Remember that most of the people who make it claim "luck" as the most important factor. I find that to be a load of bull, but iterating and learning is all part of it. This game could still be a hit someday if you work out the issues! Good luck!
Love the music! The game was a bit too complex for me to pick up quickly. Maybe a meta-progression where you unlock new powers over the course of a few minutes. (And I always like some narrative juice in there too!) Great job!
Great platformer, a few notes: When I play it in full screen on a vertical monitor it goes into some kind of a fit. (This may not be super important because how many people will do that, lol) I would love for you to do something with the size of the character, like scales or teeter-totters that react to your size. Also, some doors might not fit. Also, I wanted to go GIANT MODE and become too big to fit anywhere. The collect noise got a bit repetitive. You could dynamically vary the pitch, or make it play notes from a song to be the BGM! The jumping was really smooth, so nice programming there. I'd love to play with the level creator when it's ready, good work!
Glad you are making this open source. I may make my HTML5 engine the same, since it is so easy to get the code. And a fun project to play. Needs a bit of endgame balance but overall, a fun experience!
Been following this one for a while, you could use some full screen art to set the mood a bit before jumping into narrative screens. Something that tells me who the characters are and what motivates them. Still Cool Project!
What fresh Hell is this? If this game came out when doom was a thing it would have been a mega hit. Get Devolver to give this guy a sack of cash, plzyes.
Couple of usability notes: It isn't too clear where the power pills are in the 3d environment without shadows. Mario always drops a shadow below objects so you can place them in 3d. Also, the walls seem a bit strange, like small buildings instead of pac man barriers. It's difficult to see which ones block the character for real. Also, a sizable chunk of the level is just an empty space with no pills or ghosts. Also, the ghosts can go through walls, which really takes a lot of fun away. Finally, the music seems to have a game over sound effect when it loops.
Thank you for this post! I may try to remake the ipad version and make a better mobile version of the game. Sadly ios culls old apps so I may have to tweak it to make it up to current standards. Thank you for showing interest in it. I didn't realize people still wanted to play it. <3
This game defeated me, I tried to use skill to beat it, and failed, then I tried to use a scripting system to program in key inputs to do it exactly right, but somehow the commands weren't frame perfect and the result was that sometimes runs would end in failure seemingly at random. Then I tried compositing my hundreds of runs into one video by overlaying them and sadly my computer doesn't have the processing power to combine all the videos and key out the black bits. A complete loss, a game for masochists, total despair, no hope, no life, no.
