it.

Developer

Thanks for the feedback!
I also disabled the blur in the post jam update, because i got that feedback a lot.

Submitted(+1)

Nice jam entry with fun gameplay and pretty visuals! Personally I lack more detailed instructions on what is going on. Overall, it's an intriguing and promising entry, keep up the good work!

Developer(+1)

Thanks a lot for the feedback!
I kinda wanted people to figure it out, but with the controls and camera i also noticed that it turned out way harder than expected :D

Submitted(+1)

There is some interesting gameplay here and the overall look of the game is great. Controls are weird and don't exactly help the player, the manual control felt a bit better but still  there was something weird with it. Great job though!

Submitted(+1)

Fun game concept, but it is a little blurry and the controls could be polished. But overall all a good game.

Submitted(+1)

Cool concept, but controls just doesn't work. I think, the best controls you can get here is by pointing with mouse where your car needs to go. For now it's almost impossible to control your car.

Also, I didn't ever realize car was a character until second attempt. It's smaller than train and the train in the middle playable space. I think there should be some clues about character.

Liked art and sound design. A lot of polish and particles. Great potential but I think you need to do something with controls

Developer

Thanks a lot for the feedback!
Ye the controls turned out to be the biggest challenge and i am currently investigating alternatives, without loosing the fun arcade vehicle mechanics :D
Also did a post-jam update with the camera attached to the car and the train waiting at checkpoint before driving further, if you are interested :D
https://w4yn3r.itch.io/time-travel-train-to-transcendence-post-jam

Submitted(+1)

The game is really fun, but I’m still not very good at controlling the car.

Submitted(+1)

Good game, good concept.

Submitted(+1)

Very fun game about controlling a train. Super cool!

Submitted(+1)

Nice looking lowpoly. Reminds me of #DRIVE
The car controls are weird at first though, I got used to them after couple of minutes.

It's a nice but short tower defense-like game (i liked the train adding more wagons with more stuff that was spawning more stuff)

I think that you should disable chromatic aberration or blur because it feels like im playing without glasses... (if you wanted to convey fast motion maybe try using fast moving smeared particles)

Developer

Thanks for the feedback!
I wouldve loved to get even deeper into the tower defense mechanics :P

Ye heard that a lot and already disabled blur in the post jam update <3

Submitted(+1)

Nice tower defense like game paired with demolition derby feelings. The controls threw me a bit off  but in the end it worked out fine :) Overall, the game/waves could be a little bit longer. The visuals are very nice :)

Submitted(+1)

this games cool. i see a lot of potential - reminds me of smashy road mixed with tower defense. really enjoyed it

Developer

Thanks for the feedback, glad you enjoyed it!

Submitted(+1)

Nice game! The controls for the car are super hard haha :D Looking forward to the podcast episode about this game :D

Developer

Haha yes, controls turned out to be the biggest design problem :D
Episode will also drop later today <3

Submitted(+1)

Nice concept, finded just a little weird to control de car, perhaps letting adjust the sensibility will help.  Great job.

Developer

Ye thats interesting. Also thought about increasing the turn rate again.
Thanks for the feedback!

Submitted(+1)

played and rated! Hard to control but still fun, really like the visual style of the game :)

Developer

Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+1)

Nice job! 

The car controls were hard to get used to, but i kind of liked how you can drift around a lot 

The powerups were hard to tell, was just ramming the other cars for most of the time, until I accidentally picked up one of them.

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