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That's in the perfect world where I can pay and artist's salary for 1-2 years, so funding.

Thank you! This is borderline still a prototype, cause its main purpose is to get feedback so I can improve. 
The final version of the game would be called 'STRATA' and hopefully be more on par with something like Dustforce, Super Meat Boy etc in terms of visual fidelity and polish. Content wise I'm looking to hit about 3-5 hours for a first time casual playthrough, probably some time in 2026 I imagine.

FEEL THAT

I still don't have a clue how one might treat a gameobject like a tile or the other way around, sure it's fairly simply once you know it but it's the knowing that takes many.. many many hours

There's a hint if you climb up the skinny wall climb section above to wall-e Eve-looking guys.
If you wouldn't mind, I'm curious about what your emotional response was to getting stuck there, do you feel like you wanna try and overcome it or did you bounce off?

Cheers for playing!

they're just spring joints but their connected rb isn't simulated till you start driving, which is why the car snaps into shape regardless of where the tires are

lmaoooo yes that's deliberately left in I'm just straight up not disabling their rigidbodies cause it's funny

Very glad you came back for seconds! I'm curious what would happen if you lifted one or both wheels to the top with the heli

Thank you!

Perfectly paced tutorial. Like, seriously zero notes there I felt like the moment I equipped a thruster and started moving and then you just let go of my hand and let me shoot stuff was bang on.

Only critique i have is UX, would love to see more highlighting, object snapping, and juice across the board, but I imagine the limit there was time. Cool game, singular in its goals, bloat free, plays well.

i also LOVE LOVE LOVE the way the shield mechanic works. Just great. Innovative to be honest.

Yoo I recognised your name, you commented there as well right? Thank you!

That's really great critique, cheers! I love making simple but fun 2D physics-based movement (kinda a one-trick pony in that regard), this one was definitely a pure-gameplay experiment (I've never made a game with phases before, really interesting design space), and I learned some semi-useful things about user generated level, and the car controller I had no clue how to do that before going in.

would highly recommend you try whipping up a 'weighted helicopter' controller (I use a modified version of tarodev's 2D platformer script plus a mass and a distance joint), it's a really fun thing to build whatever gameplay around, also made a game called Helicopter Golf that uses the same system in a totally different context.

lowkey, wasted a lot of time tryna get URP post-processing working, should've just spent that time on colour and texture, cause you're right it would've made a big difference.

Peace and love!

Hi Feddy!
A little while ago you played my game - 'Strata', and gave it a mixed review. Just wanted to let you know we have a new big update out and I'd be interested to see if your opinion has changed.

Cheers!

- Leo

https://leomca.itch.io/strata

Adding that option will be easy so i'll get that done, on my machine the thing that's taking up most of the budget is my crappy code I will not lie

Very weird, I'll try and fix that in the next couple days, thanks for your patience!

Don't have build support installed and it's 3am here so might be a ttomorrow job. Edit: Done!

It's likely you're releasing slide before pressing jump, try basically never letting go of the slide button and see how that does ya

Good point I shall get on that asap

Fixed now, apologies!

My Brother across the world,

I've been thinking long and hard about how I can use my small platform to champion the Palestinian cause and contribute in some small way to the end of the genocide on your people by the zionist project.

If, by some miracle, you're still able to check in on this game, I would be honoured to speak to you.

PEACE be with you. May your children grow old in a Palestine free from occupation.

I am installing the demo now!

congrats on the release!!!

Finally someone found the chair

Thanks so much!
Don't worry, after a month all I had was very basic horizontal and vertical movement. This is me more than two years into my journey. 

For level design, I have a few resources for you.
I made a level design video a few days ago but not many people saw it. That's like a good overview of the philosophy and process I use personally.

GMTK's level design videos are all fantastic, highly recommend you watch those. 

Let's Talk Game Design is another great channel. That one has a lot of 2D Platformer-specific stuff. 

As for the movement mechanics, LOTS of trial and error. I probably spent over 300 hours on the movement alone (between implementation and tweaking variables). 
Here's how I do jumping: video

A great overview of 2D movement

GMTK on the theory behind good movement

Good luck!

Yeah the system could be more clear. By selecting one of the ability buttons the game will start listening for inputs. From there, you can press any button or trigger to bind that action to it. One bug is that if a button is bound and you bind a stick or trigger, it will also keep the button binding. You can get around that by also binding an unused button.

thanks for the feedback, I'll work on a fix when I can.

Rebinding everything manually should work, if it doesn't then that's a problem.

Aww rats, sorry to hear that. It should be on one of the settings buttons or accessible with F1 regardless of your input method

It's intentional ;)

wow, what a fantastic comment to start my work day with.

I'll need to give it a proper read and reply in a little, but for now - thank you so much!

aw

w rip, f1 again will leave the setings, sorry it's messy on some aspect ratios

Soon, latest will be when I have funding but aiming to do it before then, it's on the feature list

Hi there, sorry for the slow reply!
That's more than okay with me, thank you.

Awesome! Why not post it on www.speedrun.com/Strata and hop in our discord? https://discord.gg/GudwNuc9

Should do on current build, you'll need to go into settings and hit "default controller"
If not, new build will be out very soon.

Yep, that's a result of the overhaul. Thanks I'll put it in the description!

Hi there!
So I may have updated the game *while* you were downloading it, try 12.4 now!

It's Windows defender working as intended and a skill issue on my part.

Trust your judgement. I wouldn't ask anyone to put something on their computer they weren't comfortable with. Eventually I'll wrap my head around .exe signing 

Cheers!

Oh fantastic!
Allow me to cordially invite you to upload the first run to our '0d0s' category on https://www.speedrun.com/Strata and brag about it to the discord: https://discord.gg/JhhtVxrW

damn, I'll 'chalk' that one up to my sleepless game jam brain not knowing how numbers work 😩

Ahh, looks like I forgot to put a null reference exemption there so it teleports you to 0, 0. 

Great find!

Great find! That's a high priority bug I didn't know about.

That also earns you the second ever "game breaker" role in the discord if you're interested in joining.

https://discord.com/invite/zVvzgBfa

Ahh yes, definitely not intentional there.
I'm curious to see if anyone can exploit it for a world-record time, since passing the start flag resets the timer even if you've already passed it.

Almost certainly not, we made this in 3 days lmao
All the movement techy stuff is though