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Game Off 2019

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A jam submission

Boundless CityView game page

Flying through a city that is infinite in all directions. Playable in browser.
Submitted by Baturinsky — 29 days, 20 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Graphics#183.8253.825
Overall#223.6003.600
Innovation#333.5253.525
Audio#343.3503.350
Gameplay#503.1253.125
Theme interpretation#633.0753.075

Ranked from 40 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

GitHub repository URL
https://github.com/baturinsky/boundless-city

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dzejkopSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

I think this is my favourite game so far. I really like the gameplay and the general feel of the game.

Do you plan on continuing this? It has potential in my opinion :)

Side note: my high score is 53 coins in 88 seconds

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Hyper Snake
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NickyKendy HuaSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

Love the visual style! Very sin city! Unfortunately I had a very lag experience, don't know wether it's my GTX980Ti graphic card problem or internet speed problem

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Paper House
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stivensSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

Nice! You really have the sensation of flying in a chaotic city. The initial tutorial I think can be improved by use a less transparent background because I see that is difficult to be read. I also suggest to separate the "market" from the main commands in two different screens because initially I see a lot of information all in one time to be read and comprehend. Congrats for the procedural generation part because is really amazing and very fluid.

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The Enhancer
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PandaqiSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

Very impressive! Initially, the graphics and wall of text can be a bit intimiditing/overwhelming. Maybe just remove the city in the background when you're at the menu?

Once I started the game, everything was quite clear and well balanced: challenging, but doable.

(It did take a few tries to realize the red things gave you coins, but that's probably because my head associates "coins = yellow thingies" and there was a disconnect in my brain :p)

Just to comment on the other comments: I only had slight performance issues on my machine, and I have an old HP laptop, running Windows 10 and Firefox. Maybe that feedback helps with performance optimization?

I think this could become a really immersive game with some polishing! (By which I mean: clearer menus/explanation, varity in visuals and variety in game mechanics.)

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Into My Arms
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BaturinskyDeveloper4 years ago

Yeah, you are right, pickups visual may be misleading. I should have at least make them yellow, as everything related to coins is yellow in text.

And some kind of tutorial with big short commands before showing the wall of text.

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SparringWithFramesSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

Loved it. Amazing what you can do in a browser these days.

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Mind The Chain
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BaturinskyDeveloper4 years ago(+1)

All the heavy lifting is done by shaders, actually.

But yeah, browsers are very powerful platform now. Ton of very cool free libraries and even "vanilla" it has ton of capabilities, especially for UI. I still shudder remembering making UI in Unity, for example.

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Ronnie SallanSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

I was originally skeptical when I started the game because of all of the text that appears immediately. Maybe you can have a simple start screen and if the player presses 'esc', then show the upgrade options. Also, my system struggled a bit so the game was running quite slow.

Having said all that, I was pleasantly surprised. I actually think this game has potential to be something pretty good. I liked the visual style but at the same time I found it difficult to look at (a little disorienting). The music choice was great and really help set the atmosphere.

Overall this was a pretty cool experience and a nice take on the theme 'leaps and bounds'. I'd be interested to see more of this game in the future.

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BOUNCE
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NarkhosSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

Nice game. I really like the design and the black and white render. I would have liked to be able to invert up/down mouse control (to have an airplane like control)

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Demethylator
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BaturinskyDeveloper4 years ago

Ok, I will add that

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BaturinskyDeveloper4 years ago(+2)

You can get back to "wall of text" by pressing Space, Esc, reloading page or losing focus of game screen in any way possible (such as switching to other browser tab and back". 

Listed "submitted" day is very misleading: it's when the first version of the game was submitted. I actually worked until the end and last update was few hours before deadline. 

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BaturinskyDeveloper4 years ago

Said that, UX indeed could be better and thanks for drawing my attention to it.

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stackshubSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

Cool graphics!

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Balls in Slow
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DrCarlLuoSubmitted4 years ago(+2)

Really nice work! This procedural generated city is so cool and smooth. My recommendation is that you could add more gameplay elements in the world, such as some more challenging goals and more diversity of the city layout. 

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Time Space Leaper
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BaturinskyDeveloper4 years ago

Yeah, that's the plan.

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Harper RhettSubmitted4 years ago(+2)

Wow. Nice procedural gen. This is crazy. Only thing I can recommend is a little optimization (I had some lag) and a prettier UI, otherwise nice job. Really trippy too.

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Leap Theory
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BaturinskyDeveloper4 years ago

Working on it.

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bencelaszloSubmitted4 years ago(+2)

Really unique atmosphere and visual style with calm music and chill gameplay.

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Bitter Boundaries
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BaturinskyDeveloper4 years ago

Thanks!

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onarateamSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

Funny game ! Well done

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Upscaled
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BaturinskyDeveloper4 years ago(+1)

Funny as in fun or funny as in hilarious? :)

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onarateamSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

as in fun :) 

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FreakySubmitted4 years ago(+1)

I hope you can pay for my loss of sight. The game has a good concept behind it, but it's executed poorly. There should be a settings menu, also it's not clear where to go and i think that the game starts off way to hard. The music is cool but i don't think it fits the game, but that's just my opinion. All and all this is a below average entry for me due to lack of gameplay and playability. But good job anyways!

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Mad Bounds
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BaturinskyDeveloper4 years ago

You probably have old/weak GPU, game indeed runs very jittery in that case.

I wish I could make it run faster, but it was the best I could reach until deadline.

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FreakySubmitted4 years ago (1 edit)

It was a joke but i've got good specs and my laptop is new.

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BaturinskyDeveloper4 years ago

Anyway, issue with low/unstable FPS is real and I'll continue to work on solving it.

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Soul GrinderSubmitted4 years ago(+2)

Very nice relaxing game, and I like endless futuristic city to fly through.  Large amount of upgrades to spend coins on.  Would play again

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Mystic Skies
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Sena4 years ago(+1)

I can’t describe why, but I really like it!

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komejisatoriSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

Nice work! Is this city generated dynamically?

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AJourneyToGameoff
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BaturinskyDeveloper4 years ago(+1)

Yes, it is generated on the fly on GPU.

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zzoxSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

This is really cool, I haven't played anything like this.

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: : dark : :
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BaturinskyDeveloper4 years ago(+1)

It's mostly inspired by gameplay in Gat out of Hell. It had great flying but a very small city to fly in, so I decided to solve this issue radically by making an infinite city:)

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turtlepanda.gamesSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

Had some frame stutter, but I was playing in browser.

Fun game, nice soundtrack!

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Lily Lander C64
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BaturinskyDeveloper4 years ago

Yes, I like the music too.

I was fighting with stuttering/low fps entire time, but still could not get stable 60 fps. Restarting browser or using smaller window helps sometimes.

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pilotInPyjamasSubmitted4 years ago(+2)

Visually stunning! excellent work with your glsl.

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COWs
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BaturinskyDeveloper4 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

Thanks. Visual style was actually inspired by looking at render with only shininess shown. Before that it looked like this 

It had some potential too, but had way low FPS, especially If I'd want to have any kind of shades.

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