PLAY HERE!
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11214337/monsterrunner/WebPlayer.html
Screenshot:
Use space key to jump! All you have to do is avoiding obstacles.
… I’m yet to make a game with an interesting gameplay… anyway,
any suggestions?
Nice start : really nice character and animation.
I enjoy one-button games but you’ll have to come up with something a bit more complex than just pressing the jump button with always the same time offset to avoid obstacles. You could for instance check the key press duration and offer multiple (height/length) of jumps like in super meat boy. Or you could look at Canabalt and add some acceleration over time. For bigger jumps / higher speed and the necessary anticipation, you will need a wider screen though.
Now concerning the visuals, my very personal feeling is that the whole thing could be more ‘homogenous’ : you have a plain color for the character, stylized texture for the ground, more realistic textures for the obstacle and a hand draw background. You have plenty of options to go one way or the other but it don’t feel as a whole right now.
Keep up the good work !
awesome animations (love the fall/trip)
thanks dudes!
texturing:
I rather add texture to the character than taking the texture away from the obstacles! So that’s what I’m going to do! What do you think about the cubes with pixelated texture? is it too crazy? There’s no reason for it to be pixelated, I just felt it look’d good but it might not be fitting the style.
obstacle time offset:
The time offset between obstacles varies, but it seems not enough as you didn’t see the difference. So I’ll work on that
jumping:
I like the different heights for jumping! I’d like to have two different jump animations for this, low and high. I’ll need a wider screen if i’m going to do the double height jump obstacles…
acceleration:
I’ve been suggested to increase difficulty over time already… everything moves according to a speed variable, so it’ll be easy to implement. This is a must. A friend of mine said it should have a ‘car’ powerup, i love the idea of putting the monster inside a car. What do you think? Would it add to the gameplay?
gonna check that meat boy game, and canabalt game, maybe i can rob some ideas 
I didn’t mean there was a not a variable distance between objects. I meant that to jump any obstacle you just have to press the jump button at the same distance of that object. When you see an object coming, you always have to wait for the same exact amount of time before you have to jump.
I kinda like the pixelated texture but for me it would better fit with perfectly cubic ground elements : big cubes made of tiny cubes. But hey, that’s only my feeling nothing more.
oh, well… I guess I could think of certain obstacles that are mobile, this way the collision time would differ!
all these are good ideas!
nice,
How about:
- Holes? (to jump over them)
- Wall (with hole, where you have to jump through, at correct height - if different heights for jumping. Also different fail animation → smash on wall)
- In longer jump, it could have different animation (either really streching/running in air like olympic jumpers, or doing somesaults while in jump, even multiple somersaults if keep holding, but then have to land in correct position - or not ?)
- Slowly changing scenery (so you have progress going somewhere, like going to snow level, desert… and those can have different obstacles?)
-Holes are easy to do! Maybe with a lil water going on on the bottom…
-I should obstacles that get you if you don’t jump and if you jump too high as well! It can maybe be a wall with a hole, but this gave me several ideas as well.
- Yep! I was thinking low and high jump should have different animations! perhaps as the player holds down the spacebar there should be a bar or an icon that lets the player can visualize the jump power
- Hmmm, If I continue to work on my game i’m eventually going to have to work with the scenery… I was already considering doing a day/night cycle, but I should think on different scenery elements… All this takes a lot of time, so i’m going to have to prioritize. But this is all very helpful for me, I tend to focus on “wacky” nonsense that I find hilarious at the time, but I end up with complete rubbish as gameplay. So this time I decided to ask first! These are all excellent ideas, putting my brain into work!
Hi I just tried out your game it’s a decent little game however at the start I didn’t even know I was playing until I hit the space bar because there no prompt to tell you what to do but other than that it’s a good start a points system would also be good.
Yeah! I should think on a good points system! I can’t decide if it’s collecting coins or maybe just give points for successful jumps! This game also needs a game menu and GUI, but first I wanna do the fun part!
hello dogzerx,
could you tell me how you got your game on the web? I noticed you used drop box and I have tried to get that to work but no luck… could you help a noob?
thanks 
also your game was FUN I kept hitting the rubble… I guess I just suck at games
Hmmm rubble… the 3 obstacles are supposed to be: old boot, tire, and toxic barrel. Which one looks like a pile of rubble? is it the boot? Maybe I should change it for a log!
Anyway, if you have the dropbox account you already made your life easier! Be sure, though, to upload your game in the public folder, or a sub-folder of the public folder! When you build your game as web player, it should write two fils, the *.html and the *.unity3D file. Place both files in the same folder, and click on the html file to open it. Provide the link to everyone to maximize your fun! 
hope it helps!
hmmm all I ment by rubble was the boot toxic barrel and tire…
The problem with it is I go to upload to the public folder and I select the folder and click upload but it wont let me upload a folder it just opens the folder 
Yeah… no folder upload, it sux. I guess for large sums of files that should be a nuisance, but you only need to upload those two files (html and unity3d) you’ll have to select the files directly!
hahaha, I thought it was hard to make out the shape of the boot, it’s a bit dark. Although I like the idea of adding a log obstacle!
ooooooooo duh 
It works now thanks so much!
yeah a log would be cool
That’s pretty cool. I actually prefer the style you were going for in the first screen shot. I like the pixel-texture look, it’s a bit more unique than what’s going around.
Looks like the start of something good, keep going!
Hey! Thanks doza! hmmm, the first screenshot was a mix of several graphics styles, it was a bit messy, and I had to take a pick! So for this game I decided to go with good’ol texturing (cuz i want to practice that!)
But I’m still meaning to make a game with original aesthetics like the ones in the first screenshot! Maybe i should conciser a game with ALL pixel-texture look! Would be something pretty original, right?
Thanks for your feedback! I want to do this little game with an open mind, it’s good to get other people’s perspectives!
hey dogserx.
could you post a webplayer of the old version? I would like to see that also
wish I could, I don’t have any backups! Which reminds me, I should do a backup of what I currently have! :-0!!!