A downloadable game for Windows

Rolling Thunder

Rolling Thunder is a physics based racing-mayhem game in which up to four players compete to reach the finish line on rolling chairs.

Rolling Thunder Features:

Local 1 to 4 player game-play
Simple, colorful art style
3 tracks, each with unique obstacles
Quick sessions, easy for anyone to pick up and play
Joust mode: get medieval and lance your friends in a no holds barred arena
Hilarious crashes and dramatic wipe outs

Best of all, it's completely free! That's right! You get a chance to help test our concept as we improve our skills as game developers. So go ahead - download Rolling Thunder for free! If you like it or have honest criticism - please leave us a review.

Extreme Downhill Chair Racing at its Finest! Rolling Thunder is a student-developed game from Champlain College. A seven-person group of the finest designers, artists, programmers and a producer based in Burlington, Vermont formed The Sea Dogs to bring you this game concept from the ground up.

Check out the team:

Role	LinkedIn	Personal Page
Lead Designer	Evan Janssen	Evan's Page
Designer	Billy Beanland	Billy's Page
Lead Programmer	Nils Steinbuegl	Nils' Page
Programmer	Jack Malvey	Jack's Page
Programmer	Thomas McGillicuddy	Tom's Page
Lead Artist	Michael Armstrong	-
Artist	Raili Piscusa	-
Producer	David Merritt	-

More information

Status	Released
Platforms	Windows
Author	Sea Dogs
Genre	Racing
Tags	3D, Casual, chair, champlain-college, Controller, free, Local multiplayer, rolling-thunder, sea-dogs, student-game
Average session	A few minutes
Languages	English
Inputs	Keyboard, Xbox controller, Gamepad (any)
Multiplayer	Local multiplayer
Player count	1 - 4

Download

Rolling Thunder 223 MB

Install instructions

How to Roll with Thunder:

Download Rolling Thunder
Extract the files from the zip folder
- Right Click the Zip folder
- Select "Extract All..." from the drop menu
Once extracted, go into the new folder (also called Alpha Build 2.0) and click the folder "Rolling Thunder Alpha"
Click into "Rolling Thunder"
- This is an executable with the Unity "Square" symbol by it
Please Read the Notes below before playing. They will save you some headaches.
Enjoy!

Please Note that this game is a student concept project.

Playing requires at least one gamepad controller (Xbox button layout).

A couple of known bugs the team is aware of are:

Helmet Color Selection causes loading issues with the level. To avoid this, please do NOT press the left or right bumpers while in the menus.
Some colliders don't work after the player character crashes (you might fall through the ground or a wall)

We apologize for any inconvenience these issues cause. Turns out that making games is pretty hard work, but we are learning and working as the project continues.

Development log

Released
May 21, 2018
Beta is Coming
Apr 22, 2018

Comments

Sea Dogs6 years ago

Update: The Alpha Release is now closed. We hope those who downloaded it enjoyed it. The Beta release is coming soon! Please take a look at the Development log for more information.

Aweqwerty6 years ago

Great game! Needs a camera though to play the space station and the joust stages.

Sea Dogs6 years ago

Thanks for the feedback! May I ask what you mean by needing a camera? Currently the team is considering pulling back the camera on the Joust Stage.

Aweqwerty6 years ago

Sorry, I'm looking back at my comment. I meant that either I can't find the button to rotate the camera with a gamepad or there is no camera rotating function. This makes it really hard to play the space station and joust stages.

Sea Dogs6 years ago

Thanks for the feedback. Currently the right stick of the gamepad controls the camera movement for this release. The dev team is aware that Joust mode needs some additional camera work. It may be possible that your gamepad isn't fully functioning with Rolling Thunder as designed. If you aren't using an Xbox 360 style controller, please make sure you use software that adapts your gamepad to function as and xbox controller (input mapper or ds4 work decently well for Playstation 4 controllers). If you are using a 360 type of controller then please let me know more details of your issue and we will try to bug test for it. Thanks again for playing and commenting on Rolling Thunder!

Sea Dogs6 years ago

If you find more bugs than the ones mentioned in the Install Instructions - Please let us know!