For the past year I've been working on Geo Racers, a free to play web game where you have to race from one side of the world to another just using public transport. It's inspired by the BBC show "Race across the world".
It's early stages but any feedback on the game it's greatly recieved.
1. There should be an 'easy mode' where your money goes into the red, but you're still allowed to spend whatever to get to the end. It would be nice to see I'm $-14,952 in the hole, but I made it (with the ultimate objective to get to the destination while in the black).
2. The bottom overlays overlap. I was taking a ferry from Dublin, and tried to queue up walking to the hotel. The hotel overlay popped up under the "Skip this Ride" message. I don't really care if I can queue up actions, but the stacked overlays were unsightly.
3. I would say LEAVE THE SURPRISES. It was enjoyable to get blind-sighted by having to change my currency in the UK and the fact I lost an hour due to time zone changes.
Good work. Keep it up.
There also seem to be a bug where the game doesn't always spawn you where it should. Selected Galeway to Roma and was put in scotland with only euros and no banks around. Probably how some people manage to get was seems to be impossible score
– Checking/unchecking some items does not appear to toggle their visibility. (Safari, MacOS).
— As another pointed out, walked to a hotel, could not enter hotel (too far off road?).
I couldn't get the "Walk Here"/"Taxi Here" tooltip pop-up to stay open on Firefox when clicking on a train station, but it's working in Chrome.
Hit a wall going to Plymouth when I should have gone to Portsmouth, but had no way to check which one had the ferry I needed.
- A minimap to all the timetables that show visibly where the transport goes - A tourist information center in town and city centers you can use to find out other information
Def ran into issues on my second play - there were no trains from Waterloo, nor any boats from Plymouth or Portsmouth.
Shows a lot of promise. Can't wait for it to improve some of the core systems just a little, will be very addictive.
How on earth are people managing in 5 hours though? I had £95 left after a bus, ferry, train, and bus, taking me to 2.5 days; the ferry alone took nearly a day.
I gave up.
Also, an introduction explaining what the game is would be good rather than just asking for a player name and dropping the user into the game.
If you run out of money in the show or your funds are running low you can work to earn more money. So that's why I added that feature. I do think it adds a extra layer to the game as it's something you always have to think about
* At Dublin ferry port, only port 5 was clickable. * Card payments should be an option. Nobody would use cash like this. * Banks aren't open at 10PM. In fact, banks are hardly open at all. * You can change money at a Post Office or supermarket.
Floating points for currencies :/ "You only have 306.99999999999994 GBP, you can't exchange 307. "
They do disappear together with with the toggle for train station. I.e. I can't view train stations only.
I'll be keeping an eye on this one!
>There are just 2 rules 1. You can't fly 2. You must be in a hotel by 2am unless you have overnight transport
Guess the "have" doesn't work as i thought.
What was weird: Paris did not seem to have any public transport - I had to walk from one train station to another for 70 minutes, and the only bus I could find was an overland bus, not an inner city one.
Also, it's a bit unintuitive that the "Journey Details" at the end start at nine hours — to me, when I begin my journey at 9 'o clock, that is hour zero.
You can see several problems : I've deselected bus stations, boat stations, etc but they're still displayed. Time is frozen, my bus isn't coming, I'm stuck in Almeria, too bad !
Here's what's in the console:
Uncaught TypeError: can't access property "geometry", xe is undefined
lr App.vue:984
callback App.vue:2183
rr App.vue:894
App.vue:984:25* If there's a time limit, there's no way to know. I'm currently on my 3rd day travelling :) * I was waiting for my bus and I had forgotten the exact time. There is no way to know until it starts :) * While riding the bus I can't seem to be able to push speed over 100x. A Paris-Barcelona bus ride is long, even at 100x :) Later on a second bus, I could. Weird... * You should explain that "banks", "bus stations" etc are special game icons, not actual banks and bus stops on the map :) I was in Paris trying to change money in the "money exchange" at Gare du Nord, and I tried a while to do something until I understood that you can only use the special "Bank" icons. * In Almeria, the busses look like the regular city network. I tried taking one, but the game is now frozen... It's time for my bus, but nothing happens.