Factsheet
Developer:
Samuel Manier
Based in Paris, France
Release date:
13 July, 2016
Platforms:
Steam (Windows)
PC (with a web demo)
Website:
ragdollrunners.com
Regular Price:
| USD | $4.99 |
| EUR | €4.99 |
| GBP | £3.99 |
Description
Ragdoll Runners is a physics-based Track and Field game where you control independently the two legs of an athlete to compete in 8 events of different types: sprint, long jump, triple jump, hurdles. You control your athlete principally with two buttons: one button per leg. Therefore, the gameplay is not based on button mashing like in most other athletics games: it’s all about good timing. (A third button allows to lean forward on certain occasions: to finish a sprint, a jump, or to jump over a hurdle.)
History
Ragdoll Runners is not inspired by QWOP: the development began in 2005, 3 years before the release of QWOP (and had a 7 years break).
Features
- Solo: compete against increasingly strong opponents and become a champion in each event.
- Splitscreen: play against 3 friends on the same computer (gamepad supported), like in this funny video.
- Confront the world record and your friends' records.
- Challenge mode: compete against increasingly strong records from the leaderboards and become a concurrent for other players.
- Daily Contest : experience the stress of competition with a limited number of attempts each day. Do your best in each event to score the most points in the Octathlon.
Videos
Hilarious video of 4 players competing in Ragdoll Runners YouTube
The song! YouTube
Youtuber struggling at Ragdoll Runners YouTube
Popular Russian youtuber playing Ragdoll Runners YouTube
Good review of Ragdoll Runners YouTube
Images
Logo & Icon
Selected Articles
- "it is seriously the funniest game I have ever seen"
- Roffle Saucer, Twitter - "The physics and ragdoll effects are awesome. [...] It is extremely addictive and good for all ages"
- Jeremy, Future Released - "Dude...this game is amazing. So challenging yet so rewarding. I said it in my review below along with other points, but if you screw up your race 9/10 times, the 1 time you get it right...it just feels so great."
- peter_notSo_dinklage, Ragdoll Runners >> Reviews - "One of the best Example of "Easy to learn hard to master" game. This is pretty polished game much more competitive and less frustrating than QWOP is."
- SgB, Ragdoll Runners >> Reviews - "Greatest game ever. It might have a similarity to other games but Ragdoll Runners is simply utilising and simulating a natural human mechanic. Brilliant."
- TedBall, Ragdoll Runners >> Forum - "The Dark Souls of running."
- SmashiusClay, Ragdoll Runners >> Reviews - "Great game by the way. Depression makes it hard to commit to anything but I've been playing this game every day since I bought it, it has been really helpful with replacing my negative thoughts."
- germpot, Ragdoll Runners >> Forum
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About Samuel Manier
Boilerplate
Samuel Manier is an independant game developer: he created Ragdoll Runners beside his day job of game AI programmer in a french studio. He also sometimes publish satiric videos on youtube.
More information
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Ragdoll Runners Credits
Samuel Manier
concept, code, "art"
Contact
Inquiries
samuel.manier@ragdollrunners.com
Twitter
twitter.com/RagdollRunners
Facebook
facebook.com/RagdollRunners
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