"Turan's Artifact: Remake" notes

Turan's Artifact was a terrible game - not because the idea was bad, but the realization was horrible.

With this firm belief, I decided to almost completely remake it, building up from the code that I've already written and turning the level-design upside down. It's not the best game I could possibly make out of it, but with what time I gave myself - I'm satisfied with the results, and invinte you to join!

But don't be startled by me saying all the time that I reduced the amount of stuff in the game. Bad things out - good things in. I realized that I underused environmental mechanics in my game. The only way I challenged the player was - spikes. And so, I added quite a long list:

• Moving platforms
• Disappearing platforms
• Retracting spikes
• Switches

and a bit more. The other thing was all the minor features that I forgot, or for some reason didn't want to implement. Or at least most of them. I improved jumping, now it feels more controllable. My tutorials at the begining of each level are now visible, because before it was just an unnoticeable gray rock. The most important thing that I added - checkpoints. Before, you would need to start the level from the begining if you died. Now - it's only a small section. What it allowed me to do is to make the levels bigger. Yes, now there are half as many levels, but they are almost twice as big.

The game is now much better with all the small and big improvements. And I would say that I corrected my biggest mistake, and realized one thing - games should only be difficult as long as they are fun.