Barrel Road: A fast-paced competitive auto scroller for Miliastra Wonderland

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I wanted more options for 1v1 competitive games, so I made one myself!

The premise is an on-rails shooter where you must break barrels before they pass you. Hitting three barrels of the same color in a row will send a large slime to the opponent's track. No items or upgrading, just combat action and player skill.

You can also do practice runs in single player, but it won't be as difficult without the opponent sending slimes your way.

Let me know if you try it out or have any thoughts about the game or the game balance! I tried to have a ramp up in difficulty as the stage progresses, and I think there is still room for skill expression early on with breaking barrels out of order to make combos.

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danking_donut2026-01-06 23:17

this looks fun! hope you can update to more than two players in the future. the chaos might be exciting. will you also put this in other servers, perchance?

MissingNumber2026-01-06 23:23

Thank you!
I first started designing it with three players in mind, but since it was my first Milastria project, I decided to go a little easier on myself with only two players. The center part of the stage could easily be converted to a third player.
I would like to put it on other servers! I think you have to progress through the story far enough on each server to access Miliastra? I'll need to look into it. Since I'm only level 2 Craftsperson I can't add achievements or rankings yet, but maybe putting it on more servers would help me level up faster.

Stardust-Sparkles2026-01-06 23:45

It’s only the literal first AQ which is 20 minutes tops I think

Delight_works_2026-01-06 23:31

neat

Shahadem2026-01-07 03:16

But the element barrels don't element.

MissingNumber2026-01-07 03:29

Breaking three in a row of the same element will cause the corresponding elemental slime to appear on the other side. But from a gameplay perspective, this doesn't include any elemental reaction mechanics.

GateauBaker2026-01-07 22:25

Does this scroll indefinitely until a player loses? How seamless is the loop?

MissingNumber2026-01-07 23:51

There's a three minute timer. If neither player has run out of HP by the time is up then the one with the most health wins. The stage is constantly looping, and you can see it happen several times in the video, so I'd like to think it is pretty seamless. There are two breaks in barrels spawn at the one minute and two minute points. After each break the barrel movement speed increases a lot. It's pretty easy to get to the three minute mark in single player when you are just breaking barrels, but I think it's a bit difficult when you also have to contend with the slimes your opponent is sending.

MissingNumber2026-01-08 01:39

Did you get it working? I'd love to know if you found any bugs so I can try to fix them. I haven't had any reviews or comments yet from someone who has actually tried it other than myself and a friend.

If you're doing it in single player, you should click on the "Ready" sign and wait ten seconds. There's a bit of a delay in case you have a second player that is slower to load in.

GateauBaker2026-01-08 01:45

Tried it and didn't see any obvious issues. Only tried it in single player so that's clearly missing the fun part. I was mostly interested in looking for the mechanism for looping the track and can only guess how it was implemented.

MissingNumber2026-01-08 02:45

The scrolling various parts are three pieces of equal length. Then there are two defined paths. The one starting closest to the player is one third the length of the longer path. The longer path starts a little under two lengths away in front of the player. (A little under so the closest edge of the road the player starts on can appear out of frame behind the camera.)

Two of the three pieces of road start in position, one at each path starting point. The shorter path one runs its path one time for 10 seconds before starting at the beginning of the longer path. All pieces of road loop on the longer path every 30 seconds. The third piece of road appears from being invisible and starts running on the longer path after 20 seconds.

And now since I've revealed my stage secrets, I'd appreciate if you left a thumbs up on the stage so maybe I can get to Craftsperson lvl 3. 😄

GateauBaker2026-01-08 03:05

Alright alright twist my arm, I posted a comment with some feedback. Not sure how long the review process is.

MissingNumber2026-01-08 18:24

Thank you! I did get to level 3 last night. I'm working on a single player focused stage that will use similar concepts, but this time with power ups and more clearly defined waves of enemies. Let me know if you end up making something with the autoscroller set up! I haven't seen any other Miliastra examples where the character is standing still while the background looks like it's moving.