Please note: Highscores are not available in the web player.

Made for ScoreSpace #18 in three days by a team of two programmers and one artist.

Use your magnetic gun to gather the needed resources along the infinite rail.

Build your ever moving train while being hunted by a giant monster robot in a dystopian world. Defend against waves of robotic enemies while staying on the move and fight for survival. Improve your train, gather food, add new train wagons and shoot down attacking foes like drones.

Important Buttons:

  • Press "1" or "Middle Mouse Button" to whip out your Magnet Gun
  • Press "Right Mouse Button" to load a Bolt into your Magnet Run
  • Press "Left Mouse Button" to Activate/Deactivate/Shoot your Magnet Gun

What's working:

  • World Generation (with two Biomes)
  • Magnet Gun (Press 1 or Middle Mouse Button)
  • Shooting Bolt with your Magnet Gun (Right Mouse Button)
  • Leaderboard (Die to upload your Score)
  • Survival Mechanics
  • Interact with Objects (Press F)
  • Eating Birds
  • Getting Experience Point (currently only by eating birds, lol)
  • Upgrade your Character (Press U)
  • Shooting Bird with Bolts to make them magnetic
  • Train whistle
  • Detatching wagons
  • Reattach wagons using the Magnet Gun
  • Adding coal to your engine
  • Spawn new wagons
  • Some more stuff that the player is currently not able to experience (sorry...)
  • And much more (but actually not that much)

What's still in the making:

  • Crafting and Loot Generation
  • Building system & upgrade your existing train
  • More Engine Types (Fuel, Electric and More)
  • Waves of Enemy drones that will attack you
  • Getting stomped by the Giant Robot
  • More Biomes

Which premade Assets did we use?

Some small sound effects, but most of them are custom made. Everything else was created by the three of us, including all models, the soundtrack, UI elements and much more.

Have fun!

StatusPrototype
PlatformsWindows, macOS, HTML5
Rating
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorHousebird Games
GenreSurvival
Made withUnity, Audacity, Blender
TagsDystopian, FPS, High Score, On-Rails Shooter, Post-apocalyptic, Railroad, Robots, Steampunk, Trains
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
LanguagesEnglish
InputsMouse, Voice control
LinksHomepage

Download

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Rails Ahead (Windows).zip 64 MB
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Rails Ahead (macOS).zip 71 MB
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Rails Ahead (Windows) (Original GameJam Entry).zip

Development log

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(+1)

amazing! please update or i will be sad

its been a year daddy

We're currently not working on the project. We had fun and an update was in the making at the time, but it seems like this project will not receive another update for the foreseeable future. We hope, that you understand that it will most likely remain a prototype.

I personally still start the game from time to time just to enjoy the music created by our talented artist Moritz, who also created the Models.

Some of the mechanics and ideas went into other games that we developed after Rails Ahead. :')

Best regards!

Felix

(+1)

Top graphics, nice sound design, could be a cool game if they keep on developing it! Also This train seems so much cooler than the deutsche Bahn.

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Thank you very much! We are so happy that you liked it. We have many ideas for coming updates. :)