The Human Race - Alpha
A downloadable Puzzle, Platformer. for Windows
Humans have spread and consumed unchecked for far too long. They thought no one was watching...They were wrong!
Take control of every single member of the human race and try to survive in countless trials to prove your species worthy of living on the planet earth.
How many will make it home?
1: Story
The whole universe knows that human beings are awful, dangerous and consuming. Destroying everything they touch. The earth (which they all call home) has been punished and abused by humans for far too long and up until now the rest of the universe has ignored them. But no longer…
The heads arrived above all the continents at once. For days they floated there above the earth until the world started to treat them as an annoyance rather than a phenomenon.
This was until they spoke:
They explained that due to the heinous actions of humans over the past 2000 years, humanity as a whole has been chosen to take part in an intergalactic game show where you (The player) get to compete.
You take control of the human race one person at a time and take part in a series of timed trials and puzzles. If you complete a course you save one human life, If you fail you die.
How many of the human race will you save...or kill? You will soon find out.
Objective
The object of the game is to get as many humans as possible from the start point of the course to the finish as fast as possible. Along the way the player will encounter traps, puzzles and obstacles designed to slow you down. The timer starts when the player crosses the start line and it is up to the player to choose the best route to take to get to the end. Sometimes boxes, keys and switches will need to be collected or activated to proceed to the finish.
- Run, jump, Climb, Swing, *Glide and Winch to get to the end of each course.
- Replay levels time limit free to collect cash items and unlock secret courses.
- 38+ levels so far and a lot more on the way
- 2 episodes currently with more coming
- Course times are displayed in microseconds.
- It's possible to beat your own time by 0.000001th of a second
- In game commentary from Frunk Magoop and Paul Destroyer the celestial heads
- Use cash to upgrade the human race in any way you want with Skill points that can be rearranged anytime to allow full control of the humans abilities.
- Human profiles are generated at random from a list of over 100+ names, jobs, home towns and ages. Each time you die you get a new humans with new details.
- Human profiles names and details can be carried over between rounds. If you are good enough you can take the same prisoner through the entire game.
- Secret rounds that give the players a respite from running and jumping.
- Each episode is only complete when the total best time of all courses is less than the required time to proceed.
- Beating your best times is key to unlocking the next episode.
- Each stage has a developer time that (will eventually) award extra cash if beaten
- Find and unlock extra feats like, double jump and slow down time
- Each skill can be multiplied several times, allowing for quadruple jump and super slow Mo
- * Find audio tapes to unlock the raw unedited audio of the actors recording their lines
- Offline play with free updates and DLC.
- No loot boxes or data harvesting (As if I needed to say this>
- Even more features in the works.
- Controller support for Xbox pads
Email the developer William Hawke - alphaphasesgames@gmail.com
Status | In development |
Platforms | Windows |
Author | AlphaPhases |
Genre | Platformer, Puzzle |
Made with | Unity, Audacity, Blender |
Tags | Atmospheric, Casual, Comedy, fps-platformer, Sci-fi, Singleplayer, Unity |
Average session | A few seconds |
Inputs | Keyboard, Mouse, Xbox controller, Gamepad (any), Playstation controller |
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Install instructions
Readme v0.01
Game version: Mac 0.06 / Pc 0.0852 / Linux 0.02
Contents
Installation
Please follow the installation wizard to install the game. When asked if you want to make a desktop shortcut, saying yes will make running the game a bit easier. See below for more details.
If you dont install as Admin, it will install by default to the app data for your windows user.
To run the game:
1:Download the latest installer for Run! Human! Run!
2 Follow on screen instructions
simply run the shortcut on the desktop
4: Specs / Requirements
Minimum specs: Intel i5 6th gen CPU or Radeon equivalent
A GPU with at least 2 gb of Ram
4 gig DD4 Ram
Keyboard
Mouse
Speakers or HDTV
Windows 7/8/10
Ideal specs: Intel i7 CPU or Radeon equivalent
A GPU with at least 4 gb of Ram
8 gig DD4 Ram
Keyboard
Mouse
Speakers or HDTV
Windows 7/8/10
It may run on Windows XP as well but has not been tested yet.
6: Documents to view
Alpha Phases Webpage: https://alphaphasesgames.github.io/RunHumanRun/
Email: Alphaphasesgames@gmail.com for more information.
7: Known Issues
Issue 151: Sometimes getting shot by two bullets at the exact same time causes the death screen to not pop. This is being solved by changing bullet guns to fire guns in nearly every case
Solution: This can be resolved by pressing R and restating the course
Issue 135: Episode 2 Course 9 - 20 are missing extra puzzle items and threats.
This is being solved currently as a pass in in place
Issue 30: Sometimes crossing the start line doesnt play the commentator audio. This is due to having to remove an audio file and in some cases the audio has not been replaced causing a silence on starting the course.
About the developer
Hello there, I'm William.
Thanks for (Hopefully) playing The Human Race (Previously Run! Human! Run!)
This a game I have been making during my most anxious and depressed moments. It has been an amazing help in combating both. Its pre alpha but you get the feel.
I designed this game to be picked up and put down at any time. It requires no serious time to complete. Each level is standalone with a few features that carry over between scenes that hopefully add some character to the game.
I programmed this in c# and 3D modelled everything in the game myself using Blender, except for the trees (Which I am currently making) and used a combination of my own textures and free commercially licenced textures to make the world feel like real life. I have credited all the authors for the textures used in the credits section.
Although I made this game myself, I had a lot of love and support from my friends, I had help bringing Paul to life with the help of my amazing actor friend Andy. Also I learnt to program in HTML and CSS with the help of my best friend Tony.
Development log
- Updated Build after Wall Jump BugJun 03, 2022
- Bug fixes in new buildJun 02, 2022
- The Human Race 0.0909.3.1May 17, 2022
- The Human Race 0.909.3May 17, 2022
- The Human Race 0.0909May 15, 2022
- The Human Race - Alpha 0.0908.3 Readme UpdateMay 14, 2022
- New Build 0.0908.3 - Patches coming soonMay 14, 2022
- New build 0.0908.2 with bug fixMay 13, 2022