Mobile arcade game "Runner"

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I love creating small game prototypes in Godot or UE4 for private use and this is my first 3d mobile prototype using Godot. Runs on Android 10, Redmi Note 7, 60 FPS but I had to reduce the resolution for recording to avoid lags...

If you collect those purple things the game will speed up slower.

The game is obviously not finished but I'm not sure if I will continue working on this project. Maybe I will, maybe not. But Ideas and suggestions are still welcome :D

Sorry for the bad quality but like I said, my phone does not like screen recordings...

TwistedTwigleg

Looks cool! I really like visual effect at the end of the tunnel :smile:

cybereality

This is great. I would recommend setting a emission texture for the cube wireframe and adding glow/bloom so it looks more like Tron. And be sure to add some banging electronic music. Otherwise it looks pretty close to done (at least in terms of the mechanics and art). Might need more variety in the levels and strategy, but it's basically there. You should finish this, it could be popular.

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@TwistedTwigleg said: Looks cool! I really like visual effect at the end of the tunnel :smile:

Thanks!

@cybereality said: This is great. I would recommend setting a emission texture for the cube wireframe and adding glow/bloom so it looks more like Tron. And be sure to add some banging electronic music. Otherwise it looks pretty close to done (at least in terms of the mechanics and art). Might need more variety in the levels and strategy, but it's basically there. You should finish this, it could be popular.

Thanks! Nice idea with the Tron look. I will try it out. You are right that the level could see some more variety but how? I have a laser (3 rays, circular) that rotates and the plan was to have nice particles emitting at the position where the laser hits a cube but its heavily wip. Any more ideas?

cybereality

I would recommend having less cubes. Maybe have wall objects (like that go up just further than you can jump, they can be slightly invisible so you can see the background). That way you are forced to make 1 specific jump and if you touch the wall you die. Or maybe the wall can move up or down or left or right so you would have to time it. Lasers are good.

Gowydot

Making the room rotate as you run? Inception?

cybereality

No I mean like Indiana Jones walls that come from the ceiling or the side.

cybereality

You might also want to check this game SpeedX 3D for ideas. It was the most popular game on Android about 10 years ago and got around 15 million downloads (I think it was a $1.99 game, so the dev probably made a lot of money).

Gowydot

@cybereality said: No I mean like Indiana Jones walls that come from the ceiling or the side.

Oh, I understand :). I meant to give op some idea. Seeing 3rd person player struggles with the changing of gravity like the game you linked would be funny too.

cybereality

Oh, I see. I thought you were the OP. Kind of hard to tell with the default avatars all looking similar.

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OP here :D

SpeedX 3D looks really cool! Didn't know about it and it has something satisfying/special. But its not available anymore or at least I wasn't able to find it :(

Thanks for your suggestions! So some ideas are:

Walls. Could move left/right or up/down and come from the sides or ceiling. I think walls from the ceiling would block to much view from an art point of view even if its slightly transparent. A wall where you need to jump on 2-3 Cube first to be able to jump over the wall. Sliding "chunks" of 1-3 blocks that are moving left/right where you cannot jump over.

Rotate like in Inception. I think this would break the grid based left/right movement but I will think about it.

Lasers. A rotating laser (x rays, circular array, rotating) and maybe block 4/7 or 6/7 lanes with vertical lasers.

Changing gravity. Tested this already and it was just weird to be at the ceiling but nice idea :D Had this in my 2d platformer and it was a really cool mechanic.