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A jam submission

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Tap at the speed of light to escape from the police!!!
Submitted by TangledUp Games (@TangledUpGames) — 21 hours, 25 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Enjoyment#22043.3393.339
Artwork#22643.5123.512
Audio#26893.0553.055
Creativity#38983.2683.268
Narrative#39732.3152.315

Ranked from 127 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
We are on a looping highway in a high-speed police chase! Tap real fast to escape! Inspired by good old Slot car toys :) If you find the game too hard, combine W + space to get a speed boost!

(Optional) Please credit all assets you've used
Sounds from freesound.org:
1. Siren Sound by mungous
2. Engine sound (laser audio) by bolkmar
3. Zap sound by egomassive
4. Helicopter sound by robinhood76
5. Click sound by SmallConfusion
6. Game start sound by plasterbrain

Music by SubspaceAudio/Juhani Junkala from opengameart.org

Visual effects from MegaMagic VFX bundle and outline shader from Sci_fi_City

(Optional) What would you like to be called if GMTK features your game?
Alex from TangledUp Games

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Submitted(+1)

My poor space bar! Took a few attempts to get the hang of it, but I won. I wish, though, the game didn’t end that fast because the win screen appeared right when I got used to it. Instead, maybe the police car could catch up or something.

In addition, I thought that I needed to press the corresponding Shift key to move to the side (left Shift for left side, right Shift for right side), maybe an interactive tutorial could help (with pop up hints or something like that).

Nice artstyle though, great job!

Developer

thank u! already working on expanding the game, got 3 maps and a pvp mode! 🔥
ah yeah sorry about the shift misunderstanding, i made diff key combos cuz i wasnt sure which players would prefer more!

Thanks for playing!

Submitted

Was good fun, manager to win/loose both times, the spaming at the start felt quite punishing, but once speed picks up dodge reactions were fun

Submitted(+1)

Really fun game with a cool concept! The visuals are awesome (I’m a big fan of neon & sci-fi vibes). Took me a bit to get used to the controls, but overall, it was a blast to play. Nice job!

Submitted

Neat game! I feel like maybe some of the game state doesn’t properly reset when you start over, because the police car seemed faster on subsequent attempts and the helicopter started firing seeking projectiles immediately on one of my later runs, but maybe there’s some randomness and/or I was just getting slower at tapping. Also, sometimes it seemed like the car bounced back into the lane I was in when I tried to shift?

Other than those issues though, super stylish game. I loved the neon color scheme, felt very TRON.

Submitted(+1)

Its a fun game. Managed to get a win after a couple tries (using just space and shift). There's one slightly unfair mechanic of the ball that comes from behind you possibly arriving at the same time as you are passing by one of the static obstacles which makes it impossible to dodge though

Police siren over top of everything and much louder than them also got a bit annoying


Developer

wow cleared it properly! GOOD JOB : D 
oh no thats not unfair, its meant to f you up when u cant swap lane lol 
the police siren is meant to put pressure on u when it gets closer, but ye i should have lowered it, THANK U Antegon for playing me game!

Submitted(+1)

I won the game in a few seconds because the dumbass police car drove into an electric spehere XD. I think you should give a few seconds at the beginning for the player to get used to the controls, before having the police car start to chase you. Would give the chance for the player to start speeding up. The game is challenging indeed, but with a few tweaks I can see this game being very addicting. You've got nice visuals, just need to have some FX for the camera and some particle effects to really make you feel like you're going REAL FAST. It's a solid start, well done!

Developer

yeah that was the biggest complain, i will be sure to make it more balanced ^^ i got 3 other maps ready now! thank u !

Submitted

 unique controls and fun gameplay

Submitted

I had some fps issues, which is surprising because the game doesn't seem too complex. The gameplay seemed fun though and the look of the game was great.

Submitted

nice loved the game, i really liked mashing, u really cooked my friend, even that ur game is downloadable you reaches more than 100 ratings you really worked hard on it, wish u luck my friend

Submitted

Very nice! Love the purply look and electronic music, gives me Bladerunner vibes. I'm pretty good at mashing so this took me about a minute to complete lol. Well done

Submitted

Nice game! It was a little bit annoying to have to lift my hands from keyboard in order to reach the mouse to restart. I think option to just press space to restart or sth and not go to menu would be appreciated. Anyway, cool game, I had fun. Btw, you mentioned on your stream that "cheating" by alternating W and space wasn't intentional, but tbh it's more fun than mashing one button.

Submitted

Car goes vrooooom and my carpal tunnel go bzzzzz. Funny game, would love it to be an arcade game where you need to focus on a high score and not finishing so soon ! Well done !

Submitted

very fun to play, not that good tapping and it was hard trying to understand what line. the siren sound startled me at the beggining

 we gave each other arm pain lol!

Submitted (2 edits)

Nice idea, the controls aren't very intuitive at first, but I found myself comfortable enough by tapping the spacebar with the right hand index and anular, while shifting lane using the left shift.
Also, I think it could work better if it didn't restart from the menu when the game is re-started after a game over, but directly in the game, maybe with a countdown.
Overall, it looks good and can be quite fun! Would love to see more levels in the future.

Submitted(+1)

The way I'm tapping W will give me carpal tunnel. Cool & well done game.

Submitted

Fun little game! A bit difficult to manage the controls but it was very cute. 

Submitted

I only managed if I pressed all the possible movement keys at once, but I love games where you have to go fast!

Submitted (1 edit)

Wasnt able to run it

Trying to run the windows version has the game being extremely slow (even though its only taking maximum 3% of my computer resources). Graphics settings didnt seem to change the game or the lag at all. After that tried to get in on mobile and received an error of "There was a problem while parsing the package"

Developer

oh damn, sorry for wasting your time, unreal engine does crap like this from time to time : ( 

Submitted

Quite an exhilarating ride! I encountered a few UI issues in which some text was overlapping at the end, but aside from that, I had a fun time!

Developer

Thank you for playing!

Submitted(+1)

Fun running game. I found that you can move much faster than normal by tapping both w and spacebar, and the game ends really quickly from outrunning them. I did try to play it legitimately, and it can be fairly challenging but fun. Other than that, I love the aesthetics of the level. Wonderful job! :)

Developer

Exploiter! 😂 Thanks for playing!

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