Rocket Bike To Space

[rikfuzz]

Hi all,

I worked on a pixel game over the weekend for a 48hr gaming competition. It's a very tight deadline, so there wasn't loads of time to dedicate to beautiful detailed art, so I stuck to a 16 colour palette (which was originally based off Arne's amazing work, though now quite different) and relatively low resolution:





Deadline's over now and it's submitted, but I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts anyway, especially any tricks on how you create art especially quickly!

You can download the game here: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-17/?action=rate&uid=1070 (just click the large Windows link)

Many thanks
Rik

[moket]

  cool game. Just made it to the end Yay !

The music fits well with the manic gameplay. Only a minor crit, the trees don't read as obstacles at first.
More levels ?
Please.

[Jakerpot]

So hard 

Got to 2500

[Dr D]

Fun game, beat it, got 7800 score, 76 deaths.   

As far as crits go, don't have much but the girl on the title screen does seem quite apparently rushed. Too blobby, lacking in defined anatomy. The transitions between color sets for the background were also quite harsh and sudden.

I read the tree quite well as an obstacle, though, and I love the palette.

[circuscommando]

i'm having so much fucking fun right now.

[Akira]

Awesome. Died 120 times but I got there in the end. I love the jet trail and music. I agree with Dr D with the about the title screen though.

[Jad]

The title and the title screen and the game screen and other stuff all look totally great : DDD you should polish this and make even more of a game out of it because it's ROCKET BIKE TO SPACE

the main character is hot. I haven't played the game, though, I might try at lunch (:

I DIED 100 TIMES EXACTLY. Proud. Sometimes the game feels broken. The bouncing thing right after one of the checkpoints once sent me straight into a rock. I couldn't do much about that ' A ' unfair feeling

[Jakerpot]

  I made it!!! 

The art is great, but the music is SO HIGH!!! (At least here...)
There are some times that is pretty hard to jump 

[EyeCraft]

Yeah I died like 270 times. Drove me crazy but I just couldn't stop playing.

The title and the title screen and the game screen and other stuff all look totally great : DDD you should polish this and make even more of a game out of it because it's ROCKET BIKE TO SPACE

the main character is hot. I haven't played the game, though, I might try at lunch (:

Indeed! Polishing it would be sweet.

The rocks have some banding and pretty jagged cluster edges you could fix up. 

[rikfuzz]

Thanks for all the kind comments!  I hope to refine the game at some point, I'll repost when I do!