Can you conquer the Liferaft Slalom Challenge?

Liferaft is coming along, it’s been a bumpy road for a number of reasons, most of them due to the design and its ethereal nature. But recently it’s really been shaping up and making levels is a snap now. So today I set out to start my idea for Act I of Liferaft. Our hero starts out imprisoned or forgotten in a pit somewhere isolated. Magically a rope drops and you have to use it to get out of the pit. So that’s what I started with. The first iteration was too easy and boring, the next few were probably closer to realistic but I wanted to make something crazy challenging that would reflect how hard it would be to get out of this immense pit she’s been living in all her life.

I was thinking about Driver actually and how much I loved the starting sequence/tutorial of that game [as well as the entire thing]. You were stuck in this garage pressed with what seemed like monumental challenges at the time. But eventually you got out of there and you felt unleashed. Like you were a kickass Driver ready to own the road with all your newly learned moves.

So the level I set up is a much more condensed version and really just to get a starting point for what I’d like this to be. It’s waaay too hard and not really all that interesting at the moment, but I spent most of my day trying to beat my own challenge. I took it a step further and tried to make a slalom out of it by limiting “victory” to something only that was completing a true slalom course. I’ve only really made it to the top a handful of times and only once with the “slalom” in mind.

Play the Slalom Challenge [choose level 1].