《CRAFT RUNNERS》 was released.
Just because the developer’s name was YU, people flocked to the sales page right after it was released.
The previous work was 《Pettan Forest》, which even young children who could barely read could play on their own.
Before that, for 《FRONTIER SAGA》, the Strategy Wiki had given up on writing the “correct answer” and switched to a “List of Confirmed Possibilities.”
The directions were so different that it was hard to believe they were works by the same author.
That’s why the same question arose every time a new title came out.
What will I be made to do this time?
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[Breaking news] YU has released a new product [CRAFT RUNNERS]
7: Anonymous Runner
YU’s page has grown again
《CRAFT RUNNERS》
It hasn’t been that long since Pettan Forest came out, has it?
23: Anonymous Runner
How fast is this author producing?
I haven’t even met the Demon King in FRONTIER SAGA yet.
41: Anonymous Runner
Judging from the title, is it a racing game?
Has anyone read the explanation on the sales page?
56: Anonymous Runner
I read it
“Make it, let’s do it.”
That’s all
74: Anonymous Runner
Doesn’t YU these days seem to think that the shorter the description, the better?
92: Anonymous Runner
《Pettan Forest》
“Let’s stick together with the forest friends”
Because of this, my vocabulary is steadily decreasing.
109: Anonymous Runner
If you look at the screenshots, you’ll get confused
I can see that it has tires on a car-like frame, but it also has wings, a propeller, and a rocket on the same body.
I don’t know what to call that.
128: Anonymous Runner
Feels like a mix between a craft game and a racing game?
145: Anonymous Runner
>>128
Maybe
But whenever I say “maybe” about YU’s works, I usually get burned afterwards.
161: Anonymous Runner
Then someone please ask
179: Anonymous Runner
I already bought it
196: Anonymous Runner
That was fast
You guys say “scary” and “what the heck is this” every time, but you never hesitate to press the purchase button.
214: Anonymous Runner
If you don’t know what kind of game it is, you have to find out for yourself.
That’s what I learned from 《FRONTIER SAGA》
231: Anonymous Runner
Is that lesson really correct?
248: Anonymous Runner
At least this time I can be more detailed than the explanation.
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An hour later.
The first dedicated thread was created.
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[Confused] CRAFT RUNNERS, is this the right way to play?
11: Anonymous Runner
Has anyone started it?
I just started it, but only the frame, tires, and power source are there from the beginning, and all it says is “Let’s stick them together” and “Let’s make it move.”
It seems like you can set it up however you like for now.
28: Anonymous Runner
I installed four tires, adjusted the front and rear balance roughly, and installed one power source, and it ran normally.
It turned out to be a surprisingly normal car.
45: Anonymous Runner
YU, are you able to make normal games now?
62: Anonymous Runner
>>45
How many times have you said that line and then been betrayed?
It’s only just started.
79: Anonymous Runner
Doesn’t the tutorial say things like “Let’s install four tires”?
If it’s a car-building game, I’d like it to tell me that much.
96: Anonymous Runner
There’s no correct answer at all
You can start with just one tire, and it won’t stop you even if the numbers on the left and right sides are different.
There’s no warning like “It can’t run like that.”
115: Anonymous Runner
Isn’t that unkind?
People who aren’t used to making things may make something weird first and then give up because it doesn’t work.
133: Anonymous Runner
I kind of think that too.
However, even if you make a mistake, all you have to do is take the parts off and reattach them, so redoing it is extremely easy.
I guess the design is “just try it out”
151: Anonymous Runner
I tried using three tires, and it does move forward for now.
However, perhaps because one side is heavy, it keeps turning to the right on the grass.
168: Anonymous Runner
That’s how it’ll be.
185: Anonymous Runner
So what if it’s just one?
201: Anonymous Runner
Stop it!
216: Anonymous Runner
>>201
Too late
I already ran it
232: Anonymous Runner
What happened?
249: Anonymous Runner
After trying hard for about a second, it fell on its side.
So far it was as expected, but the tires just keep spinning, so it’s slowly moving forward, scraping the fallen frame against the ground.
266: Anonymous Runner
Does that count as “moving forward”?
284: Anonymous Runner
It just reached the goal
301: Anonymous Runner
wwwwwwwww
318: Anonymous Runner
It’s not a unicycle
It’s a one-wheel accident car
335: Anonymous Runner
Did I just say something clever?
351: Anonymous Runner
I thought so, a little
367: Anonymous Runner
It was a little strange
383: Anonymous Runner
Ouch
401: Anonymous Runner
But maybe it doesn’t matter what shape it is, as long as it crosses the goal?
418: Anonymous Runner
That idea alone gives me a bad feeling.
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A few hours later.
The number of players who had cleared the first grassland course began to increase.
All you had to do was reach the goal, which could be seen in the distance from the starting point.
There were almost no height differences and few obstacles.
At this point, most of the machines were still the kind people imagined when they heard the word “vehicle.”
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[Beginner] What did you build to clear the first grassland?
14: Anonymous Runner
I went with a normal four-wheeler
Two tires in the front, two in the rear, and one power unit in the back. It looks plain, but it doesn’t have any strange quirks, and it was enough for the first grassland.
32: Anonymous Runner
Mine’s similar too
I’m thinking of playing normally at first.
51: Anonymous Runner
I made a six-wheeler
67: Anonymous Runner
Was there any point in making it six-wheeled?
84: Anonymous Runner
It’s cool
101: Anonymous Runner
It can’t be helped then
119: Anonymous Runner
We’ve grown since 《Pettan Forest》
Even if it’s meaningless performance-wise, it’s fine as long as it looks cool.
136: Anonymous Runner
It was also heavier from the two extra tires, so it was slower than my four-wheeler.
153: Anonymous Runner
But he seems to be having fun, so it’s a win.
169: Anonymous Runner
Haven’t recent YU threads become strangely tolerant?
188: Anonymous Runner
When I went for eight wheels, all four front wheels lifted off at the bump.
I really like the way it looks, but every time I turn, the machine resists as if saying, “Not like that.”
205: Anonymous Runner
I don’t feel any will to turn from the eight-wheeler.
224: Anonymous Runner
Conversely, has anyone made a two-wheeler that looks like a motorcycle?
243: Anonymous Runner
I did
Without a support mechanism, it just falls over normally.
252: Anonymous Runner
That’s no good then.
269: Anonymous Runner
Right now, I’m keeping it upright by firing a rocket sideways so it doesn’t fall over.
286: Anonymous Runner
Don’t start using rocket propulsion for attitude control just to make a motorcycle.
303: Anonymous Runner
It’s still only the first grassland.
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The atmosphere changed on the second course.
A large river cut across between the starting point and the goal.
There was no bridge.
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[Help] How did you cross the river on the second course?
9: Anonymous Runner
I’ve made it to the second course, but where’s the bridge?
I ran all the way along both sides of the river but couldn’t find it.
27: Anonymous Runner
It’s not that the bridge can’t be found; it was never there in the first place.
It’s a course where you have to cross by yourself
44: Anonymous Runner
I plunged in with a normal car and it sank.
It’s sad seeing only the tires spinning smoothly in the water.
61: Anonymous Runner
When you clear the grassland, “floats” get added to your parts.
If you attach them evenly on the left and right under the car body, it won’t sink for the time being.
79: Anonymous Runner
It really did float when I attached floats.
However, it just drifts around on the surface of the water and doesn’t move forward.
97: Anonymous Runner
Spinning land tires in the water won’t get you very far.
Add a propeller to the back and it’ll look like a normal ship.
115: Anonymous Runner
Oh, are we building a ship here?
132: Anonymous Runner
Where did the car go?
149: Anonymous Runner
>>132
The title is “CRAFT RUNNERS”, not “CRAFT CARS”…
166: Anonymous Runner
I have four floats attached to the frame and two propellers on the back.
It’s a fairly normal ship in terms of appearance and behavior, and I think it’s probably the most straightforward strategy.
184: Anonymous Runner
I thought I’d copy that, so I looked at the rankings, but the current number one isn’t a ship.
201: Anonymous Runner
Then how is it crossing?
218: Anonymous Runner
A car
235: Anonymous Runner
It’s going to sink
252: Anonymous Runner
It doesn’t sink
Or rather, it never goes into the river.
267: Anonymous Runner
I have a bad feeling
284: Anonymous Runner
It accelerates at full speed from well before the river and ignites all four rockets just before the river.
It flies straight to the opposite shore
301: Anonymous Runner
……
319: Anonymous Runner
So instead of crossing the river, you jumped over the river itself?
337: Anonymous Runner
It told me to “go to the other side”
It didn’t tell me to “touch the water”
354: Anonymous Runner
Don’t start looking for loopholes in the objectives of YU games.
371: Anonymous Runner
But this isn’t a loophole, it’s normally allowed, right?
383: Anonymous Runner
Maybe
387: Anonymous Runner
“Maybe” is back again
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Around the same time.
Threads talking about “how to design” rather than “how to conquer” began to grow.
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[Design Consultation] What about amphibious builds? Part2
184: Anonymous Runner
I’ve come all this way with a regular car, but what kind of configuration do people who make amphibious machines use?
I’d like to handle both with one car, because it’s a pain to rebuild it every time I get to a river.
203: Anonymous Runner
Basically, you use tires, floats, and propellers.
However, it’s not just a matter of attaching them and you’re done; the behavior changes considerably depending on where you place the floats, so be careful about that.
221: Anonymous Runner
How much does it change?
239: Anonymous Runner
At first, I randomly attached floats to empty spots, but the buoyancy was stronger on the right side, and the moment I entered the water, I flipped over.
It’s better to match the left and right weights and buoyancy positions to some extent.
257: Anonymous Runner
It’s a game, so wouldn’t it be nice if it corrected that a little?
I think the physics are too detailed and tedious for people who bought it expecting it to just work if they attached things randomly.
276: Anonymous Runner
>>257
I understand that opinion.
However, even if you don’t think about the details, if you attach a lot of floats, it’ll float, and if you attach a propeller to the back, it’ll move forward.
It seems like only those who want to optimize think deeply about it.
295: Anonymous Runner
At first, I was building it casually, but with just a few tweaks, the speed on the water changed visibly, so I started to get confused.
If you sink the propeller too deep, the resistance increases, and even just the tires hitting the water will slow you down considerably.
314: Anonymous Runner
I see.
So it’s the type of game where “You can play without knowing anything, but you’ll be faster if you know it”?
333: Anonymous Runner
My amphibious machine is pretty fast on land and pretty good on water too.
There’s only one problem
349: Anonymous Runner
What?
367: Anonymous Runner
It hardly turns
386: Anonymous Runner
Isn’t that a fatal flaw?
403: Anonymous Runner
It’s really fast if you go straight.
If I modify the structure so it can turn, it gets slower on both land and water.
422: Anonymous Runner
There are curves on the course
440: Anonymous Runner
That’s why lately I’ve been ramming into walls at an angle and changing direction based on the angle of the bounce.
458: Anonymous Runner
Don’t give up on steering and start playing billiards.
476: Anonymous Runner
Don’t make fun of it
That cut three seconds off my personal best.
493: Anonymous Runner
It actually shrank?
511: Anonymous Runner
We were supposed to be talking about amphibious vehicles, but before we knew it, we were talking about the technique of driving them into walls.
529: Anonymous Runner
Whenever we discuss design in this game, we usually end up talking about accidents.
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The first day of release.
Relatively decent records were still lined up in the time rankings.
The top vehicles were four-wheelers, six-wheelers, and amphibious vehicles.
The faster the machine, the more refined its shape was, but they still looked like something no one would doubt calling a “vehicle.”
The top record was 2 minutes and 12 seconds.
The next day.
The shape of the rankings started to collapse.
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[Sad news] Time records are strange
12: Anonymous Runner
Yesterday, first place was around 2 minutes and 12 seconds, right?
When I look at the rankings now, it’s 48 seconds.
29: Anonymous Runner
I thought it was a mistake, so I refreshed it, but it really was 48 seconds.
What makes it less than half?
46: Anonymous Runner
Video is up
It’s not running normally, to say the least.
64: Anonymous Runner
An airplane?
82: Anonymous Runner
If I call it an airplane, I’ll probably get yelled at.
“A rocket with minimal tires and a frame” is the closest.
100: Anonymous Runner
Details please
118: Anonymous Runner
Right after the start, it runs into the slope at a fairly high speed and uses the reaction force to lift the machine.
The moment it’s airborne, it ignites the rocket and crosses the river, forest, and rocky area all at once.
137: Anonymous Runner
Does it drive to the goal after landing?
154: Anonymous Runner
Landing… no.
170: Anonymous Runner
Huh?
188: Anonymous Runner
The machine flew all the way and crashed into the goal, and the impact broke it apart.
But the timer stops the moment the main frame crosses the finish line.
207: Anonymous Runner
Isn’t there a condition that it has to survive?
225: Anonymous Runner
To begin with, there are no humans on board, so there’s no one to bring back alive.
243: Anonymous Runner
So rather than a race, it’s a competition to deliver an object to the goal.
261: Anonymous Runner
I’m scared to realize that now
279: Anonymous Runner
I don’t really like this kind of thing
Even if you get serious about building a car, isn’t there no point in designing it if, in the end, it’s faster to launch it with a rocket?
298: Anonymous Runner
>>279
If your only goal is to be the fastest, that may well happen.
However, there are plenty of people just conquering the courses normally, and there are also people who ignore the rankings and create strange vehicles.
TA isn’t the whole game
317: Anonymous Runner
Also, that rocket plane’s center of gravity and launch angle have been fine-tuned considerably, so it’s not like the design is being abandoned.
The direction of the design just went beyond what we imagined.
335: Anonymous Runner
So the purpose has changed from “designing to make the car faster” to “designing to send the frame to the goal in the shortest possible time”?
352: Anonymous Runner
It suddenly gets scary when you put it into words
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A few hours passed.
The record shrank even further.
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[Sad news] Time records are strange
286: Anonymous Runner
Updated again
Thirty-nine seconds
305: Anonymous Runner
It’s only the second day since release.
What did they throw away this time?
323: Anonymous Runner
The front wheels
341: Anonymous Runner
Why?
359: Anonymous Runner
They didn’t attach the front wheels from the start, and moved the center of gravity back so that the nose of the machine points slightly upward.
If the rocket is ignited right at the start, it gets launched diagonally upward.
377: Anonymous Runner
So it’s a plane too
394: Anonymous Runner
No wings
412: Anonymous Runner
So it’s a rocket?
429: Anonymous Runner
It’s a game where you shoot a car into the goal.
446: Anonymous Runner
I’ve just given up on the premise that it’s a “car.”
463: Anonymous Runner
This thread throws away common sense so quickly.
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The third day.
The general time attack thread had already been replaced many times.
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[CRAFT RUNNERS Time Attack Comprehensive Part 6]
518: Anonymous Runner
Forget all of yesterday’s common sense.
1st place has reached 21 seconds
536: Anonymous Runner
wwwwwwwww
If you play this course normally, it takes around 2 minutes.
Why is it almost down to a tenth?
553: Anonymous Runner
I watched the video, and after the first 3 seconds I couldn’t understand what was going on.
Isn’t the machine kicking itself from behind the moment it starts?
570: Anonymous Runner
>>553
The leg parts are attached backwards.
When it starts, the body jumps forward from the reaction of its legs kicking the ground, and at that moment the rocket ignites to add speed.
589: Anonymous Runner
I could barely understand that.
What’s the part where it suddenly turns sideways in the middle?
607: Anonymous Runner
It has small wings on only one side and intentionally turns the machine nearly 90 degrees in the air.
The gap between the rocks is vertical, so it can’t pass through normally; it looks like it goes through on its side.
626: Anonymous Runner
Is it okay to operate it like that?
643: Anonymous Runner
I don’t know if it’s okay or not, but it’s physically possible.
661: Anonymous Runner
Wouldn’t it be better if the physics engine told the player a little more, “That’s not right”?
678: Anonymous Runner
The physics engine doesn’t care.
It just calculates the input force and outputs the result.
696: Anonymous Runner
That’s exactly what I’m saying is scary.
713: Anonymous Runner
Conversely, that’s what I like about it.
It won’t stop you by saying, “That’s not what we expected, so it won’t work,” so even a weird idea will pass if it really works.
731: Anonymous Runner
However, I think it’s true that it’s a little difficult for beginners.
If you only look at the top of the rankings, you won’t know what kind of game it is.
749: Anonymous Runner
Don’t look at the top of the rankings.
It’s a different ecosystem over there.
766: Anonymous Runner
Don’t treat TAers like wild animals.
782: Anonymous Runner
It’s pretty much the same, isn’t it?
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Once those chasing the fastest times appeared, others started competing in different directions.
Some people even started turning things the game didn’t list into competitions without permission.
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[Challenge] Clear the grassland with the minimum number of parts
8: Anonymous Runner
I’m trying to see how few parts I can clear the first grassland with.
Cleared with 3 parts so far
25: Anonymous Runner
Are the three the frame, tires, and power?
43: Anonymous Runner
>>25
Frame, rocket, legs
I don’t use tires
61: Anonymous Runner
Don’t throw away tires in a running game
79: Anonymous Runner
I don’t intend to run
I intend to reach the goal
97: Anonymous Runner
That’s completely TA thinking.
114: Anonymous Runner
Is it impossible with two parts?
132: Anonymous Runner
I’m currently fine-tuning the angle to see if I can do something with just a rocket on the frame.
149: Anonymous Runner
Why are you so serious about just the one grassland?
166: Anonymous Runner
Because it seems possible
183: Anonymous Runner
That’s the most dangerous reason
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[Challenge] Cross the river without rockets, floats, or propellers
11: Anonymous Runner
I want to try the river course with all rockets, floats, and propellers banned.
Would anyone like to do it with me?
28: Anonymous Runner
Why would you ban useful parts that the game gave you?
46: Anonymous Runner
If you ban the convenient ones, you get to think of other ways.
That kind of play
64: Anonymous Runner
I was just able to clear it
I used giant tires and drove straight along the riverbed.
82: Anonymous Runner
Won’t the entire car body be submerged in water?
101: Anonymous Runner
It is
So I extended the power unit to a higher position so that it stayed above the water surface.
The vehicle is almost completely underwater
119: Anonymous Runner
That’s a submersible
137: Anonymous Runner
It’s amphibious
155: Anonymous Runner
An amphibious type that interprets the riverbed as “land”
172: Anonymous Runner
Did I just say something clever?
190: Anonymous Runner
You did
206: Anonymous Runner
It’s okay this time
223: Anonymous Runner
I’m scared of being graded these days.
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[Challenge] Whoever breaks the most parts and crosses the finish line wins.
13: Anonymous Runner
Who started this category?
31: Anonymous Runner
It’s me
Currently, the record is 39 parts broken after starting with 41 parts.
49: Anonymous Runner
So there are only two left at the goal.
What’s left?
67: Anonymous Runner
The frame and the left rear wheel
84: Anonymous Runner
So how did you reach the goal?
102: Anonymous Runner
It rolled down the last hill on its side and crossed the line.
119: Anonymous Runner
It’s so funny when the end point of a construction game is rubble.
138: Anonymous Runner
What’s the fun in ranking this by the most broken parts?
155: Anonymous Runner
It’s flashy
173: Anonymous Runner
The explanation is childish.
190: Anonymous Runner
But I get it
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Elsewhere, there was a place where YU’s works had been talked about since the days of 《Pettan Forest》.
It was a parenting-related bulletin board.
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[YU works/Childcare chat Part 8]
347: Anonymous Guardian
This seems to be the next one after 《Pettan Forest》
I showed my 5-year-old son 《CRAFT RUNNERS》, and he’s been adding tires all morning.
He has 14 of them now, and he seems satisfied, saying, “They’re cool, so I’m fine with these.”
365: Anonymous Guardian
Isn’t it difficult to design at the age of five?
My child could play up to 《Pettan Forest》, but I haven’t let my child play this one yet because I think it would be impossible without a parent’s help.
384: Anonymous Guardian
>>365
He probably doesn’t intend to “design” it.
He attaches the parts wherever he likes, moves it, and laughs when it falls over in strange ways.
He isn’t trying to make it right as much as adults think.
403: Anonymous Guardian
My child is like that too.
We just crossed the river course, but I still don’t understand how it succeeded.
421: Anonymous Guardian
How did you do it?
439: Anonymous Guardian
My child attached the tires, floats, wings, legs, and propeller wherever my child wanted.
It fell into the river and completely sank once, but its legs got caught on the riverbed, and the force of the spinning propeller made the car roll forward.
With that momentum, it rolled to the shore.
458: Anonymous Guardian
I can’t understand it even reading it in writing
476: Anonymous Guardian
The kid himself was overjoyed and said, “I made it!”
By the way, I designed a boat with the buoyancy position in mind, and it flipped over right after entering the water.
494: Anonymous Guardian
The parents are losing again
512: Anonymous Guardian
I’ve gotten used to it recently
530: Anonymous Guardian
However, like last time, I think it’d be wrong to wrap it up with “Children’s free ideas are amazing, adults are hard-headed.”
At home, the machine began to bounce strangely thanks to the wings my daughter had attached randomly, so after she went to sleep, my husband started experimenting by changing the angle of the wings one at a time.
548: Anonymous Guardian
The husband has fallen into the swamp.
566: Anonymous Guardian
Until yesterday, I was the one saying, “It’s for kids, right?”
I worked on it until 4 o’clock this morning.
583: Anonymous Guardian
Kids make weird things
Parents figure out why
Then they can make something even weirder.
596: Anonymous Guardian
This is joint research between parents and children.
615: Anonymous Guardian
It’s being summed up like a nice story, but my husband is sleep-deprived today.
633: Anonymous Guardian
Please reflect on that
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The third day of release.
Even people who had never played YU’s works before started to trickle in through videos and word of mouth.
Those particularly hooked were people who regularly dealt with machinery and physics.
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[Physics Cluster] A strange craft game was recommended to me by an acquaintance.
9: Anonymous Designer
An acquaintance handed it to me, saying, “You like this kind of thing, right?” and I just started playing it.
I work in mechanical engineering.
First of all, I want to confirm: what is this physics engine doing?
27: Anonymous Designer
Welcome
Joints don’t just break once a certain amount of force is applied to them.
The way they break differs between bending from the side and twisting, and how much they withstand changes when you change the parts.
46: Anonymous Designer
Tires behave differently depending on the road surface.
It’s normal for the way they slide to change between paved roads and grass, but in mud, how much they sink changes with the load, so if you put more weight on one side, it’ll clearly tend to turn.
65: Anonymous Designer
It’s pretty funny on the water too.
Even with the same number of floats, changing the attachment position changes the posture.
Differences in buoyancy between the left and right sides show up normally too.
83: Anonymous Designer
Is it also calculating the wing’s angle of attack?
When I increased the angle moderately, it became easier to float midway, but the moment I went too far, it suddenly stalled.
101: Anonymous Designer
It is
I’m looking into it right now too
118: Anonymous Designer
…Is this an indie production?
136: Anonymous Designer
YU
154: Anonymous Designer
Who’s that?
171: Anonymous Designer
>>154
You can only have that reaction now, so cherish it.
188: Anonymous Designer
What’s going to start?
205: Anonymous Designer
Even if the wings are asymmetrical, it flies normally if the conditions are met.
I thought the game would correct it somewhere, but it seems like it’s actually calculating the forces as they are.
224: Anonymous Designer
Asymmetrical machines can be built in real life, but it’s pretty crazy to let players build them however they like in a crafting game and then make them work.
243: Anonymous Designer
When I tried flying the same machine while shifting the center of gravity little by little, even the way it entered turns changed.
It’s pretty fun right now
261: Anonymous Designer
I only touched the wing angle today.
I haven’t even gone to the second course yet.
280: Anonymous Designer
Move on with the game
298: Anonymous Designer
This is the game
315: Anonymous Designer
Correct
333: Anonymous Designer
Me, on the other hand, it was too detailed and I got tired halfway through.
I don’t want to think about center of gravity or weight after work, so I want a mode where I can play more casually.
351: Anonymous Designer
>>333
It works if you just build it properly.
The people here are just starting to treat it like work on their own.
369: Anonymous Designer
Then I’m relieved
Anyone who buys it after seeing this thread will definitely get the wrong idea.
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From then on, the way the designers played rapidly shifted away from “clearing the course.”
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[Verification] About lift, drag, and center of gravity
16: Anonymous Designer
I made a simple test frame.
The wing size is fixed, and I’m comparing machines side by side with only the angle changed.
I want to see where the behavior changes under the same conditions.
34: Anonymous Designer
How many machines did you make?
52: Anonymous Designer
One hundred and twenty
69: Anonymous Designer
Is this your job?
87: Anonymous Designer
I do something similar at work.
105: Anonymous Designer
So you’re working on your days off too?
123: Anonymous Designer
No
Work has deadlines
This is fun
141: Anonymous Designer
So that’s the point of comparison
159: Anonymous Designer
But I kind of get it
177: Anonymous Designer
I’m currently driving the same car on muddy roads with only the width of the tires changed.
Before I knew it, two hours had passed.
195: Anonymous Designer
Even if you tell me to move on with the game, this is the game.
213: Anonymous Designer
YU, could you please release a testing-ground-only mode for designers?
229: Anonymous Designer
You can already do it on the grassland even now.
247: Anonymous Designer
I get distracted when the goal is in sight.
264: Anonymous Designer
Severe case
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The topic wasn’t limited to the game strategy boards.
Since 《Pettan Forest》, it had spread to parenting bulletin boards, communities dealing with design and physics, video sites, streaming, and social media, and people who were supposed to be playing the same 《CRAFT RUNNERS》 had begun to be fascinated by completely different things.
Still, it had only been three days since the release.
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The general thread had already reached its 19th part.
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[CRAFT RUNNERS General Part 19]
642: Anonymous Runner
I’ve played it for three days, but what kind of game is this?
At first I thought it was a craft race, but now it’s talked about as a completely different game depending on where I look.
661: Anonymous Runner
For me it’s just a craft game
Build your favorite car and progress through each course one by one.
680: Anonymous Runner
For me it’s racing
If I cut one second off my ranking time, an hour disappears.
699: Anonymous Runner
It’s a physics simulation.
I haven’t run a course recently.
718: Anonymous Runner
For my son, it’s a game where you attach lots of rockets and make them explode.
736: Anonymous Runner
Isn’t it a crash-viewing game?
755: Anonymous Runner
Design swamp
774: Anonymous Runner
T.A.
790: Anonymous Runner
The weirdest thing is that they’re all the same game.
808: Anonymous Runner
I’m not even motivated to do time attack.
I’d be satisfied if I could build a car normally and reach the goal.
825: Anonymous Runner
>>808
I was like that too at first
But once you look at the rankings, it’s over.
843: Anonymous Runner
What happened?
861: Anonymous Runner
There’s someone who’s five seconds faster than yesterday.
Moreover, since the design is public, you wonder, “What’s the difference?” and compare it.
Then you find one reason why your machine is slow, and when you fix it, it actually gets a little faster.
879: Anonymous Runner
So, happy, you look at the rankings again.
By then, the top rank has improved by another two seconds.
It was over from there
896: Anonymous Runner
It’s hell
914: Anonymous Runner
It’s started
YU’s hell
932: Anonymous Runner
Is this a type of hell that I design myself?
951: Anonymous Runner
Was this why we were allowed to rest in 《Pettan Forest》?
968: Anonymous Runner
I don’t think that was the intention at all
986: Anonymous Runner
But looking at the results, it was completely the calm before the storm.
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Even after moving on to the next thread, the talk about breaking records didn’t stop.
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[CRAFT RUNNERS General Part 20]
116: Anonymous Runner
The TA number one from earlier has been updated again.
18.43 seconds
134: Anonymous Runner
Huh?
It was 21 seconds three hours ago.
152: Anonymous Runner
Video’s coming
But I don’t really understand it even when I watch it
169: Anonymous Runner
What kind of machine?
187: Anonymous Runner
Hard to explain
It only looks like a car at the start.
It flies from the middle and rolls at the end
205: Anonymous Runner
A transformation mechanism?
223: Anonymous Runner
No
It just breaks in the middle
241: Anonymous Runner
The broken parts probably fell off, making it lighter and faster.
Just before the finish line, one of the wings it originally had was missing, and there wasn’t a single rear wheel left.
259: Anonymous Runner
Are they intentionally purging the wings to make it lighter?
277: Anonymous Runner
It’s not that cool.
It fell apart
295: Anonymous Runner
If the result’s the same, isn’t it basically a purge?
313: Anonymous Runner
No
I think that’s probably a very important difference.
331: Anonymous Runner
What?
349: Anonymous Runner
The builder himself wrote, “It was a coincidence that it got faster when the wings came off here.”
In other words, it wasn’t made on the assumption that it would break from the start.
367: Anonymous Runner
……
385: Anonymous Runner
So maybe next time someone will start building something on the premise that it’ll break from the start?
403: Anonymous Runner
Stop it
Don’t open strange doors
421: Anonymous Runner
I think it’s already open
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The third day of release.
In the review section for 《CRAFT RUNNERS》, comments you don’t usually see for racing games had already begun to appear.
“My child is driving a car with lots of tires and laughing out loud. I’m doing the same thing next to him.”
“At first I thought it was a craft game. Now I’m changing the angle of the wings one by one. Why did this happen?”
“I meant to make an amphibious vehicle, but the finished product looks like a submarine. But I was able to cross the river.”
“I’d like to teach the words ‘center of gravity’ to the me who used to think that the more rockets I had, the faster I’d go.”
“The physics calculations don’t go easy on me at all. But it’s funnier when you fail and it breaks in a weird way.”
“My son has 12 tires, and I’m a serious four-wheeler. My son crossed the river first. I’m not convinced.”
“Don’t look at the rankings. The person who was happily building cars until yesterday will disappear.”
“I think it’s a game where the right answer is whatever achieves what you want, not whether or not it’s the right design.”
“I seriously hate myself for staying up all night over yesterday’s personal best.”
“Three days after release, the top runners have started to abandon the assumption that they’d run properly. I’m scared of the future.”
Among the reviews that garnered a lot of sympathy were the following words:
“My child is laughing and saying, ‘Let’s put more rockets on.’ Next to her, an adult is worrying with a straight face, saying, ‘The center of gravity is too far back.’ I think both are equally valid ways to play.”
Below it, a large number of “helpful” votes had already lined up.
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