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Boxman's Bone Quest
Game Description
🦴Boxman: Bone Hunt
Help Boxman collect ancient bones across a series of challenging levels!
Jump, dodge, and puzzle your way through retro-styled pixel worlds. Each level contains a bone, your goal is to reach it. Simple, clean, and satisfying gameplay without any cutscenes or complex story. Just you, the platforming, and bones to collect.
Game Mechanics
🎯 Core Objective
-Collect all bones in the level before the timer runs out.
-Once all bones are collected, the exit opens—reach it to finish the level and move on.
🕹️ Player Controls
-Arrow Keys / A & D – Move left or right
-W / Up Arrow / Spacebar – Jump
-The game starts with a Start Button on the main menu. A Help button explains controls and rules.
🦴 Bones
-Each level contains multiple bones.
-The player must collect all bones in a level to activate the exit.
-If the timer runs out before all bones are collected → lose 1 life, restart the level.
💀 Enemies
-Touching an enemy results in losing 1 life and restarting the level.
-Enemies follow simple patterns (standing)
-Avoid contact—you cannot attack or defeat them.
❤️ Hearts (Power-Ups)
-Collecting a heart adds +1 life to your current total.
-Hearts are placed in challenging or secret areas as rewards.
-There’s no upper limit unless you decide one.
💔 Lives System
-Player starts with 3 lives.
-Lose 1 life when: Time runs out and Touching an enemy
-Losing all lives = Game Over (return to main menu or show Game Over screen).
⏱️ Timer
-Each level has a countdown timer (visible on-screen).
-Player must collect all bones and reach the exit before time runs out.
-Timer resets when restarting a level.
🧩 Level Design
-Levels gradually increase in difficulty:
-More bones
-Tighter time limits
-More enemies or trickier layouts
-No hazards like spikes or lava—only enemies and the timer pose a threat.
Authors
Moises, Sandae
Ibarra, Sean Patrick
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Very good for starters.