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A jam submission

Run To The StairsView game page

a dungeon racing game with roguelike elements
Submitted by Gerhard Wonner — 5 days, 7 hours before the deadline
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JaNSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

Pretty addictive game, I must be careful never to open it when I'm at work XD!

I tend to let the red path raildroad me a bit too much, and I end up never exploring the area. As a result, the opponents quickly grow faster than me and I'm ultimately outmatched. I get the feel I have to get a lot of those "permanent speed" upgrades in the early levels when we're still evenly matched! 

The ASCII version reminded me of the games I used to play on my dad's ZX spectrum back when I was a young lad ^^!

On a side note: the, uh, "non-ASCII" version got stuck a couple times on the "connecting to database" message.

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REC/REW
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Gerhard WonnerDeveloper2 years ago

Thank you for playing, JaN!

You are correct, you need to get more power-ups especially "permanent speed upgrades" in the early levels. But you also have to use your consumables (nitros and drills). From the timestamp of your comment I could determine that you must be Guest#96. And in my database I can see, that you never used any drills (to dig through walls) or nitros (double speed for 10 turns).

But, wait a minute. There is something that you did better than anyone else so far. You are an extremely fast player. I can see this, if I go to the "global rankings" (reachable from title-screen by clicking the button "[4] global rankings"). The rankings can be sorted by different criteria. And if I sort by "Score per Hour", see who is first:


Your score might be not very high, but you "Score per Hour" is! :-)

But unfortunately it hurts my eyes that a guest is in first place here. It would be much nicer to read the name "JaN" there. So could you please register. As soon as you do, all your games you played so far as Guest#96 will be labeled with you registered username. If you leave your email and allow email-notifications, I will send you links, were you can watch the replays of your games.

Kind regards

Gerhard

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JaNSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

Done! Hope you're getting a JaN somewhere in your ranking!

Btw the score might drop a bit as my older son watched me playing and now he wants to try it out XD!

Looks like your our game is getting quite hyped here at my home, uh!

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Gerhard WonnerDeveloper2 years ago

Thank you! You by far are the fastest guy:

Greetings to your son. I hope he enjoys playing! :-)

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Gerhard WonnerDeveloper2 years ago

Please allow me to send you emails, so I can send you the link where you can watch the replay of your game.

Therefore you have to click "[2] account settings" on title screen (when logged in as JaN) and then "Allow email notifications" on the following screen.

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TiberianEuanSubmitted2 years ago

cdda but dungeon?

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collapsing world
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Gerhard WonnerDeveloper2 years ago

No, it is a turn based racing game taking place in a dungeon.

There is a short introduction if you scroll down on the game-page.

Please try and see!

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Brad BuchananSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

Game's working fine on Firefox 107 Windows 11.

This is an interesting concept. It seems tuned well, since I was usually able to place 3rd-5th on my first few races and it seems like with practice I could do better. On the other hand, I felt like the game suffered from a low-ish decision density - most of the time it made the most sense to follow the highlighted path, and while I could walk another direction I couldn't see why I would. Seeing a powerup off the path fixed that now and then, but it didn't seem like there were very many.

I love how many themes there are though!

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Esther's
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Gerhard WonnerDeveloper2 years ago

Thank you for giving it a try! :-)

This is a game about resource-management. You have to consider if its better to use a resource now, or to save it for later use. If you see an item, you have to consider if it is worth the detour or not.

Since I can watch replays of every game, I know that the top players even explore for speed-upgrades in the early levels. This extra speed gives them some room to explore even more. But you have to develop a sense of knowing when to stop exploring in favor of a good placement.

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