Strafe® Speed Run Zone (pre-alpha)

Pre-alpha, BROKEN and not representative of the final game.

Download: PC/ Mac

I'm enjoying Strafe a lot! Nothing comes close to Doom, but Strafe has a good mix of Quake's movement, Half-Life's action, and arcade shoot 'em up gameplay. Curious to see how the full game (with all the secrets and whatnot) will play. Feels like it was made for speedrunning.

Skeptical of procedural level design, though. It's worked in tile-based games like Wolfenstein 3D and sector-based games like Doom, but new fangled 3D games struggle to make levels in such a way that they could easily be expressed in code; procedurally.

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Haha, oh god. That commercial's great.

Playing it right now, having loads of fun. The turrets are a bit too small and get lost in the particle bonanza. Assault rifle is the only worthy weapon and its grenade launcher is faster than the shotgun and plasma gun's secondary fires so why bother with them. Here is my crappy speedrun:

Backed it.

I watched ster streaming this game where he got the highscore in everything. It seems really cool, I hope they make the kickstarter goal because I want to play the finished version.

New version of the SPEED ZONE is available. Grab it here for free: http://pixeltitans.itch.io/strafe-speed-zone-v2

Came out today, if you can hold a spot on the leaderboard on April 9th we will send you a free STRAFE® shirt or phone case made by Design By Humans. If you have one of the two fastest times in the world we'll send you one of our airbrushed denim jackets from GDC.

Complete list of SPEED ZONE V2 changes:

• Updated Weapon Textures to proper pixel density for the art style
• New Shotgun Model
• New Shotgun Secondary fire
• Strafe Jumping
• Pause / Settings Menu
• FOV Control
• Mouse Sensitivity
• Mouse Inversion
• Gun Scale
• Ability to Exit the game properly
• Blood wipe effect on death then auto reload back to splash screen
• Player arm models
• Railgun Secondary illuminates the the world for better visualization of z-depth
• Added Effect to railgun Impacts
• Railgun Recoil + animation is more powerful
• Grates/Partially transparent shaders can now accept bloodmaps
• Locally Saved Settings file
• Updated Leaderboard: See your best Achieved Time & global ranking compared to others.
• HUD Distortion through teleporter is fixed
• Secret allowing the final door to open faster
• New Gib Models
• Ability to use explosions for Rocket Jumps
• Gun displays don’t Z-fight at end of level
• Projectiles can be fired through grates
• Fixed bugs with inconsistent Spawning (falling into space)
• New Exit Door
• New sliding door + animation
• God is now watching over you
• Turrets have increased Aggro
• Turrets have increased Health
• Turret textures are brighter
• Turret models are taller
• Turrets have freedom to shoot up and down
• Turrets can traverse Stairs
• Added turret SFX
• Added Visual effects for damaging a turret
• Stair Pathing improved
• Fixed missing colliders in HUB
• Enemies interact with doors more reliably
• Double Jump fallspeed changed to feel more natural
• Ladders are less likely to put you through the ground
• Activating Health Dispensers is more reliable
• New player names in library
• Cosmetic updates to the environment
• Repositioned some enemies and power ups