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Car Escape

PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 3:04 pm
by knucklecrunchgames
You have just robbed a bank and cops are all over you. Fight them off and get highscores in this action packed arcade game. More updates will come soon with more enemies to fight and more ways to kill the good guys.

Link is here. http://gamejolt.com/games/arcade/car-escape/25516/

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Re: Car Escape

PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 4:13 pm
by MrJolteon
Review time...

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  • There is definitely an improvement here.

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  • Well, it exists. I guess that's good?

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  • My ears are bleeding now.

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  • Fullscreen. Low resolution. Bad combination.
  • I've never seen a car defy gravity like that.
  • I believe a top-down perspective would suit this type of game than a sidescrolling perspective.
  • The car can get stuck on walls.

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Re: Car Escape

PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 4:24 pm
by knucklecrunchgames
MrJolteon wrote:Review time...

The Good:
Graphics:
  • There is definitely an improvement here.

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  • Well, it exists. I guess that's good?

Gameplay:

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  • My ears are bleeding now.

Gameplay:
  • Fullscreen. Low resolution. Bad combination.
  • I've never seen a car defy gravity like that.
  • I believe a top-down perspective would suit this type of game than a sidescrolling perspective.
  • The car can get stuck on walls.

Final score: taken from your own comment and should probably be disregarded
★★★★★ 5/5

Actual score:
★★☆☆☆ 2/5 - not good but also not shit, just bad


Thanks jolteon. I will be fixing bugs in the game like the car getting stuck in the wall. I think side scrolling is alright but I might make another mode where you can do top down shooter. That car is magic how it can jump like that :P. Thanks again for the review. :)

Re: Car Escape

PostPosted: Thu Apr 24, 2014 7:58 pm
by knucklecrunchgames
Only one comment that isn't mine :( I thought there would be more considering it got 92 view on gamejolt, oh well....

Update 1.1 is here!!!

Get it on gamejolt!

Now there is a store to buy new levels!

Thanks :)

Re: Car Escape

PostPosted: Fri Apr 25, 2014 9:27 pm
by digiot
Not only views, also downloads !
Nice, that you also provide Linux exes, but there is no Linux update yet.

Your graphics are looking much better with the thick borders, they don't need
any shading.

The heli-explosion would better be placed at the cockpit, instead of behind.

What is that grey mass, coming down from the sky, a rain-shower ?

The game resolution is a problem, you can't meet everyones needs.
On my 4:3 monitor, I only see the numbers of the score, and the names of the
leader board.

Keep on with your work, you will only become better !


Cheers !

Re: Car Escape

PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 1:32 pm
by tvz
Hello
KCG, It seems that you have a big monitor and thats why you make games with this resolution but i think you should export this game again with somewhat smaller resolution because many monitors even now do not go beyond 1024 x 768. My monitor cant run your game because it supports resolution up to 1280 x 1024 only whereas your game requires 1336 x 768. Its your game, your wish whether you do or not but if you do then many more players can play it. :)

Re: Car Escape

PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 2:36 pm
by DeltaLeeds
(I've only played level 1 and haven't bought anything yet, so this might not be my final rating.)
Scored 765 in my first try, and 3605 in the second. (All in level 1. xP)
Awesome concept of wrecking cars and stuff, kinda like GTA. :P
Suggestions:
-> Add missions! <-
-> Moar enemies, less repetitive gameplay <-
-> Maybe make gun shots have rests. If not, I could make my score much higher than 3605 (My fingers got tired. xD) <-
Bugs found: Shooting broken walls still give you 5 points.
Rating: 8/10 (So far. :P)
Your games are getting better Knuckle. I expect great potential from you!

Re: Car Escape

PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 4:07 pm
by knucklecrunchgames
jonathang wrote:(I've only played level 1 and haven't bought anything yet, so this might not be my final rating.)
Scored 765 in my first try, and 3605 in the second. (All in level 1. xP)
Awesome concept of wrecking cars and stuff, kinda like GTA. :P
Suggestions:
-> Add missions! <-
-> Moar enemies, less repetitive gameplay <-
-> Maybe make gun shots have rests. If not, I could make my score much higher than 3605 (My fingers got tired. xD) <-
Bugs found: Shooting broken walls still give you 5 points.
Rating: 8/10 (So far. :P)
Your games are getting better Knuckle. I expect great potential from you!


About the suggestions

Missions, yeah! I was thinking of adding a story but I didn't cause I wanted to make it arcade feeling. But I'll add that :)
Yeah! more enemies. In the levels they are just new skins with one new object to avoid
The shooting walls isn't a bug :P (I know) The only bug is the animation plays 2 times. Now that is a bug.
The bugs I fixed was where you bought items in the store but you still had the money.

Thankyou for the review and +1 :)

Re: Car Escape

PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 4:10 pm
by knucklecrunchgames
tvz wrote:Hello
KCG, It seems that you have a big monitor and thats why you make games with this resolution but i think you should export this game again with somewhat smaller resolution because many monitors even now do not go beyond 1024 x 768. My monitor cant run your game because it supports resolution up to 1280 x 1024 only whereas your game requires 1336 x 768. Its your game, your wish whether you do or not but if you do then many more players can play it. :)


The next update will have resolution choice :)

Re: Car Escape

PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 8:11 pm
by lcl
I tried your game, and here's some feedback:

I like the concept of this game and graphics are probably better than in any of your older games.
This game could be pretty good, but currently it's just too simple and way too repetitive to actually make one want to play it
more after a few tries.

Also, what's with the prices of the things in the store? The cheapest item costs 1000 wrenches? I currently have about 60.
Acquiring enough money to buy even one of the items would take years, and with the gameplay being currently very repetitive and mostly
consisting of spamming the directional buttons, there is no way anyone is going to get enough wrenches for even the cheapest item.
You have to be a bit more realistic when you set prices to items in your games' stores. The cheapest items should be something one can buy after a few plays.
You could take at least one 0 away from all of the prices.

I also agree with all the suggestions jonathang gave to you.

This game has potential, as you've already done good work on the menus and the graphics and now all you have to do is to make
the gameplay more interesting. I hope you will keep working on this game long enough to make it as good as it can be. :)

Oh, I have a question, too, how do I gain access to the other levels?

Re: Car Escape

PostPosted: Mon Apr 28, 2014 9:49 pm
by CrackedP0t
It's OK.
It's also extremely easy to beat; I just kept hitting the arrow keys and blew through everything.

Re: Car Escape

PostPosted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 2:47 pm
by knucklecrunchgames
lcl wrote:I tried your game, and here's some feedback:

I like the concept of this game and graphics are probably better than in any of your older games.
This game could be pretty good, but currently it's just too simple and way too repetitive to actually make one want to play it
more after a few tries.

Also, what's with the prices of the things in the store? The cheapest item costs 1000 wrenches? I currently have about 60.
Acquiring enough money to buy even one of the items would take years, and with the gameplay being currently very repetitive and mostly
consisting of spamming the directional buttons, there is no way anyone is going to get enough wrenches for even the cheapest item.
You have to be a bit more realistic when you set prices to items in your games' stores. The cheapest items should be something one can buy after a few plays.
You could take at least one 0 away from all of the prices.

I also agree with all the suggestions jonathang gave to you.

This game has potential, as you've already done good work on the menus and the graphics and now all you have to do is to make
the gameplay more interesting. I hope you will keep working on this game long enough to make it as good as it can be. :)

Oh, I have a question, too, how do I gain access to the other levels?


thanks for playing lcl.

The prices were high cause I wanted to make you all play longer :twisted: But I'm removing levels as I am adding a story. The gameplay is too easy and boring so I'm adding when you get 2000 meteres or something you will see new things to dodge. I am also adding powerups to the store and I mean like a lot of powerups. P.S(you will have to quote to see the cheat) There is a cheat to play the other levels, simply drag the level dats to the game's exe. (Did you not know the store items are new levels?)

Re: Car Escape

PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2014 12:19 pm
by knucklecrunchgames
Updates:

Not adding a story anymore
Making gameplay for fun
Removing store
Adding over 19 powerups! (So it's 20 powerups :P)
Removing the offline highscores and adding online highscores
Adding ranks, now you can compete with friends on who has the highest rank
Adding a launcher. On the launcher you can select big or small resolution and press updates button.

See the first post for screenshots! :)

Re: Car Escape

PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 12:04 am
by Wertyboy
knucklecrunchgames wrote:See the first post for screenshots! :)

Where? D: I have been waiting for hour now :(

Re: Car Escape

PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 6:37 pm
by knucklecrunchgames
Wertyboy wrote:
knucklecrunchgames wrote:See the first post for screenshots! :)

Where? D: I have been waiting for hour now :(


Damn it didn't upload :( (Will upload later)