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A jam submission

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A platformer for the GameBoy (Color)

Submitted by invertedHat (@invertedhat) — 1 hour, 45 minutes before the deadline

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Results

Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Gameplay / Fun	#7	3.708	3.708
Game Design	#11	3.417	3.417
Sound / Music	#14	3.208	3.208
Overall	#19	3.229	3.229
Theme	#24	3.083	3.083
Graphics	#25	3.208	3.208
Innovation / Originality	#37	2.750	2.750

Ranked from 24 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
The game is a time trial race with the passed times displayed at the beginning of every screen

Did you use any assets?
Only a font for the Logo and a remix of my original song (both mentioned under Credits on the itch page)

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Yogi (Tronimal)Host2 years ago(+1)

After playing through all the games again to do a proper voting, I realized some tiny flaws in your game.
When running on a classic Game Boy (DMG) you will have some minor slowdown issues while shooting, if there is also an enemy on screen.
The other thing is that momentum is kept after dying. I also had this issue in my last game, it kept momentum after teleporting.
I sadly can't really remember how I solved this. :D

*Btw, after giving this a few playthroughs, I don't think this game is hard anymore. :)

invertedHatDeveloper2 years ago(+1)

I've noticed the slowdown too. I'm not sure if I will be able to fix it.

To solve the momentum after death issue I used the player fields plugin by pau-tomas to set the player's x and y velocity to zero.

sloopygoopSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

Super enjoyable, left me with a smile on my face! The presentation is simple but "it's super effective!" and feels very intentional and polished. The graphics and animation are really well implemented. Tronimal made a banger of a music remix. I'll be looking for that "restart" option once you update! Some information showing previous high scores (even just for the current play session) would add to the restart/replay thrill.

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Welcome to Macintester

Eric Studio40ASubmitted2 years ago(+1)

Prequel to Celeste :D

Nice game, simple but nice. :)

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Johndo21Submitted2 years ago(+1)

I love your game, minimalist but effective! Everything is good, until the final screen that summarizes the score, some small bugs of collisions but nothing bad, but I would have liked a button to start again at the end :D . We agree that this is not an adaptation of "postman" with Kevin Costner? :D . Congratulations again :) .

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invertedHatDeveloper2 years ago(+1)

It's nice to see my game is being played on actual hardware. As I haven't seen the Kevin Costner movie I'm quite sure it's not an adaptation, at least not a deliberate one :) Restart button is up high on the improvements list for my planned update.

ERIC_MACKSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

There's not much to say that others haven't already - the controls are super responsive and the level designs are good!

My record for % right now is 1:30, though it'd be tough to get below that.

The only thing that I would suggest is what others have mentioned: a retry button would be really nice in encouraging another run! To that point, being able to restart mid run could be nice too.

Nice work!

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invertedHatDeveloper2 years ago(+1)

That's already a pretty good time. Mine is around 2 minutes. A retry button will be added once the voting is done and updates are possible again.

HohenstauferSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

Awesome entry! I like the polished 1-bit graphic style. Gameplay is smoothe. New effects are introduced well - good level design here. It took a little time to really get used to the wall jump - you have to push jump faster than expected. Also, when you die and respawn, movement from before continues. The music is cool and is a good fit.

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invertedHatDeveloper2 years ago

Nice to hear you had fun playing my entry :) The wall jumps are done using GBStudio triggers and a bounce event. They are directly in front of the walls so technically you can already do a wall jump when you're actually 8 pixels away from the wall. Don't tell anybody ;)

howdy riceballSubmitted2 years ago (1 edit) (+1)

I love the cute little postie! The lil character has got so much energy! I would of liked to borrow some of that energy for the game jam 🤠 nice job! Finally my time playing super Metroid has paid off in helping me know how to wall jump in this game 🎉

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Expiration Date (GBC)

invertedHatDeveloper2 years ago

I'm happy you enjoyed playing my game. There were times (especially late in the evening) during the jam were I would have liked to borrow some of his energy as well. So you are a wall jump veteran :)

Doug TSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

I enjoyed everything except the wall jumping. But that is me in most games

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invertedHatDeveloper2 years ago (1 edit)

With wall jumps I feel it's either you love or hate them^^ But there are some really difficult ones in my game. I'm going to do a little update once the voting is finished to improve the balancing on some screens.

My initial idea was to let the player grad onto the wall so he doesn't fall down immediately, but I couldn't figure out how to do this quickly so I did dismiss this idea for the jam. Maybe I will have another look into it now without the pressure of the deadline.

Doug TSubmitted2 years ago

ooh I would like that idea very much. The challenging wall jumping is good for the frustrating speed running type games too though.

julssSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

Really cute graphics, music and sounds, i like the concept and hade a good time playing this!

ヾ(≧▽≦*)o

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invertedHatDeveloper2 years ago(+1)

I'm pleased you enjoyed it. Credit for the music goes to the awesome Tronimal, who made a remix of my very basic song. You can choose which version is played during the game if you press select on the title screen.

Gumpy FunctionSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

Great stuff! I have been playing this over and over, trying to get an any% run under 60 seconds. My best time atm is 1:08.
Controls are responsive and mechanics are engaging without over staying their welcome. Music and SFX are top notch and I appreciate the small character sprite for a fast paced platformer such as this. Level design is pretty tight. You have done well to ramp up the difficulty and allow the player a relaxed screen to learn a new mechanic when each one is introduced which is great - although there are a couple of jumps (and wall jumps) that are more or less frame perfect that can lead to frustration (Don't worry, mine has some hairy jumps too which I will fix after the voting period - polish is often the last thing to take care of in a jam and we run out of time, of course). The player character was sometimes continuing his movement after I took a death and spawned back in, and I would just collide with spikes on spawn? Not sure what was happening there.
I would love to see the ability to retry at the end, and really to retry any time because trying to go super fast for a low time is the game at its best. It would be better to not have to reset the Game Boy to retry. Finally, I think, if you have a free actor, it would be cool to see a little dust mote or something kick off the wall when you do a wall jump. It would just make that wall jump feel extra nice to me.
All in all. this is a solid entry and I hope you keep working on it a bit more. Its kind of the perfect length for a quick arcade style speedrun but if you come up with more ideas, maybe there is another mail route or something the player can unlock for more content? Great job! Keep it up!

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Super Jacked Up Tomato Face Johnson

invertedHatDeveloper2 years ago

Wow that's a really impressive time. I haven't been able to get under two minutes so far.

Thanks for the detailed feedback. I'm planning to do a little update after the voting has ended which will address some of the points you mentioned. I want to make a few (wall) jumps a bit easier and being able to restart the game (from the finish screen) is a good idea to keep up the flow.

I don't know whats up with the player character after respawning. The spikes and holes are triggers most of the time. On enterI set the position of the player to the start position. GBStudio seems to keep the momentum of the player anyway. At the moment I have no idea how to fix this. Maybe I will have to modify the engine.

Initially I did not plan to continue to work on this after the jam but designing these small one screen levels was really fun. So maybe I will add an extra level. I still have some ideas for new game mechanics, like moving or disappearing platforms but am not quite sure if I will be able to realise them in GBStudio.

Yogi (Tronimal)Host2 years ago(+1)

This game came out great and it was a pleasure to make that little remix for you!
It's just a little hard, I have to give this a few more trys!

invertedHatDeveloper2 years ago(+1)

Thanks again for the kind offer of doing a remix <3

ElviesSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

Id love a full game on this in the future, maybe with lore and more levels, although its a speedrun game ala celeste, it did hook me up with how fluid the movements are [aside for the slide and momentum saved when dying] its a pretty neat game, great job on the wall jump!

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ʀɪᴘɪᴙ [proof of concept]

invertedHatDeveloper2 years ago

Thank you for feedback. Initially it wasn't my plan to continue to work on this after the jam. But as I had fun designing these one screen levels I will maybe change my mind.

The momentum after death thingy is really annoying. I have died just because auf that quite a few times on my testing sessions. At the moment I don't really have an idea how to fix it.

AlexandreCoulonSubmitted2 years ago(+1)

Very pleasant music !

The attention to details are nice, in the animation of death, sound effects, game feel, effective colors.
I did not know that we could have such a precision in the movements on Game boy, very impressive.

The difficulty is well adjusted and we feel that the level design has been thought out, I noticed in particular a level with an "alternative" path that allows to enter the level easier.

Congratulations, this is a game I would have liked to have as a child on my game boy :)

It would be nice to have your opinion on our first GB game :
https://itch.io/jam/game-boy-showdown/rate/1550843

PS : 11:31 and 118 death

Cheers !

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Don't Waste Your Time

invertedHatDeveloper2 years ago (1 edit)

I'm happy to hear that you enjoyed playing my game.

I've loaded all the entries onto my FlashCard and am planning to play and rate them in the coming days. So I will make sure to drop you a comment on your submission page.

Credits for the music go to Tronimal, who made an awesome remix of my very basic song.