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A jam submission

Race The SunView game page

Get home before the sun sets! Made for Mini Jam 184: Birds
Submitted by Fishy games — 1 hour, 54 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Use of the Limitation#403.0593.059
Concept#473.1183.118
Presentation#473.0593.059
Overall#483.0003.000
Enjoyment#512.7652.765

Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Team members
Iptcyq

Software used
Unity (the game), Autodesk Sketchbook (2D art), JSFXR (SFX), BeepBox (Music)

Use of the limitation
Race the sun and get home in under a minute!

Cookies eaten
Sadly none 😔

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Comments

Submitted

making a 3d game is a huge undertaking, for a game jam. nice work . I like the story,and that there are 2 modes .  The art work was also cute.

Submitted

Fun idea! I do wish there was more urgency built into the gameplay—I was able to easily cruise around a bit before needing to return home and I had a lazy, lovely time exploring the world you made. As others called out increasing the difficulty here would definitely help, but also including visual or audible feedback to build up that sense of urgency would really make it feel like a race! Thanks for making and sharing your game!

Developer

I think the urgency can definitely be increased with more suitable audio on my part. I should probably have made more modes of difficulty and a longer track. 

I was looking at the game more as something casual for those who don't play much 3D games. Those who want to race/ speedrun have the option of maximising their highscore through picking off-path flowers while trying getting home as fast as possible. (In hindsight, this wasn't very obvious)

Thanks for the feedback!

Submitted

The bird sprites are really cute, and this is a great concept! Game is way too easy though, with both birds I beat it in around 15 seconds.

Submitted

Fun game but I wish it was a bit harder

Developer(+1)

It's interesting to see the huge difference in feedback ranging from too difficult to too easy hahah, but thanks for playing! 

Submitted

I loved the cute drawings of the birds -especially the pink haired spatula wielding one xD   Was a bit difficult to fly but was fun and I loved the art and the music and the concept was a good use of the limitation too!  Nice work on this! :D

Developer(+1)

Thank you! :)

Submitted

A bit hard controls.
Cool concept. Big props for doing First Person Game, altho i wish the controls would allow to be more crazy so i can so stuff like barell rols and acrobatics. Would be cool

Developer

Oh ye I initially wanted to implement a way to do tricks too, but realised it was too out of scope for a 3 day jam :P. Would definitely have been a great feature though.

Thanks for the feedback!

Submitted

Very beautiful game, but the controls were a bit hard. Cute concept too, and the music was a great fit for the vibe of the game!

Developer

Thanks for the feedback! 

I'm just curious though - in what way were the controls hard? Was it the mechanic of navigating with a mouse with no control over the speed? Or was it some unrelated factor I could have changed? (So I know how to improve on it :P) 

Submitted

My main comments are that the look sensitivity was too high in my opinion (I think this was already stated by some other people) and that the stamina bar ran out a bit fast, which meant that my view was sometimes hidden by mountain ranges, and it became hard to navigate in those scenarios

Submitted

I just saw that the look sensitivity can be adjusted ill retry

Submitted

Ok so it’s much more easy with sensitivity down, I still think the stamina goes down a bit fast, but it’s funnier now that I understood how to change sensitivity! 🙃

Developer

I see, maybe I should make the option to change mouse sensitivity a lot more obvious :P 

Good to know about the stamina being a problem though, thanks for the feedback! 

Submitted (1 edit)

I really like the look of everything and the music! And having mouse sensitivity able to be adjusted was great + multiple modes is awesome, fun game :)

Developer

Glad to hear that! :D

Submitted

Interesting idea, I like that you can choose two characters depending on how you want to play.

Good job! 😊

Developer

Thanks! Honestly I didn't get enough playtesters so I made the different modes in hopes that one of them was sufficiently balanced 😅

Glad to know that it was a good addition though :D

Submitted

Definitely an interesting concept. The FOV slider will be a great addition.

Fun and short little game overall :)

Developer(+1)

The race is definitely short (due to my minimal level design skills hahah) but hopefully big enough for exploration if people want to do so :) 

I'll also keep the FOV slider in mind for future 3D games. 

Thanks for the feedback! 

Submitted

Maybe it's because I'm using a trackpad, but the sensitivity was crazy! Still fun to try to hit the rings. 

Developer(+1)

Thanks for playing! For some reason there was a huge difference in mouse sensitivity between the in-editor and actual web version, so the default might have been calibrated poorly. You can press P to pause and enter the settings to adjust the mouse sensitivity :)

Submitted

Noted. And score adjusted on replay :)